Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-09-23
Domestic Gmrpeu0,

they will have majority of the Legislature 1t is not
known that any Wing Senators are chosen unless a
part of the Kennebec delegation may have succeeded
MASSACHUSETTS,. 1t is stated that 100000
yards of cotton cloth are made at Lowell, every week.
amounting to 93,6O0,000 yards per year-enough to
extend twice around the entire world Sxty-fve
thousand bales of cotton are worked annually. OF
printed calico, there are 100000 yards per year..
In these manufactures one million of pounds of starch
are annually used.
The extent of water pipes now laid in Boston is a.
bout sixteen miles, of which nearly mile is pipe of
30 inches in diameter, and more than half mile, in
GLIDING the main pipe laid in Washington street is of
"a inches. The greater part of the residue is of II
and 6 inches. This is exclusive of the small pipes for
the supply of houses, which ON a considerable portion
of the line inserted in the main pipes, and lead to
the side walks thereby obviating the necessity of a
gain disturbing the pavement, when the water shall be
introduced.
NEW HAMPSHIRE A gentleman, says the
Journal who last evening received private letter from
Seabrook informs that fire occurred in that town
Tuesday night the 9TH inst, which entirely destroyed
the dwelling house and furniture of Major Samuel
George hero of the revolution and of the battle of
Bunker Hill, His housekeeper, Mrs Jane Dow, per-
ished in the flames, and her bones subsequently
found among the ruins.
NEW YORK. The city Amshouse commissions
purchased large quantity of ripe peaches on Tues
day morning. and gave the children of the Almshouse
sumptous feast. The number who participated
therein was one thousand and the happiness which
they seemed to enjoy was delightful in the extreme.
A Washington letter states that just before his
death, Hon. Silas Wright wrote letter to friend in
which he avowed determination not to be candid
ate for the Presidency.
The Second Advent people have commenced a
series of Tent Meetings on Arbor Ill., in Albany.
woman died Rochdae lately, after swallowing
in one day 264 of Morrisons pills
The Journal of Commerce states the number of pas.
sengers who have arrived at this port in the last eight
months, to be llG981 greater number by 1851 than
in the whole of 1916. In the remaining four months
of the present year, the number will be increased to an
aggregate of about 10000. If we add 100000 for
rivals at other ports and through the British domn-
ions, shall not be far from the truth, making the
total of immigration into United States from foreign
countries during the year 1917, quarter of million.
In Fowlerville Livingston CO., is old gentleman,
s? years of age, named Giles Lyman, who follows the
plough almost every day. and is as active and smart
as man of thirty.
The New York Express, speaking of Williams
burgh, receiving $1,000 for the SHE of rum licenses
says it cost that very town S27 800 the last year to
take care of her paupero. Will the taxpayers of
Vermont take warning by this little fact?
NEW JERSEY. Two men, father and son, by
the name of Campbell, were drowned in the Pas
sale, at Patterson, on Wednesday morning. On ac
count of disagreement, the father attempted tC
tlke the life of the SON. The latter escaped and ret
to ford the river. The father pursued and getting il
beyond their depth, both were drowned, as nethe
could swim.
The forests near Hoboken, are said to be filled will
wild pigeons in such numbers as to break down the
limbs upon which they rest. One marketman killet
300 on Monday before breakfast
PENNSYLVANIA. A writer in Hunts Mer
chants Magazine, estimates the supply of coal from th
anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, at 100000 tons
which, at 81 per ton, its average price at tide water
amounts in value to $ll2OO,OOO.
The Native American National Convention assem-
bled at Philadelphia Friday last, and at late hou
Of the night, by unanimous vote, recommended Gen
Taylor to the people of the United States as candi
date for the Presidency, and nominated Gen. H. A, S
Dearborn of Massachusetts, as candidate for the Vic
Presidency.
An extensive lead mine has been discovered abor
five miles northwest Of lancaster City.
One ton of silver bullion was stored in St. Lou
warehouse, recently. 1t belongs to Santa Fe Trader
and is on its way to Philadelphia to be converted int
legal currency.
ILLINOIS. The Peoria plpers state TINT sixty
thousand pounds of wool have been shipped from tina
place the past season.
meeting Of the Delegates to the Illinois Stat
Constitutional Convention, friendly to Gen. Taylor fl
President, was held on the Both August. The follow
ing resolution submitted
Resolved, That we, the undersigned, members of II
Illinois State Constitutional Convention, do, as ndiv
uas, nominate Gen. Zachary Taylor as a candida
for the next Presidency of the United States.
MICHIGAN. The single trade of Detroit amour
to 100000 annually. Upwards of 85OO0O0 feet
lumber made at the steam mills of that city al
100000 lath. There 800 mills in the State
Michigan, which make annually 272O0000C feet
lumber; which, at S. the thousand, the average prc
is worth $l,362,600 Immense capital is invested
pine lands. The mills in St. Clair county alone, whit
make 100000 feet per annum, own about 300
acres. The money INFESTED in this business is flu
half million of dollars, and the hands employed nun
Der 1000.
INDIANA. The Louisville Journal states til
Hon. George H. Pofit of Indiana, formerly Memb
of Congress from the Evansville District, and more
Gently Minister to Brazil died IN that city on the
inst.
MARYLAND. Eighty colored emigrants sail
from Baltimore for Liberia on the Sd inst They We
out in the vessel of the Colonization Society.
VIRGINIA.. A new Anti-Slavery Paper, call
the Crisis, is to be published at Moundsvle Westt
Virginia.