Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-02-05
Domestic COmpend.

Senator Jenness has been obliged to leave Washing
sickness a day or two in Boston
The Small Pox has broken out in Goshen Three
families have been visited with it.
John B. Gibson, has been sentenced to three days
solitary and twenty years confinement in the State
prison, for setting fire to barn in that tow last Sep
TENDER.
MAss.-The exports of ice from Boston in the last
seven months amount to &c. 276 tons. 1t sent all O.
yer the world
There girl in Leominster, only twelve years of
age who weighs upwards of 800 pounds.
The number of vessels built in Boston in 1915 is al,
averaging 3O8 10 tons the aggregate of tonnage being
1854.
There are thirty applicants for railroads before the
Legislature.
A young woman, on the 10th of January, walked
from North Haven to Meriden, distance of twelve
miles, after nine o'clock inthe evening. gentleman
offered $500 for the task. She accordingly started a.
bout quarter past nine in the evening, and arrived at
North-Haven at two o'clock Monday morning, having
travelled five hours on one of the coolest nights of the
season, in an unbroken path of snow.
N. Y.-The New York Sun says twenty or thirty
bodies per day can scarcely supply the demand for
the six or seven hundred medical students now in that
city.
A man was recently sentenced to months impris
onment in Onondaga Co., for cruelty to his horses.
A Mr.. Chase, of Buffalo, was recently arrested ard
fined $50 for giving lectures physiology Phrenology
and patriotism at Erie.
Since copying the above, friend has handed us
copy of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser contain
ing full account of the above transaction, 1t appears
that the Mr.. Chase alluded to, is Prof c. s. Chase,
who favored us last year with series of interesting
lectures and experiments upon the same subject. 1t
appears that Mr. c. delivering course of lectures
at Ere to the general acceptance of the people, when
few grumblers, las there are some in every place.
hunted up old law of the borough which prohibited
under the penalty of $780, the practise of plays or feas
of juglery, without license-and alledgng that this
law had been violated had Mr.. C. arrested and after
trial of whole day, he was gravely convicted and
sentenced pay the fne 1t is due to the citizens Of
the place. however, to add that through their nterer-
ence the fine RENTED
Mrs. Van Valkinburgh has been convicted of the
murder of her husband, in Fulton county
Elizabeth Van Valkenburg, who was convicted for
the murder of her husband was executed in the yard
belonging to the common Jail of Fulton CO., in pres
ence of some hundred witnesses on Saturday the oath
inst, at 8 o'clock, P. NJ
MrCH-The assessed value of property, amounts to
about $28,OOO,OOO.
PA.-The whole debt of the State domestic and for
egn, is $4O9s6,303
Mr. Armstrong forbade the Rev. M. Hall to baptise
his daughter, threanng to shoot him if he did So she
being about II years af age He did baptise her and
the father was bound over to keep the peace but the
minister was sentenced to pay the costs on the ground
that he had no right to administer any religious rite to
the daughter against the wishes of her father. She
being mnoI,
WIscoNsIN.-A person went into store at Mill
waukie to see the owner-a tin box lay open on the
counter and he could not resist taking handful Of
notes, $780, and left the store unseen But his con-
science so smote him that be revealed the affair to the
Catholic Bishop Henni who restored the money, but
concealed the name Of the prit The store keeper
gave the Bishop $50 to be applied in charity.
Omo.-The captured Ohioans, whose case is to be
decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia. have been
discharged on bail, $50.
mother in Cincinnati on stepping into the street a
few moments had her babe stolen from the cradle and
all search for it has proved fiuitess.
A bill to suppress gambling has passed the Ohio
House of Representatives, having previously passed
the Senate tits very stringent measure, and il
faithfully enforced, must suppress the vice to great
extent in that State.
MD.-This State has expended according to the re
of the Treasurer $14795O in transporting free people
of color to Liberia.
A prominent ,ohig in the Maryland legislature ha
introduced resolutions declaring the Saturday Visiter
mild anti-savery paper of Baltimore, nuisance, ant
taking measures for its suppression Another Lexing
ton affair, perhaps.
ARKANsAs-A terrible murder was committed g
Hickory Ridge, on the 22d ult by young man, upo
the person of Mrs. Nichols nd her two infant chill
dren. No provocation is given The fend, ate
breaking the scul of the mother and the two chldre
because they waked ravshed the mother and then flee
Suspicion fell upon him-he was arrested, confesse
the crime, and preparations were made by the nfuriO
ted popuace to burn him ave-but after the fire wa
kinded, their hearts reened, and he was hung upo
the gate post!
LA.-Henry Clay reached New Orleans on the 13t
inst, on his way, probably, to Cuba.
s KY.-The first band of EN- igrants from this Stat
to the colony of Kentucky in Liberia, were sent out
t the Goth ult, consisting of 20 men, 6 women and
It children. public meeting was holdcn at which M
Cowan gave address to the free coIored people Sc
ting forth the advantages of Colonization ;aer which
statement of the prosperous condition of the colon
of blacks in Canada, prepared by colored man VIII
had visited it, was read This last must have been ed
flying to the shareholders.
}, MIss.-The election of Gen. Henry S. Foote an
Il Joseph w. Chalmers, ESQ., as U. S. Senators for tn
t. State of Misssspp-the first for six years from tn