Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-22
Domesttt Gompen0.

| MAlNE.-A heavy shock of an earthquake was felt
at Saco, last Thursday evening
MASSACHUSETTS, Ns,U Striped Pig.-It is
strange how many ways are devised to evade the laws
on the subject of retailing spirits. The Lawrence
Messenger says that rumseler in that town has con-
structed partition in his store behind which he places
himself and the person wishing to purchase, puts his
money into a drawer, which is drawn back, and glass
of liquor showed out. The buyer does not see the
seller, consequently does not know of whom he pur-
cLases and No complaint can be made. This may do
for a little while, but the Temperance folks will soon
find out way to do up the business for his pigship
The authorities of Boston prosecuting rich liquor
dealers with little consideration for the feelings of
men so decidedly respectable they have ever evnc-
ed for those who deal in three cent taps To what
pass is society coming, in these days of radicalism,
when rich and poor are treated alike by law, which
has generally been so nice and discriminating in its
choice of victims Think how harsh it is to confound
the rich and poor-n other words according to the
creed and practice of the world the viruous and the
vicious There must be an absolute end to every
thing like respect for mammon if this is TO continue.
The following attached to $40 bank note,
which was dropped the box in BrattIe street church
on Sunday on the occasion of a collection in aid of
fitting out the United States ship Jamestown:
" Il ship Of ,0ar to carry bread to the hungry and
Su6er1ng instead Of POWDER AND BALL to infict more
suffering on brethren, CHILDREN of the same FAITH
Err, it should be- and this is in aid of the plan"-
Boston paper.
A pigeon Express is .fown between Nantucket and
New Bedford.
N. HAMP SIIIRE-Th are 10 Banks in New
Hampshire. On the LIST of March, they had capital
stock of $,7385OO SPECIE Sal 794 95 circulation,
$l,5O8,l29.
CONNECTICUT.-The wings have carried the
election.
Judge Bissel the whig Governor elect of Conn, has
accepted the appointment of Law Professor in Yale
College, in the place of the late Professor Townshend
He is to enter upon his duties at the opening of the
Fall Term.
R. ISLAND-The Law and Order" ticket seems
to have been entirely successful.
N. YORK.--The wings have carried the city by
5000 lonty.
At recent trial Of of the rent cases in Colum-
ba co., the antiren association made proposition to
the landlords, that all the questions in dispute between
them should be brought up and decided in a single
case, and that both parties should abide by the decs
ion. The landlords declined the offer.
, PENNSYLVANIA The newspapers in the neigh
boring counties of this state speak of the promising
appearance of the winter gram crops, which remove
all fears that were entertained that the wheat had beer
killed by the wet weather and the Phddelphit
paper.
f OHlO.-The largest distery in the West, that o
Mr.. Gibson, at New Richmond was destroyed by fir,
on the night of the 9Th inst The light was seen a
Cincinnati, 20 miles off. At the latest accounts thu
fire was still raging, with the prospect of the desruc
ton of the entire town. and the loss was very large
$4,000 bushels of corn consumed in the distlley
n We learn from the Cincinnati Signal that the steam
er PeytOna, on her way up the Ohio river while unde
full headwaY, encountered snag, which glancing iron
the bow, entered the guard Just forward of the boilers
and passing up, tore away the Social Hail. threw dow
It her chimneys, and otherwise materially injured he
upper works. The accident happened in the nigh
and produced quite an alarm.
j. ILLINOIS.-Mr J. B. Jackson of Chicago, wa
+ kicked out of a Democratic meeting, and brutal
beaten by mob for venturng to ask several question
touching the qualifications of the nominees of the pa
ty 1t does not seem that there anything ofensiv
m IN the questions themselves, but Mr. Jackson d.
Of nounced while speaking, by who recognize
NJ him, an Aboionis and in answer to his very pro-
y er questions, he kicked and beaten to the groun
" and only escaped from these equality loving DEM
Gratis wounded and bleeding.
he DELAWARE.-A dreadful explosion of powd
mill took place Wilmington on the 18th inst,
he which EIGHTEEN persons were blown to atoms
Ii -
til KENTUCKY-The Louisville Journal PUBLISH
III an address of eghtyone gentlemen, seventy-nine
H. whom members of the late Legislature, in favor
~ revision of State Constitution. 1t adds that ffte
id members of the Legislature avowed themselves in
he vor Of convention and change of the Constitute
but that for various reasons they declined signing
he the address. The address contains the following p
agraph:
" SLaray--We disclaim the intention, and state Il
,es not influenced by desire to disturb the pr
'"' VIRGINIA.-In 1910, there were thirtyfi the
nd sand three hundred and thryone scholars at the
zen mary schools in Virginia, while at the correspond
o. PERIOD there were five hundred and two thousand thu
,ci hundred and sxtyseven at the primary schools in
ons State of New York.
Oy S. CAROIINA.--A slave was tried last week
led Charleston, on charge Of sacrilege for having Re
ces bed several churches Of various articles such as
will gymen's gowns, Bibles, oil cahs, and lamps. He
-, arragned under statute of King Henry the 9Th
tod England which made death the penalty of the offer
ara but South Carolina law which might have found
hell difficulties in enforcing the provisions of such C
one upon free black, shrnked at applying it to 81
~ who was an article of property The court consif
Of of free holders and two magistrates, and one of
latter believed that this relic OF nonsense and bari
view ism was still in force in the State. His opinion
however, overruled, and the slave was only senten