Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-05-16

The wife OF Senator Fair of Nevada
obtained her divorce on Saturday and was
allowed 1890, 900 in money and United
S,atess bonds. the family residence in San
Francisco and also the custody OF three
minor children, Virginia Thresa, Alice
and Charley. The custody of the eldest
roy, James Fair, Jr., was awarded to the
defendant.
\ little y year old girl in Kno1v lille
Iowa, was frightened to death BY severe
thunder storm a few nights ago. She had
been quite we'll the day before, but awoke
during the storm and besought her mother
to axe her to bed, "for she WAS afraid of
thunder Her supplications were IN
heeded and soon the mother was aroused
by the childs difficult breathing. Ap.
preaching the bed with lgat, she found
her dying, and in a few moments she
breethed her last.
Prof Richard Greener the accomplished
CO, r d scholar, wants to be counted ,out OF
! the negro convention, which is called to
meet at Washington, next September, 10
I demand more rights for the black man
! han he gers nov. This convention, the
professor SAYS. is called by men who want
IN Office, and who believe the country
ought to be run to furnish offices on the
race quota, and he wants them squelched
I'VE want SAYS he, some common
sense, not conventions
The trustees OF Columbia college. who
recently declined TO admit women students
within its walls, now announce that the
college will institute preparatory tests for
women similar 10 freshman examinations
for men, prescribe lines Of study, conduct
other examinations, in writing, iand will
Al the end OF four years course give
appropriate certificates. The students,
however, must find their own places for
their own teachers. for the college will
give them no instruction.
Work has again been resumed on the
Washington monument. The shaft has
now reached the height of $40 feet, and
when completed il will be 555 feet high.
800 fee: OF stone and 50 feet OF glass
It is claimed that the monument will be
the highest structure ever erected by man,
as far as known. The Srasbure Cattle
dral towers TO the height Of 46S feet, and
St. Peter At Rome AS; the spire of the
Cathedral Of Cologne rises TO 5ll feet, and
he highes. OF the pyramids was but $50
| feet high when it was first Quilt, Hence
| it appears that when. as it was expected,
he Washington monument is completed,
ia December, 1885, its topmost poin. will
| De some forty four feet higher than any
| other artificial elevation.
Edison is going to build real railroad,
and run it BY electric motor power. The
Electric Railway company OF the United
SAFES, with capital of S2,00O.0O0 has
iled articles Of incorporation. It owns
he patents of Thomas A Edison and
Stephen D, Field for electric railways in
tue United States, and it also takes title
TO Mr.. EIison's railway TO Menlo Park.
three miles in the direction of Plainfeld,
which has been running since lasl
Summer. Two passenger cars have been
run on this road, carrying thirty passen.
gers on one trip. Edison proposes to
Guild electric locomotives that will haul
The heaviest freight trains. But the
new company proposes an interesting
le:t OF the new motor. 1t has made
arrangements 10 put one of the new
electric engines on the elevated road.
The plan is 20 use the rails as conductors
The locomotives will be a moving dyna.
mo. The electricity will be picked I'D
from the track. This will be an interest
lng experiment, and the result soon may
De total revolution in the business OF
running railroad trains.
Messrs. Pailiser. Palliser & Co.. of
Bridgeport, CT. the we'll known srchi
tec,s and publishers of standard works on
architecture. have lately issued sheet
containing plans and specifications of
very tasteful modern eight room cottage
with tower, and also with the necessary
notifications for building it without the
tower, and with but six rooms if desired
In its most costly form. the outlay is
estimated at So 900; without the tower
it has been built for g. 900; and if only
six rooms are included, the cost may be
reduced tc $l,100 or 81 600. Details are
given OF mantels, stairs, doors and cas-
ings. cornices etc. The publishers have
+ und il The most popular plan they have
ever issued, and s,se that it has been
adoped in more than five hundred in
stances within their knowledge. The
same firm issue specifications in blank
adapted tor frame or brick buildings of
any cost; also forms OF building contract,
and several books on modern inexpen.
sIve, artistic cottage plans which are of
great practical value and convenience to
everyone interested.
To the question what is nihlism? the
a1thor Ct Underground Russia" has a
comprehensive answer. From 1860 to
$50 it was philosophical and literary
movement which turned the educated
classes into materialists and secured for
women equal rights with man in civil law
and in education. Since then it hs, be.
come phase of Socialism, and its leaders
desire freedom of speech andfr @ e.
dom Of the press in order that they
may propagate their views. II this free
dom is conced d, together with such
political rights as will enable the people
to guard it, the NIhilists offer 10 abandon
their present policy of terror and content
themselves with peaceful weapons They
assert that the rulers of Russia, including
I in this phase the Gar and the official
class, have no community of interest with
the mass OF the Nation, which sympa-
I thizes with their aims as far as it under.
stands them, and that they have done
nothing more than proclaim aloud. amid
the reports and flames Of their explosions,
what everybody either thought or whis.
pered with hesitating and timid voice
amid delnge OF aduIation and genera
compulsory reticence.