Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-08-29

These Indians PISS by the military stations
as IT the soldiers were So many cattle
they have stolen horses aud murdered cili-
zens almost in sight of the head quarters of
the Commanding General.
All the papers in Western Texas are fill
ed with accounts of Indian atrocities -
And while these go unpunisled, the people
meet in masses, and pass resolutions to take
possession of New Mexico We advise
our newly acquired sister to try her hand
at whipping the indians FIRST, aud after she
Is through with that, then she will be better
prepared for her second expedition to San
ia Fe,-Nco- Orleans Crescent.
The Free Soil District Convention held
at Mediord, Mass nominated John Pier
pont as the Freesoll candidate for Con.
gress.
NOVEL RAILROAD SuIT.-A novel suit
against the Fitchburg Railroad Company,
has been commenced in Boston, to recover
the statute penalty of $2D, for failing to
provide passenger with seat, after sell
ing him ticket The court has taken
time to decide whether or moi the remedy
is by criminal complaint in the Police
Court.
A FRUIrFUL CoUNrY.-The Iockport
Courier estimates the wheat crop OF Nigga
ra county at OF U,0I0 bushels which, CON
sidering that it is one of the smallest coun.
ties in the State, is almost without parallel
in the country.
The Boundaries Of Utah thus defined by
the bill which has just pissed the Senate,
erecting it into territory Bounded on
the west by the State of California, on the
north by the Territory of Oregon, on the
east by the summit ofthe Rocky Mountains
aud on the south by the 37th parallel of
north latitude.
gY' A white lead mandatory in opera.
ton at SIeubenylIe, Ohio, which produces
one hundred kegs per day.
THE PoTATo.-We observe reports from
Rhode Island, New York, and Maine Of a
partial Temperatures of the potato rot.
GOLD IN TIE COPPER REGIoN.-The
Lake Superior J, urnal says that Capt.
llaIIoran has brought down piece ofquartz
rock from Lake Superior, containing several
dollars worth of pure native gold. The
gold shows itself in particles disseminated
through the quartz, the largest of which is
worth about dollar. The gold has been
thoroughly tested. Rocks of this descrip-
ton have been discovered in the mining
country, and who knows but further expo
ratlons may open gold mines rvaing the
yellow deposits of California
The Century Question was decided uo-
on by Professor SIiman, at the Alumni
dinner at Yale College. He said there
were present three men president Day.
Prof Kingsley and himself who had seen
the whole Of the half century pass while
acting their parts in the College | remem.
Der, said he, lying awake to listen to. the
last knel of the 18th century mean the
3lst day ofDecember, IS00-not 1909
for never was fool enough to suppose that
90 make I0H.--BOsf0n Courier.
SUICIDE OF CHILD. The jasper county
correspondent of the Lafayette Oa.) CoHricr
writes that a daughter Of Mr.. George Girls
sell, about twelve years old, committed SUI
ciac near Rensselaer,, on the Odd Of July
by hanging herselfto the jolst Of the house
with bride. 1t appears that she commit
ten the rash act through fear of being pun
ished for accidentally breaking a crock
After meeting with the accident she dressed
herself in suitable burial clothes, and telling
her little brother that "she never WuuIt
break another crock" she got upon the bee
tied a bride to the jnlst, lasened 1t aroun'
her neck, and Jumped off. IIr brothe
, succeeded in replacing her upon the bed
but she Jumped off the second time, aud he
lme he could obtain assistance, she wa
dead,-Efchangc Paper.
What IA system of shameful cruelty mus
have been practised in that family Tn,
, whip must have been the only monitor, ant
, applied numerically on all occasions
whether fault or accident was the motive t
! its use. Love and persuasion could neye
have been employed in family where
! child was SO much under the influence {
, fear as to voluntarily take its life rattle
I than meet the punishment expected
1 PhitadeLphia Ledger.
h. A CAVE DISCOVERED AT SHARoN,--A COZ
: respondent of the Springfield Republican
Q writing from Sharon, N. Y, remarks tn;
v two men digging drain last week, abol
i half mile from the S prings, came to
large hssure in the rocks, which led thel
into cave; "that they entered the openin
E AND soon reached an offset of iteen {
0 twenty feet, which they decended, an
VI after proceeding short distance, came I
another offset similar to the first, who
r they descended in the like manner, and /
Q once found themselves in room some twel
II ty feet square, and sixty feet high, with
IS tunneI-shaped roof; that little further O
!, they discovered another room, of about tn
II same dimensions as the first; that the
5, found succession of such rooms, of diff
,, rent sizes; and that they thus went On tt
d the space Of three hours, travelling at lea
II a mile under ground. They also state
l. that they fonnl the cave hun on every sid
with large anil militant stalactltes. In OF
10 place they observed a waterfall, which, :
" Jar as the sound and the light of their tore
~ es would enable them to Judge, must hay
y been sixty feet high"
e, 70 A small sorreI mare belonging
. Mr. Zimmerman of Mnersvllle, Pa, ra
e. away with small boy upon her back
IS her course she came to bridge, fro
70 which section of the panks had been r
l. moved, and cleared the space, twenty-eigl
f. feet, single leap. a big lie or might
e smart marc,-BCc.
PROFESSOR WEBsTER-We are assure
e. says the n Y Tribune, upon good author
a ty--one who PROPOSES 10 know-lhat Pr,
u. lessor Webster has made another and fu
lie confession in which he admits the premcd
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