Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-06-27


Of Society -Abouf twelve days since the wife
of man residing in Third Street, Arbor Hill,
who had for a long time been i'll, begau to give
evidence that dissolution was to take place.
Two hours before her death, we were informed,
her husband purchased her shroud, and after she
had died, her funeral was announced 10 take
place the next day at R o'clock, but strange to
say the body was buried at three, and in six
days afterwards, the sorrowng husband was
married to another female, and is now enjoying
the honeymoon, though his deceased wife is
hardly cold in her grave. We have names,
dates, &C., in our possession, and certainly
think that so sudden marriage after the mans
bereavement, makes it the duty Of the authori-
ties to disentomb the body, and have a post
mortem examination.-.Aibany paper.
LusuS .NatWe-We are often called upon to
notice and wonder at the singular freaks of
Dame Nature. A few days since. fine heal.
thy male child was born at DR.. Holmes Private
Lylng-in Institute, at Wilamsburgh, with two
perfect hands on the right arm. One of them is
situated about SIX inches from the other. Both
of them seem to be well supplied with all the
necessary blocdvessels, cones and muscles, the
wrists are perfect and distinct from each 0thor
This is one of the most singular cases on record
" Y. Globe.
The number of parents in London who
train their children to become thieves is al.
most incredible. A mother was lately detec.
ted in this work. She went with her daugh-
ter, under ten years of age, to a butchers
stall, Chartered about the prices Of
meat, while the girl crawled up under the
window OH her hands and knees, and dex.
terousiv took piece from lie board, passed
it under the mothers cloak, who took it in
her hands and carried it off. All this was
seen from the opposite side of the street,
and the woman was committed The chiIds
testimony is reported thus 1.-THE prisoner
is my mother She told me to steal the
beef, and l did steal it. 7 don't know
what became of it at all. My mother told
me how to steal it, and did as she told me. "
The woman was sentenced to the house of
correction for one year.
SMALL Pox IN BosToN.-There have been
lO2 deaths from small pox in Boston from
Dec, l,lS49, up to the 18th inst,
70 Letters for Panama must be prepaid.
THE MICHIGAN CoNyE vTIoN, BUFFALO,
MAY live learn from Michigan that
the Democrats have elected sixty delegates
and the Wings fortune.
This Convention is for forming a new
Constitution for the State of Michigan
The whole number of Delegates to be e.
ected is one hundred. The Democrats
have therefore already secured majority
A Curious Relic Mr. Thompson, who
is composition in the Courier office in this
city, has i'll his possession very interesting
historical relic-a small embroidered cam.
brio pocket handkerchief, which was used by
Charles |. upon the scafold, and which is
stained with his blood. 1t came originally
from John Fenwicke, who was major Of
cavalry in Cromwell's army, and in that
capacity WINS required to be present at the
execution of the unhappy monarch. The
relic passed from his family to that of Jacob
Lyell, whose vile emigrated to New Jersey
near the close ofthe seventeeenth century,
and was connected with the Fenwickc
family. She gave it to her daughter, who
kept it with the greatest care, and at then
death it passed into another branch of the
family, and has finally come into possession
of Mr. Thompson. Its authenticity seem;
to be clearly traced and proved beyond
doubt. The handkerchief is Of small size
and the figure of the Scottish thistle is EN-
broidered around the edges, Upon ont
corner is very small figure of cIowI
1t is thickly stained with dark spots, SOM
of which are as large as a doIar-the 9th
ers smaller The linen is considerably dis
coored by time. 1t seems to have beef
ironed but not washed-N. Y. Post.
Troy AND BosToN RAILRoAD.-Th
ceremony of breaking ground on this roa'
was to take place at Troy, N Y, with
procession, Grafton, etc, yesterday.
KENNEBEc AND PORTLAND RAILROAD
The citizens of Bowdoinham (Me.) hav
voted to loan the credit of the town to thi
company, to secure the completion of tn
improvements it has in hand.
LEGISLATIVE REFoRM.-The Ohio Con
stitutional Convention has determined tina
herafter the sessions of the Legislature c
that State shall be biennial.
10 The St. Louis Republican ofthe %
ut, notices the commencement of the SUI
vey of the route of the great Pacific Raj
road
~ Kentucky has sustained by a popr
lar vote the constitution presented by tn
convention of delegates held at fol-
last autumn.
70 Dir. Calhoun's Statue, by Powers,
daily expected to arrive from Europe.
is to be set up in Charleston, S. c., tn
people of which city ordered its execution
Daniel Webster's bust by King, (said to b
decidedly the best likeness of the great OIL
iginal ever seen, whether in marble, in ella
or in canvass, is now in Boston, where
is proposed to have it soul Aured, and plac
ed in Faneui Hall.
~ The Washington Monument no
building at the Federal Capitol is to hay
an inscription in Latin That is all nor
sense-let it be inscribed simply, " WASH
INGroN that is a word will outlive a
languages, and be remembered when Rom
and Greece will be forgotten.
70 The Emperor of Russia has issue
an official notice to the officers of the arm
of occupation IN Moldayia and Walach
to " ally themselves in marriage with natl,
Iadiae ,yho noroeS In n1ad urDnartv ,,,Looo,