Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-09-30
Domestic GompGu6.


of Hon. Manly B. Townsend, of Washington CO. con-
tains $50 acres $50 of which are cleared. The pro-
duce of this farm for 1916 was 100 tons of hay 100
bushels of corn $50 of wheat 10 of buckwheat 1875 of
barley, $50 of OATS 400 of potatoes 400 of turnps and
Is bushels of beans making in all 1910 bushels and
100 tons of hay.
NEW HAMPSHIRE-Judge Woodbury., says the
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, will
no doubt be the Democratic nominee of the Baltimore
Convention, for President, and Mr.. Secretary Wake
of Mississippi for Vice President.
On Friday week. says the Manchester Messenger
at New Boston in this State, man named Clark shot
a boy while picking cherries in tree belonging to
another person. The boy eight years of age receiy
ed several shot in his head and body and fell to the
ground-when Clark with stone Jas we are informed)
pounded his head till he became senseless. The lad
continued in this state until the next Tuesday, when
partially recovering he related the circumstances of
the case as above. Clark is now in Amherst Jail
The ten hour law Of New Hampshire has given &C
cason for serious difficulties in the mills at Nashua,
from half to two thirds of the hands recently en-
ployed in which have been discharged because they
WOulu llOI waive IlBIllS COutIleu upon luClH ny
that law, and give their employers two hours more la
Dor per day for the pay than the law requires of
them.
Charles Young of Portland and Daniel .Noulton of
Dracut, Mass recently arrested at Lancaster I'M
der suspicion of having in their possession counterfeit
money. Upon examination $4,000 were found upon
their persons, being untrimmed and not signed The
bonb
is of sixty years and is doutless veteran in the
cause.
! MASSACHU SETTS.-We learn that upwards Of
eight thousand persons visited the Mechanics Fair at
Boston on Wednesday last.
MIR j. w. Sullivan advertses in the Springfield
newspapers that he will carry letters and newspapers
between Springfield and New York, free and he
promises to deliver them twelve hours in advance u
the mail Mr. Sullivan would find customers in this
quarter, should he wish to extend his business. And
he must Go large business in order to make it profit
able.
CONNECTICUT.-The citizens of Connecticut,
on the first Monday IN October are to vote upon the
proposed amendment to the Constitution allowing re
groes to vote
The Grand Jury summoned by the District Court
have indicted three persons concerned in running pri
vate mails.
NEW YORK,-SlLAs WRIGHT left an estate, it is
said, of but $4,000. That, if a fact is nober mon
ument than could be cut from marble
suspension bridge is going up at Niagara, and a
person has been sent to Philadelphia to confer with the
b,,;IJ &C n ,,;,, hid Eo;r,
The political friends of the late G,as fright, met
in county convention at Canton, have resolved to erect
a monument over his grave.
! Sentenced to be hanged-Mfs. Runkle, recently con-
viced ofthe murder of her husband has been sentenc
ed to be hanged at Utica on the 9Th of October;
Moses IL, Grinnell has been elected President of
the N York Chamber OF Commerce, in place of James
G. King, resigned.
The MnLERITEs have commenced preaching again
on the speedy coming of the Lord Jesus They
have large tent the site of Nblo's Garden, where
Elders Hines, Fitch, and others hold forth daily.
PENNSYLVANIA.-It is stated that the Reybo Id
family will net $4,000 from the sale of peaches in
the city of PHILADELPHIA this season. This is certain
ly pretty fair business transaction.
OHIO.-The (Cleveland) True Democrat says that
frederick Douglass is to start paper in Cleye-
land and make that city for the future, his head quar-
tiers,
The editor of the Clarion of Freedom, published at
Cambridge, Ohio says that he has been mobbed elev-
en- times, and even when he writing the article in
which the statement occus, stones, rotten eggs &c
were being thrown at his house from the vicinity of a
notorious grog-shop
TENNESSEE.-The Ohio Press soys:-"We
have ourselves heard Senator Jarnagn declare repeat
eddy, that if the abstract question were submitted to
the people of Tennessee tomorrow three fhS Of them
would vote for the abolition Of Slavery!
KENTUCKY-Th National Era says, that in
Kentucky, where the number of small Shareholders is
greater in poporto than in the Southern States there
are according to the auditors books, but 3 900 slave
holders, out of population of 275 900 whit over
twenty years Of age The estimate is not too low
which reckons the whole number Of slave owners at
= 100000. The total white population of the South,
over twentyone years of age must be at least $780,,
900 souls.
Mr.. Fleming Smith, revolutionary nero, died near
Tomknsvllle, Monroe county, in this state, on the
9th ult at the advanced age of 1902 years. months,
and % days,
l NORTH CAROLINA.-Col. Wilson, who recent
ly died of yellow fever at Vera Cruz wied $4,000
to be applied to the support of the poor in EdgecOmb
county
ALABAMA.-The new Capitol at Montgomery,
is said, will soon be finished, and ready for the
transfer of the State Government to it. The next
session Of the Legislature will of course, be held at
Montgomery.
p, VIRGINlA.-A New Ant-Slavery paper called
the Crisis it is said is to be established OF Mounds
vile, Western Virginia By private letter from a
friend in of the slave states west of the mountains
we understand that systematic and united movement
amongthe enemies of slavery in all that section of the
country is maturing. The Crisis is its first fruit God
: speed them.
MISSOURl.-A fine stone church was lately built
in Missouri nnon the facade IF which stone-cutter