Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-31
News and Gossip.

NEWS anu uOSohPs
/ Governor Gareelon is physician. but that Is no
reason why he should have doctored the returns
Since their coinage was re.authorized, f,'O''9O0
standard dollars have been turned out by inc
mints.
The Italians have decided TO hold great inter-
national exhibition 10 Rome in lSS9, to which tue
world will, of course, be invited.
Ten inches Of snow in Paris last week demoralz-
cd the two million inhabitants as much as Prus-
sion army. Business was suspended.
Some women after they have learned TO know
their husbands wish they had learned to No
them when they were only sweethearts.
A. Smith, president of the National Cigar
Manufacturers Association of New York, is re-
| ported missing with liabilities of S0I,OCs
Notwithstanding all the modern improvements of
husbandry the matrimonial harvestis SIN gather
ed with the cradle and thrashed by hand.
Two men have been arrested in Washington who
entered into the conspiracy to steal General
Grants Arabian horses from General Bears farm.
Three million more postal cards were issued at
the Hoyoke, Mass, agency in October than were
ever sent in one month before. The amount was
IS, 100000.
| The Washington Capitol remarks: " Some of
our slow subscribers who may not find our paper
in their mall can understand that its absence is
due to their unremitting kindness"
Seventeen lawyers are engaged IN a suit over The
will of an Indianian, who boosted, shortly before
his death, that he had got his anlirs into such a
shape that when he died the lawyers couldn t make
penny out of his estate.
The Pacific Railroad monument to Cakes Ames
a hrnthnr OIivor ha aroctnd Sbor,,an
Wyoming Territory, the highest point on the road.
1t is to be pyramid of naive rock, 20 feet high
and will cost about $50 COZ.
The first five sections of the law for the aboll.
ton of slavery have been passed in the Spanish
Senate. The first section says: Slavery is here
by abolished in the Island of Cuba in accor,lan c
with enactment of this law" Next Tuesday, the
whole law will pass by large minority.
There is general suspension of mining opera
tous in the schuylkill region, which will continue
till January 5. This is the first suspension during
the year. The Philadelphia and Reading coal and
iron company are still buying up companies, and
now own IS of the best coleres in the region.
| meeting of the heirs of Joseph Springer is to
be held in st. Louis next month. The estate is
said to be worth $4,000 900 and embraces 500 acres
on which Wilmington, Del. stands; also, large
property in Sweden. Among the 7Ol heirs are
| congressman Springer and Reuben A. Springer Of
| Cincinnati.
\ pet dog fell into the hands of the professors at
the Detroit Medical College, who used him for
vivisectiOn. part of his skull had been removed
| and some ofhls brains taken out whea his master
found him. The brute was put under curative
treatment and is recover ing, but will never know
as much as he did before the operation.
The first number of the Musical Herald Il new
monthly publication, is about to be issued in Bos-
ton. The enterprise is backed by both capita and
brains, its corps of editors and contributors in
GLIDING some of the hest writers on musical topics
to be found in this country and abroad There Will
be illustrated articles and music in each number.
Two brothers named Finch live in South Nor.
walk, Conn, who resemble each other so closely
that when one of them was arrested for fast driy
ing recently, both brothers appeared before the
justice, saying that they were willing to pay the
fine if 1t could be proved which was the guilty one
This could not be done, and the case was dismiss.
Ell.
Washington is building the Iai gest brick sewer
of circular shape in the world. 1t is in the north
east part Of the city, and is tended to carry Of
the floods of water which pour in from the SUI
rounding country after ran-fas, and once burst
sewer and did $4,000 damage The sewer is of %
feet internal diameter and will he finished in about
year.
Charles IL .Oakes, native OF Vermont and one of
the oldest pioneers of the west has just died at
ST. Paul, Mimi, aged II. He left his home in 1921
and from that time till his latter years his life was
| one of adventure among the Indians in the states
bordering on the great lakes and in the Canadas.
From 1858 to 1866 he was in tine banking business,
gaining competency.
The Herald's Montreal special says there is quite
| general feeling throughout Canada in favor of
, Canadian independence. The feeling extends TO
prominent politicians, and many who have held
high positions in the government. If the indca
tons are not deceptive the country Will ere long be
startled by having the question of independence
openly preached as political issue.
y stookman in Kansas, while driving ctl;lo from
a field, was struck by falling meteor, which cut
obliquey through a tree, passed in the same. line
of direction hiough the mans body and buried
Itself two feet in the earth The meteorie is said
to he about as large as mans head, egg.shaped
and rough and resembling in appearance iron TAX
en- from a blast furnace and cooled by rolling in
sand.
A terrible fight took place near IT. Louis in an
old stable, Monday evening, between 4 Siberian
bloodhound and Patsy Brennan, 4 pugst, for $3.50
d side. The man was victorious after disgusting
fight OF i5 minutes, in which his shoulders and
arms were terribly lacerated by the dogs teeth.
The bloodhound had his heavy lips torn of and
was so badly manned that he died within an hour.
| The police are hunting up all corceIncd in tie
| brutal exhibition.
Hugh McGllnn kept livery stable in Sln Frau
cisco, did the hardest and most mental work him
self lived in lott among the hay, and ate The
| coarsest food. He was SO close at a bargain that
when lately brought to his deathbed he refused to
employ physician, except on the condition OF no
| cure, no pay. He lett 100000 to his wife, whom
he had many years before turned away because
she bought silk dress, and who alicrward earned
a living as domestic servant.
| The disease of pcuropne "a is still spread
ing in the vicinity OF Workers and on account OF
extreme carclessness of certain owners of diseased
cattle it Is feared that it is beyond the control OF
the small force of inspectors at present employed
| by The state government. The inspectors believe
| that unless the legislature speedily makes an ap.
| preparation enabling them to enforce the sanitary
regulations, and kill all sick cattle with or without
the consent Of the owners a lar-reachinS epidemic
| is inevitable.
Martin Van Broecklin, eX-chief engineer of tie
Metropolitan elevated railway, VIM. j. McAlpne,
and Mr. Scott Of the engineers who re to superin.
tend the construction Of the intel-oceanic railroad
from the Atlantic to the Pacific t the Ishmus Of
rehauntepec, sailed from New York, Saturday.
Except about IS miles on the Paciic side there
VIII be no engineering difficulties to encounter
No tunuelng will be requl ed. 1t is expected that
three years will pass before the entire road is in
operation The labor will be mostly performed by
negroes from Jamaica and New Orleans.
1t is expected that bloody work will Jake
place between the Illicit distilers in Geor-
ola and tha ravnnua onirors Tho eoo,or