Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-16

the hopes of the southern people that til
present trouble is not to become ger
eral are well founded or not.
The republicans have done new thin
in carrying the election in Annapolis, Md
Mr.. Downey of ST. Adams, freiel.
conductor on the Central Vermont, Will
walking on the tack caught his foot in
frog and two wheels Of Car passed owe
it, crushing it badly.
Everybody who speaks of the Bate
House, Rutland. from experience find
occasion to say that is first class hotel il
every respect. Mr.. Bates not only lean
keep hotel but he does it to the ful
satisfaction of all his guests.
jefferson Davis has verbally and il
writing declared that he is not candidat,
for the United States Senate. He is :
man of seventy-one years, is engaged il
preparing Il defence of his administration
as president of the ex. confeLeaacy, and is
far from robust health.
A Watertown woman moistened he,
handker, hief and rubbed it on one OF
Barnum 5 tattooed mans limbs. She said
it was bue'l by the operation. Be that as
it may. the heroic Greek left the platform
swearing that he did not propose to stand
mp for people 10 'pinchy, pinchy, pinchy,
all lie ime."
John F. Buzzell, the murderer of Susan
Hanson, was hung last week in Concord
and the detectives are quarreling over the
question whether the hanging was iusti
fed The courts seemed to be satisfied
however and they considered the matte,
very carefully. Buzzell was once acquitted
of the murder but was afterwards convict
ed rs an accessory.
Ex-Governor William Allen, who died
at his home in Chlicothe, Ohio, Friday,
was born in Edentown, N. e., in 1906
and when very young moved to Ohio
Adopting the legal profession,h he was repre-
sentive in congress from 1888 TO 1885 and
United States senator for two terms, 1887
1849. In 1874, he was elected governor
of Ohio, defeating Gen. Edward F. Noyes.
now minister to France, by about 800
majority.
The fine steamer Adirondack" which
was built in 1866, on Lake Champlain.
and was disman,led last fall, has beer
sold to parties in Detroit, Mich, who will
at once commence work in taking her
down and shipping the same in sections t,
that city, where she will be rebuilt for III,
great lakes. The Adirondack" when
taken off the line, was in excellent condi
ton, and had it not been for building tn,
railroad on the opposite side of the lake.
no doubt would have been doing good
business now.
The St. Adams Messenger says: The
comparative scarcity of potato beetles thi,
year is accounted for. They are pursued
by parasite, which is a striped bug
similar to the cucumber bug, but larger
lie follows the potato bug and eats it,
eggs after they have been laid upon the
vines. This will probably be the last year
Of the operations of Colorado beetle to an,
considerable extent, as this parasite has
appeared in considerable numbers in this
vicinity.
They have been working up supposed
murder case in New hampshire and had
concluded man named Harding had
murdered sewing machine agent named
Elliott, near upper Bartlett. Elliott proves
to be alive however like the majority of
sewing machine agents. The community
can hardly believe however that they were
wrong and that Harding is innocent. They
seem to he rather angry at the latter be.
cause it is made certain he hasn't killed
the agent.
HAIL AND HURRICANE ON THE Con-
NECTICUT.-A terrible halstorm and
hurricane passed over Wells River Mon
day evening. lasting fifteen minutes.
followed by a thunder storm. Some of
the hail stones were two inches in
diameter. Crops and vegetation are
destroyed and torn to shreds, a third of
the glass in the place was broken, large
trees were torn up, fences DESTROYED
houses unroofed, barns blown over, etc
1t was the most severe storm ever known
there. and The people we're much alarmed
1t crossed the river and at Woodsvlle. N.
H., hail stones fell the size of hens eggs.
Several houses were unroofed and sheds
blown down and there is scarcely house
in town but had windows brokene Crops
of all kinds were cut'dowa and spoiled
The damage is very heavy. o. a-.i' i,....{ |