Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-19

The oven in the restoring room or thn
jackson chemical works at Jackson, \, icb
exploded Thursday morruing, demolishng
ne huiIdlf g and fatally scaldng one OF
the furnace men. Loss $1,000. The
shock WAS felt quarter of n mile away.
DEFRAUDING THE GovERNMENr.-The
Lyndon Union says;-A great swindle is
now gong on against the government by
country advertisers expressing cart loads
oil circulars 10 Montreal to be there mailed
to different names throughout the s,ate-,
Eleven large sacks of that stuff came
down over that line last Monday, aud SO
crowded the route agents that lhev were
unable to get half of it distributed curino
the trip. If mailed from any office in the
states these circulars would require a one
cent stamp each, while ut Montreal ,hrv
are mailed at one cent a pound and
Canada gets the money. The cjrculars
we saw Monday were named "'The Fnr0,-
erS' Bul(tt1n," but were simply IN advrr-
tlsemcnt for Stockbrid@e Fertilizer Inc
printing is all done before the circpJ,rS
are expressed to Canadl and, to give the
enterprise the appearance of honesty. thee
arc nomtnaIly published in Montreal. The
government should contrive some way to
stop this swindle and make some law ~,
ruling by which this country, which dops
all the distributing and CARVING. INV
receive some compensation.
Surgeon-General Woodwork writes 70
the congressional committee on epidemics
calling attention to the prevalence of the
plague in Europe. Should the plague an.
pear IN the countries of Europe with
which the United States have commer,.;.,,
Intercourse there will be great daprnr Of
lle disease reaching our shores. In f,rt
the utn9er exists ut present through sbins
from the Caspian and Black seas ria
latest arrival in New York from the Rial
sea was in December last. Conslnrnh,n
danger may be unprecedented from tbe in
PRODUCTION OF infected clothiuo into his
country brought hy Russian cmigr,n's
especially the Monnonitcs from Snn,ha",'
Kussa, large numbers of whom slim -,
Liverpool. The board of yellow frvar nv
perts were unanimous in opinion thnt ~,
United States medical officers If hoa t'I
should be stationed ut Lvcrpool ,nJ I"'."
some point in the Mediterranean ,n ahu ,, Il.
~ 10 ouoJecC 10 orders TO visit
'he places OF the outbreak of infections
epidemic diseases so that definite reliahio
and prompt information may he given ,o
the health authorities of our seaports.
A SINGULAR BLUNDER,-A s;n.,,
reproduction of an architectural den',,
mas lately been brought 10 light in Nv
YORK. When Dr. Cheevrr's emon,
Church of the Puritans" on II,;o, o">
was built il was made an exact copy Of :,
church in Bernie, Switzerland, of w viii Al, q
MEMBER OF the congregation travelling in !
Europe had taken drawings. A strikinr
popularity of the structure was lbn ,,'
towers, one much higher than the o,h t"o
but similar in every other, RESPECT Thn
church stood for twenty five years echoino
with DIR. Cheever's thunders ,,y.;msS3
american slavery. and was then solI to n
Baptlst congregation and removal tn
fiity-thlrd street; every stone being mari.
Gu ana replaced In The same position il b,d
formerly occupied. The tall tower ANY,
inc snort one were carefully repronuceJ.
ana now, some inquisiive, dlsaorrrah,a
person, prying into the history Of tbe
or,elnal model in tho city Of Berne, has
unearthed the architects plans and speci6.
cations OF the Swiss church, and, behold
'ne Two towers are exactly the same height
c,the church was unfinished. The Swiss
CaiVlhlsts were little short Of funds. and
inc result of their financial strinqenrv
was twice faithfully porpetuated in The
western hemisphere. the UNEQUAL towers
oeing supposed 10 be eminently the proper ,
ecclesiastical thing. WV