Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-28


Gotham. They are made by adding one
ounce of cracked ice to three ounces OF
filtered rain water. They are considered
very fatteniDg.
James Dana, brother of c. A. Dana,
resident of Garfeld's district, who OPP
posed his denomination bitterly after the
credit mobi!ier and De Golyer charges
first appeared, is now supporting him
warmly as a presidential candidate.
A prominent democr attic paper in In
diana, the New Albany Ledger Standard,
refers to Franklin Landers, the democratic
candidate for governor, as " miserable
illiterate demagogue and professional
Office seeker, who disgraces the head Of
the democratic ticket"
LITTLE RuoDY's observation-disclosures
Island is the first state to send the census
bureau a complete statement OF its popu-
lation. The whole number of its popula-
ton is 276,7lO, a gain of 59,3O7, or q
ZO-lOJ DOl JUN W VIII
gain in every town but five.
DIR. Tanner, the fasting man, has a di-
vorced wife in Minnesota. She has been
interviewed by u newspaper, and after de-
failing the facts of DIR. Tanners early life,
she said his theory that people ate too
much grew upon him until it became a
mania, and made him very disagree
| able to his family. He tried to impress
his theories upon his wife, and she resent
ed the experiment and left him.
DR.. Tanner completes to-day one month
of his forty days fast. The Minneapolis
man is closely watched in his New York
attempt to get along without food and
there seems to be no reason to doubt his
honesty in abstaining. He proposes tc
break his fast at the end of the forty days
on watermelon. But it is yet question
whether he will be alive at the end of the
forty DAYS which will be on the 9TH Of
August at noon. Strangely enough, to
show that there is no new thing under the
sun stories apparently well authenticated
are coming to light of fasts of great
length, most of them compulsory. In fac
by the time Tanner gets through-one way
or the other-the literature of fasting will
have procured large additions to itself.
TELEPHONES IN A THUNDER STORM
The rule is, do not use the telephone du
ring Il thunder storm. While it is huns
up the crack and the flash will do n,
damage and the lightning arrester, which
is the wire leading the current to thu
ground, will cause it to hop off withou
harm. Every house with telephone il
really much safer than one without
since the wire acts as II lightning rod
and is rs efficient for that purpose II:
most rods in use. While there is n,
cause for alarm in thunder shower or
account of the presence of wires and
instruments, it is very unwise to use then
while II shower is near. The sharp crack
which is observed in the telephone witt
each flash of lightning is liable to injur
the ear of a person who may be operating
1T that time, or result in severe shoe
to the nervous system.
They are building n tunnel under tn
Hudson river from Jersey City to New
York bat the work came to disastrou.
halt last week when temporary part o
the tunnel caved in. Twenty-eight mel
were in the tunnel at the time only eigh
Of whom escaped. Peter Woodland, tn
foreman in charge found that the eigh
had escaped into an air lock while he ant
the other nineteen were blocked by falling
timbers from getting through the nne
door of the lock into it. The outer door
of the lock was closed and to open it wa
safety to the eight but death to the twenty
To keep it shut however was death 10 all
The compressed air prevented its being
opened but it had bulls eye glass tina
could be broken. Woodland saw this ant
Cdlcu " luooc III Itlc HUN W Dledh III
bulls eye which they did and escaped
Woodland and nineteen Others were bur
led and their bodies have not yet bee
, recovered. Those who escaped say the
never will forget the look on Woodland
+ face, which they could see at the glass {
he inner door, as the brave man gave tn
n word that he knew would save part of h
/. men and bring death to him and til
k others all the sooner.