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


House last week were very impressive.
Tho Connecticut Legislature met last
week and elected Mr.. Andrews governor,
together with other republican state
officers.
The court of inquiry into the response
bility of Major Reno for the Custer mas
sacre convened in Chicago Monday, with
open doors. The court decided to summon
Whitaker, Renos accuser.
Madame Anderson, the English woman
who has been walking in Brooklyn, sue
ccssfully finished Monday evening her
task of walking POO quarter miles in 200
consecutive quarter hours.
Chas. Sharpe and Jas. Mcdonnell were
hung at Mauch Chunk, Pa, yesterday. A
repreve from the governor came thirty
seconds after the rope fell, Just too late to
save the lives of the condemned.
The law forbds any issue of national
bank notes under five dollars after the re-
sumption of specie payments. and the
smaller bills are retired as fast as they are
worn out, thus making room for the silver
dollar.
Dartmouth College is trying to raise
S350,000 by an appeal to the Alumni The
requests heretofore received have been
hampered with conditions so that they are
not available at present. The college has
been running in debt for some years and
OF course has got to stop that whether it
raises the money it wants or not.
The New York Assembly elected Thorn
as G. Alvord, "Old Salt" speaker. He
had nine majority over Sloan in the repub.
lican caucus. The democrats number
only twenty-eight out Of one hundred and
twenty-eight members of the assembly. A
couple of the remaining one hundred are
greenbackers and the rest republicans.
phair's application for new trial will
soon be heard; his friends claim they have
procured some new evidence from one
Aurela Brooks, n courtesan who lived
some time in the house of Mrs. Frieze.
Meantime sensational correspondents are
trying to excite renewed interest in
Gravclin's case and take the opportunity
to msstate some of the evidence offered
before the Legislature last fall.
Benjamin Hunter, who murdered John
M. Armstrong with one Graham's assist
ance January %, 1878, was hum at Cam
den, N. j., Friday. He tried to kill him
self, and had so nearly bled to delth that
the sheriff and helpers had to hold him up.
Then the sheriff had some new tangled
way of his own to hang II man which
failed to break Hunters neck, and the kill.
ing was a bungling and brutal perform
ance.
There seems to be but little doubt that
Alexander who has just been sent to
Windsor for ten years, for robbery, is the
man who committed murder at Peoria.
ILL.,, few years ago, in robbing bank
there. There is no doubt either that lie
blew open safes at Cape Vincent, N. Y,
Napanee, Canada, Island Pond and Derby,
after he robbed the safe of Robbins e.
Marsh, besides going through several
post offices.
We would announce to our patrons that
we have engaged series of illustrated
articles for our paper of Dr. Hiram A.
Cutting, and shall at once commence their
punishment. They will consist in part of
the wonderful revelations of the micro
scope, life histories of insects, wonders of
creation, etc. Any Of Our subscribers that
will send in inquiries about any animal
cul9s, insects, or natural curiosities, will
have the same submitted to him for an
answer and the same published in this
paper.
THE AMERICAN INsTITUTE.-At re-
cent meeting of the directors of 1.-The
American Institute of Instruction - it was
voted to hold the meeting again at the
White Mountains, where it was held last
year. This decision resulted from the
great success of the meeting of the insti-
tute last year, and tina pressure on the
part of teachers and other friends of edu-
cation, all over the nation, to return there.
1t was estimated that over four thousand
(half of whom were members of the as
sociation) attended the meeting last year,
and even more will be expected this year.
Rev. V. M. Hardy of Morrisville has
accepted the call extended to him by the
Congregational church and society of
West Randolph to bscome their settled
pastor.