Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-19
News aud Gossip.

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license law. ,-. p,
The Turkish war aided six nun Ire ID ''''''
dollars 70 the debt Of Russia.
View York city has about 40 daiy' VIVA
r,on,bly and quarterly publications.
NJ Reecher says he would shoot burglar "ho
a,,ored his house quicker than hshlnin
r,.hn.ios.s sentiment of inall IS said to oe
..aIiv tending toward annexation TO the states
r..ro ara still fears that Wade Hampton VIII
b.vs 10 ,ubnii to another anputation oil MS pioA
en- leg.
Tho lie stage is running as usual. snd the
,ron,ietor assures US that The crossing is excel
lent.-lFree Press
p.z. Jo.epu r Duryca, d. D., Of Brooklyn mas
accented the call 20 the central Cons'esa''onA'
church, in Boston.
uanrv c. Barnes graduate ofU. V. NJ Of Tue
class of ISIS died in AlSme Ia, Cal, Feb ltih' ne
yv,s The eldest sou Of Asahe Barnes, E a oi Chh'
n y Point.
.. There are sixty thousand more women IMAM
men in Massachusetts," grOHlei the hnsbdne'
" Tha, is thu SUI yIval ofthe httest my dear ~
piled The wife.
Mr.. Prescott, the electrician, says That tw'n'y'
five " orcs ner minute Is the present naAiinum "l
r ,uls messages, and he does not believe this limit
can he exceeded.
A bill has pa ssed the New Jersey House assem-
big, imposing penalty on p-ol7 and other species
Of rambling Of s2JOO and imprisonment Tor two
yeats or less at the dlsc elton Of the court
The New York Nation remarks that no conse-
auence Of the panic oil ls'3 has been SO grotesque'
AS well as disastrous, as the appearance ola Cain
oIic archbI- hop Ia tue character Of a bankrupt
savings bank.
The Washington Star think there are indications
that the extra session Of congress will be long
one, and states that SOMA well Informed congress-
men think il may last III The time for the reuslu
session IN d, cember.
| The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company held
its Grst coal sale for two years, Wednesday. finy
| thousand tons were sold at prices little lower
than the Delaware, Lackawanna AMI Western
prices OF last month.
a meml er OF the Massachusetts legislature sug
gesls IN debate the 'cry OF retreochncnt is Old
and has existed ever since that old democrat go
INTO the garden of Eden and j.opdr-iked the fun
business OF The world"
The Boston Herald slys:-rhe Journal has
again discovered that the greenback paitJ ia Name
Is deal The election returns don't show 1t neiih
er do they Indicate any gam for the new patty bu
II seems 10 have about held its own.
The society men OF Paris anil New York are sad
lily divided on the suhJ.ct OF full dress cravats
g me contendlng that the while cravat should sill
lie worn, while Others hold that the bsck crava
should now occupy its place in iull dress.
Kansas counts on heavier immigration thar
she had last year. One day last week $40 new
C mers e. ON the c lat arrive at Kansas City Mo.
en- route, and this week the railroads ccntcrini
there we've nouf,l 10 prepare Tor 1900 more
che hy IRON the middle siaIes.
The f,mly of the Late Brigham Young, com
prsing 20 wives, innumerable child en-, and no
body knows how mIny siters and cousins an
aunIs, are arranging though eminent attorneys 10
the tIial of the Gaze in which the deceased "pio
pher's" will will he contested.
The oldest Mason has d e again. lie was Byron
McGarvey, OF Louisville KY, sged l05 years. III
never called in doctor in his life, never drank an,
Intoxicating liquor, but was ton Of his pipe. III
also abstained from voting all his life, and tool
his principal exercise in chopping cd.
Rev. DR.. lward Eygleston, of Brooklyn, has
dramatiLed the second pat OF Bunyan's Pilgrim
Progress. The play will he presented next week
IN the Sun lay.school room of his church. III,
Christian ELdeavor, brooklyn, which is lifted witt
, conveniences Tor dramatic representations.
special committee Of the Ontario dominion
Legislature have made a very favorable report Of
the proposed Huron AMI Oltario ship canal. |
woull save s5i miles OF the present route from
Chicago 10 New YUIk, and 80 miles on the route
from Chicago 10 Quebec. The estimated cost i
SO 0C0, V0J.
COW, the property OF y. j. SAWYER, who live.
near Newark, OHIO, on Tuesday, gave birth 10 q
calves. One of them was fully matured and still
lives, The other % were about the the si<e of SIN al
Kittens AMI, with the COW, Died. IL is one OF the
most curious freaks Of nature that has ever taken
place in this country.
The widow Of Ibert Wils, who was killed II,
guerillas during the war, recently died at VI arrow
bone, Ky, and on her death bed told of a. 90
worth of Jewelry which her husband buried IN
cave 10 hde from the rebels. The treasure WI.
found in the spot descrb 1t. III. widow beque Tin
ed most of it ard her homestead 10 her servants.
When the North Carolina legislature had It's ina
a1tournmenis Friday there was di.grac.rul scene
Mr. Turner. from Orange, Obi sclel to legislation
after i! O'Clock. The clo:a was turned b TEX nal
an hour. Mr., Turner took hi, stan uaI.r IN,
''- ''NN~'4' Wy pa obl - VI u IL ID lSN a-all
lie threatened to Kill the dolr.kecper VINO WI,
o'de' Ell 10 arrest nm, AMI dare the speaker t.
come down and help.
BismsrcA'S big dog which attacked G ortschakof
while the liter was at Berlin Attending the cun
gress, mas Occn Ia miseHlet again, this tim, XIII.
ing the pet dog Ola railya emplOye at FrIeIrichs
rnh. Bismarck expressed his rig t ), an t1lI the
man to go to Ii unbnr2 and At his expense. select
any dog there that might please hin. The msn re
piled that ii was not worth while; he had only be-,
keeping the animal fJr his chilIrrn to pay with
Bismark !hereupon sent the children hand or.al
| 10 re place their pet.
Mayor Cooper. Of New York. has sent a sharl
letter 10 Police Commissioners Eriardt smith anJ
Nicholas, declaring that the discipline AMI eli ii
ency Of the pIlice fosce has ueleroruel anI In !,
the police commissioners had not caused the street
to be cloare |, aud have allowed personal dissen.
sions to prevent the proper exercise oil their oil
al duties. The m tyor notii.l the commissioner
that they must answer Us to why they shJull no
be removed from 9th sc. Commissioner Wheeler
is sick bat similar notice W Ill be served on him
Mr.. Gladstone althuu Jh h has ,,,s.a