Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-05-27
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MAlNE.-On Saturday, the counting committee of
the Maine Legislature reported that the whole number
of votes thrown for Governor at the September cleo
ton was 75,S43 John W. Dana, democrat, had 81 ,843
David Bronson, wing, 29545; Samuel Fessenden, Abb
clifton, 94lS and 69 votes were cast for irregular and
scattering candidates The votes in the House of Re-
representatives., upon sending up to the Senate two of
the four highest candidates. stood, upon test vote,
Dana u.s. Bronson57; Fessenden9. Messrs Dana and
Bronson selected as the candidates, and the SEN
ate elected John w. Dana Governor by a vote of "a
to 4. The Senate had previously been organised by
the choice of Mr. Hodgdon of Aroostook, as President
ard Thomas ]. Hobbs as Assistant Secretary
NEW HAMPSHIRE.-It appears, says the ~ H.
Sentinel that in our good county of Cheshire seventeen
of twenty-five towns have chosen seectmen who re-
fuse licenses for the sale of intoxicating drinks.
MASSACHUSETTS, witnessed sight
day or two snce which illustrates the perfection to
which the mechanic arts have arrived. 1t was no less
than thirty dozen Of well formed spoons contained in
cherry stone of ordinary size, and manufactured by
Mr.. j. F. EIodgkins, Pleasant Observation-Disclosures
.4dv
Frederick Douglass, the fugitive slave, recently
from Europe is about to start paper in the city of
Boston, The printing materials are now on the way
from Scotland.
The license question in Boston, is decided by the
casting vote of the Mayor that there shall be no Ii
censed sale of intoxicating drinks in Boston the pres
ent year.
RHODE ISLAND.--The Republican Herald, pub
lished at Providence R. l.. says:
"We understand that there was not single barrel
of flour for sale in this city on Thursday, May 3D. if
this is a fact it is Unprecedented"
NEW YORK.--.New York legislature ad ourned on
Wednesday, after long session, during which :hey
have passed about three hundred laws of various kinds
good, bad and Indifferent Or the last day of the SEES
sion, the Senate by vote of 25 to g repealed the IL
cense law of the State.
There arrived at New York on Thursday and Fri
day of last week, the extraordinary number of 300
emgrant passengers; 3i00 from Liverpool and London
and 300 from Hlvre; large number of them sick with
ship fever,
A young lady at Chicopee Falls was arrested tried
and fined three dollars and coast few days since
for stealing a comfortable from bed where she board
ed-which she had converted into bustie'
Our sheriff informs us that the Jail of this county is
now without prisonerhe last and only one having left
on Saturday. This speaks well 70 the morality of our
county. We hope the Jail may long continue like a
drunkards pocket-empty.- Wyoming .Nslc Yorker.
A company is about to be chartered in New York
for Building Houses for the pool.
PENNSYLV Mack, a runaway slave
from Maryland, was arrested in Philadelphia and re.
QUESTION made for him fugitive from justice
The attorney general of Pennsylvania has finally given
his opinion that Mack must be discharged because the
act of Maryland of 1888 declaring every escaping
slave guilty of felony has no force in Pennsylvania
Had he been demanded as fugitive from labor, he
would have been given up.
Tract Distributor, in Philadelphia, has been bound
over in the sum of 5000 for his future good behavior
for disturbing the peace by standing on the Sabbath
in front of the Unversalst Church. Callowhill street
and distributing tracts thereby gathering crowd a
round him to the great inconvenience of those going
in and out the church.
IOWA.-The Burlington Hawkeye says, that as ia
heard from, "All the counties have given decided
vote against granting licenses to retail intoxicating
drink" In the county of Des Moines, the majority
geinst King Alcohol, was about 30O
Il OHIO.-A Western Reserve paper copying the
Cincinnati Commercial article on the manufacture BY
Homes of shoe pegs, says, at will asonlsh our read
ers to learn that in Cincinnati pigs made by steam
being turned out at the rate of $4,000 minute" NJ
doubt it would
The Daughter-ia-la,o Of Gen. Harrison, who presid
ed at the White House during the brief period of hi
Presidency died at Cincinnati on the 10th inst, in tn
forty-thrd year of her age.
} Some of our contemporaries have already expressed
the opinion that SO large portion of wheat in The
ground has been winter killed that there is danger