Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-12-01
The temperature is rising in the west

The temperature is rising in the west.
Leopard skins made into muffs and fiat
collars are the newest furs for young
ladies.
Dulcigno was surrendered to the Mon
tenegrins on Friday by Dervisch Pasha
personally.
The truly grateful man, this Thanks.
giving, is the plumber. Such early cold
snaps are too rare not to be devoutly
acknowledged.
The post offices throughout the country
are obliged to count all letters, packages
and stamps mailed during the first seven
days of December.
Lord Coleridge, chief justice of common
pleas has been appointed chief justice of
the queens bench, in place of the late
Alexander Cockburn.
S. NJ Waites health was such as to pre-.
vent his being taken to Rutland, at the ad.
journed term of the United States Court
yesterday, and the court was adjourned TO
December 2lst.
Hon. Evarts w. Farr of Littleton, N.
H.. member of congress. died yesterday
morning of pneumonia. Major Farr was
forty years old and was a brave soldier
throughout the war
1t is remarked that ex-President Grant
President Hayes and President elect Gar
field have each three sons and "A dauohter
Garteld's girl, Mollie. is at school at
Cleveland this winter.
Five miners, going from Georgetown.
CoI.' to North Park, were precipitated in
an immense snow slide on Continental |
divide, Saturday last. Charles Eaton and
Thomas Gray were killed James Fraser
had his thigh bone broken in two places
The remaining two escaped with several
bruises.
Eighty boats, laden with iron ore.
lumber and barley, are frozen in at White
hall in the habor and canal, and also
several boats bound north with carsoes of
coal The tug boats of the New York and
Lake Champlain transportation company
made their last trips on Wednesday,
breaking thick ice as far as Chimney Point,
thirty-eight miles distant from Whitehall.
General Garfield attended THANKSGIVING
services at his own church, the little frame
Campbellite sanctuary on Vermont ave-
nue.. Afterward he went to the residence
OF General Schenck on Massachusetts ave
nue., and spent some time in conversation
with the ex minister to England. Thu
rest of the day he passed quietly at home
in Washington. He has now gone back
to Mentor.
Edward E Phelps, MD, LID, who
has practiced medicine at Windsor for over
fifty years died at his residence Friday.
aged n years. DR.. Phelps graduated at
Yale college in the class with N. p. Willis
and at the Dartmouth medical department,
OF which institution he was chosen profess
sor OF medical Jurisprudence and pathology
ical anatomy, which Office he held for over
thirty years. He was brigade SURGEON
in the rebellion, during the four years. He
was physician of wide and extended
practice. and leaves a widow and one
daughter. The funeral was held al the
house on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Crippen, wife of Prof. w. C. Grin
pen, principal of the normal school at
johnson. committed suicide in Burlington
Sunday forenoon. She was at the resi-
dence of Hard Greene where she had
been for some time under medical treat.
ment. While the family was como to
churcn sne hung herself from the banister,
having locked the doors and left note
outside, asking Mrs. Greene not to enter
the house alone. She left a note for her
husband, and also messages for two or
three of her friends Dependency at her
long illness was the cause of suicide. Mrs
Crippens maiden name was Ellen Arnold.
her parents lived in Brookfield, and she
was before her marriage assistant in the
normal school at Randolph. Her age was
IS years.
The steamer. Oncle Joseph. which went
down off Spezzia, Italy, Wednesday, sank
almost Immediately after the collision
Two hundred persons are known to have
been drowned and fifty saved. The fate
of the other fifty is at present uncertain,
Heart rending scenes followed the collis-
sion, as the Oncle Joseph was wanting in
means to save the lives of the large mum.
Der on board A dispatch from Rome
says that most of the passengers on the
Oncle Joseph were poor emigrants from
Caabra. The Ortigia struck the Oncle
Joseph amidships while going at full
speed, almost cutting her into, and the
Once Joseph sank in less than three min
utes. The captain of the Ortigia states
I that the night the collision occurred was
:. pitch dark. The Oncle Joseph ran across
j the Ortigia's bow. The crew of the lat.
1 ter did their utmost to save life,