Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-23
News and Gossip.

Arkansas for democracy is destined to rival
Kentucky. of a school population o f ls'i6I' only
80 al persons attended school last year.
Francis Murphy is said to have lost in San Fran
cisco by mining speculation more than he made by
his temperance revival work in that city.
The organ of the South Carolina bulldozars and
their senator, Hampton, calls Mr.. Tilien "pulpy
politician" and talks about his lack of interest in
" states which he could not buy or carry"
John Cox, a brother of Mrs. Hulrs murderer, is
to he candidate for the legislature in Chester
field county. Va, in the fall, having been defea cd
by only Is votes lastl year. lie Is supervisor of
schools and worthy man.
In Paris s. years ago stores of all kinds were
open on Sunday morning. Now all large estab-
lishments are closed and only a few of tho smaller
are open. In Italy, too labor is much more re-
stricted on Sunday than formerly.
The Chicago Times thinks that the reading of the
Declaration of Independence by a colOred youth
accompanied by prayer by a Catholic priest at
Boston's Fourth of July celebration this year
would have caused riot quarter of a century
| ago.
Five hundred thousand workngmen have found
employment since the drst of January, the Chicago
Tribune estimates. Such a statement, if only ap-
proximating to the truth, testifies to the improved
condition of affairs in the most convincing man
ner.
A beheaded Kansas rooster still lives, after four
months OF decapltaon. He is fed at the throat,
and is in good health. The heal was cut of at the
base of the brain without injuring the spinal
column. lie appears to be somewhat like the
Irishmans turte-he is dead, but not sensible of
| it.
| Canada has just sent out ID farmers to instruct
the Indians of the Northwest in tilng the land.
These farmers are paid $50 yearly salary, are
| furnished with stock and tools and a years pro-
visions and, after that time, expect ed to make
their farms selEsustanng with the privilege of
turning any surplus produce to their own account.
Bob Toombs of Georgia is said to be worth half a
million. He bought 100 600 acres of Texan lands
in the infancy Of that state,at II ID cents
They are now worth from 81 to $40 per acre, but
| he has sold 10000 or 40 900 acres. Toombs in
come from his practice has cached 100000 a year
lie is princely liver but careful 1nancier.
| The prince of Wales stood sponsor to Capt and
Mrs. Arthur Pagels BABY, recently ehristened at
the chapel Royal, ST. James palace. Mrs. Paget
was formerly Miss Minnie Stevens of New York
daughter ofMrs. Paran Stevens. This is the first
child of American-Dorn parentage who has had
the honor efhavng an heir to crown as a god
father.
The new wells have been pushed with such zeal
in the Bradford (Pa) oil district that all the tanks
are full, and not less than 1000 barrels of crude
petroleum are daily going to waste for want Of
storage The outlook for the oil country is gloomy
for there is no demand for the stun and, privately,
sales are made below the prices current in the OF
exchange.
AT recent execution OF Nihilists at Kiev, Rus
STA, young girl acknowledged at the foot of the
gibbet that her name was Nathalie Gortschakor
and that she was niece to the chancellor of the
empire. She had previously refused to reveal her
self, notwithstanding that she had several times
been fogged with the knott in order to compel con
fession.
Iowa has divided the railroads of the state into
three classes and allows those earning $1,000 pei
mile of road to charge three cents lie for pass
enger fares, those earning between $4,000 and
$4,000 three and half cents and those earning less
than $1,000 mile four cents. The classification
has just gone into effect and is to continue year
as an experiment.