Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-02-21

road from Canton to Akron.
A wood saving humane institution is in opera
ton at Cincinnati. company of PhilanthrOPsts
purchase large quantity of woOd-it is slowed
away in a cOmmodious place, and all who want
work are employed as sawyers, the citizens then
purchase the wood.
MIcH-A resolution has passed the House by
a large majority, instructing their Senators to go
for immediate annexation. The resolution passed
the Senate unanimously, in six minutes and forty
FIVE seconds from the time it was reported by the
committee.
Hon. Lewis Cass has been elected u S. Sena
tor
IND.-The Legislature has recently chartered
two Roman Catholic institutions.
MIssoURI.-MARR1ED FOR JoKE.-A bill has
passed the Senate of Missouri, declaring the mar
riage of Congrave Warner and Elizabeth Crock
EFT, null and void. The parties were at wedding
& upon banter given, probably by thegentleman,
they mounted their horses and rode to a Justices,
where the the ceremony was performed. Upon
their return, and afterward, the lady insisted
that it YVES all joke, and refused to consider it
otherwise. The gentleman desired to stand up to
the joke, but the lady would not.
A bill has been introduced into the Missouri
Legislature, to secure more ehectually the propar-
ty of married women to guard the same
from being improvidently conveyed away by their
husbands or levied on for debts contracted by the
latter. Such law ought to exist and be enforced
rigdy in every State of the Union. 1t is IL crying
shame that industrious and virtuous wife should
be left the mercy of some besotted spenthrft or
heartless knave.-BaL. TisiiOr.
TENN.-We learn that the keeper of liquor
shop in Broad street yesterday, caused two little
boys, brothers, to drink raw whiskey for a trhng
wager, the consequence of which was, the death of
the two, and the stupifacton of the other, on the
spot.-Nashv.le Wing of jan so.
: LA magnificent Hall has been erected in N.
Orleans, gallery for the exhibition of pictures.
1t is already full
John, Powers, recently pardoned by Presi-
dent Tyler from the Kentucky penitentary, in
f which he was incarcerated for robbing the mail,
has been arrested at New Orleans, charged with
: abducting slave and committing forgery.
Y WIsCoNsIN.-The present number of Catholics
in the territory is 95 900. They have erected two
stone, nineteen frame, and four log churches
they are erecting seven more, 80 in all. 1t is
expected that a cathedral will he built at Milwau-
ke next SUMMERTIME cost will be 10000.
The number of Catholics in the U. S. is, ,06l,-
800
IowA.-There are now printed in this territory,
Iigous.
A mammoth hydro electrical machine, is being
constructed in England. for the U. S. government
1t is said it will be able to produce spark So inch
7 es,-to coat three thousand five hundred fee
of metallic surface, in battery Of 49 Leyder
. jars two feet HIGH by 10 inches in diameter
The shock will be sufficient to kill 100, men in al
% instant if it were passed through such chain
The cost will be $500. 1t will he shipped soon.
s The carriage and cabinet shop belonging to Capt
n Charles Richardson of Waterford, VT, was burn
ed on Sat. Feb. LIST. Loss $4,000 $1,000 insured
$. The Seminary boarding house at Bennington
was burned Feb. LIST.
IN The Congregational meeting House at Yves
il Brattleboro was consumed by fire the 81 inst
80 The appointment of Judge Nelson OF N. Y. a
r. one of the Judges of the U. S. Court, in place
Judge Thompson, was confirmed by the Senat
last week
The U. S. Court were divided in the case
"a Samuel Thurlow, plaintiff in error, vs.. the com
monwealth of Mass, as to the unconstitutonalit
, of the Mass. license law-the case is to be contir
ued to the next term.
ty AccIDENr.--Mr. Hart Allen. of Cabot, Will
Telling trees in wood lot near his house, last Mon
day, was severely injured by tree falling upo
ne his person. and brusng his left leg SO badly, tbs
<. ampntation above the knee became necessary
lie Star.
as FOUND DEAD.-On Thursday morning last, tn
body of Nathan Ball. of Concord, VT, was foun
N cold and stiff in the road, about mile froI
Concord Corner. He left the Corner for home
which he had nearly reached, between 8 and
IN, o'clock the previous evening. At the Corner !
of was in company, all, most Of the evening, wit
of man who had jug of rum, from which the
drank freely, as those who noticed their NOV emen
M supposed OF the verdict Of the Coroner we hay
not heard, but from the circumstances named
he us, it Dug ht to he, no doubt, come to has death
=. The uisitGtion Of" King Observation-Disclosures
10. AN EMBARRAssING QuEsTIoN.-A mar convc
ed of having successfully married three women,a
three living, land not divorced has Just been arres
10 ed in Baltimore But all embarrassing question
W, about to arise in the 1t has been dscovere
ID and proved that the is the sou of colored w
man, slave at Annapolis, and consequently
slGce himself, not subject to the law Now, h
~ marriage with these three Unite toomen accordir
TO this fact, is declared null and void by the Law
Il. ofMaryland. 1t seems, therefore, that no punis
-, ment can legally overtake him. Ifihe jury decit
|o' it thus, this conclusion will be the result-That
IT'S sLaue may commit ,Cith impuniy, crime for toh
of the social ta'oS punish tree man most SeUereyt
En-. Mirror.
mas GREAT VoYAGE.-The Magnolia arrived yt
hid terday, with thirty nine hundred barrels of sper
airs whale oil. She has been out twenty-five month
and brings clear profit to her owners of 81:
ris- OOO or SI5 OOO Canta;n Simmons and GOV
raj of her crew, are Vermonters, from Woo
cen stock. 1t takes the Green Mountain Boys
grappe with the leviathans of the deep.-[N
, OF Bedford Bulletin.