Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-19
News and Gossip,


- oa,i,v Young cabpases and green peas
,.....ooD,lent of the London Times says thaI
a .oot "a in milk and thickened with -four VIII
cure rheumatism IL,
IodianOla, III, has college called simpson i's
tutor of Greek is young LADY, ana sne u ~
old. Ate she bad read Homer
s,Dtav ia holding crowded meetings In England
..d ,be movement he and Moody started IN eFea'
Britain is still full of;fe End vigor'
II IA reported that c. J. Brydges,of Montreal iS'e
rho Inter- Colonial railway, has received an "P
poiptment from Vanderbilt at Chicago
Advlees from California, Washington counly'Pa''
ronort the arrest Of sixty eighty OF the rioters IN
the mining region without the aid Of the milItary'
A Troy, N. " man. made insane by tbs elope-
ment ofhis wife, attempted to murder MS suiee
children with poison and then cut MS own 'nfoa''
The sheriff of New York reports Judgment oil
a,o.5st against Congressman Fernando "ood
vor,bless, because no personal property can be
found.
The trial of the suit Of Cornelius J. vanderbilt
against William Ii. Vanderbilt has been set ior tue
Tp,t Monday in April befors u" struck Jury.
The suit is for sl,OOO.OCO
A despatch from san Jose says that hre-damp
oxnlosion in A tunnel on the Southern Coast rail-
road, near Alma, injured fourteen men, nine oil
wbe m (Chinamen) will die.
The New York senate has passed a bill punish
ing grave rbhbers with Eve years. Imprisonment
The legislatures of Indiana and Ohio have SINH
lar measures under consideration.
There is an ice boat the Hudson river This
season which possesses extraordinary speed. ohe
is called the Lucele, sailed at The rate Of seventy
miles an hour the other day, and beats everything
on the river.
The sun Gays that Herman Dugan, one of the
Jurors in the smith. Burnett murder trial begun IN
Jersey City last week. has been declared inSane'
and A new Jury will have to be impanneled and TIT
cause Legun again.
the oIher day while a young swell wab asleep,
some friends, for joke, shaved OF one side of his
mustache. lie has been in the most distressing
condition ever since, because he cannot discover
which side It was.
The Sunday News says the announcement was
made Saturday of the marriage December IL oil
Frederick W. Vanderbilt TO Louise Holmes
Anthony alleged to I've the divorced wife of his
cousin, Daniel Torr5ncS.
The deadly plague is dispOpulating Russian
villages, and in addition to this, typhus fever ami
smallpox are increasing alarmingly. The Siberian
plague has also ppeared in another village, and
the cattle plague is prevalent
The annual statement presented TO share holders
of the New York Graphic company showed profit
on last years business of 81 90, the first time
balance has appeared on the right side since The
establishment ofthc company
A despatch from Cairo, H., says tbs bow Of the
steamer Donnelly ran high on the shore ,necessitat
ing a leap Of ID feet to the ground, which, with II
panic on board, caused the causaltics. About %
people were injured, mostly bruises and few
dslocaiioLs.
Congress proposes providing for Il Board OF
Health Of seven members, at $40 per day and eX-
penscs The Sergeons.General of the army and
navy will be members without extra pay. Their
duties viii bo the prevention ofthe Introduction OF
infections diseases into the country
An award If $1,000 damages has heen rendered
gga!net A. a. Chase, the editor 81 the Scranton
Times, in behalf Of W. w. Scranton, plaintiff. The
Times had alleged that Mr.. Scranton, who led a
body oil vigilants in 1871 against the rioters Of the
city of Scranton, was a murderer. Three men
upon the rlotins side were Killed IN the melee at
the time.
Some years ago man named Cannon, hired a
man in Texas 10 murder enemy. The man who
iii the murder was condemned to death, but the
ght before the day set for his execution his wife
brought him poison in her mouth, and both were
found dead the next morning. Cannon, the man
who inspired the murder, has just been captured
and will probably hang.
a well dressed, polite man walked into the police
detectives Office in Troy, n. Y, and asked to see
some novel tools that had been used In trying to
| break open safe. rhe things brought ont, he
examined them with great care. " Much obliged, :"
| he sail, have just 1nishe five years in Sing
Sing, and wanted to see what progress had been
made in my profession"
Saturday it was announced that Irs. Sylvia
Jackson, a widow living with her son at Oxford ,
Chenago county, n. Y, had fallen down stairs ami
| been Killed. An inquiry OF the relatives led to the
suspicion of murder by her son. The latter was
arrested, and the cOroneI's inquest strengthened
the suspicion. Marks OF violence were found on
the deceased and Ul9od-st.in3 on the son IS cloth.
a9.
terrible and Overwhelming defeat has been
suffered by the British army in Southern Africa
| IN entire column with go native auxilaries weIr
utterly annhilatcd neat the Tugell river by 20 900
Luns, who captured valuable convoy of TO-
wagons l'Voo oxen aud an immense amount oil
N"'u'o'e supplies. 1t IS c'tm Iie TINT 1900 Zulus
were l'ea anu wonaded in the battle, aud over
''O n'''sn troops anu many officers.
y daring highway robbery was pcrpetrated in
broad day light on 9Th avenue New York. on FIJI
day The wife of Adolph De Bar,, "A wealthy i'm
porter was walking on the avenue with a lady
friend when well dressed man Jarte,l behind Mrs
on"caVoreu 10 tear them from her ears lie sue.
cscnuon ' rhn T". one ,'oe'a'ns inc ear anG