Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-06
AUGUST.

The telegraph announces that the strik Ike
at Cincinnati is practically ended-an out
come which is good thing for all con-
cerned. Had the strike continued at least
$500 men would have been thrown out
OF employment for an indeinate period of
time and hundreds of thousands of dollars
would have been lost.
Rev. James Herrick, the veteran
missionary, with his wife, is at Brattle-
boro, having recently returned from their
station in Southern India after an absence
Of about 10 years. Mr.. and Mrs. Herrick
have devoted some IS years to the mis-
sionary work in India, and now come to
spend the remainder of their days with
their kindred.
Col. w. G.. Mitchell, U. S. A, who
died suddenly of pneumonia at Cover.
nors Island, May 30, will be remembered
By many as one of the bravest and best Of
Gen. Hancock's staff officers during the
war. Since the war he has remained with
Gen. Hancock, as his assistant adjutant-
general. He was a gallant and able
Off GER, and is universally lamented.
The passengers in the sleeping cars had
retired some halfhour since, and were
Just going off into their maps, when the
voice of woman was heard above the
noise of the cars and the rattle of the
TEMPEST. "How the wind blows!" it
exclaimed. Every passenger heard the
voice, gave q snort Of dissatisfaction and
turned over Just as everybody had got
half asleep, again came the plant, How
the wind blowsr' Again the snorts o
displeasure, and again each passeng ger
turned over. All was quiet for perhaps
ten minutes. Then third time came
the monotonous remark, How the wind
blows" An elderly gentleman in one oil
the centre berths stuck his head through
the drapery of his couch and eourteoasly
remarked MY dear madame, we are al
under great obligations to you for you'll
meteorological observations, but did yor
ever hear of wind that didn'nt blow?'
A suppressed exclamation meanderet
through the car and then all was quiet
Boston Transcript
A GRAPHIC BUT EXAGGERATED DE
sCRIPTroN.-Tha following interesting
Description of q surprising cataract il
the great River Connecticut" is taker
. from the Worcester Gazette of April %
1871, and is from the pen of IAN English
man The point described is the rapid
at Bellows alls:-Two hundred mile,
, from the sound is narrow of five yard
, only, formed of two shelving mountain
Of solid rock. Through this chasm ar
compelled to pass all the waters which il
time of floods bury the northern country
Here the water is consolidated withou
frost. by pressure, by swiftness, between
} the pinching sturdy rocks, to such
degree of induration, that no iron croy
can be forced into 1t; here iron, lead an
cork, have one common weight; her
} steady as time and harder than marbl
t the stream passes irresistible, if not swift
! as lightning. The electric fire reuds tree
to pieces with no greater ease than doe
: the mighty water. The passage is abou
, 400 yards in length, OF a zlgzag foru
with obtuse corners. At high water ar
, carried through this straight masts ant
other timhers with incredible swiftness
, and sometimes with safety; but wher
J the water is too low, the masts, timbe
and trees strike one side or the other. an,
/ are rent in a moment, shivered an,
splintered like a broom, to the amusemen
of spectators.