Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-16
News and Gossip.

for a two months stay In Europe.
The American Institute OF Instruction held its
closing session at Fabysn's, Friday.
Senator Thurman and wife are travelling in New
England, being at present 10 Boston.
It is believed that only five lives lost by the
disaster on Lake Quinsigamond Friday.
i Captain Eals reports that work at the mouth Of
the Mississippi nver is virtually completed.
The wife ofJames Russell Lowell, United States
minister 10 spain is ddngerouly i'll at Malrid.
Prof. Richard A, Proctor.the English astronomer
Is about to visit the United States a second time.
Four murderers were hanged last Friday, two in
Virginia, one in North Carolina and one in Texas.
Talmsge isd rawing immen ecrowds at his Lon.
lon exhibition, and it is stated that he is paid $500
a night.
Manton Marble was married in New York the
9TH, to Mrs. A. Williams Lombard. 1t was not
| lone In cipher.
There emo new cases of yellow fever at Mem
phIs an the neral belief there is that the cit,
| will escape an epidein C.
The safety Of The Alh mbra is said to be imperil.
ed, the hill on which the famous pa lace stands hay
log lately shown slgnes OF landslp.
William H. Wand, rbilt is said to have enriched
his collection with an adli ion $4,000 worth OF
paintings curing his recent European tiip.
Sixty members ora Sunday.school got lost in the
Mammoth Cave, and their lights bui ned out. Ane,
t1ur hours ofsuspense, they were rescued.
Daniel Buffers & Co., of Montreal the most ex.
tensive grain and produce exporters In Canada
ire In financial difficulties. Liabilities -OO,OO
Two naked cherubs. over the portal of new
court house ut Rockford H.. so offended tn,
moral sense OF the city that they were chiseed of.
The aggregate exports of petroleum oil this Yea,
are l2l0 OJO against 49, OOJ gallons last yeu,
Over million gallons are daily exported from New
York.
Annie Brow Of Lowell Mass, thought she had
taken pruSslc acid and lay down TO die in front OF
the police station, but The huspectng Oh ueg 81 had
cheated her,
Minnesota celebrated the Fourth as the bicenten.
NAL Of the discovery Of that unex pl1red wilderness,
~ 10 Luth who planted the French Il x there GU
July 2, 1879.
lady OF Scotchtown, Pa, has pet cat which
takes It's meals at the table, 1t sits up at the tab
with BIB pinned around it, and is fed with
silver spoon.
The Elmra (N. W cremat ton society has two
'""J anu udS COlleCl6tl dDOut foUU toward
building furnace The Rev. Thomas X. Beechei
IL engaged in the enteI PRISE.
A torpedo boat attach ri to Admiral Lazarer's
irigate at CronstaIt, was blown up while at prac
tice, on Wednesdly. Five men were killed and
fourteen wounded, some fatally.
T. Thomas Vail, ex.present of the Merchants
and Mechanics Bank of Troy, and president OF
the Troy Il Boston road. has made general as-
signment for the bene6t of his creditors.
The spinners strike at Fla Il River has now beer |
In force more than two weeks. The manufacturer
claim that they are gaining and the stkerS losIpg
Sr und, and that new men are rapidly filling III, |
places of the strikers.
Paul Boynton says he intends TO try going owe,
Niagara Falls in his suit some day, but he Will
hrst go through the Whirlpool rapids below Tn,
falls. having already been offered large sum t.
attempt the passage.
McMasters, an Oli) temperance lecturer, was
AIKEN suddenly III on railroad car, and physic.
ian told him that a glass oil brandy was the onl,
hing that would save his life; but he refused t.
take the liquor and died.
statement has been issued by the War Depart.
nent, giving the number of mon furn shed the
Union army by each state and territory from Apr
lool' W Clost VI tHe IL SHOWS lne tJLa
number OF volunteers to be 2,61S,9j7.
