Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-19
News and Gossip.
The mercury froIe at Stevens POINT
on Monday morning

The mercury frOIe at Stevens Point
on Monday morning
The cotton crop last year reache
bales, the largest ever known
A woman in Urbana OHIO 20 years
for a divorce from her husband az
At Athena, Mich, Mr.. Alice Williams a.
s.. IN the Lord. severed her tongue WIN
r,o nouss ofJames Buckley at Rochester inu',
,,,s burned Thursday, and two children PEI '7''n
in the flames. ,--.
.r,. o,ostsentb centenary of Virgil IS to be com
memorated by erecting monument ~ "i' i
tina, h birthplace ...
rho viryinian Knights Templar are organizing
-....,,nnent of the order at Yorktown lot sever
=, Avs during the centennial celebration t1eie mex
fail
l., .orseouence of OLeary's acceptance oil Tue
,aIaoao or Rowell the latter has gone INTO stllct
,raininv for another worlds oh mpionship "aIklne
match.
40, lanes +. Keegan, New York journalist
-, ,,onvictel of libel on ex-senator Charles
VIII field, was, at Jersey CITY (>'J'A 'ri''S' 81"
tenced to year in the state prison.
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode to the Plac'
NJ bs canture after President Lncoln's assasslna-
lion is in Abingdon, conn., anu 10 " . 49,
though twenty.three ears old
| Owing to the drought and cold the Chicago' bur
rnxton and Quincy railroad has had TO "i'"u. !"
the fires fl ON the engines, and on Monday pau sou
for ice to melt. The cold ranges about io' oeio"
zero every night in Central Illinois
| N;ogara Falls have as sumed remarkable appear
,nce The low water and continual coid mas loihe'
90 so as TO divide the American falls into hVe us
,inct hod,es of water The ice mounds are climbing
their way to the TOP of the Canadian iaIls'
societv circles at indianapolis, Int, are conVuls
| I'd over the discovery that Harry New, son q hon
John C. New, who, 1t was reported, woul h''lS
| Miss Kathleen V. Mllgan of Chicago this WINTER
married the lady secretely in Wisconsin last fail
Near Havana. Ohio, Mrs Galley and Mrs. Ellis
,r,y.s of nrominent men OF that section, while rid
inc IN a sleigh were struck by an engine at ran
road crossing and both instantly killed. Ooe wa
thrown nm and fell on the tender, the other wa
thrown 40 feet.
Fifty thousand golfers are on strike IN Iahca
shire. England Serious noting occur ed at W ia
Friday The strikers moested the working collier
The police attacked the mob and several pohc
wore seriously wounded Many working collier
were beaten.
| President Grevy oil france ms rcS"'a' 7"l'S
st20.OO0, to which is added $50 90 for reception
and 100000 for travelling expenses AS the PeteS
dent is not given to grand balls and prefers to TT
main at home it is estimated, as he has no rent
nav that he is laying up snug sum-
The ruins of a once magnificent bathing estab ls
ment, covered over by more than thirty feet
, ashes and lava, have been discovered near Here
1 Ianeum. The sculptul ed fountains and tanks are
= oriental granite the floors are of colored gas
o mosaic, and tho walls OF the buildings are rich
o adorned with paintings and stucco work
A starving woman found locked up in an o.
house in Flushing, l.. L., was identified as the IL
n mented Mary Hummel 1t is claimed she w
n locked in the place-bv Mrs. Allen, who has bee
y prominent in philanthropic works 1t is alieg
- that Mrs. Allen obtained control of the woman
property and then kept her in constant suljecti'
by intimidation
In 1911 Holland offered reward OFFS 600 guide
tabout SlO,OOO) for the discovery OF that nothwf
Il passage which Prof Norden-k kidd has atlast in
day, accomplished. This offer was long torSo te
but it was never recalled; and it is nov probat
n that Holland will pay the promised reward to I
# successful explorer, little though he dreamed OF
. possibility of such compensation when he start
r his enterprise