Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-07-19

Hill, N !. by mixing arsnc with the tea.
Mrs Mck,. died in consequence,
T59 " You ,thattears, have prepare to shed
them row" A mammoth onion was pulled
recently in the garden of Mrs COL Whitner,
near Tallahassee, Florida. II was Of the
white species, raised from the seed, meAs-
cred I6 inches in circumference with the
outside coating off, and weighed pound 10
ounces week after it was taken up.
SUNDAY IN GREAT BRITAIN-By recent
order of the British General Post office, the
delivery of all letters on Sunday, in England,
was to cease after the Odd uIt. The meas
ure meets with strong opposition.
WoHM IN WHEAr.-In the neighborhood
of Plttsburg. the wheat crop is in danger of
serious injury from a small worm, about
the sixteenth Of an inch in length, of the
thickness of fine thread. and exhibiting
much life and vigor. Though the head Of
the wheat appear in good bearing condition,
the husk is found, on close examination, to
be untitled with grain, in the place of
which is one OF more of these cormorant
insects.
The CoMET.-Prolessor Bonn, of the
Cambridge Observatory. writes the Traveller
that the Comet is now plainly visible to the
naked eye, near the bright star Arcturus in
the constellation Bootee. 1t is better seen
with small telescope or with an opera
glass. A tail of five degrees long, too faint
to be dlscerned with the naked eye, is visi-
BILE in large telescopes. Its length is four
millions of miles and daily increasing
The nucleus of few hundred miles in d.
ameter is very dense, apparently solid
body.
About the goth of this month the Comet
will pass very near to the place occupied by
the earth on the 25th of June. Its velosity
at that point will be one hundred thousand
miles an hour.
Its distance from the earth is now forty
millions of miles, and from the sun one
bundled millions. 1t passed its Perhelion
on the 22d July.
REMARKABLE LONGEVITY OLA FAMILY.
The following are the ages of the surviving
children of the late William Fernald of
Kiuery, Me. EIenor Fernad Worster,
aged 90. Susannah Fernald Ford, Oh
Mary Fernald Hammond s.. James Fernald
81. Sarah Fernald Green, rs. Lydia
Fernald Remick, n. Average age, 81 Sc.
-Morniag Star.
% In Pennfeld, N. Y, a sow stole a
babe from cradle, and the mother had to
use an axe upon the brute before she could
rescue it,
GzV7' A dreadful fire ravaged large tract
OF territory in Philadel phia, on Tuesday
afternoon and the ensing night; it was for
time so terrible as to threaten the destruc-
ton of the city. Telegraphic dispatches
were sent to New York for aid from their
fire department. twas thought 400 houses
had been destroyed, with over $1,000, 600
in property. BY three terrible explosions
of saltpetre, many tiremen and citizens
were killed or wounded; some fifteen are
known to be killed, and larger numbers: it
was feared, were .mortaly wounded. 1t
was not wholly under contrl Wednesday
.----..:..s. or .,,-.> " AI5'I r----
we had not all the particulars of this terrible
disaster Thirty persons, it has sence been
escertained persisted, and more than 100
wei e wounded.
AN ACT OF Devoted HERoTsM.-The lol-
lowing incident is recorded of the pilot OF the
steamer Griffith, who tell victim to his own
heroism:
Mr.. Holly, OF Missouri, informs US that when
the flames were making rapidly towards the pi-
dollhouse of the Griffith, he heard some one,
the mate, he thinks, inquire Ct the man at the
wheel, if he would stand to his post The
man gave hearty response Of Il will This di
reced his attention to the whcclmfn and watch
ed his bearing; when the boat stopped, he stood
there unmoyed, firmly grasping the wheel, COM
pletely enveloped in flames. Mr.. Holly suppos-
ed he must have been burned up; but it ap-
pears that after the boat ceased to move, he
passed through the flames and overheard. His
body was found badly burned. 1t was brought
to this city, and buried III Oakland Cemetery
This noblest Of heroes, who could thus stand by
his post, and voluntarily throw away his own
life, in the nope Of saving others from death,
was Richard Mann, long t resident of this city
nd vicinity. No tomb deserves II nober mon
ment than hs."-C ieueland paper.
The following statement of her Maesty's
family may be interest to some of our real
ders:
"The Queen was born May "a, 1919;
married to Prince Albert, February 10,
1910.
Victoria Adelaide, Princess Royal, born
Nov. 2lst, 1910.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born
Nov 9th, 1871.
Alice Maud Mary, born April 25th l843.
Alfred Ernst Albert, born August 9th,
1874.
Helena Augusta, born May 25rh, 1916.
Louisa c.. Alberta, born March, 18th,
1913.
Arthur, born May-day, 1850.
The entire number Of ships sent out in
search of Sir John Franklin is eighteen,
including those comprising the GrinneII ex-
petition.
Miss Jane Porter, the authoress Of the Scot.
tloh CiiOio u"u Huly OtHCT SldnudTu movers ana
romances, died at the residence of her brother
in England, on the Odd of May She was in
her 74th year, and maintained to the last mo-
ment, her intellectual faculties and the cheerful
ness OF disposition for which she had been SO
much admired during her long life.
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