Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-03
News and Gossip.
The dentists at their late convention in

The dentists at their late conFcn'iou w
agreed to pull together.
Iswis Iadd, of Post Mills, has been arrested for
running an Illicit distillery'
The value of railways OF which the German gov
eminent is negotiating the purchase, amounts to
E72,0OO,OOO.
4 beautiful young Austrian damsel Travelled all
the way from Vienna to Fort Worth, Texas to
marry her sweetheart
bishop Gilbert Haven is lecturing on "rhe Amer
lean of the Period" to audiences gathered from the
shores of Puget Sound.
Immense beds of the finest bituminous coal have
been discovered near the Rio Grande in Texas, iE
miles west of San Antonio.
The indications are that upon the return of DR..
ralmage from Europe, the Brooklyn Presbytery
will make war upon him hercer than ever.
,ieorge Hoag gave decision, as umpire of a
Chicago game of base ballthat dispeased one side
captain, who struck him fatal blow with bat.
The official report of the recent fire at Irkutsk
which DESTROYED 200 houses, shows that sixty lives
were lost, the greater number Of whom were chill
dren.
The Boston Post explains, in reply to an inquirer
that "ragout" is not the French for fashionable
dressing; and that 1t isn't even pronounced thai
way.
A bashful South Bend girl refused to jump from
the window of burning building in her night
dress, went back 10 her room to put her clothes
and was burned to death.
Eben Waterbury, aged u, fell in love with a
Young woman at Ellsworth, ILL.,, and gained her
consent to marry; but his stern son inerposed, and
the old man committed suicide.
A Pennsylvania representative who has been in
vestigating reports that $1,000 more workmen are
employed 10 that state than was the case last year
There's nothing very discouraging about that.
John Welsh, ex minister to England arrived at
his home in Philadelphia last evening. lie was
met at Newcastle by committee of the board OF
trade and number of personal friends and brought
to the city on a revenue cutter.
Philadelphia papers tell of the arrival in that city
of party of Italian children, all of whom had been
purposely manned by the loss of an eye or a limb
in order to t them for the calling OF begging They
we're in charge of three padrones.
mass convention Of straight greenbackers at
Lewiston, Me-, Saturday night, to nominate state
senator and judge of probate was forcibly taken
possession of by the fusion leaders, and, after an
exciting scene the greenbackers were obliged to
leave the hall.
The south will raise this year about S 900 Goa
bales of cotton, 100000 hogsheads of sugar and
very nearly 600 600 00O pounds of tobacco This will
be a half million more bales of cotton, twice as
much sugar and T. 0lO more pounds of tobacco
than she ever raised before.
Two daughters of Mrs. Shervil of Corsicina,
riding horsphack when their horses
took fright. One of them was thrown and broke
her neck. while the other was thrown and very
badly injured. The poor mother on s;eing the
bodies OF her daughters lost her mind.
Lizzie Rompf of Louisville married Joseph
Drago when she was only Is years old and within
three months obtained divorce. At 1G che was
united to him again by second ceremony, and
this time six months elapsed before a separation.
She is now nearly H. and Drago is wooing her
again.
The owners of the Ausable Chasm are about to
put in an apparatus for returning boats with pas
sengers from the lower end of the canon to the
upper in mid air, by hydraulic power. This will
afford tourists a novel round trip-down through
the Chasm by water, and back in mid air, without
leaving the boats.
The boy at the Boston Sunday school, when his
teacher casually remarked that 1--WE were all & eat
sinners" was hardly more surprised than rural
Massachusetts, will be at the confessions of the
Herald. "Why are you sinner, Miss Pemberton ?"
Yes, Johnny,-we are all sinners" "Well,"-with
deep sigh,-"l knew you want handsome, but
did think you was good"
David Oliver, assistant sexton of Asbury Metho-
DIST church, New York was arrested Saturday for
allowing the church n ~ n sod Inv man and women
for mmoral.purposes. 1t appears he charged them
left them to their own devices 1t also appears that
ne allowed parties to bring beer into the church
md drink 1t. Judge Murray sent him to the island
six months.
Wells, Fargo Co., estimate that during the first
six months of 1879, the mining states and territor
les have sent away by express $ll,s52,sS7 in gold
thd Sl2 ,sl9,S05 in silver. Also freight, and
Ease bullion of the value of tlO,ll5.OOO. The ores
aud base bullion are estimated to have yielded
after reduction $3li7, in gold, $50 1876 in silver
ind 81 ,7s7692 in lead. Ga these figures, the total
gold yield of the six months was sl5,O00,OoO, and
the total silver yield, ST eco.
Hero is what they sing at public school cxamina.
tons in Vermont village, to the tune of " Yankee
Doodle" visitors and ALL joining in the chorus
Ifanything on earth can make
A great and moral nation,
1t is to give the little ones
thorough education.
Chorus.-Five times five are twenty five,
Five times six are thirty,
Five times seven are thirty i've,
Aud five times eight are forty.
The charges that the Brattleboro and South Loa-
londerry narrow-gauge railroad is being insecurity
constructed have been investigated by W. H..
Barnes of Springfield, Mass, civil engineer of the
Connecticut River railroad, who passed over the
line He reports that the bridges are better than
he average on new aud seGond-class roads, that
the grading is thoroughly done, and that the trestles
are sum enty strong for the ordinary rolling
stock of standard road. The only objection ne
finds is III the use of spruce instead of white pine
in The Howe truss bridges, thonsh the iron and
timber forming the structures are abundant
enough.
Among the remarkable inventions that have been