Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-12-27

Lake Champlain is frozen over from
Whitehall to Chimney Point, and naviga.
ton on the canal has closed for the winter.
A singular accident happened to little
son of A. d. Whitman OF Chester recently,
The boy was skating and fell backward |
upon the ice with such force as 10 fracture
the skull. His recovery is doubtful.
Isaac Bassett of New Hampshire, the
door keeper of The Senate, who was
appointed page by Daniel Webster, was
stricken with paralysis Tuesday morning.
There are some hopes of his recovery.
A subdivision of the Joseph Smith
branch of the Mormon church are repair
ing the fam Gus temple at Kirkland, O.,
where the first stake of Zion was set, and
which was abandoned when Smiths wild
cat bank burst forty years ago.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says that
Senator EImunds of Vermont, in a pri-
vate letter TO n gentleman in that city
expresses the most decided opposition to
any movement intended to bring him
before the people AS n candidate for the
presidency.
The bill authorizing tho construction of
Il highway bridge over the Missouri
between Omaha and Council Bluffs is
holly opposed in congress by the Union
Pacific, whichnow has Il certain monopoly
of the carrying across. The estimated cost
of the work is $4,000, 900 and it is said hat
the money could be easily raised,
Cases of sand bagging and robbery in
the streets at night are increasing in
Chicago. The umbermen's exchange
offers \ reward for an assaiant of one of
its number. The exchange sharply criti-
cises the city government for lazlness.
Since the first of December seventeen
cases of this sort have been recorded and
probably many have been missed.
Through the fault of the telegraph oper-
ator at Watts Flats two freight trains on
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
railroad collided near Kennedy, N. Y,
Saturday night. Both engines and nine
cars were smashed. I. ID. York, conduc-
tor, of Mealvile was killed, but no others
were injured. The loss is $4,000 to
500, 900.
I 1t is understood that after visiting some
cities in the southern states, her royal
highncls Princess Louise will embark at
| Richmond on II British man Of war and
proceed to Bermuda, where she will
rem ain during the most severe portion of
the winter, as her health suffers from the
intense cold. 1t is expected that when the
weather becomes warmer she will return
to Ottawa.
Ben Bltlcr's reported belief that Gro
vcr Cleveland will not make the running
| for the democratic presidential sweep.
stakes, year after next, is funny. 1t sug.
gests The good old story of the deacon,
who, when the parson-looking over the
heads of the two young peopc~asked if
anybody knew of any Just cause or
impedment,' sang out that he did. The
astonished pnrson demanded an explana-
ton. II had intended Hannah for myself"
answered the deacon. -HrJotd Courdnt.
Some government loans recently offered
| have not been successful. Among the
loans about to be arranged for are Il
Dutch government loan of $4,000 900, n
German government loan of Sl2, 100000,
and French government loan of very
much larger proportions; also, Prussian
loan. Il may int,res Americans to learn
that the French three per cents are below
80 ours are above par. The German four
per cents are Just above par, and rule g
fraction higher than do the Prussian tours
which are now quoted at lO0.25. The
four and n half per cents Of Berlin rule al
103
The woman's silk culture association
Of Philadelphia, which began two OF
three years ago to agitate the subject o.
silk raising in this country, has made
excellent progress, and the prospects arc
that the industry will be established on {
paving basis. Persons have engaged il
the raising of cocoons in all parts of the
country, and the specimens produced are
pronounced by good judges to equal in
quality any imported from Italy. Ar
exhibition Is tp be held at Philadelphia
next month, in which snumber of prize:
will be offered, and competitors have beer
heard from IN all parts of the country
from New' Jersey to California. The
ladies Of the association advocate sill
culture especially as an industry in which
women can engage in profit and pleasur,
in addition to their household duties. The
work Is light ana easy, Dut requires gooo
Judgment and patient care.
Six serpens, python, two cobras anC
three black snakes arrived in New 1orE
from Berlin Saturday afternoon. They
were consigned to dealer. The atten'
dants on board the vessel did not know
their habits, and instead of placing blan
kets in their cage to keep them warm
simply put a handful of hay under them
The floor of the cage became wet and thu
serpents became frozen. They wer'
lifted from their cage like walking canes
and were sent to the superintendent of thu
Central park geological garden. He wa
assured that they were dead, and he ha,
them placed in the engine room to hav'
them thawed out so that he could stuff tn
skins. The engineer stood them up in
warm corner and thought no more 0
them. Shortly afterward they disappeared
An investigation disclosed the fact tina
they had quietly crawled away. The
were found short distance off, trying t
scrape acquaintance with dog that ha
wandered into the place. They ara n
present in the park, awaiting the owner
action