Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-10

Connecticut and Pass,umsic Rivers Railroads. .Messrs
E. Gilmore Co. have taken the contract for grading,
bridging and masonry upon that part Of the Wells
River division which lies between the southerly point
of Sawyers mountain in Fairec and Peters point,
north Of Watts River in Bradford Parties were up
on the line last week erecting shantes and excavations
were to be commenced on Monday last qiedonian.
Montreal Railroad Proposals for the grading aud
masonry of this road for the twentyfour miles between
Concord and Meredith Bridge have been issued.
Cunt Publish THem The editors OF the Washing
ton Union and the National nelligenccr give notice
that hereafter they shall not be able to report and pub
fish at length i'll their paper the speeches of mem
BEES Of Congress at their own expense. Pc fecty
right in more respects than one. Members will moi
make so many speeches 'to Buncomb,' if they are
compelled to pay Tor their reporting and publication
which will considerably shorten the sessions 5ait
Sun.
Crops in the West, A gentleman just returned frou
Ohio and Indiana, says the Corn crop is almost an en-
tire failure in both these States The wheat crop is
good, though in many places it is much shrunk, espe
cially so in Wisconsin.
0~{9Somc one has defined the word policy t.
consist in serving God in manner not to offend Sa
tan.
w AL ilSI pdJNI SdlSj uldl IL IS all lHIdllOlt
criterion far it goes Of good inn, to see cleal
mustard pot. II that be in good order, you may b,
that the beds well aired, the sheets Clean ant
all the etceteras properly looked after,
Education IN Turkey. Education is proceeding il
Turkey with giant strides. Twenty thousand schools
are to be forthwith established throughout the country
and Normal school for teahcers is to be instituted
Constantlnople.
a Thousand Miles IN Thousand Hows.-Josal
Eaton, the old man, rs years of age, who has beer
walking his mile an hour for thousand consecutive
hours, at the Caledonia Springs, Canada finished hi
task on Wednesday noon, the 26th of Aug, amidst thu
shouts of multitudes who assembled to witness thu
completion of the feat. The principal complaint Of
the old man was want of sleep.
Gorsrnor- General Of CanadtL-The Montreal Ga
zette announces upon authority, that Lord Cathcart'
recall has been received The Gazette has no intima-
ton as to his Lordship's successor.
Methodist Episcopal Church, So,dh-From stats
teal table of the NJ. Il. Church. South, we perceive
they have fifteen Annual Conferences The numbe
of church members is 458292 of whom 49, ,265 arc
coored, and 3, 1866 Indians There are also Az
tinerant ministers. The increase of members the
past year is Ii ;4S.
A late writer says, that if you would have an idea
tHO OCOuh III Stoilh ltll lllOdSdHu
and four thousand mountains, all drunk, and chasing
one another over newly poughed ground, with lots
caverns in it for them to stoop into now and then.
concert in the open air was recently given in Par
is at which there eighteen hundred musicians al
playing at once. They must have made great noise
if nothing more.
Gen. Gaines, on Wednesday, paid the President
visit at the White House.
1t is reported in the European journals that steam
boat containing 600 troops, was sunk between Ame
ria and Barcelona, and all excepting two of the com
pany were drowned.
A boy was asked, Does the leopard change hi;
spots Oh yes, when he is tired of one spot he goes
to another
In SALISBURY, VT, on the Odd Aug, Patrick Moran
native Of Ireland engaged in the bed, was in thu
well, and some one above was drawing barrel of wa
ter from the bed when the chain broke and the barre
struck him upon the head-from which he died. HI
was about 30 years of age, and has left wife and tw
children.