Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-12

an xous seat" at the report that several hundred
clerks are to be subjected to Il rigid examination
as to their ability to hold their positions.
A Manchester, KY, woman is un Ter arrest for
breaking her step-daughters skull and breakiug
her neck by hanging her, and then carrying the
body to a field to be kicked by vicious horse.
Murphy, democrat, is reelected Mayor Of Troy,
n. Y, by over 1910 majority over the republican
and greenback candidates, and 2,9H plurality over
the rcpubl cans. Tue greenbaekers, who were
expected to poll 500, polled only 800 votes.
Nephew Butler, late temperance lecturer is sent
to jail at Washington for vagrancy. There is also
New York nephe W, who VIII not be saved from
disgrace again, should occasion demand, by a
long su neriny but olt-betrayed uncle.
Prof njlmin Pierce, of Harvard University 4,
has bloached a new solar system in Il spherical
shell Of matter from which fall the meteors VIII ich
supply the heat 10 the sun, and to which return
the comets and meteoIs which pass around the sun.
The Washington Post, the straight democratic
organ, publishes under the head of " Pick your
places,"a fun list of Senate offices with salaries,
aggre eating some $4,000 per month. There are
only li7 these places altogether and about 1000
greedy democratic applicants for them.
An Oxford (Mich) girl of II, desiring to marry
anil fearing that her youthlulne5s would be regard
ed by the clergyman as objection, altered the
date Of her birth in the family Bible, and took the
sacred volume along when she eoped with her
lover.
Charles Adams the tenor, now in the Strakosch
Opera Troupe, had gold wreath presented to him
for ninc years. service at the Imperial Opera
House, Vienna. 1t was attached in New York
recently to satisfy Judgment in favor OF an oper
attic agent, for services rendered.
Aspecial train of English goods f'om Halifax
coded with the Quebec express, near Athol,N. ),
Thursday morning. The engines Of both trans
and cars were badly wrecked Driver Mcleod
was killed and conductor Cameron fatally injured,
Several others were badly hurt.
Martin Murphy's wife OF Wareruu,y, CJnn.
went out the otner night to visit sick friend and
as she dW not return NJ Wtln locke the doors aad
went to bed. The vile returned late, could not
get in, and IN the pruins fuuat IA the ,inor-
step nearly dead from the cold. Sur aai about
noon.
The President and SecregArf NucrLtu a,p..ye.
the civil service plan proposed i.r mr Ny York
custom house. Competent eN,n,uttI n. viii be
applied March Is. 1t is understood tnttamong
the first persons sunmJne VIII be several of The
employees reported by superior officers as not fully
competent.
Al Smith of Eko, New, i, Il tough man In Il
hsht his antagonist chopped three chips out of his
skull with an axe, and the chips were ultcrward
picked mp on the held OF battle. Tue axe pene.
tratedt the BRAIN partly paraiy zmg him. but 10 ne
OF his wounds have mi IN 3d. AMI II Is tlpu :ht luat
Smith Will get well.
Aleck Stephens OF Gcor ga seems 10 be ashamed
OF the company he had in the last congress "Wben
we met" he says, sit was heraded abroad that We
would lind relief for the people, but instead o that
we have been burden, and the 10th Congress aI |
Joutned IN deeper disgrace than any Congress in !
the history oL the go eminent"
The president the State National 10 INK Of RAJ.
elsh n. e., recently died. few days ago his wifi.
Mrs, NJ G. Williams, was elected to the directory
and became president oil the institution This is
perhaps the lirst instance in the history of the
country wherca woman has been chosen as tho |
head OF public corporation of this character,
10 lie Roy n T., the other day, u salt well was
oelnS sunk, whea wDek was stoppc by Il rush of
gas, which was set on le but was then mt ont nv
Il body OF water thrown 80 feet into the air. Gas
and water alternated for some time but finally tho
water carried The day, and the well threw M n
briny seven-inch column 20 feet high for soma
hours
NJ. 'lcto Hugo's pet granddaughter Jeanne, the
mule gil eight years old immortulIzed in his |
- AIMEE Terrible and "LArt d'ctre Gian,lucre D
narrowly escaped burning to death cccptly. Gel.
'ins on SEINE steps to wind up a clock on the man.
telplece her pinalore caught fire. She remembered
Il story told ner yours ago OF a Lady on ire who
instead OF running rolled on a carpet. She IiI
likewise, and saved her life. She received, p,inn, |
burns but S in no dagger,
police officer, in New York carly Wednesday |
morning, saw nude woman walking Geliberatelv |
IN the mid lie OF the str eet As he confronted her
ne was startled by her death like pallor and fixed
CLASSY eyes. Taking hold of her he was about IN
lead her TO the sidewalk but she fell back into his
arms. He hftci her to the curOstonc and ronnd |
her dead. She was Mary Williams, "a wears of
age. She had been drinking heavily for some
time.
Inc mineral waters of Teulitz, in Bohemia. which
made that place second Saratoga, suddenly die
appeared the other day, owing to the underground |
sources having been disturbed by mines near tho |
spot While the miners were digging they struck
spring winch came with such force that TWENTY
one laGorers were drowned, and the sprngs y,
iepltz at once gave out. 1t is hoped to cbeck
THIS flow and restore the underground ,ro,s.
course. ""'cl
Further particulars of tho contemp,,,oa .,.;.
among the Pennsylvania coal miners have ,,oo, -,
ceivec. 1t is arranged to begin the 18th inst ~,
inc number engaged in twill be about 60 .Ooo co,
Hers The details of the campaign against tho cor
porations will be arranged at the state convor,,o.
10 DC held at Harr isburgh the llth inst The move
neht originated with the operatives in tho T ob,rh
ilstrct' who are said to be amply provided with
funds to sustain strike for long time,
An omnibus " suit is pending in tho No,.-y.-,.
,our of Common Pleas, brought bv John T,,,O
Ahoiew ouendofph' Lewis f. Williams, Char,es
IL Mather and their wives, against the United
states Life Insurance Company claiming that rho
ieiendahts, through their agents all over ho
country, have engaged in scheme of "tvis,in, ;,
policy holders, and that, in pursuance or as,
scheme, there has been paid out OF tbe :, rosoura,
und during the years 1870 to 1871 inclnsivo W."
$9,744,0oo, ''''''
The welding W hich Is TO take place Mt w,ns.
Castle on the 18Th. instant is being looto,
o with considerable interest by rovaltr .S var"
on ,hroushout inc world On that day, Princess
1ousa Marea'e'' OF rrussin will be welded tn ,bo
,nke OF oonnaught, third son of Queen Victoria 6
nc o'ide 8 Iathef is The famous Pince Frede ,o
|naries, OF frussia' who commanded before Me-
WIN such nigh distinction. The father of prino {
Charles and the Emperor Wilhelm va :
ot only bro'hers but brothers who married to- a
isters' These sisters were the two Princaos.. wv
axe-Weimar whose education was super,n,ona.,
y no less tutor than Goethe,