Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-15

The gross receipts of the recent O'Leary- Cam
pana walking match we're $50 900, of which the
former received 1923 and the latter 81 sol.
A despatch from Frankfort, KY, says that IA
men have been indicated for the murder of Judge
Burnett and four for the murder of Freeman,
Maxine Lamount was found in the village of st,
Antoine de Tey, p. O., dead in n chair In his
house, with the flesh gnawed by his two furnished
| cats.
The mill Off, Baker & Bro, near Pittsield,
Mass, was destroyed by fire, Friday, and 100 per-
sons are thrown out of employment. The loss is
$50 900.
West Virginia talks re.establishing the whipping,
post and resolution looking in that direction was
about the first thing introduced in the legislature
last week.
unique walking match is now in progress at
the Chicago exposition building, George Guyon
having undertaken to outwalk the stallion " Hes.
ing Junior" in 81 hours.
1t is rumored that William II. Vanderbilt is to
erect residence on Fifth avenue that will throw
the Stewart mansion in the shade, spending in the
neighborhood of 90 900, COO for it,
A candidate for the L Lieutenant 6 overnorship of
Kentucky is eulogized as " the man who put 1856
DlllS ule IN one 0lbuL anu leb Inc
boys" out before the barrooms closed.
The Kentucky democrats are already electing
delegates to their state convention next May, and
Louisville goes as one man for DR.. Luke p Black
burn, the hero ofthe yellow fever scourage.
Butler mas less than two months left to stir up
the animals in Congress, and there going to be
loud complaints from the national audience if he
doesn't start up his great show pretty soon.
j. II. Smith, Secretary OF the Memphis Howard
Association, has completed his report, which
shows the receipts to have been during the late
epidemic. S4l7 $780, disbursements, $4l5, 1908.
The official list of patents granted through the
six yeary beginning with 1872 and ending with 1917
shows that Thomas A. Edison received 100 patents
during that time, nearly all for Geographic i'm.
provements.
The famous Lick estate, at San Francisco,
is again to come up for agitation " it'll some hope
ola settlement There is 5000 900, most of which
was designed to be used so as TO benefit the pub
lie in various ways.
remarkable cavern has been discovered near
Columbia, ruoumne county, California. 1t has
been explored for over a mile, and some of the
chambers are described as being of remarkable
beauty and grandeur.
At Kalamazoo, recently, James c. R,nlcll
jumped 10 feet inches In arunning jump, and 10
eet61< inches in a single standing jump. Richard
A. Henderson, of that city, Offers to m Itch him to
jump any man in the world.
George Alfred Townsends latest is that Grant
will be nominated with whirl for the presidency
with southern man, probably Gcl. Joe Johns ton,
for the second place, and that the democratic ticket
will be Thu rman and Bayard.
Charles Longley of Nichoasville, Ky, Attended
to light fire from coal oil lamp, when the lamp
exploded fatally burning Longley and one child,
and seriously njurng another child. The hou SO
caught fire aud was entirely destroyed
lar-e new barn of Andrew T. Bertholt. at
Middletown, n. Y, was blown down Friday night
in gale OF W ind. Two horses and five head of
cattle were found dead in the wreck, and ten cow
were SO badly EuFt that they had to be killed.
At the annual letting of the pcws of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, the total
amount of the premium received was s27.o7s.
which, with the rentals, 2,7i3, makes a total of
s4O,72 an increase of between $1,000 and 81, 600
over last year.
The miners in the Lchigh Valley coal region
have agreed to go to work at reduction of 10 per
Seut' piop'Sei Wy thc pIopIletOtS IL Is sad that
the Lackawauna an Delaware and Hu lson com.
panies will not reduce the wages, but wi curtail
the production one-half
Schooner Snowflake, bouni fr ON Norfolk to New
YORK, struck on an outer reef at Chi ncoteague on
Friday and nlled The crew, consisting of six men
lived GU top OF the cabin two days without fire
ioodor drink, The rescued myn are nearly OK.
hausted, but it is thought none are seriously in.
jured.
group of girls from several of the London
ward s;hools, wh) hlve b IN stu lying c)o5erv m
South hensinSton, have jrst gone throus public
examination IN the nolStration Kitchen.
lhcy were very young creatures ranging in are
rom Twelve to fourteen, but they cooked and
served up admirably mlny dishes, simple and
dinicut.
poor, outlying section of Lancaster Can is
alhlcted with malignant smallpox, which was i'm.
ported from Montreal by a French girl who came
nome III some three weeks ago and d led two DAYS
AFTER hef arrival All the families that attended the
wake" are down with smallpox. 1t ia now in
eight families with IS cases and deaths,
Rev. Dr.. Elias q. Beadle, one of the mist noto,
clergymen oil pennsylvania, died at PHILADELPHIA
honuaS night d. Beadle preached Sunday in
MS own pulpit IN the Second Presbyterian church
apparently In good health and in unusuallv good
spll's' having been able 10 announce that the
church was fire., from debt On his way home from
church the severe cold brought on a steppage of
the heart, and he died in a few hours.
ihe annual meeting of the American Socia
science Association was hcl | at Boston, Wednes.
uay' George I. Angel real paper on Public
Health Association" Rev. Dr.. Wines read an Ella.
Dorate report on the Prison Congress at Stock
hoim Edward Spinney, of New Jersey, read n
paper on " Industrial Education" and Simon
oterhe' oil New York, spoke on English and
American Methods of Legislation" Daniel "
Gilman of Baltimore, Nd, was elected pres dent
andthe Old board of vicc-presidents was re.cloc,
ed.
reports from the Pennsylvania oil region sbon
That the oil trade was losing one last yeor m.
price of the staple declined from s2I2 , in r.,,
airy to about 81 cents in July, since which Time :,
has remained below g.. The year opened with
stock OF about 0)) 900 barrels, TO which prolno
ton OF l5,lSS,OOO barrels of crude oil was odda,
Ihere were shipped from the region only ,hom.
ID o72,56 barrels. over $3.50 90 of which wcro
ported; the remainder was consumed at homo
Inc exports were considerably below lbose or
1877 In amount. "
In Central Nebraska, several weeks nro t,vo u,o.
were brutalyburn at II stake by a party orco,t,a
dealers, instgated bya leading herter name1 Oil
whose brother had been killed in an ARRAY with nv
two men. Olive an his men dened arrest .nd ~
great was the terror inspired by these wes,orr
nquisitors that the officers of the law doro1 No,
attempt to take them. Their capture, howovor
has at length been effected through the erorts ~
The brbthers of one of tho murdered men I'm, !,
'ook small army to do ii. Central Nehr,sta
must be pleasant place.
The plague has caused general panic in Astral
ian and saratow. correspondent writes ,ha,
when the plague commenced, precautions ar,ins,
he disease were neglected, as it was toLon cos
yphus. When tho weather became warmer ~
'eople died like flies and the dead lay unberriod ~
he Streets The infected district has been s,r
ounded by troops. q ommun lca,ion with Mosoo,,,
stopped. General anxiety prevails tbrouobon,
sussia' 1t Is supposed that the deaths arc n,oro
numerous than has been stated.