Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-12-09
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MAINE.-Berwck one of the oldest towns in the
State of Maine, and numbering some thousand inhab-
tants has not at the present time, either lawyer phys
cian or clergyman, residing within its limits.
A company of wealthy capitalists, principally from
Boston, have purchased the falls at Lewiston, and from
600 to 700 acres of land adjoining, for the purpose of
establishing there a new manufacturing city.
1t appears by the Augusta Age that of the cler
gymen in That place refused to read on Thanksgiving
Day. the Objectionable part of Gov Dana's Proclama-
ton.
We learn fromthe Portland Advertiser that one hun
dred and fortysx vessels, mostly coasters, arrived in
that port on Sunday.
quantity of iron ore has been discovered in CGsco
in this state, specimen of which has been melted at
the iron works Of the Portland Company, with the most
satisfactory results
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord Patriot says
the number of persons committed to the State Prison
during the gear ending June 1917, was only IA; while
during the subsequent hafyear up to this time, the
number committed is 10 New Hampshire is growing,
fast.
Mr. Joseph Robinson of CHESTER, has pocketed one
thousand round dollars for the sale of his apples the last
autumn.
Some three or four hundred of the good people of
Lebanon made Concord visit, on Tuesday, having a
free passage the road. 1t great day for the
landlords and dry goods merchants.
In Tverton, on the 18th nst Jerome B., son of MIR.
Manchester, 2l2 years of age fell chair bit his
Ia. Ilo1t
about "a hours after the accident
MASSACHUSETTS.-D are said to abound in
Sand yich woods. hunter informs the Observer,
newspaper, that he ScUeA of these animals in one
drove on Monday week. On Thanksgiving day fine
buck was slain in the vicinity of Sandwich.
An extensive forgery has just been discovered in
Boston, perpetrated by one Gorge Miller, broker
The forgeries already discovered will exceed $780,,
600.
R. B. Hubbard is elected to the Legislature from
Sunderland. Mr. Hubbard is an able Liberty man and
will do good service in the Liberty cause. The lber-
ty party will have seven strong in the Legislature
! We learn from the Springfield Gazette, that the
slaves who recently claimed and delivered up to
their masters in Mount Holly, N. j. have by means Of
some mysterious contrivance effected their escape
They were few days ago in Springfield.
Miss Frost, in Massachusetts, has recovered three
hundred and sxy-fye dollars of Mr. Snow, for breach
of promise. He courted her year, and had to pay al
the rate of one dollar day for it. He got toSt-bhten
5 concentrating the canvass of 1874
from certain newspaper office in this state projected
n flag, inscribed, "Polk, Dallas, Oregon and Texas
d Two men viewing it one day, CALCULATED, They
It will get my vote" And mine, too, was the reply
"they are four likely men as there is in the UuteC
States"
e NEW YORK; DEATH from Hgirophobia.-Mr House
shoemaker residing in Troy died of hydrophoba las
It week, in frghtful agones
The value of the merchandise imported into the por
of New York, during the week ending 10th inst, ex-
elusive Of that sent to the warehouse, 81 l326l6
against 1858, III during the corresponding week last
= year.
y According to the New York Mirror, Gen. Taylor has
been nominated to the Presidency at two hundred pub
# lie meetings.
Vt On day Of last week there were thirty-sx per
IS sons arrested for drunkenness in the streets of New
York, and conveyed to the Office of the Chief of Pol
ice.
g PENNSYLVANIA The Philadelphia Ledger
e learns that the Secretary of War has appointed q
Court of Inquiry to investigate all the facts connected
u with the late duel between Lieuts Munlord and Ma
y han in which both fell.
" Dr. Mitchell has been sentenced by JUDGE Grer
II OF the United States court at Psburg to pay fine
$500 and cost about $500 more for harboring fugitive
IS slaves. Dr. NJ resides in Indiana county, and was for
,e merly member of the state legislature.
* On Wednesday evening Of last week, two sons O.
at Mr.. Jacob Bowman, of Palmyra, Lebanon Co.. as the
were going to bed, got to wrestling; the eldest in thu
he sculie threw the younger who never rise again, bu
SIS expired almost instantly.
lie An apparatus has been successfully tested at one
)" the furnaces in Pittsburgh by which the smoke tina
y usually passes out of the chimney entirely consumed
The saving by this process, at the establishment men
~ toned is equal to twenty-five bushels coal per day
a OHlO-An unprecedented surgical operation wa
of recently performed upon young lady near Columbus
by Dr. Thompson and assistants. 1t consisted in tn
ct removal of the liver in diseased state, which upo
an weight amounted to % 10 pounds independent {
ny material lost during the operation We learn thai
to this time the lady is doing well but fears are doub
q less entertained for the ISSUE What next?
in We learn from the Cincinnati Catholic TELEGRAPH
lis Of the 10Th u, that three young ladies' two of the
al natives of that city, received the white veil in the
'S vent of Notre Dame. Also that very accomplishe
lady, one of those who have been educated in the Ea
lid and sent out to the West under the patronage of Go
nat Sade, having recently joined the Catholic faith, wi
cd shortly commence her novciate in the same inst
ton
hat KENTUCKY.-On monday Eight last, about ho
lor past IL o'clock, many the citizens distinctly hea
the roar and sonsby felt the shock, of an earthqna