Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04
News and Gossip.

News and Gossip.
Two hundred school children deco ated TIC
graves at Gettysburg.
TbeJeGsrson Medical College, PhilIlelphl, has
sent out upon the land 1865 doctors.
The Maine greenback state convention will be
held in Portland, Thursday, June ).
The British Pacific squadron has beea ordered 10
assemble on the coast of Chill and Peru.
The Connecticut democrats arc counted for
Tilden By a careful local student Of politics.
Kentucky papers are almost unit for consti-
tutional convention and whipplng-post law.
Leadve is just now about the best place in the
country for a man without capital 10 keep away
from.
The Darien Canal Congress has closed its lahors
in Paris and decided on the Panama. LimOn Bay
route.
Thomas Williams, of Detroit, was found by the
police suffering from deliiium tremens in the
streets in New York, with 81 600 in greenbacks in
his pocket.
The Washington Hotel at Hagerstown, Md, was
burned earlyIThursdly morning ;eisht persons are
supposed to have persisted in the flames, and thirty
i've were injured.
At last Lord Chelmsford has been displacol from
the command of tn, British forces in South Africa.
Sir Garnet wolselcy has been appointed to lead
the armies of En- gland against the ZuIs.
Joseph Cook addressed the refugee lrecemen at
Topeka, Kansas, the other Iday, advised them 10
locate in small colonies, and gave them good al
vice accompanied by one hundred dollars.
While several men were engaged in building
sewer at Buffalo, New York, Saturday, the embank-
ment gave way,buryns lab0rer named Frederick
Krener and when extracted in about twenty min
utes he was dead.
The members Of the recent convention in Virgin
ia differed somewhat about X lnsas. One colored
gentleman said it was land flowing with milk and
honey; while another thought it only flowed with
" hopper-grasses."
A severe naval engagem Mt has recently been
fought on the coast of Peru, between Peruvian
ironclad aud two Chillian war vessels. 1t is re-
ported that all the vessels were sunk and that the
loss of life was very heavy.
At recent performance in the New Haven opera
house, as number of students left their seats
between the acts, good lady was heard to Oh
serve: faint it too bad those fellows have to go
home and go to studyingT"
At Lake Charles, La, on Saturday, in the Cal.
Oholau iNei hullil lHuulcl 5IOlln II WHlllN lnu
struck the small mail propeller Ramos, capszng
her. The captain and engineer swan ashore, but
all the six passengers were drowned.
AT Leavenworth, Kan, Friday, band of masked
men entered the house Of man named Murray
who was accused of the murder OF Mrs. Costello,
on the 18th inst, took him to tree about hafa
mile from his house, and hanged him.
The Michigan legislature have voted down
proposition to return to prohibition, has patched
tho license law so that lquot dealers have 10 pav
300 to retail spirits and so to retail beer instead
of Sl5) and so the present license rate.
1t begins to dawn on the American mind that
when John Bull can buy his breadstufrs for less
than the actual cost of production and trausporta
tion he is very far from having the worst end OF
The bargain, despite the " balance of trade"
In a race at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, on Fri
lay, to beat Col lsmith NJ id's time of q If on the
same track, Hopeful trotted three miles in 2:2l, !
;: II and 2:F H. The first half mile in the third |
neat was made in l:0j LIZ the fastest on record.
greenback state convention was held at Des.
ONES, Iowa, last week. 1t was presided over by
l man known as" June Bug "Wech, blatant
Communist from southern Iowa, and among the |
decorations of the opera house were linen sheets
of Brick Pomloy's absolute money.
The call for 2rl1) pDun / pc share on the Glas
'ow bank shareholders only yielded sufficient to
'ay dividend of 3s ii in the pound, making ten |
hIllngs IN pound thus far paid. 1t is believed |
ar heavier call must be made before enough can |
'e got to pay liabilities in full, possibly as much as
1000 or 5000 pounds per share.
The latest aivices from Rlnlazz report tint era.
ers have forme on two slopes OF Mount Eta and
double eruption is proceeding. The Aureale and
;antania road is blocked. Considerable damage has
'een DONE Fresh craters have opened cndan GER
ng Blanca villa, Pandazzo and Castlglione. Cloud,
# ashes overhang Pledmonte, which is in almost
otal darkness.
BY an English order in council last February,tbe
entail, or 100 pounds, went into operation as tb
init of all grain operations in Gre t Britain iustead
If the quarter or eight bushels. Last week the
lew York produce exchange voted 49, to2Hlo
dopt the new centa and cores ondencc with
ther produce exchanges make 1t 1rob tble that the
entail will come into use in the United States east
the Sierras, having already prevailed in the Cal
Iornia grain trade.
Inc eXctem INT in the Boston vol m lrkat con.
nues uAabated, the sales of last week amountino
} iOOO,OOO pounds. The transactions are largely in
altionia WOOL medium, unwashed and unmer
ileeces and super and extra pulled woods
ne market Is almost bare of WASHED heeoes. The
Manufactures take hold freely, with also mDre or
''s speculative inquiry, and new wool from dil3r.
nj points disappears about as fast as received.
Prof. Samuel A.K,ng has for the past G ght weeks
cen Dusily at work at PhHldelphia m lkinr the
alloons with which he is to eXDerim mt all the
lmmer preparatory to making the tll across the
cean by balloon in 1850. The centennial of the
IonSohre Dre-5alloon is yet louc years in the fin,
Ire, but long before that time the American Aero.
auto society," which is behind the Professor in the
;heme' hopes to see the problem of an,atlantlc
erial navigation thoroughly soIyel
Inc explosion Of the poNler mltlIina of tha
merlcan Powder Company, near Chicago sunday
forming, May %, was remarkable in seyerol n,r,i
nlars' 1t was struck by lightning, and, although
contained 1000 pounds OF guupowder, nearly
II OF which was destroyed, people living less Than
hee docks distant neither saw the n lsh heard tbp
puma nor lelt the shock. Several keg, of po,vdar
ere hurled 800 feet and deposited unharmed rhoy
ere wooden kegs, thus showing them supc,i,r In
le metallic IN such emergencies. Within n IN Inns
three-qualters of mile was an argrer,ta of
YER nan million pounds of powder stored in
'ue!eh' magazines, AMI none of them were in the
EAST disturbed.
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