Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-29
News and Gossip.
rhe Unit Utes are on the war path

rapidly going out of fashion,
stephen Goodale, aged lis. has just diel in the
Portsmouth "a. H. poor-house.
A single order for 100000 doors from England is
oc,upying the time of a Chicago establishment.
Fourtccn "cowboys" in Kansas had nSht
,,,,pt some grass. Twelve ofthem were killed.
In London, Saturday, Cooper, the American
forper was sentenced to i've years penal servtude
A child eighteen months old was recently stung
IN death by bees at Santa Anna, Los Angeles coun-
ty, Cal.
A Yankee has invented patent safety balloon;
inst as the acronaut is about to ascend the balloon
bursts.
The Post thinks Thurman is nice man, an able
man. and an honest man, but does not really be-
Iieve he will ever be president
philadelphia possesses the champion modest
vonpg lady. When she hangs out stockings on the
clothes line she puts wells over them.
A Santa Barbara (Cal) farmer has seven acres
of tuberoses in full bloom. We can almost smell
them on this side of the continent.
The Boston Journal says the divorce suits in the
supreme court this year are SO numerous that they
have interfered with the regular business,
critic, in noticing a discourse on The Say
ings and Doings of Great Men," remarks. 1t Is
sad to observe how much they said and how little
they did"
1t is asserted that Oo) persons die every year
in Great b -itain from intempcrancc-. 800 dying
from their own excess and 20 500 from the indirect
consequence of the excess Of others.
| Congressman Singleton of Mississippi, in his
canvass for the senatorshiphas found it necessary
to indorsc the assassination of Captain Dixon at
Yazoo city.
| Receiving Teller B1ynton of the Ninth National
Bank, Boston, indicted for embezzlins s2} 900,
| plead guilty and was sentenced to five years i'm.
prisonment
/ Three thousand Ave hundred an seventy i'm
migrants arrived at New York last week. Many
engineers, miclinists and other artisans from
striking districts in England are arriving.
The Cleveland city council has =" bounced "
Councilman Franklin Leonard for using his 3lal
position to eXtort money, and has Councilman
John Darrash on the rack for the same offence.
A steamer at san Francisco, fro Alaska, brings
news that winter is fist setting down in the Arctic
regions an promises to be severe. No news
from the steamer Jeanette or the whaling lsct.
1t is said that the public schools in Jersey City
are likely to be closed unless the sanitary author-
ties devise some .methot of expellmg dlphtheria
and scarlet fever from those institutions which a
present threaten to overrun them.
splendid Bengal tgress over three feet in
height and nearly eight feet long, appeared in the
nelghborhood Of Torresdae, Pa, near tho city
Thursday morning and was. killed by the residents
It is supposed to have escaped from travelling
menagerie.
| A daughter oil Governor-eect Foster of Ohio,was
visiting in Atlanta, Ga, when the news of her ia
theirs election was flashed over the country. The
young men OF Atlanta, probably animated by
sphit of conciliation serenaded the young lady in
honor of the event.
James Sullivan, Friday evening entered a station
of the Elevated Rlroal in New York. purchased
a ticket, walked out on the platform, drew knife
and deliberately cut his throat and jumped from
the platform into the street below. lie was dan
gerously injured though still alive.
The body of man, believed to b, that of Prof
Wise's companion in his st. Louis balloon ascen
n,was found on the lake shore near Tailcstone
Ind,Friday. Upon his clothes, and sleeve button.
wereBurr's s.The body was otherwise unrec
ognizable.on account of decomposition and bruises
A French Canadian and his wife arrived in New
Brunswick, n. j., on Monday in queer looking
/
four weeks during their journey to that city from
Canada. The boat was built by the man with an
axe, a lcknife and a saw. The couple were too
poor to pay railroad fares, and hence the boat was
built.
The commission which has blcn in Cuba for
three months studying up its yellow-fever records
has returned convinced that tho plague has per
manent hold on tho island. The commission
official report will not be ready till next June, but
a preliminary report will so N be ma lie to the
national board of health
Says the Cleveland Herald: "Mr. Ewing when
he leaves congress is destined t. have 4 long sea
son Of repose from the cures Of pablo life and he
could not do better than devote his leisure to the
study Of finance. min OF Mr.. EHins's ngenui-
ty can make a COOL deal out OF the subj .ct Of
finance.
A special from Graysou, Ky, relates that 200
men rode into Martinsburg, Elliott comfy, Monday
night surrounded the Jail, ovsrpowcred the jliloi
took two prisoners, JnO. w. Kendall and VIM
Mcmillan, to a tree near by and hanged them until
dead. The men hlnge wera k1lwl to belong TO
gang of outlaws.
Henry 5. New, assistant postmaster at PitlsGcll,
Mass, for II years, nan of god stndiny, was
held for examination, for peculdti1n. HI has
been in the habit of rem owing TIC stamps from
letters deposited in the office and replacing them
with cancelled stamps from his own pocket. AS
he postnarked the letters himself, he was able TO
continue his ga ne for some time.
DR.. Lemoine weighed a5outtwo hundred pounds
in life; in ashes, ony seven. All the remains from
the burning has been rem owed from the crematory
at Washiny ton, Penn. Tho silly tale that all men,
bers Of his family who refuse to advocate the in
cincraon idea will b, tlisinhc,ie Is of cour Sc,
without foundation.
Ladies who paint for recreation aud not for mon
ey should kaoA that Miss Stevens,a Young Ameri.
can lady, has taken the highest diploma Tor porcc
lain painting in London, and has orders from tho
Prince of Wales and the Duke of Conn aught. IIe
representation of american autumn foliage is said
to be especially beautiful and effective.
The city election in Baltim )re, resulted favoraby
TO the democrats, as was eNpecte but the rcpuh
lican candidate hal 10 $50 votes t. - 20 for Mayor
Latrobc, reelected. This is a better showing thar
the republicans OF that city have presented fo
some years, and indicates growth of republican
ism in the state.
The distress of Hungary, on acr juut of the bad
harvest, is very great. The government has sus
pended the collie tion OF tlvcs until the next har
vest is gath3rc In ily-seven towns and village
in Temes county, the greatest distress prevails. II
Saros county, where some cases of starvation have
occurred, fol ly parish are threatened with fam
lne. Frightiul accounts are also received from
the counties OF Aban', lleves and Zemln.
While the sexton of the Ul;vIrsalist church i,
Gloucester was ringing his bell Sundly morning
an enterprising Butler nm placed in the peys
handbills announcing Batter rally at the City
Hal. The sexton had time to gather them in be
fore the congregation arrived, but could not pre-
vent the indignation of the people, who dec idct
that there might be an exception TO the rule Of
universal salvation.
The attempt to make fun of Foster as a stay al
, home soldier, and the nick.n inc given him in tn,
campaign, of" Calico Chlrlie." has resulted in
COOL thing for the retail sellers of that kind OF dr.
goods. AS soon as Fosters victory was known
the people o his home town, Fostora, changed it
name to Calicotown, AMI the people of the stat
decked their houses with calico. Inc dennI fol