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

A striking example OF perseverance
was that Of the burglar who broke into
the residence of the Rev. Henry Gilbert
ut Nashville four times in one week, and
got nothing everytime.
Du Chaillu, the traveller, has been
recently lecturing on Lapland. He says
that in every church there is special
room provided for babies who wish to cry
during the service. and right good idea
it Is, too.
A western woman. nearly blind, cooked
some gunpowder in a quantity Of GA
meal. The whole family died except n
boy, and he is so full of the compound that
his aunt won't let him 90 near the fire for
fear he'll go off.
Dr.. ID. W. Bliss said Monday that he
should not accept the $4,000 awarded him
by the Garfield auditing comm ttee as
payment in full for his services, but will
at once commence a suit against the estate
of the late president.
A Scotchman who came back after a
long absence, declared after going to
the Kirk, that the whole kingdom was on
the road TO perdition. The people," he
said, FUSED to be reserved and solemn on
the Sabbath, but now they look as happy
on that as any other day."
| The society o. American artists is cirn
culating resolution calling the attentio
of congress to the fact that while Amer
lea is the only leading nation which has
not inherited works of art, it is at the
same time the only nation that puts a tariff
on their importation.
One hundred and fifty fat men had y
dinner at Bloomington, Ill, the other da5
whose aggregate weight was 1927
pounds. David Davis, 358, was expected
to preside and deliver o historical address
upon the early struggles of fat men in the
section, but business called him to Wash
ington.
They had shower of cats in an Indiana
town the other day, and couldn't under
stand it until they found some fellows had
tied catnip at the top of high windmill
in the neighborhood, waited till about 100
cats had gone up after it, and then turned
the lever so the thing went to whistling
and slung the cats like wickets.
The Concord Monitor of Saturday after
noon says: "Just as the evening train
over the Northern railroad was leaving
The upper end of the yard last night the
engineer dscerned a passenger upon the
; COW catcher of the locomotive. The train
was stopped and the man was interviewed
, by Conductor Bean to the disadvantage Of
the former. He wanted to go to Burling-
: ton, VT. and got rs far as Fisherville.'
The COW catcher is open to objections as
> seat for passenger-cspccially at this
season of the year.
Arab gets off with his life. The khedive
would have been glad enough to have hat
him hanged, shot, bowstringcd or pitched
j, into the Nile in sack, no doubt; bu
England could not afford anything of the
sort. The counsel she furnished defended
him ably, ruined the false testimony ant
1 left very little of the ease against Arab
y except the charge of rebellion. To tina
he pleaded guilty, yesterday morning
h was fol- IN lily sentenced to death by the
l. court in the afternoon, and then had hi:
sentence comm uted to exile for life by the
j, khedive. Ii is presumed that Arab will
l. retire to some Of the British dominions. a
indeed he has several times expressed hi:
+ intention of doing, but what he will d.
r for n living we are not yet informed.
The governor of Louisiana, McEnery
!. declines to give William Pitt Kellogg
certificate of election to congress from tn
third district of that state. There is n,
il doubt that Kellogg was elected by
majority of nearly if not quite 5000.
, was the original intention to dispute thi
majority, and the democratic canvasser
began their work by throwing out tn
entire vote Of the two parishes, or counties
which gave him the largest majorities
l. But this job was too barefaced to b
carried further, the local democratic cleo
ton officials refusing to certify to tn
+. bogus complaints suggested, and accord
il ingly the scheme was devised of refusing
q Kellogg his certificate on the ground tina
20 he lived in Washington and was not
Iee resident of The state.
i" The Erie railway company has recent
oII made wise and popular move Ii is no
selling family or firm tickets good for
Thousand miles for twenty dollars, or wv
y cents mile The tickets run for Il yea
and although issued to persons who's
y names are Inscribed thereon, are, neve
p theless understood to be transferable.
he is expected that this new departure wi
be ultimately prove to be of great advantae
IS to the road and public. 1t will Undue
10 travel 1t will lead many to take Il tho'
ed sand mile trip, when the cost of carriag
is only twenty dollars, who othorwi
would remain at home. Low rates
10 fare, when kept within their proper limit
re give an impetus TO local interchange
o traffic, and the benefit that the road W
W reap from its enterprise will be shared
ir the districts through which it passes.
lie How OTHERS REGARD IT.-The We
nix mont Senate during its late sessc
mr. discussed the tax bill with closed door
, II specta' ors and reporters having bee
excluded Some of the newspapers of Il
Or state call this an extraordinary proceedin
en- 1t certainly is so, and, so far as we kno'
~ without precedent in the history
49, legislation in this country or in Englar
81 for the last fifty years at least. Seer
to sessions are held by the Senate of L
lct United States for the consideration
in treaties and executive nominations. Pc
tic, sibly other legislative bodies may ha
IDS S It with closed doors for special purpose
but no instance can be cited whe
reporters were excluded while the ordina
''o business Of legislation, and especially
mt matter OF such popular concern as u t,
as bill was considered The English hou
k. of commons would not dare to exclu
oc the public from its deliberations on sucf
w subject, nor Guild either branch of co
'ht gress. But these Vermonters have wa
ut OF Lhrir OWN lKOrceSker Spu.