Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-08-15

MARRYING GENIUs.-There is a man
in the New York penetentary who has had
twenty-three wives. lie is just 81 years of
age, and has been engaged in matrimonial
business since he was l6, and has, there
fore, had new wife every seven months,
getting rid of the old spouse, and counting
the new one ad iterim. He declares that
he will have hundred wives before he dies,
If they do not cramp his genius within
stone walls
u Within the last year a daughter OF
President Fillmore was teacher in public
school in Western New York. His place
of residence is Buffalow. He is a commu-
meant Of the Unitarian church, at which he
attends regularly.
20 The Scientific American states that
a gentleman of Schenectady, n Y. has a
patent for making glass tubes and coupling
them together for the conveyance of water,
and that such tubes, resisting all action of
the elements, and being indestructible when
kept from the frost, are as enduring as the
everlasting hills They are coming into
general USE Water conveyed through
them is as pure as when it leaves the foun.
tain.
A GEORGIA EARTAoUAKE.-They had
an earthquake OH small scale at Dalton,
Ga, on Saturday morning, the 29th. The
Times says that many of the inhabitants OF
the village were considerably alarmed by
the unaccountable rafting of their window
sashes; the air being at the time quite calm
not enough stirring to take off the ardent
heat of the sun, then shining intensely in a
cloudless sky. The vibration was accom-
panied by rumbling, like that of far dis
tant thunder. The duration of the phe-
nomenon was about one minute.
Tue POPULATION OF FRANCE, according
to statistical document recently published
in Paris, is neatly $4,000, GOO, while the
census of 1863 made the population 10 $50,
600. Thus it appears that France has not
quite doubled her population in lao years,
while some of the countries in Europe have
doubled their population in less than half
that period.
10 The receipts of the United States
treasury from Apr. to June 80 were $10,-
S40,265 IL; expenditures S12, 55l 1877 81;
excess of expenditures $l,711 ,602 10.
- In Ashland, Pa, on Saturday after
noon last, several persons attending an auc.
ton were knocked down by Lightning, and
Mrs Rachel Dutton, aged 60, her son Ma
than, aged 80, and Mr. Slaughter we're kill
ed. George Rumbprger, farmer of War
riorsmark, Pa, and bis wife were killed by
lightning on Sunday week -B0ston Post,
% The little girl killed on the railroad
at Stamford, Con, was the daughter of
John S. Trott, Jr,, Esq, of Williamsburg,
L. J., and grand daughter of Capt. John S.
Trot, the venerable shipmaster well known
in this city The New Haven Palladium
says
"Thc child died in fifteen minutes after
the accident. The mothers shrieks and
agonies were dreadful, as she saw wheel af-
ter wheel pass over her child The two
stepped out of the cars to get drink of
water, aud it is said the cars started before
they had time to get in. They were proba-
bly, delayed in their efforts to obtain water
beyond the usual time Of stopping"
G-Y Wepreceive by Cheltenham paper,
England that Mr. PIiny Miles, an American
gentleman, accompanied Lieut.. Gale IN his
balloon ascent from Chetenham last month.
Yankees can be found everywhere-in the
air, upon the sea, the earth, and for all we
know to the contrary, in the moon.-BoS-
ton Post.
FRoN OREGoN.-The report of the dis
covery of gold in Oregon has been con firm
ed. A letter from respectable gentleman
Of St. Helens, formerly Plymoth,) dated
May 30, says-A great excitement prevails
here gold is found everywhere, and parties
are constantly forming for further explora-
tons. A party of some of our most respec.
tble merchants lett Portland, few days
since, for the Wailah-W allah, tributary
of the Columbia. The movement proceed
ed from a parcel of sand which was brought
in by the Indians which yielded so per
cent, pure gold. And in consequence of
this and the many other similar reports,
flour has risen from Sl8 to S41 per barrel
in Oregon City, and other aaitIes of con-
sumption in proportion. Reports from
Rogue's River represent gold as very abu
dant upon that stream. Mount St Heens
is about 30 miles due north from this place
~ The wealth of Sir Robert Peel wa:
so great that the duty or tax on the probate
of his will amounted to sixteen thousand
pounds, and ten thousand on his egacies
giving to the revenue of Great Britain one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars
for this year.