Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-02-04
News and Gossip.

Mark Twain is said to have congressional aspi- |
ratons.
Senator Bayard is ouly Gny.one, and Senator
Blaine was ffly saturday.
The Boston Traveller publishes long list of bu-
siness men who are calling for Grant"
The Lord Mayor of Dublin says the distress in
Ireland is daily increasing and with fearful ra-
pidity.
At Chicago, the jury In the case of COPYRIGHT
against Farwe, $4,000 libel suit, awarded the
plaintiff one cent damages.
Joseph Gillespie tcolorcd) was hanged at Tay-
orsville, N. C.. Friday for the murder of William
&. Fowler on December IS.
steamer Beugor laden with coal from Penarth
for Gibraltar, toundered when two days from port.
Thirteen of the crew were drowned and six saved
The Lake George Association is endeavorng to
arrange an intercollegiate regatta for next sum-
mer. There is some hope that Oxford and Cam
bridge will be represented
Abd-cl.Kader, whose death was some time since
generally announced, is one of the handsomest old
men to be seem He lives at Damascus, devoting
his time to agriculture and charity.
A careless servant in the house of Jonathan
Wesley, at Shenandoah, Pa, left tub of hot wa
ter on the floor, Saturday, into which Wosley's 4.
year.old child fell and was scalded to death.
Gen Fitzpatrick is reported as saying that New
JERSEYS delegates to the national convention will
ne unpledsed; and that in his opinion Secretary
sherman is more popular in New Jersey than
senator Blaine.
The Kentucky House of representatives have
raised hue and cry throughout the state by clip
ping $1,000 from the salaries of the governor, who
now gets 5000, and the circuit and common pleas
judge how gets $4,000.
AT Mt. Washington on sunday, there was the
greatest change ever known on the mountain in the
same length oftime the thermometer at noon be-
ing 10 degrees above, and at nine in the evening
81 degrees below--a change of 4G degrees in nine
hours.
At Easton, Mass, sunday morning, John D.
Gardiner and Catherine Gardiner his wife were
burnt to death. Both had been drinking with some
callers, Saturday night, ard it is supposed they
tipped over the kerosene lamp as their clothes
were burned.
The Gibraltar Guardian says the troops at Fee
Morocco, attacked the Jews wounding several
They covered an old man over seventy years OF
age with petroleum and burned him alive, amid
-
French subjects.
1t is reported that several wealthy Californians
are arranging to remove to New York, and that
Flool, the bonanza king, is negotiating for
mansion on Fifth avenue. The family of the
late O'Brien, Floods partner, also contemplates
establishing \ residence there.
France is busy with war like preparation, but it
is stated that French sentiment is Indifferent to the
movement in Germany, and it is believed that Bis
marck, is making ostentatons preparations with
view to Brighten the neighbors rather than medi-
tatns any scheme of actual warfare.
A general strike is anticipated in Maryland
among all manufacturing and coal operatives. The
Knights of Labor, an organization of $1,000 men,
bers in that region and West Virginia, have posted
notices refusing to work more than ten hours
day after Fcbruary2. y collision is feared
Queen Victoria will open parliament in person
on Thursday next. Her message will inform par.
lament that treasury grant is needed for Ireland,
besides the two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
sterling from the irish church surplus. The Irish
members proclaim their intention to oppose an ad
dress in reply to the Queens speech.
At Ottawa, on Wednesday night, the wife of a
man named Sabourin, enraged at her husband, who
had come home into Xicated and bcgud to beat her.
seized an axe and struck him two blows on the
back OF the head Notwithstanding the rGmonstran-
ces of her children, who chung about her. Sab
ourin cannot live. The woman says she was also
intoxicated
A thousand dollar prize, offered by the Cinciuna
ii College of Music for the best work by an Amer-
can, TO be performed at the next May festival has
been awarded to n composition based on scenes
| from Ionglellow'S Golden Legend. The name of
the composes will not b. made known until the
composition is performed, but it is supposed to he
Dudley Buck, of Boston.
| During the month of January | Oj0 postmasters
were commissioned, the largest number ever com.
mssoned in the history of the government. Most
of these in the far West, where there seems to
be boom in business equal to any previous boom
| in the history oil the West, far can be judged
| by post office business. Kansas has 1000 900 OF
popula ion, and is increasing at the rate Of li0 coo
annually.
Before committin. suicide, in Chicago, John
George Koenis bcqueathed his body, which was
about all he owned. as follows: " request to
have my body handed to the Chicago medical col
lege disscctins room; but, should they refuse tc
take II, then please offer 1t to some other college
few months ago when spoke to a student of the
c. NJ. C., asking him what kind of subject | would
make for that purpose, he thought was too fat"
Mr.. George Seney, President ofthc Metropoli
tau bank OF New York, who, few months ago
gave $4,000 to the endowment fund of the Yves.
eyan University, MidIletown, Ct, has added ! 10,
900 to his gift He also counted 81 100 pay his
quota oil the annual deficit OF the university. and
gave his check for $500 his annual contribution
to the support of worn-out preachers OF the New
York East Conference. Within year Mr.. Seney
has given sl3O 900 TO the Wesleyan University.
The celebrated pigeon roost in Scott county Ind.
is now as it has been for 10 years, the roost for
millions of pigeons. They fly away in The morn
ing to; their feeding grounds, many of them going
| to such distance that they do not return until
midnight. The timber on thousands of acres Gov
cred by this roOst is broken down badly, large
limbs being snapped of like reeds by the accum u
lated weight of the birds. Thousands are killed
nightly, but the slaughter seems to make no dim
mutation in the vast 1ocks that congregate there