Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-16
News and Gossip.

10 death at logging camp -.
Thu Cars health is satisfactory ana Az ,eP
,,uhlisbcd in London to the contrary arc i'''
class than sixteen House committees are NJ"
=, I,hortv to embark on investigating ehPeu''''"
pn,.ns A. Stephenson. paying teller OIL .ne
y.nhss,er. NY, savings bank Is delauhe' iO'
5000. ,,-,,. tv
mn, committed suicide in London friuay' "
leaning from The whispering gaiiery'a' o.
Cathedral. ..o
uorrv Ward Beecher gives quarter oil his eSO'
ooo salary to Plymouth church this year. ge'''Ds
along on $4,000
The Public Printing onice is now run al an
expeuse of abont 100000 year over tue "''@e0
of The last fourteen years.
tia announced that Russia proposes to convert
the Baltic into 4 closed sea anu ekcluue 'o''S
all non Baltic ports from entering H.
The resolution in opposition to to the passage oil
the BLAND bin was called up in the New YORK As-
semblv. on the 10th, and passed by 100 10 H.
lis reported that the Grand Duke Nicholas de-
m,nds the surrender of Adrianoplo as the hrst
condition toward concluding an srnistlce win inc
Turks.
The London Telcgraph's correspondent al v en-
ma states that at shipka the Russians captured -
600 men, 1000 horses, II seige guns and ~ heid
guns.
II A. Bowen, station agent at Shelburne Fails
Mass. was garroted Friday evening, ami rooOed
of five hundred dollars belonging to the railroad
company.
Secretary Schurz said Friday that the report oil
his resignation was unfounded He had no time to
resign. A few changes in the Indian bureau are
probable soon.
The Ohio republicans, having failed to nominate
candidate for United States senator after eleven
ballotings in caucus have decided TO cast blank
votes at the joint convention OF the legislature
Mary McMarston, from the country, stopping al
the Stimson house, in Boston the other night, blew
out the gas before retiring, and about IL hours
aflerward was found unconscious, and has since
died.
The evening star, Venus, attracts much attention
lust now because of her great brilliancy. This
brancy attans to its height on Wednesday. the
10th inst and on that day the star may be seen in
daylight
| The pres ident may find ground for greater care
in the exercise of the pardonng power after learn
| ing that W. X. Wales, mail robber, whom the re
Gently let out of the penentiary, is ALREADY
caught in another big robbery at Columbus, o.
At Aurora, III, milkman left milk can turne'
bottom upward on a table near his house. in such
way that it reflected the rays of the sun on win
dow, causing sufficient heat to set fire to blind
and but for the timely discovery of the hame tn
house would have been consumed.
| At the scat of war in Bulgaria the price OF hu
man Jaw is about 81. II varies according to tn
regularity. soundness and whteness Of the teeth
In Paris the quotation is 80 per cent higher a
wholesale rates. The CHASTITY wares are packed IL
cases of $780, and the teeth extracted after thei
arrival at the city to which the jaws are consigned
The fees of prominent lecturers are ms follows
Cough, $3.50; Beecher $500 10 5000; Tilton, sljG
Eli Perkins, 500; Philips, 5000; Scott siddoni
$780, Bret Harte, SIPS; Bayard Taylor $l25. RI
auctions are made from these figures for sma
towns. Beecher Will draw $500 at least; Goug
500; Mark Twain, ELI Perkins Sl25 and Mrs
Scott Sddons, $50:
, A brown wedding took place in Tuscaloosa fe
days ago. Tho groom and bride were Mr.. Davi
L. Brown and Miss Minnie Brown, the ceremon
was,performed by Rev. John Brown, who D." did
brown" and the reception was given by Mr.. Henri
Brown. Miss Minnie has brown eyes and was
tired in brown, while Mr.. David Brown was lk,
wise dressed in a brown suit.
Governor Hubbard of Texas has forwarded
President Hayes full statement of the bord,
troubles since the beginning, over score of yea
ago. quoting authorities that bear upon the dutl
of the United States in respect to its citizens WHIT
their rights are invaded, and citing at least Il
most outrageous ofthese inyasiOns since the trea
OF Guadalupe llidago was signed.
, Within the laft two months upwards of 10000 O
/ persons have signed the temperance pledge, a
through the agency ofthe blue ribbon movemen
The Estimate includes 80, 900 in Troy and vlcnit
5000 in the Hudson Valley, 10 O0O in the Mohaw
| valley, and 1900 throughout Washington, Reu
l seaer and Warren counties. Among the prncip
7 villages between Troy and North Adams 800 S
looms have been closed.
The new king Of Italy, Humbert L., has one mo
! name than his father. They are lIumbert RENT
1 Charles Emanuel Jean Marie Ferdinand Eugen
{ lie is also sal to resemble his father PHYSICAL
mentally aad morally, being coarse and ugly in a
f pearance, bluff and soldier-lke in his bearing, al
with decidedly military tastes. He is described
, straightforward and manly, and strong in his
tachments and positive in his convictions.
Friday afternoon tramp entered the baseme
OF FurnlyaPs baggng factory in Brooklyn, al
was ordered out, when he struck match again
bag ofjute, and in a moment 1t was in flame
which rapidly extended There were l3O girls el
pioyed in the upper part. The passage ways ben
, in flames, they escaped by the windows viii,
: opened on the roof of neighboring she'd II
= flames were confined to the lower part of 4
building.
The Archhishops of England receive large sal
| ries The Archbishop Of Canterbury receives 81,
oOO "A year; of York. $4,000; of Durham, $1,000
oil winchester, $4,000; the others between 5000
and $4,000. Yet they lay.up little or nothing. ar
most OF their predeces sors have died poor. Thous
their salaries are large the claims upon them a
cnormous-hey are expected to lead literally o
cry charitable undertaking in the diocese and
: entertain sumptuously.