Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-05

Milwaukee is queer place. \ woman
recently fioze to death there whose nus
band was kil!el by . sunstroke two years
ago.
a Meadvile Pa.) special states that
Rev. A. S. Dobbs, of the Methodist church
has been suspended from the ministry
and ordered to appear before the Erie
conf renee on charges of brutality to his
family.
A religious newspaper in New York
offers to every new subscriber " IL genuine
seven shooter revolver" 1t admits that
its offer is extraordinary, but does not
think the proposition inconsistent with
The spirit of its columns sin these days of
tramps and burglars"
Mrs. Mddlebrook, Spritualist. at city
courtroom, had quite large audience
Yesterday afternoon and evening. She is
i pleasing and impressive speaker, and
her words have the force Of conviction
MeriRcn Reeorler. How did they come to
put IL woman on the jury9
Secretary Sherman, in II letter TO the
chairman Of the Ohio republican state
committee, says the republican party wants
absolute freedom of speech upon all pub
lie questions; protection OF voters and
honesty ut elections; protection and ex-
tension of free schools. and the honest dis
charge of public obligation.
Mr.. Tnden's iron mines which have
attracted considerable pablo attention,
are described and illustrated in the March
number of the dnaGrican AJric"JturtSL, by
one OF the editors who has been on Il tour
through the northwest and "the fur west'
and is giving Il series of chapters from his
observations. 1t is stated that about one
third of all the iron produced in the United
States comes from small area in that
part of Michigan lying between Lakes
Michigan and Superior.
A fire swept over Reno, Nevada. Sunday
morning destroying the business portion of
the town besides two or three trains on
the Union Pacific railroad. Five persons
are known to have persisted in the flames,
and the property loss will aggregate
| 81 900 900 on which there is Il small
insurance. The preparatory academy at
| Luke Forest, ILL.,, was burned on Saturday.
No one was injured and most of the con-
tents were saved. Loss $4,000. Mony-
pennv's warehouse at Columbus, o., W as
burned on Saturday night. Loss 500 900.
The assurances aggregate $3l 900. Four
men have been arrested supposed to be
connected with the gang who set the fires.
The Senate had IN exciting debate on
transforming jeff Davis which continued
for some hours. Tho republicans gained
an Important political advantage, and the
lem 1crats contrived to make an unfavora-
ble record. Mr.. Lunar astonished the
Senate, by asserting that he still holds
that states have right to secede. Several
democratic senators eulogized Davis.
senators Hoar, Blune and Chandler made
pretty effective speeches, and the amend
ment excluding Davis was adopted. The
lemocrats have hardly made more politi-
cal capital for the republicans during the
sss sion than this debate and the joke of it
ia that Senator Shields amendment,
transforming the officers and soldiers of the
Mexican war. which brought on the
Jebate was finally defeated by n vote of
"a to 90. So that Messrs. Lamar. Thur
man. and their fellow democrats gave
themselves away for nothing.