Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-09
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN. MONT :

WM. WARNER ESQ, of Burlington, VT,
has been chosen President Of the Sullivan
Railroad Company. in place of FIX Govern
or Hubbard, resigned.
The Washington monument is SO feet
high.
Tue SEA SERPENT IN THE OmIo.-Mt
John I. Herman, OF Jefetsohvile, Ky.,
very respectable man, saw, and says 9th.
ers saw, an immense serpent in the river at
that place on the 18th Of March. The
monster was as long as flat boat appear
ed like row of barrels, and carried his
head 8 or 10 feet out Of water His snake
ship having visited the coast of South Car.
DINA, is obviously attempting to find his
way to Nashville. Tenn, where he may be
expected about the time the Southern Con-
vention dissolve the Union-Troy Post.
The wooIlen factory has just gone into
operation at Stanton, Va. Two hundred
and sixty spin les aud six looms are now in
operation, capable of making one hundred
and fifty yards Of cloth per day, and as many
more are to be added as the demand may
require.
At TattsviIle, VT, Mr. Joseph Corbin
was instantly killed by the breaking of the
grindstone upon which he was grinding in
D. Taft & Sons axe factory,
The NINETEENTH OF APRIL, l775.-On
Saturday bill passed the house to incor-
porate Abiiah Harrington, Jonathan liar.
rington and others, for the purpose Of build
ing monument at Lexington the petition
says-"sultabIe to commemorate spot hal
lowed i'll the annals of freedom" The two
first signcrs arc both revolutionary veterans
and their signatures, though ttemulons, are
well done. Jonathan Harrington is the last
surviving member of Capt. Parker,s memo-
rable band, who paraded on the morning oil
the 18th of April IT'S, TO meet the British
troops. These venerable patriots close
their petition by saying, "That the monn-
ment now standing is altogether too small
and Insignificant for the the designation Of
the ground where the earliest armed resis-
lance to British power was made, and the
first blood of the American revolution was
shed. Boston Post.
EXECUTION ORDERED.-In the council
yesterday it was unanimously voted that the
sentence of Daniel Fl. Pearson, who killed
his wife and two children, should be car
ried into effect, and Friday, July 26, was
fixed for the day of execution, which will
take place in the Jail yard at East Cam
bridge.-POSt.
PROBABLE MURDER AT SACo, ME.-The
corps OF young woman was found on Sat
urday in drain running from Storer street,
with rope around her hands and neck
She is thought to have died from an attempt
at abortion, aud is supposed to have been
Il factory girl, two or three of that class
having been missed from the town.-P0St.
THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT SAco.-The
Saco Union, of yesterday morning came to
US by Longley g. Co.'S expires, and from
this paper we learn the result OF the, Coro-
ner's inquest upon the case Of the young
weman, whose partial remaines were found
in drain in that place on Saturday alter
uoon last. The jury. whose Investigations
in secret session had occupied the whole time
since the discovery, rendered their verdict
about IL o'clock Thursday night. They
find tho name Of the deceased to have been
Mary Bean, and that she came to her death
BY the agency of Jarcs H Smith, (uow un"
der arrest, in recklessly administering GER
tain medicines, drugs, &c, and using GER
tain instruments for an unlawful purpose.
The principal circumstances connected
with the finding of the remalnes, and impli-
eating the prisoner, were given in the Bee
Of yesterday morning. The Union says the
examination before the Poiece Court will
probably :akc place to-day, and remarks
1T may be con ectured from thc above
verdict that the offence with which Smith
now stands charged, or may be charged will
hereafter is that which is defined to be, BY
our statute, murder in the second degree
the punishment of which is Imprisonment
for life in the State Prison"
P. S.-Mr. Graves the Mail Agent or
the Eastern Railroad line, informs US tlia
the examination of Doctor Smith will bt
commenced in Saco on Monday morning
next at nine o'clock.
SINGULAR PETRTICATIoN.-The Minest'
ia Pioneer SAYS that at the mouth of Grow
River, navgable stream entering the Mis-
sssippi, on the west side IS miles abov
ST. Paul, there are said to be visible in tn
bottom of the river, several petrlfcatlons II
the shape of men and horses,
~ Abbott Lawrence is stated t.
have taken the elegant mansion of Lor
Codogan, opposite Green Park in London
at rent of SIT 900 per annum, where h
lives in becoming style.
70 California is supposed by many to b
the land of Ophir mentioned in the Oh
Testament. Major Noah argues II sound!
The Washington papers publish cotre
pondence between Sir II. l.. Bnlwer and M
Clayton in reference to the approaching gran
industrial exhibition at LondCn. Sir Hem
officially invites the cooperation of the
mericaus in the undertaking.
, There has been dug up in Henry count
Tenn, the full statue of a man, wrought OF
, of brass or some other hard metal. I'll
features were as perfectly delineated as
the work had been done by an experience
painter.
!, 01be 4flarkets.