Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-03-30
domestic Gompcu0.


Of Mathews in Sept. last is now creating much eX-
element at Augusta.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. The Governor has pardon
cd Zebulon Paine, Of Conway from the State Prison,
to which he was sentenced in 1896 for eight years,
for having set fire to barn. He was convicted on
the testimony of boy, who admitted as States
evidence. 1t appears, by confessions of the boy,
that he was the guilty one, and that MIR Paine was
wholly innocent
The Atlas has returns from l72 towns in which the
votes stand as follows: Berry, 25406; Williams, 49,,
76S; scattering, 4O3-majority for Williams, 959-
There Gun be no doubt that the radical majority in
the House will be at least twenty,
MASSACHUSETTS, The legal voters of Wor-
coster decided on Saturday to accept their city char
ter The whole number of votes cast was 1913, Of
which 1926 were for the charter, and 487 against it.
Majority for the charter $50.
An invention has been made in Boston, consisting
of springs and wheels for railway cars, in which India
rubber is chiefly used for the springs and about the
wheels. 1t does away, to great extent, with the jar
which is generally n5eparable from quick motion of
the cars, and substitutes slight bounding motion
which IS not dsagreeabe.
The Liberty Party of the Eighth District, at their
Convention at Roxbury, on Saturday, nominated Gen.
Appleton Howe of Weymouth.
Mr. Charles Francis AIM, i vorv sbortIv 10 r,h-
lish the works of his ilustrious father, in fifteen
or twenty octave volumes. The deceased Statesman,
who carefully revised them for publication, by his viii
,,,r,rf,toa sofr,ona,, +o dof,ov tho ovnorsos of
printing.
NEW YORK Hon Jobn NJ tfo,Iev member Of
Congress from Seneca and Wayne counties, died at
Jacksonville, Florida on the evening of the 8th inst,
probably from the rupture of bood-vesscl He was
at the dinner table on that day, as usual
The Hudson River is open to Albany. The steam
boat Admiral from New York arrived at lbany We'd
nos1ay afternoon Navigation is resumed this year
sixteen days earlier than last
An association has been chartorcd by the legsla-
turc, for the purpose Of erecting monument to the
memory Of De Witt Clinton.
The bills Furnishing abduction and seduction have
finally passed the Assembly.
The Senate, by vote Of q to ., have affirmed the
Of the Wlnot Proyso
PENNSYLVANIA. For the first time in the his
tory Of Pennsylvania, prayers have been regularly Of
ferod this session in the Legislature of that State
Ccrgynen of various denominations oficiate alteua-
tcly
About twenty students were expelled last week
from the Gancsoe WESLEYAN Seminary q Lima
Their offence was the initiotiono a pcder into the
mysteries OF Odd teIlo"shlp-a farce of course.
DELAWARE. In Wilmington there are two Di-
visions Of co 'ora3 Daughters Of Temperance.
OHIO. Mr. Cowin according to the WASHINGTON
CORRESPONDENT. of the PhladalDhia Ledcor voted for
the ratification Of the Treaty, and not agaiasi it as
previously roportol
Anact Of the last session Of the General Assem-
rate Of interest than six per cent be contract for the
excess shall be void. In suits upon such contracts
Judgment shall only be rendered for the principal sum.
with SIX per cent Interest," and any excess OF interest
pad on the contract to be applied to the discharge Of
50 much Of the principal debt at the time Of pay
mant.
Cincinnati is infested with mad dogs. A medical
student was by ono, lately
KENTUCKY. The Legislature closed its session
On the llth inst Thirty persons were divorced by
taan On the @}t dry of the session, by one bill An
act to suppress gambling and also another law taxing
specifically Bowiekniyes, pistols, dirks, and other
weapons, usually concealed about the person, were
passed. ms session.
MICHIGAN. A great demand for missionaries,
and teachers IS said to have arisen among
the Indians N this state.
TNOItNG A ,nn74inc vas hold at Indiqn1Dolis
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