Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
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N. H.-Mr. Walter, blacksmith of Alstead went out
on Sunday evening with his wife, and on returning
found his house on fire, and three children smothered
to death. On the same evening, Mr.. Asa Marsh's barn
was burnt by an incendisry. Loss, $1,000 insured,
$500.
Another attempt to elect a representative in New
Hampshire is to be made on Saturday next.
MAss.-A man was saved from the gallows in Bos-
ton, las week, by a singular method. He had injured
a poor girl, and the crime was punishable by DEATH
But on the morning of the trial, the attorney general
rose and informed the court that he was unable to make
out his case, for the girl had just become the wife of
the prisoner, and thus rendered herself incapable Of
t~estifying against him.
Massachusetts has a hundred millions invested in
manufactures, and her commerce growing out of these
manufactures is immense. Her exports to foreign ma
tons and to the different States, amount to one hun
bred and twenty millions.
Hon. Thomas Davis, ex-mayor of Boston, died at his
residence in B~rooklne, on Saturday last, after a severe
illness of several months.
I' 1'-LLC AAApdHJ evening Oui iul Htui eHV
official returns of the census recently taken of the State
Of New York. The entire population, it appears, So
600,373-of which 1,313,335 are males, and 1,297,O0O
are females; an excess of males over females of 1921.
The number of voters $4,000. The increase since
1910 is 179,453, or $500 per annum. About half of
the whole increase has been in the cities of New York,
Brookline and WILLIAMSBURG.
Returns from all the counties in the State give the
following results; senate, dem. IS; wings, 6; natives !;
assembly, Dem. "a; wings 50; anti rent 2,
wv seats to be contested.
A man driving a load of hay into New York on
Thursday, was smoking his pipe, by which the hay was
set on fire and entirely consumed. Oh! the beauties of
the pipe!
An extensive fire occurred at Sag Harbor on Sunday
evening. A bank, two public houses and nearly one
hundred dwellings were destroyed.
The Delavan House at Albany, kept by Mr.. Rogers,
formerly of this city, has been crowded with visitors
since its opening, and is acknowledged by all to be
the very best hotel in the city, Boston paper.
The losses by the fire of July 10Th, in New York has
been so far investigated as to show that they amount
to over an aggregate ofseven millions of dollars.
MICH.-The democratic government has been chos-
en- by some two thousand majority. The wings have
carried three or four senators. The House is about
33 dem. to 90 wing. We have no returns of the Lib
erty vote.
A little girl, about eight years of age, daughter of a
widow lady, residing about eight miles from Lapeer,
Michigan, was frightened in such a manner that she
died in about two hours after the fright. Her brother,
a small lad, dressed himself in a dried bear skin, and
chased her as she was going to a neighboring house.
PA.-Andrew Snyder, a soldier of the revolution,
died IN Lancaster county aged one hundred and thir-
teen years, very much respected, and the oldest man
in the State.
A convention for the abolition of capital punishment
is in session at Philadelphia. Horace Greeley, Esq. of
New York, is a prominent member of the convention
IA.-The jail at Frankfort was set on fire by a pris-
oner Ia BOY of 18, the only tenant of the %building,) on
the 9th inst, and consumed, together with its wretchod
inmate.
WIseoNsIN.-Tle new Legislature comprises only
six wings, viz. a in the House and 2 in the Council
The Council comprises 10 members; the House &c.
lila prisoner by the name Of Kelly, in Wells
county Jail, being unwell last week, was not confined
to his cell. He got possession Of the sheriff's key to
the desk, stole $3.50 in money, the sheriff's horse and
wagon and d%ecampe1. After driving some sixteen
miles, his horse became frightened, broke the wagon
to pieces, and injured the thief 50 badly that he was
retaken a d carried back to his old quarters.
From fifty to sixty thousand pounds weight of lead
mineral have been raised, by eight miners, in one day,
in Illinois. The mineral sold at 1922 per thousand.
KY.-A writer from Kentucky, to the Cincinnati
Herald, says that the mob has more than trebled c.
NJ. Clay's subscription list in his region. He stated
that one STAKEHOLDER in his town has recently omanci-
pated his twelve slaves, and another eight, making
twenty cases Of emancipation in one day. Mobocracy
should remember that "the blood of the martyrs is the
seed of the church."
AL.-The roll of attorneys in Alabama contains
seven hundred names. The Mobile Herald, in max
ting a calculation of the cost of law to the people of
that State, supposes each of these a%ttornies to receive
on an average $4,000 per annum.
Mark Caesar, the colored man against whom thirty
six indictments have been found by the grand jury of
Charles county court, for Instruction, was tried last
week upon ten ofthem and found guilty. He was then
sentenced to the penitentiary for four years upon each,
making the whole term of his Imprisonment forty years.
He is about thirty seven years old, and should he serve
out his term, will then be seventy seven years ole.
LA.--A Mr.. Bradley Pease died some months since
in Louisiana, leaving about $4,000 for which there is
no claimant. He is said to have been from Vermont,
and has u sister living near Lake Champlain. Ifthe
heirs don't get the money, the State will.
From the Bay State Democrat, BoSton-NoU. 4, 1874.
REMEDIES.