Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-02

on September 4tb. the meeting of the Bur.
lington district, conducted by Presiding
Elder Noe.
SHOOTING ACCIDENTAL sad accident
occurred in Lowell, Orleans county the
10th, by which little seven year old girl
of Jacob Greenwood was shot through the
head. the ball entering the head about
midway between the eye and ear, and
passing through below the brain and lodg-
ing in the outer bone on the other side.
Ayoung fellow from Canada, AN employee
had been shooting at mark with small
revolver and in some unknown manner
one of the children who was near received
the bullet from the last chamber of the re-
volver. The boy fled, but was apprehend.
ed and brought before a magistrate, but
as there was no evidence of intentional
shooting. he was discharged. A council
of physicians has been held. and they pro-
nounce the case hopeless one. The girl
is liable to be another victim of the care
less use of firearms.-Bdrton Monitor
The figures ofthe New York bureau of
vital statistics for the heated term show
some APPALLING results. The greatest num-
Der of deaths for any one day this year
was recorded Saturday, there being 2l9,
making total of 1917 for the week, and
4014 since July 1. This is a higher NOR
tality than at any other time within the
past ten years. except in 1872, 1876 and
| 1880, when in the last week of July there
were reported 1891, 1898 and 1897 deaths,
respectively. The average number of
deaths for the four weeks ending at noon
on Saturday, is fraction over 1000 per
week-a figure which, for the same
length of time, was never before reached
The death rate, as it now stands for the
last seven months, is 47,001 per 1000. the
population of the city being computed at
| 1,280,000 inhabitants. OF the deaths dur.
ing the week 769 we're children Under five
| years of age, from diseases produced by
the intense heat, and there were 26 other
deaths reported, all of which were due to
sunstroke. Six hundred deaths occurred in
tenement houses.
JUMBO TAKES BATH.-The Springfield
Republican says that the baby elephant
bridgeport" took her first bath and
Jumbo" the first he has had IN this coun.
try, at Brattleboro. A deep and shady
pool in milestone brook, conveniently
near the circus tents, was chosen and
George w. Arstingstall presided at the
ceremony. The baby came down to the
water with dainty. mincing motion,
dipped her toes into the drink, shivered,
partly withdrew, and then, urged by the
keepers prod, plunged boldly in. Once
in she seemed to enjoy the wetting and
swan about, squirting jets of water with
her tiny trunk and giving shrill grunts of
satisfaction. Jumbo" appeared later and
entered the bath hardly less suspiciously.
When the first was over, however, he
Owed in head foremost, raised the general
level OF the pool several inches and send
ing the waves rolling up against the bank.
He cavorted around, threw stream of
water into the air with his trunk, and
then settled down into his bath till only
the top of his head and the ridge of his
back were seen. AS he rose, the water
rolled from his sides like cascades trick
ling over a rocky bed. In the evening
the rest of the elephants were given a
bath, and for a few moments the stream
presented the appearance of a pool in an
East Indian jungle with herd of wild
elephants at play.
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The Springfield Republican says: A
dlstiller at Peoria, ILL.,, named Gersh
Martin has expressed himself about the
rum business in way that is decidedly
refreshing. In the first place he observes
that there is less whisky consumed in the
country now than 80 years ago when the
population was but half as great, and the
falling off he charges chiefly to lager beer.
Again, the farmers, who used to be the
largest consumers, are now the smallest.
They used to buy whisky by the barrel
cheaper than city people can now get
cider, but to-day they get it by the jugful
or not at all. Thirty years ago nine farm
ers in ten would have voted against
prohibition. but now nine in ten would
vote for it. The whisky trade ought not
to fight the temperance people openly, but
should 60 on with its business quietly,
keep within the law, and seek to concili-
ate. 1.-The moral and religious sentiment
of America is against it," and stands like
stone wall to confront 1t, and it must go
on quietly if at all. Let n financial col
lapse of the distilling interest come now,
or in the near future, and no one would
ever again venture to put money into it,
with the temperance sentiment rampant
and no capital to fight it prohibition could
be enforced. land in 10 years there would
not be left a distilery, brewery or a sa-
loon in the whole United Stales." Mar
:. tin has been making whisky for many
years and all his property is invested In
tho business, so that his talk will make
rare bit of ammunition for the prohibit
tionists.