Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-09

Berlin by Pahsa SATURDAY h.,.5 90 left
I,mas Murphy, Jersey pauper' ni' e'''
him by a relative last week far and ,,leu
~. ri,, of Italy IS seriously ILL., le'e' A""
-, a. Tho rigbt lung being his complaint
ro,o. dog lief, in Missouri found his""5 O
b., MI. ma ster,s house a distance OF oO' '"''T ,,.h
r ".s Ell crRoseberry is to marry Miss Hanna"
,o,h.cbud She has an income oil a mliiion uo'''''
n year. ....,;.,, ,o save a dog
.,,r N recently, was killed by To-
conceive. o.,o,..o ia a de.
- - "a, oO0 by collision with Piton Oo''
building contractors a.. pru,delnbia
within the three years since 'ue -
Times was started,i has had seventeen ''''
and has won them ALL o.,s ,o sit
Tbirteen i, an unlucky number oil pefsoh' ~
iovn tn dinner-if there is only ehous" "
around comfortably for twelve. N. s,a,os
Russian official dispatch dated boso'' s'"'e
that Turkish prisoners IRON Plev'a are W '"s y
cold and that it is impossible TO anoru thein any
aid. .---,..,, og,inst tho
banisbment of Don Carlos from France anu l'tO,
nonuces as ia lse the reported conspiracy against
her son. -, ,,,,s tn
yenuor didn't prognosticate any cold snaps "
orcpr in January. II this sort of thing con''nue'
moor yennor will lose his reputation as "e"'he'
prophet. c,.o,,,r.,.
John Dixon says he proposes to tow Cleopatra''
Needle to England from Ferrol, Spain' ABOUT ''e
Iotb inst The litigation as to salvage mas oeen
arranged.
The Boston Health Board pronounces diphtheria
A disease dangerous 10 the pubic heai'n, auu
orders physicians to report cases as they uo '"0''
of smallpox.
,corling to the statistical bureau, the excess oil
exnorts over imports during the eleven monlhs
ending November 80 was upwards OF hundre"
and twenty.four million dollars.
Four Black Hills gold mines, have been sou 10
California capitalists for the handsome sum Vi
100000. This is the heavies mining rahs"c''on
that has occurred in the Black Hills.
Ast. Louis woman, cursed with the opium habit
went to the insane asylum, and after treatment Tor
| short time has come forth entirely cured 1t was
hard discipline, she says, but she would endure ten
times as mpch for the liberty she now enjoys.
All but 500 of the population of 5000 in Cortland
n Y, have signed the Murphy pledge, anu the
louor business is ruined "but this thing Is oouhu
to blow over" said dealer as he sat in his DESERT
ell bar room, and folks will be thirstler than
befcre.'
Gen. Robert Toombs says he is going to Paris.
at will be the third exposition that have attended
| in that city. attended the exposition OF 1872 as
Senator: attended the exposition of 1867 as re-
fugee, but am going to this one as a gentleman
| by God, sirl"
| Elk Gov. Dingley, of Maine has gathered status
tics to show that there is not proportohately one
tenth of the liquor sold and used in that state thai
there was forty years ago, and that drunkenness
pauperism and crimes of violence having their
origin in the use of liquor have largely decreased.
A rough old clergyman once took for his tex
that passage of the Psalms, al said in my hastt
all men are liars" Looking up apparently Is if he
saw the Psalmist standing before him, he said
You aid it in your haste, David. If you had
been here, you might have said it after deliber'
ton.
Laplanders have horror of wolves, which maxi
sad havoc among their treasures-reindeer A Lap
first question in England was, " Are there wolYe
here )" and when told there was not he claspe,
his hands and said " If 1t only had snow, noun
tains and rein moss, what happy country
would bel"
Mukhtar Pasha has left ErzerOum. One accoun
states that he has been recalled to ConstantinoplC
another that he has taken command Of a small folC
in the field. The Russians have suspended the col
centratlon of troops against Erzeroum on accour
| of the snow. They are making roads by tunue llr
. through the snow.
5 The population OF Japan is very dense, but the
e is no idling no starving and no begging 1 hav
mr. a 1onIa1 I no
eminent would send over some missionaries
teach our people how to be industrious, tempcra
= and frugal, and contented and less qparrelsome
II Recent Japan Letter.
Il y lawyer and his wife in Lafayette Ky, 9
= drunk New Years Day. They smashed Il
windows of their dining room and he glass of Il
pictures, tore down the curtains. killed two bird
t broke dogs leg, and whipped servant gil
/ Their case IS to be CONSIDERED By The church
y which they are members,
Dab man, Now York horse man, has shippt
about 600 picked American horses to England
: the last nine months at a good profit. At frs
h there was great prejudice against them in Il
= English market, but their merits spoke for then
: selves, and they are especially liked because the
is are SO well broken and can be driven by women.
q Lynchng parties generally do their work tho
d oughly but Reuben Proctor, who was hung by
l. mob near lndianola, Ia. some time SINCE is said
e have been cut down by his friends before life vi
e extinct, restored TO consciousness and conceale
white coflii 1, supposed to contain his remain
but really filled with dirt, was buried lie has lie
for more congen ial chimes.
q An evident reaction oil the silver question hi
taken place among congressman since the holiIa
| races and the advocates nj an ~ ~
u believe it will be impossible to pass the Bland b
Il over the Pres dents veto. The conviction is So
:, lobe so strong that compromise measure HI
e been considered and partially agreed upon by r
r representatives. of the opposing elements
y ln GrcenSburg. Ind, susceptible young ma
fell in love with Il tickle widow, obtained he
v promise to marry him, and invested all his none
q in house Tor her 10 live in after they were we
/. ded. They wer never welded, however r., for Il
:, widow Tilted him ; and he has sued her for breaC
OF promise, claiming that his heart has been dar
aged IS OGO by sorrow, and his pocket 81 600 by Il
: real estate investment.
!. Baron Bettino Risasoli, Tuscan, having take
e to heart the sad condition of those Of his country
a men whom property and lack of employment cor
. pei to emigrate, has apportioned his extensiy
estates of Maremma into sm all lots which are di
posed of at merely nominal prices to those haylu
C little money, and given gratis to peasants wi
Y are inclined 10 labor, but pcnniless Fertile vim
yards fruit plantations and olive groves are fair
It distributed among the lands which the Baron ho
: allotted to the poor
IL The term MORRISON " is applied in France
S infants under three years of age who arc or on
II TO be, nourished at the breast. There are thr,
r kinds of nourissons "-those fed at the mother
It breast those intrustel to nurses and finally. II
t infants which fall to the care of the poor.law aut
critics. The fate of these different classes var,.
from 10 to 90 per cent In the first class there is
mortality OF 10 to 10 per cent In the second cla
the death rate is about 50 per cent, the mean raj
!, for the third class is IS per cent but sometim,
u reaches the horrible rate OF 81 to 80 per cent.
=, Bourbonism is getting some hard rams even
!, Mississippi. They have just hal a lively nun
. cipal contest at Greenvlle, the shire tow, ,
: Washington county, the result Of which ia mo-
II significant and encouraging. On the one hand NJ,
- the regular " rock-rbbed" democracy: on II
y other, party rallied under the leadership of ~
u equal-rghts democratic seryatiye Climb nh;,
n justified its name by joining liberal men a f ho,
parties and races in support of a broad platc,rr
- Ike that OF Gov. Nichols IN Louisiana, The poo,,
- vote was scdulousy cultivated and, after n har
: hght' oourbonism was defeated by good maiorit,
: a singular meteorological phenomenon was o,
=