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

A partial recital made by the Railway
| Agc Of railroad construction shows that
work is now In progress upon at least ITO
| railways, in IS states and territories. and
covering proposed mileage of about
5000 miles.
The total mileage Of canals constructed
in the United States is 1910, about the
mileage of all the railways in the country
IS years ago, Now The roads count up
more than $4,000 miles in operation, while
OF the canals some 800 miles have been
abandoned.
Gen. Chalmers of Fort Pillow notoriety
| is active for Hancock, and comes out with
letter proposing that meeting be held
at Gettysburg, Pa, about the middle of
September, of Union and Confederate
soldiers, TO shake hands on Cemetery
Heights. The Union soldier who would
shake hands with Chalmers must have
dropped pretty low.
Nervous prostration is what is the mat
ter with the Princess Louise. 1t is attrb.
uted to the sleighing accident of last
winter, but it is believed that want of the
society she has been accustomed TO has
aggravated the difficulty. Society at
Ottawa is considerably mixed even since
the efforts that have been made TO make
things more agreeable TO her.
THE LAKE CHAMpLAN SEA SERPENT
AGAIN.-One day last week DR.. brigham
and Ashley Shelters of Bedford, p. O.,
saw tho sea serpent in tho waters of Mis-
sisquoi bay. They furnish the following
description of his snskeship: The
strange monster appeared to be of great
length, portions of its body, fully twenty
feet in length. appearing above the sur
face of the water. Its head, which is
described as being as large as a flour
barrel, is of irregular shape, its eyes being
of greenish tinge, and it looked hdeous
and disgusting In the extreme. The crea.
ture, when first seen, was quite near the
shore, and. when alarmed, made for the
deep waters of the lake, causing a great
commotion in the usually quiet waters.
The noise it made in moving sounded
like the paddle wheels of steam yacht"
Burdctte is man of wonderful es.
capes. Here are few of the perils he
has met and overcome: Sometimes when
look back over my life, l am amazed to
see how the pages of its record are dotted
with their hair breadth escapes. / escaped
the dangers and hardships of the reyolu.
tionary war by waiting until the war had
been over about sixty years before l was
born. When the Brooklyn theatre burned
| was in Burlington. When the yellow
fever broke out in New Orleans l was in
Minnesota and Immediately skipped out
for Canada. When was boy at school
one day the boys in school were logged all
around for robbing an apple orchard. and
the hogging didn't do bit of good, for
every beggar of them had the cholera.
morbus all that night, Just the same. And
Ip ] was attending another school, %
miles distant. When all my brothers and
sisters were down with the scarlet fever, |
was down south in the army and when |
read the letters from home laughed aloud
to think ofmy great good fortune, and that
| would only have to be shot at once or
twice q week. instead of having to take
medicine three times a day. When a man
comes TO the Office with little bill, nine
times out OF ten | am out And If by some
astonishing blunder. ! am in,then, indeed.
I am more unfortunate but the man is In
no better luck than before,