Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05
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The English complain that leather is
found in American sausages; and the |
American manufacturers will be so good |
after this as to take off the collar before |
using.
Grace Mills and Jane Jackson, two |
damsels of Tyrone Mountain, N. c., be-
coming Jealous of each other over Robert
Ely, a young farmer, the former enticed
the latter from her house recently, and,
with the help of an unknown man, MUIR
dered her after long struggle.
1t is believed in Burlington that Warren
Gibbs will be the republican candidate for
senator in September. and Lawyer WI.
Burnap for representative. Both are
strong men and If elected, as they should
be by large maorities will do credit to
the city.-'S. Adams Messenger.
The New York legislature, having vast
cd six weeks in futile attempts to organize,
is considering bill making it misde-
meanor to ask more than the advertised
price for a theatre ticket. II il has no
more important business than that, it had
better give it up and 60 home.
John Sherburn, who died in Wheelock,
Caledonia county, the other day, had been
confined to his bod for forty.three years.
In 1889 be fell from his horse and injured
his spine in such manner that recovery
WAS impossible. His digestive organs
wero sound and his general health good
most of the time.
Colonel Burnaby, who wrote, My Ride
to Khiva, has crossed the British channel
in balloon, lie left Dover on Wednesday,
without any companion, at 10 o'clock in the
morning; at noon his balloon was sighted
at Boulogne. and finally landed five miles
from that place. A century agoM Blanch-
ard, a Frenchman, accomplished this ex-
pioit and received q pension from the
government for his achievement.
A San Fransisco dispatch says: On the
10Th snow slide in Lake canon buried
aeveral men. Of whom. Robert Trum-
bull, Alexander McKon and D. R. Grant,
miners. and Henry Schumacher, engineer,
were killed. Their bodies we're recovered
but u second slide buried them under 40
feet of snow, Over 40 slides occurred in
Lake and Milk creek canons between the
18th and 18th, burying in all 38 per-
sons.
Palmer Ii. Baker, a prominent citizen of
Ticonderoga, previous to his death, recent
ly, gave minute instructions that his grave
should be dug deep and large, with a floor
ing of cement. He ordered that the grave
he lined with two-inch plank. tacked by
cement. After the casket had been placed
in the receptacle roofshaped two.inch
cover was adjusted, and the grave partially
filled about it with cement, making an air
and water-tight sarcophagus as solid rs
granite.
| An Irish witness created much amuse-
ment in the county court during the trial
Of the Fairhaven liquor case The prose-
cution were trying to find out if he had
ever procured any liquor at the drug store
of the.defendant. This he denied, but after
thinking awhile admitted that he had a
faint remembrance of having bought a
half pint of brandy there. Being pressed
to give as nearly as he could the date of
such purchase, the witness convulsed all
present by answering that it was "befoor
the waur. ."-Rutland Herald.
Garfield would have been traitor 10 the
cause that was endangered by delay, had
he written less plainly than be did to Mr..
Chase, who was true aud tried friend oi
both Rosecrans and Garfield, and who
wanted Rosecrans to vindicate the conf
dence which he. Chase, had reposed in
him. Both Chase and Garfield knew that
Mr.. Stanton-who had fiercely berated
Rosecrans-was getting reports from the
army fthe Cumberlandagainst Rosecrans
compared with the severest implications
of Gariield's mild and and reluctant ad
missions were the warmest eulogies.
Ncw York Mail and Express.
RICHARD 7. .BooTH's Work IN ENGLAND
Most gratifying reports have been re
ceived from Mr. Richard 7. Booth, the
temderance evangelist, now in England
His temperance crusade through the large
cities and in the provinces has been one
continued success. He has been aided il
his work by the churches and local tenn
perance societies, over 20, 900 new pledges
have been taken, and at Stockport, where
he held q series of meetings the last O
February, he met with tremendou.
ovation. and at his first Sunday meetin.
about 1000 persons signed the pledge, ,oveI
500 of these being reviewers of broker
pledges.
Mr.. Watterson Of the Louisville Courier
Journal rises 10 remark that "no tru
democrat can be protectionist. Th
democratic party will mako free-trad
fight in 1884. If it loses, it will max
another in 1883. Democrats who can no
60 it had better pack up and get out. Th
conflict between free-trade and protection
is irrepressiblc and must be fought out t.
the bitter end. We spit upon compromises
and propose neither to ask nor give quar-
=, ter We have but one political life, an,
! had just as soon lay it down on this issu
| rs any other"
TRIAL OF Mr.. AND MRs. PETERS =
Monday the trial of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Of fMasonville, was begun at Sweetsburg, T
O., for the murder of the little nine yea
old boy whom they tortured to death, las
November. Tho circumstances are sti
vivid in the public mind. The boy wa
: n town charge whom the Peters had bee
employed to board. He was cheerful
. pleasant child when he went there, bu
their system Of whippings, exposure I
cold and over work proved too much 70
the little fellow and finally caused hi
i death. The man and woman escaped {
D North Troy, but afterwards consented .
a return to Canada. 1t is said that th
woman confesses the murder and at an
rate the evidence Is so strong as to leav
: no doubt Of their conviction.