Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-02-03
domestic Gonrprn0.

MAINE The trial Of DIR. Coolidge for the murder
OF Matthews was commenced before the supreme court
on the Dist u,but owing to the absence of an i'm
portant witness on the part Of the Commonwealth the
Court adjourned and the trial IS deferred to The 2nd
Tuesday Of March next.
MASSACHUSETTS,. Robert Morris if. a coored
man admitted to the bar sometime SINCE made his APP
poaree in the Court of Common Pleas at Boston on
the 2lsy u., council in cause about to be tried
The council opposed was the Hon. j. C. Park Bos-
ton Traveller.
correspondent of the PitsGcld Mass Eagle, states
that the merchants and business men of that village
have suffered to the amount Of $1,000 more, by for
warding money in the mail, within few weeks past,
in small sums at different times. This matter should
be investigated.
LF7Danie Webster is a commitment of the Epi5-
copalian Church.
| There are now two mqrkets per week. at Brighton,
viz: on Monday and Thursday dealers still pre-
fcrrng the old arrangement.
/ CONN The Office of the Charter Oak news
paper was threatened by mob IN Hartford Oh Thurs
day night last. On account o} o published attack of
Lieut.. Woodhousa. The mayor dispersed the crowd,
though not until 5oac damage had been done to the
Office and dwelling Of MrBureigh
The Norvcb New st $ that young lady lately
died in Windaam from excitement produced by a let
ter from her motior threatening Abandonment unless
she disclosed the father Of her late illegemate child
The railroad blidGe between Hartford and SPRING
field burned on the 10Th inst. rebuilt on the l7h
one week after the fire. 1t was 200 feet long.
NEW YORK Operations have been commenced
on the Canadian side for laying the abuhnents Of the
great bridge. A number of men have been enpoycd
Ill blasting and quarying the rocks for this purpose
The Governor of New York has exercised the par
IdOOInU Ill0 trnns 1urnr tha
On an evemge there are 20 or 30 social balls riven
every week, at different places in New Y ork city
0yF7The Brainord Presbyterian Church in New
York city during the thirteen years of its existence
has contributed over 39l 800, more thanFS70OO veal
for benevolent purposes.
PENNSYLVANIA 1t is decrood that the Satur
day Courier shall be sold at publck SALE to the high
est bidder in Philadelphia on the 4th Of next month.
Alexander Henry Esq. has been returned as a mem
Der of Parliament of Great Britain, for the District
f South lancaster. Mr.. Henry is the nephew of on
late esmable citizen, Alexander Henry, and received
his mercantile education in the counting-ro room of hi
uncle, in Philadelphia
There is a man named James Coward in Philadel
phia. What cowardy set his family must BEL
The proprietors of st. Augustine church, Philadel
pha have recovered 100000 of the county, for its des
! truction during the Native riots.
ONO, The Assembly of the Ohio Legislator,
have refused to make adultery punishable crime
o 80 to %.
The telegraph between Buffalo and Cleayeland wal
finished on the 10TH
= The "Ripley Prcsbytcry' of Ohio have resolved t.
erciude from the communion Of The church all member
of secret affiliated societies, and they recognize thu
"Sons Of Temperance" constituting such an associ
alton.
, MICHIGAN. A bill has passed the lower HOUSE
4 in Michigan, changing the name Of the new capital t.
Okeema, the aboriginal name. re presume,
G INDIANA. This State aoos not make good OK
hibit IN her educational statistics One-seventh o
ner Peofe oycl the age f2l, cannot read nor write
Wayre county, settled mainly by French is an except
ION to the general rule. Only AZ adults are unable
to read and write within its bounds.
WISCONSIN. The correspondent ola Wisconsin
paper says that wood goes further when LETT out
/ doors than when we'll housed; some of his having gon
d upwards of garter of mile in one night
y Mr.. Brownell, member of the Wisconsin Conven
ton, lives at the falls of st Croix, 422 miles from tn
t. State capital He was week making the Journey
TRAVELLING 1870 miles foot 40 in canoe, and the res
y of the way by stage.