Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-01
News and Gossip.

Cholera is raging among the British troops at
Smla.
The Fall River spinncrs have vo'ed to continue
the strike.
A tunnel is to be built under Boston harbor TO
carry of the sewage Of the city.
Young ladies' in England have taken to canoes
for amusement, and the sport is very popular.
The English privy counsel has placed American
sheep in the same category with American cattle.
A Louisville woman wearing four thousand dol.
lars worth of diamonds was arrested last week
for drunkenness.
An ARRAY on the Danube, between Austrian
smuggiers and Servian custom officers resulted in
the death of ten men.
The Smith family recently held a r eunion at New
Jersey. The principal toast was TO " Pocohontas,
the preserver of our race"
To German woman in New York named Eros
mer and weighing 1876 pounds, was bora a boy baby
a few days ago, weighing only II Ia ounces. 1t
lives and is WELL
Owing to delays in getting material, the Burlng.
ton Office of the American Union Telegraph Com.
pany will not be opened until October 10TH or pos
sibly October 18th.
During aquarre over property bequeathed them,
Edward Decouri was shot dead by his brother at
Lambton, Toronto. The brother then took poison
and is not expected to recover. Both had been
drinking.
joint-sto ok company has been formed in Eng
land with proposed capital of 5000 900 in shares
of IS for the avowed object of diminishing intcm-
perancc. 1t is intended that temperance hotels
shall be opened IN all parts of the Kingdom. In
the prospectus tho name Of Archbishop of Canter.
bury heads the list
Rev. DR.. Adams of Fall River is no respectcr OF
persons. In his sermon Sunday he denounced the
strikers with vigOr which seems no quite called
for, but perhaps it is justified by his unsparing
criticisms of the manufacturers and their selfish.
ness and grasping ways. The city government got
a setting up as we'll
Suit has been commenced in New York to recover
$4,000 which John P. Stremmel, aged -, a profess
sonal beggar. gave TO friend named Charles
Reiss. Stremmel gave Ress $4,000 to keep for
him, and subsequently Withdrew $4,000. Ress
claims the balance was given him to keep. SIREN.
nell has passed for poverty stricken old man for
10 years.
private circularh has been issued at st. Louis by
the trade assembly to all assemblies in the United
States and British North America, setting forth a
project for general strike of all trades, the time
to be determined by the trade assembly, and to
take united action for the enforcement of the eight
hour law, abolishing the convict system and child
labor. They also propose to organize unions of al
trades not now organized, and to appoint an agi.
taton committee to carry out the purposes of the
! assemblies.
| Charles Goodale, an aged and wealthy farmer o
South Egremont, Mass, grandfather of Dora AMI
Elaine Goodae, the child poets was found in sensi
BILE and covered with blood in his barn, on Friday
last. His skull was fractured and jaw broken by
blows from a club which lay beside him and his
pockets had been rned. 1t is supposed to have
been the deed of tramp who spent the night pre-
vious in the barn. Mr.. Goodae has been uncon
scious most of the time and his death is expected
The new liquor law in Michigan rorbids under
severe penalties intoxicating drinks to be sold or
Sunday, or on week days between the hours Of
nine o'clock at night and six in the morning
excepting in certain cities, where the night hour il
extended to tcu o'clock 1t also prohibits its sale
= in any billiard room or other place where games OF
7 chance are played.