The Winchester repeating arms company and III,
Providence tool company will send the last in stall
nont-sl 100000 worth-of arms cou iacted for BY |
he Turkish government 10 Consta ntinople in b,
ew weeks. The entire contract aggregated 81, OpO,
NO.
The house of mser who recently died Berger
county, n. j., was searched and $1,000 found st.
reated in odd hooks In different parts OF the house
ncu ting gold and silver coins black with age, old
tate bank bills, and small paper currency iss ued
uing the war.
The anniversary OF the battle of the Boyne passed
N in peace IN Montreal. rne day cnt,astel |
tiongly with the same date last year, when tn |
'Ity was In state Of urmoil. The Orangemen II |
'her cities made the usual demonstl atoms but
10 disturbances are reported.
drove OF Texas steers bl oko loose in Contra
lark, n. Y. Saturday, and running through III, |
treets, tossed II number Of people on their ho,n,
nd gortG several horses. 1hny also did som,
amage In the park. Some OF them were killed b, |
he police and others were captured.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe. who year ago obtained
lvorce from her husband, Col. Frank, +. Howe,
X-pension agent at New Yo,k, was married tn, |
III to Dr.. ID. b. ST John Roosa, a prom inep, Il
MUSICIAN OF That city, and pr oessor in tne metlr
al department Of the University OF Vermont.
1t is now thought that the southern Pacific |
abroad may he competedby the beginning Of ISL
he line from the other SIDE viii pr obaDly be eN.
ended to Tucson this year, and the line from ths :
lde to the Rio Grande. Tuis will leave gap OF
My about four hundred and fifty miles who Cal,
Z easily covered in a year.
The molders, no in number, employed at tn,
eading, Pa, hardware works, struck for highe
ages Saturday, ami the ploprietors notified then,
hat the works would he closed Tor a month. Iii
lnored that genera strike has been ordereit
pen. About lGI0 moultlers employed at III, |
irdware works and foundeIes in that city.
In New York, tturlay, Il release was recorded
the registers Off from Mrs. Annette WI Icksl
ord to Henry Day and Clarence A. Seward
ustees for the heirs of Thomas Lord her husband !
no died Ia Fesruiry. MIS-. Lord relieve, lii,
ord estate from all claims in consideration o.
81 1000 which she accepts IN lien Of $lUO,OOO which
ord provided should be paid her SIX months afte, ~
Is death, 4
Mrs. Hooper says in her last Paris letter to tn,
Philadelphia Telegraph: Master Isaac Bell Jr
e young nephew of MI James Cor ion Bennett y
the New York Herald is just i've days old. Tn | D.,
~ after the young gentleman's advent his unc't e
llled to see him, aud laid his cradle 100 Unied
ates bonds oil 81 900 each as christening gift OF N
ther gin OF joyous arrival" according to the II
d mediaeval custom at the acces sion of King" Il
There was snow in the air at Portland, Me-, on a
e Fourth of July. Sergeant Boyd, of the Signal e
II vice happened to be on the street at the time
eau Iht sever Il Il tkes on his sleeve. Just be- /.
re o'clock in the afternoon cloud was OBJ AZ
rived rising IRON the south. At the same time
lother arose from the northwest. The current OF a
md which bore this along was cold, while The u
'posinE current was warm an saturated with II
ipor. These two intermngled, and the effect II
as the formation OF crystals OF snow. "
A Portland, Oregon, dispatch says: James Car.
On and John Row ell, from Astoria, brig the a.
nsatonal story of he wreck of the Britih bark, "
anline, from South American Port near Gray's p
hbor, with a loss of twenty of her crew. The ID ID
plain lost his bearing during the night and the u
Zip went ashore on a reef with a fearful crash r,
lie Officers were panic stricken, the boat was 3,
Vampe' and the men were swept away. Carbon q
ID Rowell were thrown ashore by the waves haf Sl
AL and claim 10 be the only survivors, No IL