Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-08


is increasing. In England over 1000
bicycles are used In the mail service, and
there are at least 100000 English wheel
men.
William Masters, who recently died at
Maidstone, is said to have been born In
Andover, Mass, in 1872. being thus II
at his death. He has lived at Plainfield
and East STAFFORD, N. H., where he was
a blacksmith, most of his life.
Another lot of 20 Italians arrived from
New York last week for Gallup & Hawley,
the contractors of the Lamoille Valley
Extension railroad. This makes over
100 Italians at work on this road. 1t Is
said without them 1t would have been
difficult to have completed the road this
season.
The relations between the black and
white are satisfactory. The colored people
are accumulating something, and many
are buying little homes and improving
them. As they do this they are becoming
better citizens, interested in preserving
the peace and in Furnishing crime. l
doubt whether their labor has improved,
and it is problem whether it ever will
Wade Hampton.
Iowa papers are lamenting the destruc.
ton of thousands of soft maple trees in
that state by the recent storm. In Des
Moines, from the scarcity OF trees, the soft
maple has been universally adopted as an
ornamental or shade tree because of the
rapidity of its growth, and many of them
were ruined and the streets were Uttered
with their broken branches.
CENTURY.-A paper on Cape Cod will
be the opening article of the September
Century. Those whose knowledge of the
cape is limited to lis whimsical appear
ancc on the map. suggesting barren
strip Of storm-swept sand. will learn from
the numerous engravings and the interest.
ing text that Cape Cod is land of green
fields, groves, game, birds, and romance,
as well as as dunes and fish. The writer
(whose signature, "F. MITCHELL" conceals
IL writer of New England stories) dwells
with special interest on the honest peculi-
arties of the inhabitants.
The Brattleboro asylum trustees have
determined to raise the roof, and build
out dormers. to their central building, so
as to enlarge and reGnish their chapel.
Two additional stair cases will also be put
in. The idea is to make the chapel ad
equate for the religious services and
amusements of the institution. DR.. L. e.
Butler, one of the asylum supervisors,
who has given a good deal of study to
problems of insane treatment, asserts that
the Brattleboro institution is in the very
van of those in America, and that with its
present system and improvements. it has
made itselfe equal to all that medical science
now knows of its duties.
1t was the custom of Litta to 90 to the
groves 10 hear the birds sing. Her
soul of melody sought melody every
where. She took lessons and the
feathered songsters were her teachers
She would sometimes analytic the song
into lis various notes. At other times she
would drink in the whole song and be
charmed by the music. The beauty of the
absolute came through the chorus of the
trees 10 her beautiful soul. You who
heard her sing did not know why it was
that she sang so much like a bird. 1t
was becaure she was with the birds so
much and learned of them so WE'LL
Rev Mr.. Iglehart's funeral Grafton on
Liha.
Prof. Randolph Virchow, who is prob
ably the most eminent physician and sur
geon in Germany, has taken sturdy
stand against the professional conceil
which wants people saved "our way or
not at all. He was sick last winter and
an apothecary sent him box of pills
which largely contributed to his cure
The professor wrote a grateful letter of
thanks, and the pill maker. with tho bust
ness shrewdness of his class, printed it,
without the writer's knowledge. The
society of German physicians charged
Prof. Virchow with violating a rule of the
and he thereupon left it in
disgust. Meanwhile the pill vender is
doubtless making his fortune.
AN INSANE MURDEREss CAUGHT
Mrs. Mary Abare. who killed her husband
in Peru thursday morning, gave hers elf
up Saturday morning, after wandering in
the woods two nights and two days, bare
headed and bare footed. A large force of
men had been searching for her, but
without success. She was brought to
Pittsburgh Saturday noon and committed
to Jail. She is about SO years of age,
was well dressed. and conversed freely
in regard to the dreadful tragedy. She
admits striking her husband with case
knife, but insists that her husband had
abused her since last fall, using every
fn for har ha
stand it no longer. AS soon as she alludes
10 her troubles her arrangement is plain
ly apparent. Her neighbors in Peru
report many instances of insane conduct
in the past, and it is reported physician
the woman insane several
months since. The murdered man leaves
a family of four children, the eldest only
seven years old.-1roy Times.
The habit of smoking cigars and ciga-
rettes is said TO be growing among the
young women of New York. There is
store on Fourteenth street where tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes are sold to women
} My and sent to the house in wrappers
similar to those which are put around dry
goods. In the fashionable boarding
schools which are resOrted to by the
wealthy girls of New York smoking is
'aid to be quite common in spite of rules
against it. One girl at Vassar had lot
Maillard's candies, three boxes of cigarettes
, box of cakes and three bottles of cham
oagne-all of which are "tabooed"-
o her by her younger sister, who had
hem packed in the interior of cabinet
organ that was sent to ornament the
young lady's room at the college. The
back of the organ was unscrewed and the
forbidden articles were packed therein.
Another girl went to Fort Plain seminary
up the Hudson. When one of her conf
lential friends sent her an embroidered
Easy chair she ripped the lining loose at
he back and found the cigarettes she had
tent for-40 packages-for herself and
riends.
1t is difficult to say just at what point in
he river the Thousand Islands begin and
where they end. Clayton, at the upper
md of the Utica & Black River railroad
s commonly called the beginning. From
Alvord's island, off Clayton, the islands
lot the river for many miles, nearly down
o Ogdensburg. Indeed some of the
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