Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13
News and Gossip.

c,r,;e the Texan who killed Porter, the aetof
refuses 70 plead insatity. He says that ne mas
spendid Texas case as it is, and there Is no use
weakening II.
A locomotive of the Boston and Albany railroAd
exnIoded at Greenbush. Thursday, killing the hre-
man and two machinists and severely injuring tne
orrinear and two other men. One Of the men killed
was blown $50 feet.
An nnprecedented case has come up at MILFORD
where i. 4. Cross has become gradually paralyEed,
a flight numbness in one arm being the hrst symp-
tom until his limbs are all useless and the NUMB
ress has coverel his whole body. lie suneres no
pain and his body is supple, though it cannot move
itself.
Prof. MAYER of Springfield recently put soft
sbelled potato-bug larva into carbolic acid for
three DAYS and then boxed 1t up and sent II 10
Europe for a geological specimen. Nothing daunt
oil when il reached the old country the bug was
found able to -eat potato vine as cheerfuily as
ever.
Two Iusty roustabouts went out from Chicago
bsr.room to fight on a balcony that extended over
he river They struggled long and hard, each try
inc tn throw the other over the aing, until they
went over together They would not relax their
hold after falling into the water, and both were
drowned.
A genuine queer fish " was caught in the water
of the Pequot river, Conn.,, few days since. The
FISH was three or four feet long and nat like noun.
der, 1t had no TAIL but good deal of scolloped
work decorated the place where a fsh's tail usually
is. In the water it maintained a vertical position
A large round hole through the sides OF its head
formed its mouth.
The quarantining of the railroads leading out Of
Memphis has peen taken advantage of by all the
little country store-keepers, who charging fabu
Ions prices for all the articles of merchandise
needed by the farmers. Corn meal lis selling for
slO,a:barrel 25 miles south of Memphis on the Miss
| issippi and Tennessee railroad.
The police of st. Louis found an old and wrnk.
led woman picking. her way about thel streets the
other day in search, as she said of her "lost child
Inquiry ELECTED the fact that the" child was 70
years of age, and the mother, who was searching
for her, certainly looked to be the III years of age
that she claimed for herself The old woman said
that Becky was a good girl, but would go or
sprees" She further stated tina" Becky " worked
| out and made three dollars month, and went on
| spree almost every time she was paid Off
There has been much excitement at Narraganset
pier near Providence, r. l., over an occurrence at
ex.Gov. Sprague's residence. According to the
I"Ooount tcicBiapHou w 'hO Pi0oet NJ Puioucu WIN
a shot gun and tried to shoot a German professor
(who was teaching his children Germany, to whom
he had conceived violent antipathy. According
to fuller and apparently more authentic account
the man he threatened to shoot was Senator Conk
ling of New York, who was visltor at his house
and who was peremptorily ordered to leave the
premises by the Ex-Governor. 1t is reported tina
Mrs. Sprague Immediately packed her trunks ant
left the house, for Providence. The intimate
friendship existing between Senator Conkling and
Mrs. sprague has made some talk at Washington
during the past year.