Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
News and Gossip.

Charles Reade, the novelist, has made sI'o'Oo
by his pen.
1t is now stated that Senator ChahaierS e9'A'e
not worth over 81 100000.
Lake Champlain is lower than any OF the Oldest
settlers ever saw 1t before
Six hundred venetians have reached Genoa on
their way to the United States
The Aurora, the daily newspaper organ of the
pope. will be issued the lst of January.
The way to travel from Boston to New YORK by
telephone of course is to go on the sound.
II is thought that Enoch Arden had hay fever
when he remarked, &" Nose all from day TO day."
A schooner loaded with 81 600 bushels of wheat
roundered on Lake Erie, Friday aud eight men
went down with her.
The father " of the English house of commons
is Mr. Christopher Talbot, who has sat continuous
ly for Glamorganehire since 1880.
The English government has decided to eXpend
large sums in public works in order to relieve the
existing distress in certain portions of Ireland.
Two ocean steamers, that sailed from New York
loaded with grain for Europe, are believed TO have
gone to the bottom of the sea with all on board.
Frances shrouder is IN Jail at Morrisville, y. y
charged with numbering her mother and aunt by
poisoning them. 1t is supposed that she ais pois-
oncd her father.
1t is estimated that 50 900 600 feet of lumber will
be put the upper Connecticut River this season
One thousand men and so horses will be required
to do the work.
Adelna PATHS temperance in Paris, after ar
absence of ten years, was remarkably successful
She received $40 bouquets, and 1000 were colec
ed at the door.
During October 2t,O00,0O0 feet of sound lumber
valued at s2ls, 900, shipped from Ottawa to The
United States, an increase of Sil 900 as compared
with October, 1875.
The greatest taxpayer in the United States l.
Mr.. Blackwell, the North Carolina tobacco manu-
facturer, who pays tax of $4,000 year, SO
900 a week, or over 81, 43s per day.
j. NJ. Jordan, a leading lawyer OF Cincinnati,wa
knocked down Saturday and badly used up in tn
| court house by L. NJ. Tutmiller, witness whom
he had Irritated in cross-eXamination.
Two boys named Scott and McCush, llv ing o.
Scotario Island, G. B., quarrel!ed Saturday, an
McCuish stabbed his companion in the abdome
with a BRO omstick, sharpencd at the end, causin;
almost instant death.
One of the Denver coaches upset on u rang,
built church at Leadvillc, Colorado, was killed
Nine othes passengers were seriously injured
The coach rolled down a precipice.
| Henry w. Warrington o: Baltimore, Il book
| keeper, aged ~ years while delrious from typhoi
fever, leaped from window of his room, in tn
fourth story of the Mansion House, to the pave
mcnt below. Saturday. and was instantly killed,
missionary making a j )urney through Zulu
land was entertained at a natives hut An oil,
woman from distant place, where the people ha,
never heard of God or the Bible, related the follow
ing tradition Zone oil The Zulu ancestors, lonj
ago, stood by the river lifted his slick, and tn
water stood up like walls, SO that the people pass
ed over on dry land" She told of another who
had slept and dreamed OF " climbing way NJ
to the sky, with the maids of heaven" going M
and down, and Of his waking and placing stones to
mark the spot. Also of n boy who had slain Q
great giant with stones from the brook, and who
afterwards was made king.