Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-05
News and Gossip.

News and Gossip.
The California constitutional convention has adj
journed sine die.
The snow is eight feet deep on level IN one
street in Montreal.
The thieves at Lincoln, !" is the way the Omaha |
Herald designates the Nebraska Legislature.
Forty.three horses were burned to death by
fire in New York, Thursday morning
A Vienna despatch says that an avalanche near
Marburg kill 81 persons aud destroyed nine build
ings
The Cincinnati Commercial remarks that Tden
seems to have mortgage upon the democratic
party, due in 1885,
Money kan make man notorious, but Kant
make him respectable, but one-haf the people
don't know the difference.
| Aresolution submitting to the people the question
of biennial sessions of the legislature has passed
| both Houses of the Maine Legislature.
Weston, the walkist at the expiration OF his
thousand hours in Eng land on Saturday had walked
1917 IL miles, thus lacking - of winning
| AtNew Market, n. H., Belle Simpson, IL years
old, was shockiugy burned about the face and
hands while kndng fire with kerosene.
Members of Congress are suggesting that Abram
S. Hewitt OF New York would make good demo-
cratic presidential candidate. The party Is likely
| to do worse.
| At New York, Samuel NJ. Clark, sues his wife to
recover $4,000, which he asserts was promised
him if he would marry the defendant, who is Is
years his senior.
The house of j. p. Coulson, at Coavllc, Iowa,
was burne recently, and three children left alone
by their mother. while she vsitol neishbor,were
burned to death.
The house of J. NJ. Lunsford was burned satur-
day morning, in Jacksonville, o. Lunslord and six
of his children who were asleep persisted, his
wife and one child escaped.
The manufacturing property of the Atlantic
| Deainc Company in Providence, RI, was sold at
auction Thursday for $500 200. Providence parties
were the purchasers The property cost over ST.
900 0OO
David Fender, who snatchcd diamond out OF
Brooklyn lady's ear gets twenty yeirs in the state
prison, but the two presidents of the ruined life
insurance companies, convirteda yer ago, get
new trial
The body of a sixth victim of the Reno (Nev .)hre
has been found in the ruins. relief committee is
distributing supplies to the distressed, and the
business men are beginning to build temporary
buildings.
We NAV then fliry consider that the clndi-
dates for 1880, at any rate until the nominations
are made are to be Grant and Tillen, and it will
be well to inurc ourselves to the thought Few
York Nation.
In view of the continuous arrival IN the United
States of the last of the Fenian prisoners, the
Cincinnati Commercial suggests that Congress
poss q law forbidIlng the Emigration of more than
I5at ime.
According to medical authottI9', III soinS Is
dangerous. And nev!r more SO than when the Old
man pops into the paror AMI detects an obnov.
ious young man aud his dau sIter in thu act 8,
ristown Herald,
Mr.. Packard of Bangor, in the course ola debate
in the house to- lay, remarked (plintng to Mr. Far
rngton of Fryebnt1) that gentleman Is one of the
worst old suckers that this state ever produced -
Augusta Democrat
The latest reports Of the storm IN Southern
Europe state that the whole coast, from Genoa to
the south of Naples, is strcwn with wrecks, and
the inland towns and cities suffered severely from
!; the gale, and many lives were lost.
The voters of Montreal have given their verdict
on the conduct of Mayor Beaulry in toleatins the
riotous attack of Catholics on the Otan gem IN at
their celebrations the past two years by electng
Alderman Rivord as his successor. But Rivord got
only 100 majority
Boston clergyman, in an atter-dmner speech
assrted his belief that there is more upright down.
wright honesty in the business men of that CITY
than there is in urge class of the clergy there:
but what necessity there was for him IN
. make any comparison, or how he eleAated the
business men by dcpreciatins the clergymcn, no
body has yet cxpla ined.- ~. Y. Mail.
Tho Mpmnhis Tam \ A voI,,rbo
iron Kelley of Pennsylvania as greenback candi
date foT speaker of the next house. The Washing
ton correspondent Of the Cleveland 20 J Leader
has found republicans who would like to oin the
: greenbackers in Kelley's support, hoping thus to
secure control of the house political questions.
wealthy Rochester gentleman, whose name ia
tor the present concealed has made Prof. Swin
: the astronomer, very liberal Offer lie Offers IN
build him residence anil Observatory on East
avenue worth $4,000 1.-THE prorc ssor will purchos
telescope with l6 inch glass s zen a telrscono
as the one stipulated fIr woull be worth ah,u,
$4,000, Wv
scientist claims that a cat has no affection
We don't know about that although deeming i,
!; likely enough, utthere are two man in wos,o,
who are willing to make oath that n cat has M
. principle, as oneled the two n chase of sever,,
. miles through snow half way up to their wois,s
giving lhem TO understand all the time that it
coon Danbury News.
Treasurer Gates of Missouri ,,lv nron,so, ,,,a,
the state sue to recover the money he los, bv io
d ting the Burnesses put it in the bank, which o.o
= nowlnsolvent. John j. Mastin, who hclnod ~,
) Wise "hat oates should do, and got him to succor
the Mastln bank at Kansas City with thu st,,o
, money mas been acquitted by the courts Of cor,
: plicity In the treasurer's disgrace
Francois Grhon, n rich French flrmcr o,....,
. ed with his son-in-law and set his mill IN a. ~
men went nome and burned his own houso on,
Tue names deVourcd 1t kept the neighbours nj hor
WIN uouole-Darreled shotgun. lie thor ,
: ceeueu 10 throw large sum OF money in go,I ~
notes into the blazing ruins, and lnallv bio, tI
pralns out In the presence of the horriaed crow1
san Francisco dispatch says the San .Ioso
santa Barbara press are the only ones nm ,ho ""u
SUSTAINING the presidents veto of the Cbnoso TI
}, AT putch rat the last Chinese shanty was h,ns.,
Match Zd'and the president was burned in cofn,
sonora Al the Sand Lots meeting ON ST.. ="
o.. "i'crhooh IN San Francisco some TOTO noon1o
'ehueo inc meeting, In which the presilont ,ra.
saVageIy denounced, but everything was on,o. vas
Inc west Virginia House has seen tho si,..,
spectacle oil speaker repudiated by iho na',-
!, ""0n put uith IN power. Speaker Molre,t tai ,L
Reporter OIL the wheeling intcllisanser that IN '"o
'lluen was re'nomnated ho expected to seo ."se
> back party organized in West Virgins sen" s,en'
should suppotlt. This of couise, m nd, ho ",N NC
$ Gratis swearing mad and, in caucns asso,, uvno'
they repudiated the statement and exprosson V'eu
wish that they had not put that man in tho .ne
An exchange tells the following tough s,o.n
: The Rev. Henry Wertz of Madison W., .'0fy'-
; thrown from a wagon several months 49, was
struck on mis- head. fracturing his skun 49, lie
weeks his life was in danger. lie has n, I wv. Tor
covered perfect health but his friends aro ,as' re-
to observe that his orthodoxy has been p',sed
ably destroyed Hewas Baptist before "V ~
cdent; now he is Unitarian, with !, ,o Wv &c.
) that he used to preach. ''' doctrine