Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-16


ga ties, an increase of 81, requiring that
nu mber of extra seats. upon which the
architect will begin work at once.
RAILROAD EARNINGS. -The earnings of
the Central Vermont during the first three
weeks of July were S79, 329.26, while
during the corresponding period last year
they were $77 ,S06 81, showing an increase
of 1852 80.
The English lords have succumbed to
the peremptory demands of the House of
Commons. They concede everything Glad
stone has demanded both in regard to
Egypt and Ireland.
A youth of G,anl Ripids marcel the
girl who was betrothed 20 his father. The
pair returned to the bridegroom S parent
for forgiveness, and got it, but it was not
particularly hearty.
The first Sunday law on record was
made by Constantine the Great in the
first quarter of the fourth century, and
ever since that time Sunday has been
more or less fortified as non secular day
in Christian countries by civil legislation.
Ninety years ago the first English mis-
sionary offered himself, and now the
whole number of evangelical foreign mis-
sionaries Is five thousand, and they are
leaders of native host of thirty thousand
helpers Of all kinds.
The oldest stove probably in the United
States Is the one that warns thu hall of
-, oh II
made in England and sent to Richmond in
l770, and warmed the house of Burgesses
for sixty years before it was removed to
its present location where it has remained
for thirty years.
An Iowa man tied one end of long
C ord to au aching tooth, and the other 10
a heavy weight, which he dropped from IA
fourth story window. Two men were
taken to hospital in an ambulance-one
with broken jaw and the other with a
broken skull.
The new station of the signal service
on Pixies Peak is TO be of stone, al by 90
feet in size. The work OF construction
will not be easy, for everything which
goes into the building, except the stone,
must be "packed" up the trail a distance
of fifteen miles, covering a rise of 5000
feet. The station will cost about $1,000
While gentleman in PHILADELPHIA was
using his telephone the other day Il bright
blue and white fire shot out from the body
of the instrument, and he experienced a
sensation us of II claw Selling the skin of
HE Enrnhnnl nnl cha yino hin, TO nd f.,
violently. A fine watch which he carried
was ruined. There was no thunder storm
at the time.
There has been discovered in the sand
stone rock at the Nevada state prison the
marks of the sandalled foot of a human
being. and the marks OF the track of q
mammoth in the same piece of sandstone,
or upon the same level, showing that
man and mammoth lived not only in the
same age, but in the same year, and por-
haps in the same day. These marks were
found in the sand stone quarry at depth
of fifteen feet, on what is supposed to have
been, at the time the marks were made,
the borders of a lake, where the man went
fishing and the mammoth to drink.
The salmon fisheries of the Pacific coas
have increased more than twsnty.folt
within ten years, and last years produc
was nearly 100000 cases worth $1,000,
000 But the result of this vast bushes
is, that the southerly and more accessible
rivers are becoming fished out. as thu
greed of the fisherman has extended to tn
capture of the salmon which are on tn,
way to their spawning places. The Sac
ramento and the seemingly inexhoustablt
Columbia, are suffering from this cause
| The moro distant waters of British Colum
bia, and Alas a are still bountiful, but the,
thods Of fishing.
! a HAPPY PARTY.-On the Central Yer
mont upward express this morning,was {
bright and intelligent bevy of % lttl
girls. in charge of young lady, selecte,
from the poorer classes of Boston, by tn
young mems Christian union of that city
to 90 to Montpelier, Vt, on two weeks
vacation, boarding meanwhile in differ
ent families Tne union pays all expenses
Nothing could do these city children NOR
sood than Il fortnight's sojourn in tn,
heart of tho Green Mountains, in i'm
mediate proximity to the Eashingto
county DAIRY hrms' notably the best Il
la,o oou"', ~ We ""nu0t .ue. 'u1tG sun
LARGE towns and cities of New ENGLAND, -
Concord Monitor, august II.
Gavin srr,v AWAY Fpov HOME NJ,
Frederick Rauscb. a wealthy farmer
Newcomerstown, o., has son 10 year
old. who has an impeachment in his speec
winch h Is one o o. 'n ooo ,n1sI Suango ana re
in,eleocntlv to members Of tho family i
his fathers house but the very moment h
steps across the parental threshold hi
vocal otsans peco'no powetless' anu ne
'i' - " o..sn in'o..s iooN.ns i.ui"u
but, when asked a question. or address O.
on any subject, it is an impossibiity fo
him to answer a word. This singula
h'lh u, MS S .ho has aneo'eu ,riL
ute it to a spasmodic contraction of th,
muscles