Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-12-06

Henry Ward Beecher has had an UNI.
brella which he had lost, returned 10 him,
and no longer doubts the miracles.
A recent visitor says that General But.
Ter has taken new lease Of life since his
election as governor of Massachusetts.
The deep wrinkles on his face are filling
up, and the husky voice is smooth lie
is very busy now, finishing up the law
business he has on hand, and getting
ready to assume the duties AMI honors oil
his high office,
The Kansas City Times gets mad be
cause of the gliding about the way the
James devils are treated, and leading
southern newspapers take the matter up
as Illustrating northern injustice to the
south But the facts upon which the
offensive remarks are based are unques
toned, and the sharpcst comments made
anywhere have been written and printed
in the state Of Mi souri,.
Oscar Wilde has put off going to
Australia because he means to STAY here
long enough to "overCome the remnants o
vulgar riticule" that still greet him now
and then. He is said to have cut his hair
Now if he will also cut his knee brooches
and lectures and silly postures in public
places,-in short, stop being mountebsnk
he will not be troubed with vulgar
ridicule."
The last official signature Of Governor
Colquitt, of Georgia, executed about ten
minutes befor, the inauguration of Gov.
Stevens, will bring S5,000,0O0 foreign
capital into that state. 1t was attached to
the certificate of deed transferring tract
of four hundred acres of mining land in
Northern Georgia to an English syndicate
for n consideration of one million pounds
sterling.
A man whose name u poet will some
day embalm has just been buried at
Gibraltar with military honors. lie was
L. IL. Ktvanagh-" Knvanagh of Luck,
now" he WAS commonly called, He lef
the bcleaguered garrison one dark night
in 1857 during the terrible siege Of THU
city, and crept through the crcmY's lines
to the camp of Sir Colin Campbell. The
neAt day he became Campbell's guide
and was the first man 10 fight his way
through to the garrison he had so heroic
ally served His immediate reward was
the bestowal of the Victoria cross.
Thomas LcClear, N. A., n we'll known
portrait painter, who died suddenly at .hi
home in Rutherford, N. j., was born il
Oswego, N. Y, March II, 1918, No othe
American artist has painted SO man,
persons of celebrity rs Mr.. LeClear his
Among the persons whose portraits hav,
been painted by him may be mentione,
Presidents Fillmore, Garfield, Grant anc
Arthur; Daniel S. Dickinson, Edwin
Booth in the character of IlamIo', Georg
Tcknor Curtis, Il. w. Stoughton, Chic
Justice fancy, William II. Seward; Rev
DIS. Bellows, Osgood, Dix and Vinton
William Cullen Bryant, Tx Governor }
Gregory Smith George Blncroft. B,yar
Taylo DR. Norvin Green, Preslen
Chadbournc of Williams College, An
Professor o. &. Marsh of Yale college.
IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION Til
question whether railroad IN this state
liable to an employee for tho negligence /
a fellow cmploye, has been settled by til
judgment of tho supreme court at Mon
pclier, in the case of Davis against tn
Central Vermontrailroad company, Davis
it will he remembered, was killed by hi
engine running into washouL belwee
Bellows Falls and Rutland and his wido,
sued the company. Tho jury found thu
the washout was due 10 the ncgiger
building OF culvcrt, for which the ma,
tor builder was responsible, and brougf
in verdict of $1,000 damages. TN
company appealed on the ground that tn
fireman and builder were 90 laborcrs AN
that the company were not liab'c TO on
for the negligence Of the other, whic
motion the supreme court disallows