Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

there will be some news of interest in this
matter before many weeks are over.
Since the end of the war this country has
reduced its debt sl42, 900 day, including
Sundays.
\ $350,00O dollar fire burned Clafiin,
Coburn & Co.'S boot factory at Hopkinton,
Mass, yesterday morning.
Gen. Stephen A. Hurlburt late minis.
ter to Peru is dead A dispatch from Mr.
Prescott announces this and states that the
cause was heart disease.
llanlan rowed race with Boyd i'll En-
gland. Monday, and not only beat him
but amused himself by various antics and
rests while Boyd was laboriously trying to
catch up with him.
Cornelius ]. Vanderbilt shot himself at
the Glenham Hotel, in New York city, on
Sunday afternoon. He was subject to
epileptic fits and these, together with
losses in gambling and stock operations,
depressed him and led him to suicide.
From articles in New York papers it
looks as though Cornell will not be sup
ported by the administration republicans
but that Secretary Folger is their favorite
for the nomination for governor. 1t is
safe to say that there will be no lack of
politics in New York next fall.
Jesse James, the famous robber, was
shot dead by Robert Ford at St. Joseph,
Mo, Monday forenoon. Ford was at
James home and they were about starting
on raid. Ford claims to have been a
detective, but is said TO have been mem.
Der of the James gang some years ago.
Mr.. Tilden has been writing letter to
the Jefferson Club of New Haven and the
S~n prints il double loaded. lie lately
wrote to the Iroquois Club at Chicago.
And the Argus announces that Tilden will
be elected and inaugurated in 1884 if he
lives. Perhaps 1t will be the unanimous
wish OF the democrats to run Mr.. Tilden
again; time will tell.
Mayor Green of Boston has removed the
three police commissioners of that CITY,
the removal to take effect on the confirma.
ton oftbeir successors whose names he has
sent to the board of aldermen. His NOM
nations were laid on the table for week
and there is prospect of a very lively
time in Boston municipal politics now and
ut the next election,
The new portrait catalogue, published
by lloughton, Milllin & Co., is u beautiful
specimen of Typography and printing. 1t
contains portraits Of T. B. Aldrich, Hans
Christian Anderson, Bjernson, J.Fenimore
Cooper, Dickens. Emerson, Bret Harte,
Hawthorn, Holmes, Howells, Henry James
Jr., Longfellow, Lowell, Lord Lytton. L.
c. Stedman, Mrs. Stowe, Tennyson, G. D.
Warner and Whittier. All the books pub.
lished by this house, except law, medical
and school books, are described in this
catalogue, which will he sent 10 any ad.
dress, on application, without charge.
Mr.. Frank Gushing with five Zlni In
dams of New Mexico has been making a
visit TO Boston and old father ocean. The
Zunis are an old tribe of New Mexico that
numbers about sixteen hundred persons.
Their customs and traditions are singular,
and Mr.. Gushing, who went among them
under the auspices of the Smithsonian In
sti,ution, has been accepted as member
OF their tribe and they promise to relate
tic secret traditions of their priests TO him.
They went through form of worship al
the sea shore, the principal immediate
effect OF which appears to have been the
delight of Massachusetts people to see a
new religion and the catching of severe
cold by the Ennis.
SUGARING.-It is sometimes asked bv
those who make sugar, does it pay 10 boil
the icoP used to ask the same question,
sometimes boiling and sometimes throw.
ing out the ice, as time demanded. Several
years ago l boiled down an equal number
OF pounds of sap and ice separately. lThc
result OF the experiment was about one
twentieth ms much syrup from the ice as
from the sap. OF course the result will
not be the same in all cases, Us much will
depend on draining and the manner in
which the ice forms; but as general thing
we may throw out the ice after it is well
drained without loss. O T..
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