Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-11-30
domestic Gomrprno.

NEW HAMPSHIRE DR.. James Stark, young
man of Dunbarton, was killed last week while cunning
in the woods of that town. His body was found the
next morning A double-barreled fowling piece I'M
loaded, was by the side of the body; and few rods
distant squirrel was found on the ground The
charge of the piece had taken effect in the heaG-the
entire upper lip with the front teeh had been carried
away, and driven through the head, producing instant
death.
MASSACHUSETTS,. Hadley Falls Dam, thrown
across the Connecticut at the New City, nine miles
north Of Springfield, was forced from its foundations
by the accommodating waters on Thursday the day of
its completion, and the larger portion Of it destroyed
The water had risen within few feet of the top, when
1t broke through, and in few moments nothing but
huge wreck remained uf tho largest Of tho
kind ever erected in this country. 1t was over 1000
feet long, about 20 high, and cost some $4,000. A
large manufacturing interest dependent OIL it for
motive power. Though monylivcs were endangered,
lone were lost.
The publisher OF the Lowell Offering states in late
number, that in one MILL during the past eighteen
years, eghtytwo Of the boys and four hundred and
five girls employed there, have been marred and
from other mill, one hundred and eighty of the
girls nave been married during five years; and from
single room in another corporation, twenty eight
married in one year,
CONNECTICUT. poor Pole, dyer by trade,
at Waerown Conn, has been left fortune Of $780,
O00
The Norwich Aurora says that Clergyman in that
city, puta vote into the balotbox on the back of which
he appended the following prayer
May God grant that this vote given with extreme
reluctance and many fears may contribute to per-
pcu1to the shame and crime Of my beloved country,
nor bring upon her the curse of Heaven We learn
that the vote was given for Gen Taylor.
NEW YORK. The Buffalo Daily Courier says
'We measured the snow on Thursday lG;L) morning
on a level spot where the wind could not drift it, and
found it to be twonty-sx inches deep. An old resid
ent sitting at cur elbow says he does not recollect
such fall of snow since 1885,
A horse called Trustee, lately trotted twenty miles
in less than an hour, at New York. He trotted a.
gainst time for large amountand won the stakes, ISL
500 it is said, easily never having to be touched with
the whip during the whole time. No horse in the
fore.
The late Rev. DR.. Minor. Of New York, while
member of Congress from Pennsylvania, (where he
was then an eminent lawyer,) was once challenged to
mortal combat by Mr. Clay-as appears by Rev. DR..
Stones memoir, about to be published by the Ameri-
can Tract Society.
wonderful escape from death occurred at West
Dloor,Io1l tbn A 1ohoror not,c1 Rrn-
ban was buried in well, which caved in while he
was repairing it. He fell a distance Of as feet, but
happily the stones and rubbish were clogged by fall
ling plank, forming arch just above his head and
he was rescued after an hour of hard work.
The personal property of the late John Jacob Astor,
according to paragraph in the Globe, is ascertnined
to amount to the immense sum of four millions and
ninety five thousand dollars. This is exclusive of the
houses, hands, &C., CONSTITUTING his real estate, in
which the bulk Of his property lay.
OHIO. The Catholics have froo schools OF their
own in tho city of Cincinnati, which are attended by
1000 children. The schools not entirely free,
each pupil pays 25 cents per month. This is thought
by those who have observed its operation has good
effect on the school.
PENNSYLVANIA. The Odd Fellows of Philad-
elphia have 102 lodges, containing between 10000
and $4,000 members. The number of subordinate
lodges in the State Of Pennsylvania at the last annual
report was % 093 and the revenue for the last year,
$l733ll So. There was paid during that PERIOD
for the relief of members and their families, burying
the dead and educating the Orphans, S67,G42 CO.
The foundation of the Spring Garden Water Works
at Philadelphia gave way recently, and the resulting
such of water carried away some two hundred feet of
the wall surrounding Girard College. No lives were
lost.
ILLINOIS. We see it stated that the Chicago
Horticultural Society have offered premium of 500
in gold plate to the person who shall plant and bring
forward in the public streets, the best twenty shade
trees This is an example which might be followed
by the horticultural Societies of other cities, with the
most beneficial results
TENNESSEE Mr. Gentry, a member of Congress
from Tennessee stated recently that he was in favor
of the Wilmot proyso as the only hope and alterna.
tive Of saving the Union He declared also that Gen
Taylor ought not to veto the Proviso. SO says the
Memphis Eagle
A Washington correspondent says that Mrs Polk
has gone North to buy furniture for mansion in
Tennessee.
LOUISIANA. Co'ored Men in .Nep Orleans
Several free persons of color in the city of New Or.
leans have associated themselves into corporation
under an existing law of the State with view TO cs-
tabsh an African Methodist Episcopal church. The
proceeding is sanctioned by the official opinions of the
AGovernorand other officers.
Gen Taylor's birthday occurred on the 24h of this
month, and he W as Ga years old on Friday The
average age of our Presidents, at the time of the
election, including General Taylor, has been between
81 and So years. Five of them wera in their 58h yea
when elected.