Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

Conn, financial agent.
The defunct Connecticut River mutual
fire insurance company, has through lis
treasurer and attorney, collected $l2 900
of the IA rer cent assessment. There
remains about $4,000 to be collected.
There is such general cigarette smoking
among the children of the Philadelphia
schools that treatise on the danger of the
habit has been printed by the board oil
education and pasted inside the cover OF
the text looks Of every pupil,
When Gen. L. Z. Spinner, ex United
States treasurer was asked by a Florida
man a few days ago how old he was, and
if he was in good health yet, he said d"
am 81 years of age, still in good health,
and believe l can whip men of my size
yet"
The Brooks AK factory at Brooksville
(New IIaveD) was burned Sunday morn
ing, the Who'll concern burning to the
ground. Two thousand dozen axes were
destroyed The loss is about 1900;
insurance $1,000. The same company
were burned out one year ago last May.
| They will rebuild at once.
The pension office is preparing list OF
pensioners with post Office address, rate
of pensions, date of original allowance,
and cause for each pension the Senate
having called for such list last winter.
| 1t will take six printed volumes of $50
pages each. Nineteen hundred copies will
be printed.
One of the deserted mining towns of
Nevada has been taken possession of by
the Indians who are now living in grand
style in abandoned rows of good brick
houses, which they have improved to their
tastes as far as possible by knocking out
the doors and windows and punching holes
in the roofs.
Emma Fontainc of Montreal. when she
returned from work the other night, re-
ceived letter that had been left for her
during the day. She opened it, smelt of
the paper, and Immediately fell into
commissions. 1t now transpires that the
letter was written by Montreal grocery
clerk, and that he used the top of a Cana
dian cheese for q desk
Wildcat mining operations are not
confined to America. 1t has leaked out
that number of English capitalists have
invested S25 100000 in alleged gold mines
in India, tho total OUTPUT of which for
three years has only amounted to about
50 500. The only ones who have profited
by the investment are the parties who
originated the enterprise and were nstru
mental in selling the stock,
The Vermont marble ompany have
brought a suit in chancery to compel j. j.
Myers 10 deed them piece OF land in
Center Rutland, which they need for
their business. They claim that Myers
bought the land rs their agent, took the
deed to himself and refuses to convey it
to the company. A preliminary injunction
has been granted forbiddng Myers to
dispose Of the land.
Last week Waterman Of one of the
Rutland hotels found that steam was
escaping somewhere in the house, and
finally found that the trouble WIS in
room occupied by two Bristol men.
They had turned on the steam, but not
understanding the working of the heater
the room was full of steam, and the paper
was falling from the walls and everything
in the room was wet.
A gang Of thieves was recently broken
up in Los Angeles, CAL, none of the
members of which were over 10 years of
age. The leader of the gang was Nellie
Devine, q bright little brunette of IS years.
She was one of the smartest scholars in
the public schools, and invariably took the
prize offered by her Sunday school
teacher. During the last three years thoy
have stolen thousands of dollars worth of
goods.
A bush called the Malice scrub has
been great torment to the farmers Of
Australia, nearly 100000 900 ac, es being
covered with it. 1t is u low shrub with
thick glossy leaves, and the land it covers
is cursed with a blight, for nothing grows
beneath the scrub, and it springs up
almost as quickly as it is cut down, so a
long and severe struggle is required to
free the land from it. Now, however,
this scourge is found to contain an essen
tial oil that can be used as substitute for
turpentne and can be distilled at slight
expense.
The most costly affair Of the sort ever
known in This country was the fancy dress
ball at William X. Vanderbilt's palace in
New York Monday evening The flowers
alone cost $4,000; the regular culinary
force of the palace, comprising a chief at
$1,000 a year and half dozen subordinates
at from $4,000 to $4,000 were reinforced
for this occasion by cooks of William II.
and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the supper
cost S25,000-the champagne alone
to 5000. Then there is the
music, etc, all swelling the cost easily 10
much over $4,000.
The listers of Caledonia county me. at
St. Johnsbury the 2lst, eight towns
represented, and adopted the following rs
tair rates tn the appraisal of property:
Oxen cents a pound, live weight; 8.
years old steers, $50 yoke; 2-years-olds,
5l5; yearlings, 80; cows, $50; 3.years-
old colts, $50; 2,years. Odds, $40; yearlngs,
800; hogs, cents pound; sheep, 50 so;
wool, % cents pound; hay. Sl2 ton
logs, Sc a thousand feet; manufactured
lumber, Sl2. 1t was voted that the
presses, type, stock and fixtures of
printing office should be appraised as
personal property.
English penny postage has long been
pointed to as a triumph of governmental
attention to the middle classes and the
poor. After October 1st, we, too, shall
have penny" postage, our cents being
the equivalent of the penny But England
is not quite three-fourths as large as the
state OF Missouri, and Missouri and Illinois
together are larger than Great Britain and
Ireland. We extend penny postage over
an area equal to sixty Englands. Our new
postal notes will be infinitely more con-
venient than those popular in Great
Britain, but the average cost will be
little higher. In some respects the British