Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-14

Tho army worm is doing much damage New
Brunswick.
Forty six yellow fever deaths Occurred III iA'
vana during the week ending June So'n'
Fourteen horses imported direct from Kentucky
were sold at London at an average OF E9i'
There ia great excitement In France over tne eh'
pulsion Of the Jesuit8, and mob violence IS hrea'-
ened.
Prof. Earle OF the nsh commission has discover
ed that Spanish mackere can be artidcially hatch
ed, and that Its capacity for reproduction greatly
exceeds that Of cod and shad.
Kennebun k, Me-, Wednesday, Mrs. sylvester
Clark took her only son. eight years Old 10 ,he
river, undressed and held him under the water
until he was drowned, and then attempted 10
drown herself.
II sens to he the general impression that the
North Adams epidemic was caused by impure
water. The excitement is mainly over there, AMI
few additional cases are reported.
The marquis of Anglesey married, Saturday. at
the British embassy, Paris, the widow OF Hon.
Henry Woodhouse, formerly Miss Minnie King oil
Georgia.
The removal of the dangerous Diamond reel
from New York harbor has been completed after
eleven years work anil an expenditure Of three
hundrc | AMI nine thou sand dollars. Four acres oil
submarine rock were drilled away. The deplh Of
water at the spot is now twenty tx feet.
Jeremiah Ryan, aged sixteen. clerk employed
at SIS Broadway, New York, incautiously put his
head out of an elevator in which he was riding
Saturday. It was caught between floor and the
roof of the car, and he was killed on the spot. He
....l. ..Iro md MT "a w ~
horribly mangled.
Durinr June there were coined at the Philadel-
pha mint 73l $40 pieces, of the value of 1884,
2g6 including 100000 silver dollars. Coinage
for the fiscal year: Gold, $27639,45; silver
sI5 1874 347 50; minor coins, s269,a7l 81. Total
S43, l03 81.
A Toronto correspondent says about twenty
years ago Or. Tanner, who is now fasting in New
York kept cheap restaurant in western town
lie was then an illitcrate English cmigrant, short
and gross in flesh lie married spirltualist stu
dent of medicine. when she was qualided both
left and began doctoring, using spiritual alliances
A Toronto dispatch says Nicholas Flood DYin,
| barrister, made application for rule compelling
| the crown to show cause why new trial may no
| be granted in the case of George Bennett, ALA
| Dickson, sentenced TO death for murder Hon
George Brown Davis supported the application
| by afilavits from several parties that they OBJ
served Joseph Redford, one Of the jurors, asleep
| during the trial.
| The custom of putting large strawberries at tn
| top of the basket and the smaller and poor one
| below, seems not to be of purely American inven
| ton. being mentioned by Queen Elizabeth, VIII
| said of her minister's " When first chosen by me
all goes well, for they do put forth their best vii
tues like the large strawberries in market basket s
| but by and by small vices and faults appear il
them Ike the hitler fruits hidden beneath the big.
| The mem bers Of the national board Of health eX
press hopeful opinion that the country will thi
year be free from yellow fever. This belief
based upon the opinion that although the feve
broke out year ago this time in Memphis, ther
has not this year been single case, and that eve
in Havana the fever is not epidemic. Besides tn
board Of health has reports of improved sanitar
conditions throughout the entire lowe. Mississippi
valley and the officers have great confidence in tn
system OF quarantine and inspection in that regio
and a lorg the Atlantic scaboard.