Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-30

Notes and Comments.


CHoLERA.-The Cholera, which has been
lurking in different localities in the valley of the
Mississippi, the past Winter, is now evidently
ON the ncaease. Many have recently died OIL
board the Steamers, and it has again broken out
in st. Louis, the city which, last year, was so
terribly desolated by its ravages. Indeed, the
impression is everywhere strong, that this fear
full malady is about to revisit not only the West,
but other parts of the country. But if it does,
we apprehend, from knowledge of the past, that
the second visitation will be lighter than the
previous one.
ScRooN-There is a long, crescent shaped
body of water in the wild and picturesque re-
gion lying Immediately West of Champain
which goes by the name of Schroon Lake, noted
for the abundance of fine trout within its wa
tiers and the valuable pine lumber on its woody
shores. Scroon what a name 1t has no ap.
parent analogy to anything, either Dutch, lndl-
an, French or English; and in our vain puz-
filings to account for its origin, we have some
times appealed to Fancy for help, which, in
such case, we preferred to none and she al
ways answered, it was name bestowed by the
hunters, from the resemblance of its sound to
that of the hoarse shrek of some wild water
bird, habiting in its lone marshes. But, fancy as
generally happens in antiquarian researches, as
much trusted as we regret to say she still is by
many of our learned Swans, has proved to be in
fault. 1t has now come to light, through some
contemporary documents, that the name ScrOOn
is a corruption of Scarron, the marriage name OF
Madame Maintenon, and was bestowed by Capt.
Champ!ain, the discoverer of our beautiful lake
bearing his name, in compliment to the then sup
posed mistress, but, as it afterward proved, the
real wife of Louis XIV.
THE SEAsoN-May, thus far, we hear it e'e-
nv day remarked by the grumblers, and those
forqetful of the promise that seed time and har-
vest shall not fail, has been the coolest and wet
test ever known in the country. But this is moi
so. People forget about these things. We
have had several colder Mays within the last ter
wears, and though certainly very wet we car
recall seasons that were more 80. One Spring
about twenty years ago. it rained nearly every
day from the middle of May to the middle o
June circumstance that some of our reader
NAV remember from lively, rafting song tina
grew out of the occasion, a stanza OF which WI
were valnly to qnote, when along came the Sen
tinel and SAKE to our aid, who, curionsly enough
having fallen into the same train Of reflection a
bont the season, furnished US with the very line
in question. written, he reminds us, by Dr.
Holmes -
"The weathercock has rusted East,
The blue sky is forgotten,
The earth is a saturated sponge,
And vegetation's rotten.
/ hate to see the darkest side,
| hate to be complaining,
But hang me if my temper stands
This raining, raining, raining"
DEATH OF Mrs. circumstances s. Os
GOOD, one of the sweetest and most natural vers
iiers of the times, died in N. Y. City on the l2t
inst. Her remains have since been brought t
Cambridge and inferred IN the Mount Aubur
Cemetery.
The late arrivals from England also announc
the death of the venerable Wordsworth, anott
roet of Nature, and kindred genius with on