Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-10
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Milwaukee has planned a q. A. Il. meeting for
1855 which shall be the largest reunion of veterans
ever held in this country.
The president of the Exchange bank, Montreal,
alleges that the money appropriated by him was
laid out in supporting the banks stock when the
Jears were hammering IL.
The lumber manufacturers association of the
northwest has decided to curta log cutting as the
forests cannot stand the present drain and the
markets are largely overstocked.
Sitting Bull, Jr,-called Wa-Myee-aged %. is
at the Feehanvllle training school, near Chicago.
lie has wife. but left her at home to get a book
education $50 that he can be carpenter"
The smuggling ofChincse across the border from
British Columbia has become a thriving business,
it IS said, and Victoria has become rendezvous
for Chinese seeking to enter the Unit ed States.
The coal miners strike in Clay county, Ind, has
been ended by the agreement of the operators to
increase the pay from s5 cents to 81 a ton. All the
mines in the Brazil district will resume Monday.
"Fear God; and take your own partib is the
motto of the state of Dakota, adopted by the
statesmen who made the prenatal convention.
The thing may not shine much in a literary sense,
but it is characteristic, anyhow.
The arrangements for the reunion of the society
the army of the Tennessee have been completed
ut Cleveland. Gems. Grant, Sherman and Logan
and Cows. Fletcher and Fairchild will be present
and Gen. Sheridan is expected.
Federal Judge Blodgett discharged deserter
from the army at Chicago Thursday, holding that
as he was under 81 when he enlisted he was not
bound by the contract of enlistment, although he
swore falsely that he was OF age.
Dick Luke lives two miles from Grand Ledge,
Mich, in the heart of a forest, owns the land
which has vein OF coal, and in this vein Dick
has worked all alone for ten years, getting out a
ton and half day and selling 1t for $5.25.
John X. Snyder, president of the Exchange bank
of Chenoa, Ill which made an assignments lew
days ago, has been arrested, on charge Of swim
ding and embezzlement in having received funds
while knowing that the bank was insolvent.
Jay Gould's latest enterprise is to create new
sumner resort at Burns point, two miles from
Milford on the Sound Superintendent Stevenson
of the southern road and several OF the American
yacht club are "gong in" to erecta hotel and make
1t a great place.
Mrs. Maternal ito little girl who has come to see
the baby.)-"Ah, these bits or humanity are so
iran one cannot DC 700 tenucr OF tnem' LLlle
Girl-"Mamma and Mrs. Smith said yesterday
that you'd send for the doctor if your baby looked
as though it wanted to sneeze."
1t is reported that Warren Smith, the Halifax (N.
81 oarsman and the crew of his father in laws
vessel, who have been missing since the gale of
August 9th, have been rescued. The men are said
to have been picked up by Norwegian vessel and
carried to a South American port
west bound passenger train on the Erie
railroad was wrecked beyond Tarport station and
two cars thrown over. No one was killed, but
several passengers were badly injured. Scar cely
had the passengers recovered from the shock,
when coal train suddenly appeared and crashed
into the cars which were not overturned. Nearly
every passenger in the woman's car was injured.
Harry New, proprietor of the indianapolis
Journal, and John G. Thompson, editor of the
Wash ngton %. C.) Sunday Chronicle, had fight
In the street at Indianapolis Thursday evening in
which New struck Thompson two severe blows in
the face. Both were arrested for assault and
battery. The trouble arose out of articles written
and published by MIR. Thompson concerning
young New and his father, John z. New.
The Boston Traveller, speaking of the wonderful
OF the late Charles q. Hazewell, one of It's
editors says: ain his knowledge of history, ancient
and modern, he was surpassed by one of his
In this country or Europe. He
was walking encyclopedia of historical and
biographical knowledge, and with the literature of
the past and of his own age he was acquainted as
few men have been. He read much, and his
clear to the last, retained it ALL He once
SAID that he could repeat every line ofHawthorne's
Scarlet Letter."
A Wells River correspondent says; zone of the
most dise raceiul occurrences ever known in this
village occurred last Saturday night. VIM. q.
Buckingham, claiming to have a title to Mrs
Robert Bailey's house, went there when she was
absent, took aer furniture and dumped it in a pile
in the shed. stove, bed and bedding, clothing
pictures and all, in heap, breaking every thing
and when Mrs. Bailey came home he
assaulted her when she attempted to defend her
She is poor woman who supports
hei self by sewing she has been sick in bed ever