Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-09

A Fort Wayne girl mistoOk her sOmnambulIstic
brother for burglar, and fractured his skull with
base ball club.
Each daily session OF congress costs the coun'
try thousand of doll rs, and the country gels
IN return-a party" Iecord."
Chalmers OF Mississippi would be less of boon
TO the republican papers if he were not candidate
for the Senate to succeed Bruce. Chalmers, too Z,
is making not laws but a record
The Hon. John X. Porter has accepted the homo
rary CbancclIorship of Union University Tor ls1s'
AMI will give the Chancelor's Grafton at COM
mencement.
Sol turner Truth, who is living in her own small
domicile in Battle Greek. Mich, is now lOi years
old. She has remarkably good health, her sight is
ttill excellent and she talks cntertainin5ly as
ever.
Philadelphia has a society for organizing charitf-
BILE relief AMI REFRESHING mendcancy. II pub
fishes manual for the Use OF those who desire 10
visit the poor, containing advice as to the proper
modes ofhelp anl warnings against imposition.
The speed Of East Indian cyclones seldom en-
ceeds 100 miles an hour, but OF late the wind has
blown across Mount Washington at the rate OF is!
miles with low temperature. Nobody could
stand out of doors during these gusts.
A he roiter, who died the other DAY, hal invest
ell in lottery tickets for Is consecutive years and
| never drew prize. lie had been buried two
days when his last ticket turned up lucky. The
prize was a silver.pate butter-kuife.
Mr. Jefferson Davis is dcscib by the Boston
| Herald as the possossor of a short, gray beard
gray hair, and Derby It W tn n brim so narrow
as 10 give him an almost ridiculous appearance
Ills voice is tremulous and low, his shoulders
stoong and he looks like u very old man.
Coggswell and Mack, a:tors, who preten lei to
fight every night on the stage as Col. Elevator and
| Prof. GIllipod In Growers Our Boarding House.
company, fought in dead earnest across break
fast table in Pittston hotel. they threw crockery
and chairs at each other, and inflicted many dis
| 1guting wounds.
Sir Richard Vail zee has given ten new foun tains
to The city OF Paria, which to he erecte agiirsl
the walls IN different parts of the capitol. They
OF cast iron and of the sumo pattern throughout
| like those seen in the streets. constant
supply of Glterel water viii thus be at the COM
mand of The poorer nhlDit .nts in the vicinity OF
each.
| HORACE uIecty SfI wv W CoTHtliuS
Vande, bit many years ago, q Id on Mr.. Gree ley ,,
death the debt was regarded by the administrator
of his estate a. worth less. Saturday evening Mr.
Vanderbilt met the Two daughters of Greeley by
appointment and paid the amount, with interest, ii
all about s6I 0]0. 1t was rumored that William II
Wander bit furnished the money, but he explicit.
den les it.
Keafncy's foul mouth has got him into troub
at last lie has been canvas ling Z .lf 'raia in re
gard to the adoption the constitution just ma lie
and while on the street after his speech at SAINTS
Aua IN Los Angeles county, a rough crowd iel
+ upon him. There was one to interfere, an
Kearney was knocked down and beaten about thu
. head and face until his blood was spattcred a
about. The sand lots orator will he greater her
than ever now.