Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

Tennyson is writing poem on 'ne ueA'H
Princess Alice
,tore,hap a hundred thousand sheep uied III
scotland during the late Storm
v0r,,ort sends more sheep to Boston than all
tho other New England states combined
The three doorkeepers ofthe New York Assembly
,e(t two arms and two legs on southern oA''''
fields.
rr,ene Fandeboyard, an Avoca ua.) printer
has heen fatally poisoned by holding a type IN HIS
mouth while at work.
Conversations by telephone have been success,
fully and easily carried on between Chic'so A"u
indianapolis, 2lO miles
The Dominion government lsh hatcheries have
,i1 down the season about % OOO 900 eggs of trout
samou aud white fish.
Charles Greene Came, for some twenty-five
ve,rs an editorial writer on the stan of the Boston
Journal. died Thursday.
Scientists think they have discovered evidence
that horses existed upon this continent before It's
discovery by Columbus
The ear of man, frozen stiff, was picked up IN
the street in Baltimore few days ago. The owner
can have it, probably, by proving property
AT Dartmouth College observatory Friday morn
ing the mercury was "a below zero; at Norwich
90 Q at Pompanoosuc, % and at Thetlord' %
Careful estimates place the number OF freight
cars on the various lines between Chicago and New
York that were blockaded during the recent storm
at 1900.
A st. Petersburg letter says collision on the
Warsaw railway, 80 miles from St. Petersburg on
the 10th instant killed 90 persons aud wounded ~
q dangerously.
The friends of Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, have
established daily newspaper at the State capita
to advocate his claims so long as the senatorial
con est is in progress.
virginia is preparing to present claim OF Sl2O'-
900 and Maryland of SO 900, with eighty years
interest for moneys advanced to aid in the original
| building of the Federal capitol
Four car loads of silk-worm eggs In transit from
China to France, have arrived at New York. Each
carload is valued at $i0O 900, making the contents
of the four cars worth 81 600 600
An Engiigh company is credited with the inten
ton of defying Scripture by restoring Sodom and
Gomorrah, whose wicked Inhabitants birthstone
made such short work with, in Lots time.
A yandalia (Ill.) man has taken out a writ to get
of his arm, which the doctor who cut 1t
off holds, as he wishes to put 1t in ev idence in an
action to recover damages for malpractice
Frank Donahue, while under the influence Of
LIQUOR at Chicago Wednesday night, murdered his
sleeping companion and fellow workman, Martin
Houston, stabbing him with poeketknfe 20 times
A meteoric stone is reported as having fallen
near Newton, Ind, on Tuesday night, killing
farmer while asleep in bed, coming through the
roof The stone is said to be twenty pound In
weight.
The ten ice houses at Coxsacke, n. Y, are be
ing filled as rapidly as possible, nearly 5000 men
being engaged in the harvest. The Ice avera ges
eleven inches in thickness, and is of the tes
quality
Mrs, Emily +. Nathan, tho widow of Benjamin
Nathan who was murdered in his room on the 29tt
of July, 1870, the mystery of which has never beer
cleared up, died in New York, on Thursday even
lag, in her Gath year.
England imported 1872, lO2 cwt or about IS 900,
600 bushels, of wheat in the nine months ending
October l. More than half of this (2j,lll,939 cwt
came from the United States, the next largest con.
tributor being Russia with I ABB, 443 cwt.
North Carolina has got tired of having South
Carolina duests popping away at one another OF
its side of the line and two of the begerents are
to be indicted by Mecklenburg court, and Gov.
Vance asked to procure their rendition for trial.
Rosa Landor the Hungarian robber, whose ex
PLOTS from 1886 to 1870 gave him romantic hold or
the population lately died in Jail lie Is the maj
: of whom it wss said q" He stole and Archbishop
in 1868, a railway train in 1879, and a nunnery il
1870"
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has written for Mr.
, John Mccullough a play called /" Aurelian +,
,. which that fine actor is to bring out next April
, with him selfin the title role. Miss Dickinson is tc
play with him. taking the first femal part of Queen
|, Zenoba.
Cardinal Nina, the secretary of State to Lei
Kill, is great smoker In his study is pipe-racl
well filled with old pipes, for the most part of tn
cheapest kind. lie smokes the ordinary coarse to
bacco, and does not dslain the inferior kind useC
by the soldier.
John F. Arnold, of North Adams, Mass, Butte
candidate for Lieutenant-G Governor, was indicted
=, for obtaining money by false pretences John Han
: ly an old man and now destitute, employe, len
5000 to Arnold, the latter giving, it is charged
worthless securities.
: According TO a report presented to the final meet
ing of the Centennial Commission at Philadelphia
the gross receipts of the exhibition were $lll6l
6ll55, and the expenses to date, $40, s97 $50 so
leaving cash balance of $l63 $50. 96; 81, s5S 29t
was taken at the gate.
The giant powder works of Bandmann Nelson 4
Co., situated about half mile southwest of Colder
Gate Park, Col, blew up Tuesday, and three whit
D men and Chinamau were killed. The works wer,
/ completely destroyed and many buildings in the
G neghborhooi were wrecked.
The New York Sun says that desperately con
i tested prze-0ght occurred Friday morning, 2,
miles from Pittsburg between George Baker,
J Canadian, and Clarke ofCleveland lasting an hou
S and seventeen minutes, and Baker was knocke
A out OF time on the 3sth round
= a despatch fro IL Phillippopolis, Turkey report.
e the breaking ola railroad bridge over the rive
Arda and the precipitation of train into the wal
: or. Over 200 Russian soldiers, including genera
g and several other officers, were drowned This il
the worst railroad accident on record.
At the session of the woman,s Board o. Mission
in Boston, the secretary of the Baptist NJ ssiona
Society claimed that since the last report there ba
been added in six weeks to the church in Indi;
10000 Teugus, ancient tribe dwelling in tb
eastern portion of British India, on or near tn
:: Ganges.
The business failures all over the country durn
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thousand five hundred, with liabilities of upwar,
of two hundred and thlrty-four million dollars
This was an increase over the figures for 1871, bu
it was, no noubt owing to the repeal of the bank
: ruptcy law.
Mr.. Lott of IIollidaysburgh, Pa, has two wear
old child that few would envy, for it never sleep
more than five minutes and one of the parents ha
to sit up all night with the lively youngster wh
the other sleeps. The child, however, is alway,
happy, and seems as much refreshed by its cat
maps as if 1t had slept hours.
Weston, the American pedestrian, started from
the Royal Exchange, London, at midnight Friday
night, on walking tour of 1000 miles over country
roads. having undertaken to walk this distance
and to deliver lty lectures in towns en- route, in
thousand hours. The judges travel in conveyance
and bicyclist is also 1.-THE party.
Milwaukees anchorte is women possessed O
nearly 100000 and graduate of vassar, who's,
engagement an unnatural brother broke while sh,
was studying. The blow blasted he life and sh,
now lives in stern retirement spending as little A,
possible and ting OF every avenue of communj
cation with the outside world that she can.