Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-14


The father Of wade Hampton owned more than
5000 slaves.
, commercial EXPEDITION to Brazil will leave
New York Tor Rio Janeiro July 9Th.
Red Leary, the bank burglar escaped from Lud'
Lou, street ilil IN New York city. Wednesday even
ing.
About 5.s.O hogs-four legged Ones-went over
the Central Vermont road during the month oil
April.
A new rule on the y. y, Central forOids the sale
ofanyhug on the cars of the line except books and
papers.
"saIt Petre" and Guano and Gloryi" are the
war cries in the Bolivian, CHILEAN, and Peruvian
conflict.
Leapiug from the Cincinnati bridge to the water,
distance of9j feet, did not kill Robert L. Green,
as he had expected.
Richard Lee, the negro burglar, was hanged al
Fayetteville, y. C.. on Friday. lie said he de-
served to be hanged.
For plain man who went home merely to mend
his fences, John sherman made quite a speech al
Mansfield, o., last night.
Several gentlemen in Rutland have purchased
1900 young trout, which were placed IN streams
in the vicinity OF the village.
The Chicago clergy and laymen are organizing
movement for a compulsory observance in that
city Of the Christian Sabbath.
Rlnsom and Frank editors OF revival news
papers at Dutch Flat Cal, fought street duel.
Seven shots were fired and four wounds male.
The total endowment of the public schools of the
United States is req te to be $500 Ol), and it is
estimated that the average daily attendance 5 A..
100000.
Heating of the Memphis Avalanche, who was
Tilden's chief hacker in the southwest in 1876.
pIonOunces his nomination in 1880 unwise and I'M
popular at the SOUTH
The father of Charley Ross has been again dis.
appointel in fading his lost boy. lie has visited
over SIX hundred lost children, all of whom were
believed 10 he Cnallcy.
The Indianapolis Sentinel charges that 2OOO OF
the negroes joining in the exodus have been switch.
ed from the Kansas route into Indiana, to grow up
with the country until lSS0.
| Rev. DR. Burchard, for 40 years pastor of the
thirteenth street Presbyterian church, New York
has resigned. On accepting his resignation the
| church presented him with SIS 900.
| The rawnbrokers' store of Joseph Blumaur &
Sons, AL Seventh avenue, New York, was entered
Fnday evening the safe broken open and robbed
oil iewclry valued at 1900 or $4,000.
| The manufacturers at Fall River are prepar ng
| to meet the threatened strike by agreeing to shu
down all the mills at the demonstration of the
strikers, and not start again until the strikers
render.
A colored boy, twelve years of age, has beer
sent to the Joliet tIll) State prison for shooting
|
his victim five cents, which he refused TO paw her
| quarrel took place.
| The Baltimore News APPLY says: " You can xii
two or three men in Texas, and nothing is though
| oi it, but if you swear in the presence of youn.
Ia'lv, they will fine you $40. They are determined
| to discourage implety."
The steamship General Werder did not sail from
New York Thursday as announre ed, only forty o
the 500 persons who had promised to accompan,
The Wo' druf scientific expedition around the wor,
having paid the necessary deposit.
The Louisiana constitutional convention ha
adopted the article prohibiting the general Assem-
| bly, from contracting any debt or liability on tn
ART of the state except for repelng nvasions o.
Tor the suppression Of insurrection.
| Mr.. ]. F. Ferris arrived in Albany, y. Y, iron
Grecnw h, Ct. thu 9th or lay driving his tIottn
| horse, sam Patch the distance beng 100 mile
and the actual tina over the roa | on ly Is hours
| rhe horse did not seem much fttigucd.
Mrs. Sarah W Underwood lady moving in tn
first circles of Milwaukee has been arrested TO
| forgery She is ch rg ID with having use | notes t.
the amount OF $1,000, purp 'rting to be signed b
AVIAN G UnlerwoI ID, of Milford, Mass father in
aw Of the accused.
The West Wooden Company of Pittsdeld Mass.
in which the partners are John X. and William Il
West have failed for So CO). Whittcmole, Peet
Post & Co., Of New York, wooden and dry good
commission merchants, one Of the largest houses
in that line, have also failed Tor from $780, 900 t.
s75O,OOO.
1t must be conceded that legislatures have l.
souls. The British House has adopted resou
tion declaring in favor OF the alb ,'itou of actio
for breach of promise of marriage, except wher,
there hts been aclu Il pecIltry b'3 ~ rel4,a of
the breach OF promise. Nothing for lacerated
| iections.
Eight horses ran in the great Cheshire race il
Englan on Wednesday. Mr.. Lorlard's Ameri
can horse "Paroe" won the rice, making serie
of triunphs rarely if ever uaralleled on the tur
Lord Dupplin's " Refer" that won the race 70
the Chester trades cup, got in seconl; and Lor
Legh's Joseph" third.
In pulling forward Davil Davis for $780, the Ne,
York sun takes tinS in AMI ming his Ioya't,
says in italics: " No man is ever going to be lee
ell president of the United States, about whose Y
atty to the Union in the past, in the present or
the future there is room for a shadow of doubt
This is probably intended as a casual reference
some floating reports about Thomas Bayard
Esther Cox, the girl whose experiences fro
supposed spirits in Amber st, y. S., have at time
excited considerable interest, is again possessed
1t is su ely stated that while washing the othe
morning the clothes left the tub, moved swift
across the room and struck the various inmates
and when she went into neighboling store on a
Grand a Ratchet, shovel. tubs, iron spikes, lum
of putty and bag of salt took apparent l
and flew about with great velocity. The girl
said to be not proud of these man ieStations
interest on the part of the ALLEGED spirits
. The American Tract Society held its Glty.fourt
annual meeting in New York Wednesday. Durin
the year the Society added lis new publications /
heir>t. They published seven periodicals, havi
an aggregate circulate N of nearly i've million!
The cost of publications gratuitousy distributes
aggregated $1,000. Du,ing the year 80 copor
eurs labored in 81 If the United States and one {
the British Provinces, Tn made l67 AIS fam
visits, circulated l56 ,60l volumes, and addresse
727 social public meetings. In foreign and paga
lands many tracts and books were translated an
distributed. The receipts ami expenditures 70
the year are: General donations, Slf,Oi7; legace
81 80; interest from trust funds, 1860; sale
f27' JIG; rents s Suits; temporary loans $500
Total available resources from the year 400 50!
expended in publications., $!33,373; coIportag
agencies and dep 'sitorics, s7j ,39l; foreign cas-
appropriation % 25): district secretaries 80 1860