Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

I The New York Tribune says that Villa,
Garrison lies critically III attne house Of '''sa
in-law, Mr.. willard, in that city SUI
Mr.. Millais' picture, " The Order Of POL.
which he painted p years ago for g. ,oyi-
In London the other day for sH,I75. ''
Hamln, under sentence Of death in the c,-..
cut prison, sells photographs Of himself snI .'
the proceeds to the widow Of the man he r,,,,..''
By an accident at the discharge ola tio...
Chicago shooting gallery, Sunday evening "
+. Wood, a looker-on, was perforated, and li,,,
stantly.
The emnence on which the lion Is placed oD d,
field of Waterloo Is giving way, the a pre,, .-.. e
the steps is already in pieces, aud the lio, -, y,
danger.
The jury at Utica, n. Y, in the case or leo,
Belded, charged with the murder Of Pbens r.l4
dali in 1865, acquitted him Saturday night. ana,
ten days trial.
A trial now going on in ST. Peersbursl Ia. L.,
to the disclosure that poor people arrested "a, ~.
paying their taxes are liable to be beaten vb ,S
stepped in salt water.
Jacob taempfi, in 1861 president Of tho s,r,.
confederation and subsequently, a member y, a.
Geneva court of Arbitration on the Al,,,.,le
claims, is dead, aged GO.
Two muGled men fired at each other s,-o.
street in Xenia, o., and ran away when a crouI
began to gather. Who they were, and wh,, ,,.a
fought for, nobody has been able to lud ont.
The Rev. James NJ. Hayes assistant p,stor p,
st. AIMS Roman Catholic church, New yorL No.,
been held in $500 to answer to a charge of barin,
cruelty punished Sunday school scholar six yo,,9
| old.
The strength of the different factions in the Ga,
| man Reichstag as it now stand, after ch,ngos
since the election is as follows: The conseryanvs
wing, 1876; the liberal wing, li5; and tie centro
again, 1875.
A female Chippewa Indian, who claimed to In
daughter of the late W lillian Mowry, Of pm.
burgh, Pa, and entitled to real estate valued a,
sl2OO,OOO, lost her case Saturday, being unable ia
prove her legitimacy, the jury deciding for tho
| legitimate heirs.
DR.. Rose and Mr.. Garfield drank two glasse, of
whiskey in drug store at Alliance, OHIO and
found it so good they called for more. As thew
raised the glasses again the physician said lIere
your good health, -" Obi don't say that saIl Tan.
1eld; " consider your business, and wish TN, .,rg
may make me sick" They drank, and within an
hour both were dead, the druggist having ,r,,
them poison by mistake.
The grave has no terrors for an eccentric ror...
who lives in town in Illinois lie SCOTS al .e7o,
mattresses and their accompan ments OF sheet, and
pillows, but lays himself down in shallow trench
in his back yard every night and a faithful man
servant shovels earth over him until hs head
alone is left uncovered. lie has no fear of fire or
burglars, and if at any time he should die in tho
night all that would be necessary to be done womb
| be to cover his head also with earth and lie, him
| sleep till the resurrection. 1t is hardly necessary
| to say that this individual is unmarried.
Mark Twain does not believe that England,
intellectual climate agrees with his mental consti
| tuition. When lately asked why he hadn't WRITER
a book on Britain he replied: " couldn't get an,
fun out of England. 1t is too grave a country. Arl
its gravity soaks into the stranger and makes hin
as serious as everybody else. When was there
couldn't seem to think ofany thing but deep prob
lens of government, taxes, free trade, finance
| and every night went to bed drunk with statistic
! | could have written million books, hut nv puD
fishers would have hired the common hansuan t,
burn them.