Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-27
News and Gossip.
M IN Arizona arc starving.

The Indians m Arizona are starving.
The Nebraska wheat crop lie estimated at 600 900
to Is 900 bushels, and the corn at 59'oVoioco
bushels.
The Cincinnati authorities arc looking for
william Ulmer, whose father has died at Paris, and
left a fortune of 100000 francs
n. II. Bell, cashier of the American Express
Company, at Kansas City, is missing, and 50 Is
$4,000 OF the cOmpauys money.
The London Times expresses apprehension that
in view ofthe bad harvest prospects much extern
sion of business here is hardly to be expected.
James Lawrence, a supposed victim of the
brooklyn Theatre llre, in December, 1876 has just
returned from South America to which port he
shipped as sailor.
Bill Amos, who is under heavy bonds for having
stabbed his father to death two years ago, was
himself killed Friday evening at Glasgow, Ky, by
John Bowls for abusing negro.
Tuesday night the propeller ,City of st. Gather
ines ran aground in Lake st. Louis, in the st. Law
renee, and sank in five minutes. She was loaded
with iron. The passengers were saved.
Garihaldi's daughter. girl of twelve, while bath
ing at Civita Tecchia recently, heard the cry of
young man who had got beyond his depth, and
grasping him swan back with him 10 a place OF
safety.
Lbbe Collins, a South Bend (Ind.) cook, lost
her life by being too modest. She awoko in the
second story of burning block,I but refusing to
jump in her night dress TO those ready to catch her
below, she stopped to dress, and was smothercd in
full dress.
The rumOr is again current that members of the
Canadian ministry now in England have succeeded
in securing company, ofwhch Mr. Brassey, the
great capitalist is head, to construct the entire line
of the Pacific railway, without any other guarantee
except bonds and land.
1t is proposed to lift up and redeem the Louisi-
ma low lands, low,".by flooding. the swamps from
the river at the time when the greatest amount OF
sediment is held in suspension-at high water
The sediment will be deposited and the water
drained off. BY repeating this process, in few
months, it is hoped, anew soil will be added OF
several inches in thickness. And SO the marsh
WILDE lifted above the line of overflow.
The Kentucky ku-klux are out again. Last
week they made n raid upon the town of Middleton
and as local paper says, "appiied the rod OF
correction, well and severely laid on. to quite q
number of our colored citizens" The victims
were not charged with any special offence. The
paper reports the event with complacency as the
second recent visit of the kind. 1t is not surpris
ing to learn further that an exodus from Middleton
has begun.
The storm that swept the Atlantic coast, Monday
from North Carolina to Newfoundland was one of
the most disastrous of the season and unusually
severe for the month Of August. A large number
of marine disasters are reported, and the gale
caused great damage 10 the crops. In North Caro-
lima and Virginia the damage is estimated at
hundreds of thousands. The rain fall was very
heavy, and caused floods in many places. The
gale was very severe on the coast of New England
Monday night. Several lives were lost by ship.
wrecks.
good joke was unconsciously got OF recently
on Springfield, Mass, physician In arranging
patients broken leg, he connected it with tack lie
having ilat-iron as compensating weight and
told the mans wife to let it stay there until his
return. But she wanted that iron the next day,
bad and used it. While at work she saw the doc
tor coming, aud in her fright replaced the iron
glowing hot on the tackle. lie came in, examined
the leg and took up the hot iron. 1t dropped like
lead and the man of physic went on au impromptu
can can, equalcd only by the vigorous use he made
of his tongue. There was music there for half an
hour.
Mddlctown Conn., lost strange character by
the death of Mrs. Martha Rogers. Mrs. Rogers has
possessed an ample fortune for 80 years, yet She
has continually been haunted with fear of coming
to want. She went about the streets gathering old
rags shoes, tin pans and many other things which
people had thrown away. room in her house
was filed with such gleanngs, of no possible use
Yet she was very liberal in her gifts to religious
AMI charitable objects. Only short time ago she
gave the Connecticut industrial school for girls
s., 600 for new building, which is to be called the
Martha Rogers homo, and the local Baptist church,
to which she belonged, was often remembered.
She left an estate of over $50 900, and among her
requests, are the following Five thousand dollars
apiece to the American Baptist Home Mission So
cicty, Connecticut Baptist convention, Connecticut
Literary ms ttute at sheffield, Burlington, Qa)
University, American Female Guardian Society at
New York, and the American Tract society.
Madison University at Hamilton, n. Y, is also said
to have been handsomely remembered.