Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-11-21
Six to eighteen inches of snow fell in n
norton of Oninri0 Friday.

Thirty-seven poor families were burn,
+, out at Elizabeth, N. j., Thursday nigh
h. Michael Kavanagh died in Lewisto
!. Me, aged 1O7 years. He was native
IL Ireland.
. The New Castle IPa) paper mill W,
u burned to the ground yesterday; To-
= $4,000 insurance S35, 1000
d The township authorities of Wickhan
II T. g, have taken out seizure again
If the southeastern railroad for $4,000.
u Surgeons at Syracuse, N. Y, success
: fully replaced broken neck the 18th.
: took two strong men to move the bone
= but by the help OF the doctors. the bone
were restored TO their normal position
The patient is doing well and will TIN
i doubtedly recover.
The secretary of the iron and stee
association in Philadelphia reports that s.
furnaces have gone out of blast sine
, January lst. He says the conditions ar
all favorable to pig iron makers now tina
the stocks are sold and the stocks in tn,
hands of consumers are low.
The three iron mills of Oliver Bros. &
Phillips, the superior rail mills and Moor
head & McCains pudding department
shut down at Piltsburg Pa, last nigh
for lack OF orders. Schoen5erger e. Co
will reduce their output by one bal
Monday. By these suspensions over 5000
men are thrown out of work. Tn,
Cambria iron company, at Johnstown
Pa, have notified their 5000 employees o.
10 per cent reduction in wages Deem
Der 1st.
Through the breaking of car wheeI
the rear car of Rock Island passenger
train was derailed near Jamesport Fri
day. and precipitated down Is foot en-
bankment. rolling over twice. Adam
Gozian of St. Paul was injured and died
in the afternoon. His daughter, aged 90,
and his wife were seriously bruised. Mr..
MacSmith and his wife and son were
badly hurt Several others received
painful injuries.
A sailor was describing terrible
storm at sea, from which the vessel
barely escaped wreck and destruction,
when listener remarked that he Ohe
'ailor) must have suffered from deaths
thus staring him in the face. mot Bit
OF it, replied the sailor; "we got the
best of dea h." "Ilow sop, "Whv.
there was about 300 of us a-staring him
in the face, an he couldn't STAN it, an SO
hauled his wind an gin us clear pas
sage"
Our little police army lost 1878 men by
ha nlo
overdrawn by them amounted to $4,000
1t is not uncommon for Fort Leavenworlh
to have 5O0 recaplured deserters at
time, and yet not one quarter of the
runaways are ever caught. The reason
in the case is supposed to be chiefly that
the men are made to work, digging
bitches. building Offices, quarters and
what not. Their ray averages but
80 cents day, and the most of their
service is in places where wages are
high; hence dissatisfaction and flight.
The steamer S. H. Parisot was burned
yesterday morning at Bullets BAYOU.
eight miles above Natchez, Miss. The
Parsot left Vicksburg Saturday. for New
Orleans with 300 bales of cotton. 400
sacks OF Oil cake and 500 barrels of oil
The total loss is estimated at S25OUOO
The steamer cost S60,00O One of the
crew was drowned and it is feared that
Two or three deck passengers we're burned |
to death. The Parsot was burned to the
water 8 edge, and drfted down stream
when the explosion of her gunpowdet
magazine completed the wreck. The
passengers of the Parisot were taken to
Natchez by the steamer City of Yazoo.
A DISASTER AT BUFFALO, n. VA
arge tour story frame building owned by :
'acoo Dolde and in the course of constrnc.
ION Was blown down at Buffalo. n Y
friday. burying II men in the ruins
Jacob Sc oenthal, foreman, William Eek.
IT. Carpenter, John Otto, laborer, and
Joseph Grodel, carpenter. were killed
jharles Flntner, carpenter, had his law
roken and received internal irinries
'hlch will probably prove fatal. Seven
tnef "orkmen were seriously hurt. The
ulldlng was cheaply and loosely con
lructed, 1t Is said and was an unsafe
Tor any purpose. An official
lvestigation will be held.
The Western Union Telegraph Compa.
Y, the American Speaking Telephone
company, the Gold and s. ock Telegram
company and the Harmonic TeleSraub
company have sued the American Bell
telephone Company in the United States
1urls Tor violation of an agreement by
Inch, the complainants assert, the Rel ,
ompany was to enter into no more
IN racts with telephone exchanges. ana {
as to pay to the Western Union Tele.
Fapn COMPANY certain percentage of
'htai or royalties on the patent then g
~ned by the Western Union as soon as I
lie use OF The telephone reached a certain =,
olnt. They claim that this point has
zen reached and ask an accounting of ALI a
le property of the Bell Company and an n
junction restraining that company from |
rther violation OF the contract. l.
The department of state received Thurs Il
y letter from Lieut.. Harder, who is $
larged with the duty of bringing to the r
niled States the bodies of Lieut. Comdr a
Long and party of the i'll fated Jean q
tie, dated Yakutsk August "a. in which !,
says that pocket knife marked j. O u
LeIgler, (chief engineer of the navy p
d spoon, both found on the route taken
DE Long, have been turned over to him p
the Russian authorities. as it is evident =.
ey were lost by De Longs party The IL
Ter concludes rs follows: Anequim ID
wing died from contagious disease, hs B
dy cannot, of course, be brought home. W
listed bis grave and lett instructions TO
We 1t suitably marked in accordance
tn sketch which | have forwarded NJ
nm this place. The assistant Ispravnik ar
1dly, otfeIed to see my Instructions ~
rried out. an
The men at the Ludington mine near OF
,rway, Mich, joined he Chaplin mine
ikers at Iron Mountain Saturday, and !,
10 brass band paraded the streets Ia
~ strong until they were forced to SC
perse by the cold weather. -Four
ndred OF them then surrounded Super- a
endent Stockoridge OF the Ludn9ton 40
me- and upon his refusal to Weld TO
lr demands, attacked, kicked and beat Al
till he promised them anything they raj
nted. The mob then started in search
superintendent CAdv of the Chauin -,
ne bQt he had loft g., 1T