Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-26

4 bill is before the ItaliIn Parliament granting
9 Ocl 100 t. the Roman Municipality, t. make the
city more worthy capital Of the kingdom
Benson Van ynet, a Poughkeepsie merchant has
been appointed superintendent of Vasar college in
the place of william +. Forty, who died recently
The Senate now includes only 1--WE men who were
members when Andy Johnson was impeached-
Anthony, Chandler, Conkliug, Edmunds and Nor
I'll.
On Monday over two hundred persons, princi'
pally A. ,iculLur sts, leIt O.LtSI, Ont. for MIMI
tuba. They took with them thirty carloads OF
freight.
The developments OF the Lynn mystery indicate
that very considerable percentage Of the female
population of the United states Is lost, stayed oil
stolen.
The laRd sales OF the Union Pacidc Railroad
Company, duling ISIS, aggregated $4,000 acres
equivalent 10 nearly two Thousand farms of lGC
acres each.
Pope Leo Mi, has ordered the private cham
Oerlins in the Vatican to leave of the picturesque
costume ofthe sixtc .nlh century and to adopt one
more modern.
Monticello the old home OF Thomas Jefferson
mas pISStu TN lcl tuc duGtohCcl HhhtiSi euu
been bid of by the principal heir, for Ten thousand
and lry dollars.
The long Vanderbilt will case in New York hai
en- led in u decision that the will of Commodore
Vanderbilt anl its code are valid and should be
admitted to probate.
The drfilcation of Treasurer Woodwolth OF the
ohcrbrooke (p. q and sIanstead lire insurance
company amounts to $l2 So, for which The com
pany is fdlly secured.
All the elective officers OF the United States
Senate went south, cX ;1pt tlat Of sargent-at.arms
to which worse thing happened, as it was cap
tured Ly an Indiana coperheal.
The suit ofex.Mayor swinburn against Newport
r. I. Tor 80 900 dam tge on account of an imper
feet sewer running rJughhis premises, has re-
suited in verdict for the defendant.
The Providence Press does not approve of jokes
about the economy of the White House, and say
that when the whole country feels poor it is not
becoming in The president to initiate a royal
COURT
The selection of Senate officers by the democratic
caucus does not give entire satisfaction. North
ern dcmoc ats think the southern brethren LITTLE
too greedy in approprating four of the five elective
officers.
A scientific examination of the sulphur which
fell in Il shower Monday over the Lehgh valley, Pa
proves to be simply the pollen from a species o.
pine caught up By wind and carried from forests
in New Jersey.
In New York city one voter in every twenty
draws pay from the city treasury, or. dividing the
work done in the city among the voters the voters
out of office do lortnights work apiece yearly &c
support the voter in office
The republicans of the luliana legislature are
thinking Of resgning, and thus leaving that body
without a constitutional IN ijJrily, in order - de
eat the democratic scheme to rodi5triGt the state
in the interest OF that party.
The Richmond (vaD State grimly advises the
hoe llums of California not to take that state out
the Union and urges them TO be warned " by
several who have been there AMI don't for there =
nothing scce les like secession"
a brave little altoona (PA) miss, left to tc..,
her fathers store, was assaulted by y lecher0u'
Old scamp, but she pucklly cled her assallan
with an iron weight, and then locked him IN while
she ran home to bring bet father.
Gen. sherman Is opposed to th3 marriage Of in.
forpr army officers, and when second Lieutenant
pll his res poets while on his bridal tour, at Allan
Ia, ga the srur reception Wa, II" Well SIR, you
ought t. be put to work GA a farm"
an 'N'''"l"'"''S "'" !" N''"''s"op fuioei'
'sse'S - n7' 81 ~ business me 10 "ho'n I'ahs
were made by his brother amounting to $isi 600
and whI have never ptil either principal or inter
est, aud apparently were never aske ion it.
Charles Dickens son, Alfred, who has live in
Australia for seveIal years, has lost HIS wife ant
''e s'' ny 'o'i''' 'o'''',n'' runaway NJ, st
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Twenty-Five thousand people celebrated the an
niversdry of the Pariscommune at the exposition
ou'l"l"s III U"'c"So SATURDAY night one thousand
Oh 'hcm were armed with guns ana inc aVowed
ooJect o' Tue meeting was 10 RAISE 'UHa' 10 perfect
""''t"'y o'b '"'Na"o"'
1t is an interesting fact that every foot of oul
eastern sea.board from the northern coast oil
Maine to Florida, is now lighted. There are A few
miles OF unlnhabitcd coast in Florida no, ilIumna.
ted, but along the whole coast north of Flortl,
tlefe Is not spot Whlch does not come within the
lighted circle OF which some light house Is the
center.
The Philadelphia North American thinks il is
time for the greenbackers to give up the ghost II
says: " IIouclessly beaten almost everywhere on
the square Issue last fan and conspiciously routed
IN all OF the sp,in! elections, the greenba,kers
seem unable to comprehend that their reason far
beng has depatted an that the people haye re-
pulIated their cxtrayagant claims.n
The London Daily Times discusses the Canadian
larill IN thoroughly English spirit, and suygcsts
that the home government should not exercise iis
power of revision now that the diGerept,aI duti.s
are levcled against the United States inrtaod al
against exports from the United Kingdom sim ,ho
Times thinks the new tarlr as unwise n, II e,n
be- There is no branch ofinIustry which will no,
be crippled by it,"
New Zealanp. like Australia. ,roar. un,,u -
rabbit pest. Mr. Cowan killed $4,000 on %, 900
acres in four months. The cost of destroying them
was three pence each or over 81 500, an the skins