Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-12

town TO contribute one leaf subscriptions limited
to one penny.
Valentines have begun to bloom in New York,
and with more than usual bril!iancy. 1t is posi-
BILE 70 nav five hundred dollars for one-out there
is cheaper sort.
The New York Worlds Washington CORES.
pondent has an improbable yarn that Senator Con-
over Of Florida IS to succeed Minister Marsh of
Vermont in Italy.
The plague is rapidly spreading in Russia and al
the nations of Europe are taking vigorous meas
ures to prevent the epidemic being further intro
luced within their borders.
Saturday evening last party OF iramps entered
the house of Peter Lint three miles from York Pa
bound and gagged him aud robbed him of a gold
watch and sl2j. No arrests.
Matthew Flanagan, a New York laborer, on re-
turning home, found his drunken wife upon the
door with a baby in her arms which she had stran
g'ed to death by her tpsy embraces.
The popes exchequer is suffering from the hard
times, and the Peters pence collections have fallen
of 60 that an appeal is to be made to the Catholics
of the world for further contributions.
At Trenton, " j., j. Boyle, janitor of Freeze
Hall, fired a musket into a crowd at the wndup
a ball, Tuesday morning, during dispute, fatally
wounding one man and breaking the leg of anoth-
er.
sarah D. Wheeler, of Greenfield, y. Y, veal.
thy maiden, has Just been sentenced to the county
jail until she pays fine and costs of $50, because
she would not meet her taxes OF s95, unless she
could vote.
The annual report OF the savings bank commits
s;a IS hat ,fa tot, L.
deposits in the savings banks doing business Oct
81, ISIS was s2o9, 063lS being decrease Tor the
year of s3I,735,9S3.
The Utica Republican, which was started for The
avowed purpose Of supporting senator Cpnkling
has uspended publication. The sad event occurr
ed upon the announcement that Messr-. Merit
and Burt had been confirmed
With the doube-runner otherwise called tray
erse sleds at work thinning out the small boys ant
the keros can converting servant girls int
angels, the New Haven e.ister says the world
bids fair to be less populous.
Miss Minnie Lombard, OF Wilmington, bel, age
49, became totally blind two years ago nom fever
On a recent night prayer for her recovery was
offered in the Methodist church, Next morning i
stated, her sight was restored.
al be burial OIL AhhDullDh " custer, AT Marsh
field last week, the lid OF the casket containing thu
remains Of his gran dfalhcr, the great Statesman
Daniel Webster, opened, and his face, the body
having heen embalrncl, was perfectly recognize.
bic
Even that much abused elias , newspaper COM
positors, have now and then brilliant streaks o.
luck A new Haven typo, 1t is announced, has beer
tequeathcd fortune of s750.OV0 by a man he ono,
befriended. 1t is safe to say the decease was at
proof reader.
From 5000 to 5000 men are said to be on ;
strike in Liverpool, and their demeanor is quit,
threatening. The striker have been joined by tn,
sailors and laborers in the provision trade. Mob
roam the streets committing excuses, and ID,
prospect is not altogether cheerful.
The cruelty that turks in some hearts was shown
out by Joseph Smelling Of Calvin, Mich. lie lef
his wife alone in the col with two small chill drer
during childbirth to a,ten clrl party. Wa en-
the scamp got home in the morning, the mother
was so nearly frozen that she soon died.
When a man can make a living an wear tn,
best clothes in the market by simply playing bill.
lizards, there is poor encouragement for a vouns
man TO serve three or four years at the machrs
or some other dirty trade, and no, receive NOR,
WAN ShOuSH " pay us bptlu-NOTs I1eF.
AtMcleansboro, H., Charles and Frank Morli
brothers, went to kill their brothers in.law, VIM
Hale and Matthew Craig, on account of d ficu lty
regarding property Flank fred without effect a
Hale, and the latter shot Frank deaf. Charles
shot at Craig, missing him, Craig then shot Charlie
! fatally. No arrests.
| Chicago is the town oftelephones. baby ba,
a midnight attack of the croup. The father tele
phoned the family physician. The dect)r telephc
ned prescription to a druggist, and in few
minutes messenger was dispatched from tn,
drug store to the house ofsuferins This is one o.
thousands Of similar occurrences.
A Cleveland 20 woman has died from a sinru
lar cause-a burdock burr in her heart. She had
been troubled with strange symptoms for year
before her death. and the doctors thought that she
had rheumatism of the heart. Their theory now i
that she breathed the burr into her lungs when
child, and that it gradually worked It's way into he
heart.
Upon reading the detectives story of Barron,
suicidethe Boston Advertiser suggests that the re-
mains found 10 two barrels in Charles river. two
or three years ago, are probably those of suicide
The man is supposed to have cut off his head arm
and legs and packed them into one barrel, got into
the other barrel himself, and rolled both barfel
into the river.
MIS- John Dyer living near Fort Wayne, Ind.
u'eu suddenly a lew days ago. She was recently
married 70 Dyer anu possessed property that had
Ueen "'hen 70 Dyer In the event of her death.
D!e'S premises were searched and quantity o
s'ycnn'a iounu IN us 'runA' Inc body was ex
Hu'neu anu poison lo"nd IN the stomach. a war
rant was issued for Dyer, who has decamped.
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