Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-13
News and Gossip.

..Tbrlce armed is he who hath ms quarte' JUS"
And Jour times he who gets his bio" IN Iu'''
A Young man, % years old. IN Madison "t -,
has lust married the divorced second WIG VI
grandfather. a.td
John Barenburg, wealthy oitzen OF "'ee"ne'
Ohio, was found sunday under the nee'' ., ",
horses In his stable. From marks on tue oOu' 'O
play is suspected.
An extraordinary case is related IN Lou's''i'e
in which needle taken into the loot Of iAu' niu'
years ago worked out Ofthe thigh oil ne' 'ni'u
a baby of one year
10 hitherto unpublished letter. IhScAeray s"r
"A dandy is an individual who would be lany
If he could but AS he can't does all ne eau 10 sho"
the world he's not man. That's my idea at any
rate"
The half interest of II o. II. Fucker in the troy
\. Y. Tunes has been purchased by Hon John ID
Francis, who thus becomes sole owner oil lne pa
per It's understood that the sum paid was In the
neghborhool Of sl3OOO
over $1,000 buffalo have been killed In Montana
within the past six months, most OF them lot their
hides alone, which bring from SIS to s2''S each.
Mon in the fur business say that the wholesale
slaughter is rapidly making the buffalo eHtnc'' ana
ina, 40 many hides will never be secured again IN
single season.
| Mrs Charles Ballou Of Saranac, the ar-iamed lat
woman, known "a the Mammoth q ieen,' dieh In
Detroit on Friday. Her weight when she was win
shows IS stated to have been 5IO pouhds' he'
weight at the time of her death was 400 pounds
The casket cotaning the body was 3 IL leet long
feet wide and 20 inches deep.
One OF the new street sights in New York, Is the
new two. pole wogons, with three horses abreast
Of the American Express Company. The wagon
. has a body eleven feet long and four feet four
inches wide. It Is found That three horses abreas
can draw a heavier load. with greater eas9, than
four horses driven the usual way VIZ, two attached
10 the wagon and two on the lead.
, The major-general IN the" Pirates ofPenz ince,'
who bought a miscellaneous set of ancestors, is
matched by an ambitious California man, who pur
chased a lot of Old portraits IN Europe, had the
noses rubbed out and his own family nose paintct
in, and now passes of the pictures for hkenesscs
of his prosenit tors.
The great Corllss engine which drove the machin
= cry for the Phiadelpna Centennial Exhibition, Il
: now in the Pullman Palace Car works at Chicago
1t was started in the presence of large number 0
prominent citizens on Saturday afternoon, and tn,
part assigned to President Grant and the EmperO
of Brazil at Philadelphia 1916 was performed by
= Mr. Pullman's twelve years old daughter Florence
The statement going the rounds of the paper
that Fred Douglas some years since went TO Yer
- gennes to deliver an anti-slavery lecture and wa
refused the hall to lecture in, Is said to be false
The facts that the Congregational house wa
thrown open, and densely packed by people wh'
n were eager to listen to the young colored man
He also went to dinner at the hotel with severa
DromInent citizens, and all was serene.
A remarkable escape of a convict was made from
T. the GOldsburg, Y. c., penitentiary last Sunday
# One CHM and another convict were sick in tn
q same cell. Ginn's companion died. The body wa
placed in a cofin and the undertaken went out t.
> get dinner, leaving CHM in the cell with the dea
e man. CHM got out of bed took the dead man GU
of the coffin and placed him in the bed, CAREFUL.
n covering him, and then got into the coffin hmse n
On the way to the Poter's feld, CHM began rollin
ri about in the coffin and making no lses, which s
4 frightened the burial party that they ran away
q aud thereupon CHM lifted up the cotnn lid an
:, escaped.
/ Andrew Roberts, notorious forger, was arreste
10 New York, Tuesday, charged with numerou
, liorgeries. For some time past suburban bank
: nave been yctImZed to COnsld siderable extent by
=, system OF check forgeries, and one Cleary was al
rested. when one Harris, who was IN league wit
him disclosed that Andrew Roberts was the forger
Roberts is daring criminal He was once arreste
for robbing mail car in Connecticut. With hi
~ companions he took possession of the car, tire,
y the safe out and afterwards they plundered it
Is their leisure.