Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-20
News and Gossip.

Gen. wolseley is to DO the next Oom~A
Chief Of India.
o.., ,so no 600 shares Of the Panama canal stock
have been subscribed in Paris
A Young lady at Jacksonville was impaled upon
a stake the other day and seriously hurt
The loss by the sevelevo fire is now estimated al
a.. ooo oOo Altogether LAS houses were burned.
Awoman is on trial in vidalia La, for murder
ing child by pouring scalding water down r''
throat.
The Indianapolis Sentinel publishes an estimate
by counties of the wheat crop of Indiana and
makes grand total IS, 900 bushels.
Up. Benson, while chasing cat in Troy, NY,
ON Thursday, ran head foremost against a tree.
His skull was fractured and he died instantly.
| Archbishop Wood (Roman Catholic) of Ptila-
delphia, has refused to join in the movement to
nav the debts ofArchbishop Purcell Of Cincinnati.
Judge Hilton says he can put his nuger at any
time on persons who are particps crimiuis in the
conspiracy concerning tho body of the late A. I.
Stewart.
| A Florida man, who ownes 10000 cattle and is
richer than anybody else in the state, is recluse,
living in a shanty which has neither fireplace nor
chimney.
Miss Mary Quentrell of Frederick, Nd, whose
| friends claim for her the distinction of being the
original " Barbara Freitche," died suddenly a few
days ago.
| A man named Collins is now walking from San
Francisco to New York wager of 81 500 that
he can do it in 100 days. He has been reported at
Davenport, Iowa.
| The contest between the gas companies in New
York city has brought the price of gas down to
1 I faat forl niaa vii off
to supply gas atsl.
Those who have lived In Saratoga for five and
twenty years say they do not remember the place
to have been so gay and lively as now. The crowd
| at the hotels passeth enumeration.
There is the same disparity between the sexes at
Narragansett Pier as elsewhere. One house con-
tans twenty-nine young ladies and three gentle.
men-nine apiece and two tospare.
The World says of the recent Yazoo City outrage
that it was measure if truly reported better fitted
for Zulus than for Americans capable of self.gov-
eminent and of liberty protected by law.
General Manager Angus. of the bark of Montreal
has resigned. 1t has created great excitement and
a fall in the stock 1t is believed Smthers, agent
Oft bank, in New York, will be his successor.
The Artic ice company of Boston is now turning
out about 10 600 tons OF artificial ice per day. VIII ch
it is under contract to deliver at half cent pound
The cost Of manufacturing is only 81 cents ton.
The Pacific mills at Lawrence, Macs, employ
from 10 900 to 1000 persons their pay roll runs
as high as $40 minute and the cost of supplies
with which to keep the machinery running is s20 a
minute.
Senator Butler of South Carolina has remedy
for the financial ills of the day. lis: abolish
the \atiOn9 hanks and ranea tha ton tay
on the issues OF stale banks,and the financial prob
lem will be solved"
The Locust Grove Hotel, Bath, Long Island is
burned. majority of the boardors lost every.
thing Loss, $4,000 WIN. Shurhardt, the night
Waterman, is reported missing. Joseph Pearce,
manager of the hotel, is reported lost.
The lost children of Montague, N. Y, came out
of the woods Wednesday afternoon six miles from
where they entered, having been lost two days and
one night. The youngest is and the Oldest II
years of age. They subsisted on berries.
DR.. Hollands admirers have presented him with
a testimonial which is made of bits of W God from
the birthplace Of all the American poets. The
wicked Boston Herald adds: A bit from DIR. Ho.
lands birthplace was omitted for obvious reasous
Senator Logan declined to be interviewed about
the ConklingSprague affair, and oracuarey re.
marked: " 1t would not become me. l am not
out of the fielG yet, you know, and might need
little charity some day. You understand. Good
evening"
Capt. Joseph Boyle of the Mississippi steamboat
Heroine stepped ashore at Mandeyille La,and
was instantly killed by negro whom he once
whipped. The Heroine, on the return trip, brought
an excursion party Of lynchers, waited while they
hanged the negro, and then carried them back
| home.
| Sarah Root, Of Reading, Pa, became an exceed.
inkly devout Lutheran, and finally religious
monomaniac. She believed that food was pollu-
luting, and refused to eat declaring she would
| fast 40 days. She had nearly starved TO death,
when phys ician forced food into her stomach
through tune, aud in that way she is being kept
| alive.
| Ex-Governor IL. e. arm outh of Louisiana says
the republican party in the south is united, but the
party in the north cannot hope for a single eecto.
raj vote from that section for the presidential can
didate of $780, with the possible, not probable ex
cepton OF Louisiana. The material prosperity of
the south depends, In his opinion, upon breaking
the democratic solidlty which exists there.
Eight carloads of coored men of the better class
well dressed and have money, arrived at East ST.
|
sipp. They were en- route to Kansas prospect
Ming trip, and it is understood that if they are not
IfavorabJ impressed with Kansas, they will either
| return home examine some other northern state
with view to emigration.
Chinaman in prison cell at Virginia City had
| some opium but no pipe to smoke it in. He got
vial, into one side of which he drilled small hole
| by working industrously for week with a nail
which he whirled between the palms of his hands.
A stem was made by splttinga stick, growing it,
and tying the halves together again. The pipe
thus constructed was held together by stick ing
paper on it with paste made by soaking bread in
| water.
| Mrs. Vet, who lately died at New Albany, Ind,
divided the mature part of her life into three dis.
tinct and contrasting periods. She was for ten
years a washerwoman, working hard for bare
subsistence. Then she went into business as a for
tune teller. and for 10 years successful that
at the end of that time she possessed of $780,,
900. Finally she became p,ous, and during her last
10 years devoted her time and money to deeds of
charity.
The August crop returns show a slight decline
from the condition in July. For cotton the average
condition for the whole country is ninety one, loss
of two per cent since July LIST. The condition of
August of last year. The northern parts of New
England and New York maintained their July con-
dton. The condition of the oat crop is ninety
one, against one hundred in August of last year
and slight Improvement over the July condition.
The executive council of the Cotton Exchange
states that during the past five years cotton culture
ia the United States has outstrpped the most
sanguine expectation. The problem of free labor
has been virtually solved and the South must lbe
regarded the future reliance of the cotton manu.
facturers, both 10 America and Europe. Taking
the average of years past, but thirty-one per cent
of our cotton is manufactured in the United States
sixty.nine per cent going to feed the mills of
Europe.
The large machinery hall of the Philadelphia
exhibition has been torn away. 1t was bought by
speculative firm for $2i,0 OO and they will multi
ply their money The stone used to build
extensive oil works at Point Breeze. The rougher
lumber was worked into oil sheds at Communpaw,
and the immense quantity of yellow pine and other