Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-25
Domestic COmpend.

vevor General of Lumber for this county, that the a.
mount of lumber surveyed the past business season IN
this city is one hundred seventy one millions seven
hundred and thirty-ei6ht thousand, eight hundred and
three feet-171,7 3S,sO3 feet This is between iOHy
and fifty million feet over the last, or any previous year.
Bangor Whigl
N. H.-ALibsrty State Convention is to be holden
at Concord on the 9Th of next month. The Liberty
cause seems to be onward in this State. Lewis Clark
one If the Kentucky fugitives is laboring there.
The waste house of Messrs Peabody & Daniels,
raner makers, at franklin was burned to the ground
last Friday morning. Loss, about $4,000, insurance,
$780,.
A Company from Concord recently took ten fine
deer on the White Mountains.
Nissan outrageous case of lynching occurred at
Amherst a few days since. A man, whose only crime
appeared to be, that he had been to States prison one
year, and was counting a young woman, was taken by
a gang of 80 or 40, II of them church members, strip
ped, rode 8 miles ont rail, cruelty whipped, tarred and
feathered, and left half dead! The rioters were fined
from 81 to 2 apiece, and discharged!
A man named Banning, lately killed upon the East
ern Railroad near kowIey, was buried in a box with
all his clothes on, and without any funeral services
altho' money enough was found on his person to have
paid all proper expenses and sent a message to his
friends! Barbarous!
A meeting was holden in Boston on the 9th inst, to
devise means for the relief of the poor in Ireland
Spirited resolutions were adopted, and $75O,0O sub
scribed.
A pedler was waylaid, robbed, and nearly killed, in
D.1aou n farr Jo1e e;nco Robbers mt vt taken
Albert J. Terril, the murderer of Maria A. Bickford,
in Boston, has been arrested in New Orleans.
Ralph w. Emerson, and Charles Sumner, have de-
clined addressing the New Bedford Lyceum, because
colored citizens of the town were excluded
N. Y.-3OO sheep were lost in Rome recently, by
breaking through the ice on a pond.
The Knickerbocker says that a young man in that
city lately advertised for a wife, and in less than two
hours, eighteen married men sent word that he might
have theirs.
The town of NORWAY, which gave at the recent elect
ion but 1872 votes, turns out 397 signatures to our anti
Texas remonstrances.
Three children, under twelve years of age, were
found in New York on one of the cold nights of last
week, sleeping upon a box, having no parents or home
to 60 to.
A farmer from Rensselaer, Co. recently lost a fine
span of horses, worth $500, and a load of pork, by
breaking through the ice.
A brick machine has been invented by Mr.. Hall, of
Coxackie, with which one person can mould $4,000
brick in a day, which are said to be superior to those
madsby hand.
CoN.-2,262 clocks were shipped from New Haven
for Philadelphia on Friday of last week.
TaNN.-The Knoxville Register announces the
marriage, in Jefferson Co., of Mr.. Frederick Pulse, a.
ged D2 years, to Mrs. Dorcas Mannon, aged 81.
A pmarkable Pulsation!
t4e were 3 inches Of snow at Memphis on the
5th inst.
VA-Wm. Smith, Esq. of Fauquier, was elected
Gov. of the State by the Gen. Assembly on Wednes-
day Of last week. Majority over all others, %.
IAN Education Convention recently assembled at
Richmond. Gov. Nc Dowell presided.
LA.-A wretch named Joseph Louapre, of New Or
leans, recently whipped his slave so severely that he
died of lockjaw, 1t was proved that near 300 lashes
were given him.
Mr.. Elisha B~lackman, the last of the defenders of
Wyoming at the massacre of Bird July, 177S, died on
Thursday last, at his residence in Luzerne county.
Icicles a foot long have appeared at New Orleans.
The weather there is represented as being extraordi-
nary severe.
ALA.-Wm. Morris has been sentenced to the pen
%itentiary for thirty years, for enticing slaves away to a
free Stae.
The legislature assembled at Tuscaloosa on the 18th
inst. Bob houses are strongly democratic.
The sheriff of Cherokee Co. was shot dead recently
by a man whom he had arrested.
N. CA judge has decided that bowling, or speak
ing three times to a girl, is equivalent to an engage
ment; and that the lady, if the gentleman does not pop
the question, can sue and recover damages.
KY-Small Pox prevails SO alarmingly in Hender-
son, that courts cannot be held, owing to the absence
of jurors from apprehension of the epidemic.
A woman recently died aged ITO years.
lLL.-The Temple of the mormons, with all their
buildings, lands, and possessions, have departed, by
virtue of a contract, from their control. The represen-
tative of the Catholic churchin Cincinnati has purchas-
ed the entire city of Nauvoo, and will take possession
in the spring.
OHo.-The Presidents Message was expressed, by
horses, from Wheeling to Cincinnati, a distance of25O
miles, in Is hours and as minutes.
PENN.-Ths Odd Fellows Lodge at Pittsburgh was
recently burnt, with all its SPLENDID regalia.
DEL.-The Odd Fellows Hall at Smyrna was re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
FLORIDA" Mrs. Jane Paramour, says a cores
pondent writing from Florida, has a tree now ten years
old, which produced this season 200O, or ten bushels
of oranges, of very fine flavor and good size, worth G.
IA cents each, or 500 so.
The st. Augustine Herald of Dec. I'd, says that ac-
counts from Middle Florida make the cotton crop of
this year equal to twice that of the last. A profitable
crop has also been obtained from the sugar cane.
The 10 inst. was thanksgiving day in this State.
.Mo.-The mother and brother Of Mrs. Amos Ken