Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05
News and Gossip.


Senator from Kansas.
A party of insurgent Arabs attacked caravan
near HedJax recently and killed 60 persons.
According to the almanac twoAhrds Of the
winter is gone, but IN ftst 1t is only about ha'i
spent.
4 tornado at Tuka, Miss, the other day, Killed
seven persons and dstroyed four houses and
church.
Elizabeth, y. j., with population Of only sou,
has debt of s5,oO0.OOo. Another warning to am
bilious towns
There are rumors that the Brooklyn Presbytery'
which meets next Monday viii be called on to dis
cipline Mr. Talmage.
of the sixty thousand students in this country
and Canada twenty-five thousand are said to be
protested Christians.
The secretary of the treasury has called for the
redemption of another $4,000 600 of the 500 con
soils of 90. Interest ceases May
canvass of the republican member of the Ohio
Legislator show that arfed is their first choice
for governor, and Foster second.
boiler explosion at secor, ILL.,, killed four
persons the bodies being literally torn into frag-
ments and thrown distance of 200 feet.
y. Lowden Snowden, new postmaster OF Phila-
delphia, has been rendered and accepted the posi-
ton of director of the mint, place OF the late Dr.
Linderman.
Colonel Sullivant, formerly the largest and-own.
err in Illinois, died suddenly on the steamer James
Guthrie, at Owensboro, Ky. at the time OF his
death he owned 10000 acres of land.
According to the Scientific American imitation
honey is now being manufactured for the markets
the comb being made Of plrafne, and the filing
with glucose, or grape and starch sugar.
The immediate gain by the recent refunding Of
United States securities is estimated at ST. ,OiC
the Incidental gain being represented as incacua
Bile, especially in private rates of Interest.
For all Georgia is SO heavily democratic, Ill
negroes probably have many mi Hilary compani
es as any state south. There are 81 in all, so o
infantry and each Of cavalry and artillery.
J.W Brown, wealthy farmer near indianapolis
was chlorolormed and his head SIP lit open Wednes
day night, and his wife also seriously cut in tn
head and face, by two murderers, who escaped.
1t is thought at Washington that Gov John j
Bagley, of Michigan, may pull Zach Chandler s.
tight for the seat in the United States Senat
resigned by Judge Christiancy as to let in " dar
horse"-Representative COnger.
Apostle Taylor, present head of the Mormon
church, thinks the only effect of the recent decs
ion of the United States Suprem Court regarding
polygamy Will be to unite the latter day saints an
confirm and strengthen them in their faith.
Mrs. Anna Marble, widow was found dead 4
the cellar of her res idcnce Paige Hill ScheneC
tady, y. Y, Saturday evening Her head was bad
ly crushed by an AK which was found under tn
body There is no doubt that she was murdered
The democrats who have control of the Unite
States Senate after March 18th, next, are canvassin
, the probability of an extra session. They ais
credited with the extraordinary magnanimity of
9 purpose to retain some of the present republica
employees of the body.
, Madden the lunatic, who recently threatcne
the life Of Queen Victoria, 1t is said had been i'm
prisoned in Belgium, Austria France and tn
United States for threatening the lives of ruler
r President Johnson is said to have been II
, American whom he desired to put out of the wa
The oyster schooner Adamantne, bound frol
S Potomac River to Baltimore, was found sunk
4 the Bay. Captain Horace Baker, of PHILADELPHIA
s was found dashed to the top-mast, and the bodie
S of nine men, composing the crew, were foun
i dashed to the deck, which was several feet unde
e water.
J, Gen. Bragg's Claims speech had the same efrc
: upon his purity associates, the New York Sun r
It marks that the discourse of the colored preach,
C who told his audience that chicken stealing was i
compatible with true religion had upon the congr
CATION, which an aged brother said " frew drefr
GOODNESS over dc meetin'."
: A Fort Robinson dispatch SAYS the removal of Il
II Indian widows and orphans to Red Cloud led
s dreadful scenes. wild Hogs wife was four
!, armed with piece of scissors anil fork DO
- sharpcncd. 1t was discovered that she had c
q deavorcd to kill one of her children. Some b
u leve Wild Hogs wounds were inflicted by his vi
II and not by himself
= The city of Elizabeth, " j., is bankrupt T
u interest on the city's bonds delaulted Saturd
and the school teachers. policemen and other Ell
! poycs are not paid. Millions of dollars ha,
G been squandered in cNtravagant schemes of publ
improvement. The total debt January |, was g.
|, o2O,e6j, with nominal assets, mainly IN the shape
t. unpaid taxes, OF S2,Sl0 III.
d The directors of the Glasgow Bank, Stronn
W and Potter, convicted of fraud, theft and embezz
II ment have been sentenced 10 eighteen months i
IS prisonment The sentence created Consideral
a surprise on account of its leniency. The prcsidI
n judge said they considered The circumstances Il
II the prisoners he'd not ialsfe the account for tn
Ii personal benefit but in mistaken lea that it "
W for the public good.
>. jury in Milton, Pennsy Ivania brought in a VI
, dict "died from drinking too much whiskey." I
W deceased must have been very poor man.
ID only takes but an ordinary man to die of "inebr
% ty," while if he is tolcrably well of it is ale
u hoism." If the departed hal been one Of the fl
$ citizens of Milton that town would have gone
y his funeral and would have been a " mute, inglo
g Gus Milton" on his little habits OF tipping.
nc Women are admitted this year for the first ii
~ to 1.-The examinations and degrees of the L
:. versity oil London without exception on precis
- the same terms as men. At the winter matrcu
'o ton of nearly 600 candidates eleven were you,
" ladies. One lady presented herself at the exai
/ nation for the degree OF Bachelor of Laws. The
are the urst twelve ladies who have been admit
10 the regular examinations of any English L
7e vcrsy.
, An idea OF the magnitude for the counterfeit
&c business may be formed from the remarka
ed statement Of the engraver Ulrich before one
tn the United States Commis siouers the othe day.
IN the course of year he and his associates prin
nj coupterieits amounting 10 three hundred and II
ne thousand dollars, many o. them on banks in \
H. York. The strangest part of his story, howey
n IS that the gang to which lie belonged was susta
" ed by acapitallst whose name he declined TO {
So close.
@. The Louisville Amshouse was burned Frid
&c neatly all of the $40 inmates escaping. Jar
mt Ridley, an imbecilc, was fatally burned. f
M Mayer broke his neck, Henry Keller persisted
IN the flames, Thomas Dixon was killed bv (
20 Nathan Caldwell was seriously hurt and NJ
lc Johnson probably fatally burned. The scene \
or horrible in the exit enc, and the small loss of
-, attending 1t Is marvellous. Nearly all the hmm
~ were invaldj, imbecies anil cripplcs. T.,
80 sl75 600
in
st woman by the name of Annie Cox, beca
n. enamored of married man named Taft, all
parties living ear Buffalo, N y, and, durin,
80 temporary absence of Taft from home, Miss {
-, delivered TO Mrs Talta letter and package e,
-. porting 10 come from Talt, dated Buffalo. The
=, ter stated that, while in Buffalo, he had been
posed 10 the smallpox, and for fear Of endanper
y the Lives OF his wife and children he had sent
~ some powders of which she was to take two. n
NC give each of the children one Mrs Tan gu.