Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-10
News and Gossip.
Thomas Carlyle Is 81.
The Erie canal closed Saturday night.

Thomas Carlyle is 81.
The Erie canal closed Saturday night
yassar college has three japanese girls among
its students.
Florida is already sending green peas and water
melons to market.
Colored peopieiu George own property of an
aggregate valee of IS. ls2 3os.
Chicago kills six hogs for every minute OF every
hour OF every day in the year.
A change of base is always dcsideratum to the
small boy who is being spanked.
Golden eagles coined at Philadelphia are expect
ed to aggregate slO,OOO,OOo this month.
The FIRST train passed over the new Boston,
Hoosac Tunnel and Western road Saturday.
The Few French Atlantic cable was landed at
RiV Lorraue, two miles east of Loulsburg, C. B.,
Saturday.
Ills positively asserted that the Egyptian gov
eminent is actively completing preparations for
war with Abyssnia.
The New York Herald asserts that in Brazil pho
tographs of Charles Francis Adims are used for
making artificial ice.
During a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal storm
wave swept over Monkish Khal Island drowning
several hundred persons.
The SchuylkilI coal company are to suspend
mining from the 2lth instant to January 5, and ad.
vance coal % cents u ton
The Mormons "talk fight" since President
HAYES recommendation Of more stringent leSisla.
ton to suppress polysamy
Secretary Evarts has teegraphed to the Car OF
Rus sia the presidents congratulations on his es-
cape from the attempt on his life.
The profits of the seventh Regime Mt Fair.at New
York, which closed saturday night, are estimated
at two hundred thousand dollars.
d. e. Potter, charged with seven murders, was
captured on Monday in the mountains OF North
Carolina by the sheriff of Cooke county.
81 DAD is the road that leads to debt,
And thousands walk together there;
Prompt payments find narrow rnt,
With here and there apassenger.
An Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch says: The govern.
ment has sent fifty guns and equipments from
Washington to revenue collector CLARK to arm
force for araid on the mountain moonshiners.
Tho hydraulic power and manufacturers compa-
ny, organized to use the power of Niagara falls.
has been reorganized with capital of $500 OOO,and
is now negotiation with some large eastern lrm
urging them to establish factories at Suspension
Bridge,
The UnitediStates Treasury has transferred $l0,-
,O0O in gold TO the assay off re in New York 10
pay for foreign goll deposited for conversion into
American coin. This makes a tai of 800, 100000
transferred for that purpose since Augusta.
Shocking statements are made by ex-Surgeor-
General lillian A. Hammond of New York, as 10
the manner in which the inmates of the insane
asylums in that state treated. lie charges the
| supern tcndents with cruelty, immortality and
dishonesty.
BY the accidental explosion of three pounds of
powder at the residence of William knaps, Point
Coupee Parish, La, Knaps and one child were
severely burned and two of his children, one three
and the other six years old, and their grandmother
Mrs. Evarista Faber, were killed.
An Investigation. which has been going on into
the afrlirs of the Somerset County INK, in Somer.
vile, n. J.. , has developed the Tact that all the
surplus ofthe bank, $4,000, and one.half of its
capital, sl0 900, have been alb trac ted by Cashier
rrech, who has left parts unknown.
The wonderful Mrs. Smith, of Westnoreand
county, Va, is dead. She measured thirty tour
inches across the shoulders and weighed within q
fraction of Clio pounds. Before her coffin was dc.
TWO lHeu lay III IL aluC ny Sltt On
their backs without crowding each other in the
least.
1t is understood that. at the assembly Of the leg
islature, q strong effJrt will be made to secure
legislation looking TO consolid ttiOn Of tue cities
OF New York and Brooklyn. One of the plans pro.
posed is to submit the question to.a vote of the CT
tizens of both cities in order TO ascertain the pub
lie sentiment on the subject.
| A terrible explosion of the boiler of portable
saw.mill occurred at Rash Creek Indiana, the other
day. The mill was blown to atoms and Joseph
| Hanson the engineer, was killed, being horribly
| mutilated Three school children, near at the time
were cut and scalded, not fatally. Most OF the mill
| hands were absent
Corn is cheaper in Iowa this iall Than in any
other place the globe, selling at Is and 20 cents
at the depots, and 10 and Is cents at places distant
from the railroads. tits reported to be very Ipe,
sound and sweet, and there will be lJ0,OO00Oc to
| 200 100000 bushels, not onC-sXh OF which can be
shipped ont Of the state.
oxford England, is complaining of the bad times
The college income is mainly derived nom land
and real estate is very unproductive. The arlsto
Etra,c Get in the university is also complaining be.
cause poorer class of men are in the colleges
Five hundred Freshmen have j,ilel and the aristo.
cratic few are likely to be swamped by men Of
humble means.
Rev Daniel S. iItlton, II Elptist preacher o
Roane county, Teun,, is IS years old. lie says
d" can sight a rine gun as well rs l could 60 year,
ago, and eau bring Il squirrel nearly every time
and only for slight trembe of the hand would MOI
miss one shot in hundred" III reply to the ques
ton, /" On which side we've your sympanes during
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