Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-12-11

GREEN MOUNTAIN MUTUAL HEALTH Asso
CITATION organized here last week, by the choice
of F. F. Merrill, Prest, D. P. Thompson, Vice
Prest Seth Thompson, Sec'y, Juccb Scott,
Treas, Dr. OrPn Smith, Medical Examiner, DR..
e. N. Rublee, Substitute. Remarks next week.
AN EXAMPLE ron You've LADIES. --While
Jenny Lind was at Pittsburgh, one Of her gen
temen admirers sent her a pair of splendid
diamond bracelets, which she promptly returned
with the message, that she neUer received pres
ents from gentlemen"
This has ever been our advice to all young
ladies whom we have ever had night to advise !;
and with our own daughters we have gone so
far in the way of removing all temptation for
secretly receiving presents from young gentle
men, as to offer them full equivalent, in cash
or Otherwise, for every present which, at any
time, yht be offered them, and which they
should refuse to accept. The girl who accepts
such present, virtually consents to the loss oil
her independence, She must comply with the
invitations and proposals of the donor or be cal.
led selfish and uugrateful, or worse, and perhaps
justly; for she ought to know that he will gen,
orally think that his company ought to be as
acceptable as his money. Believe US, young
ladies, there is sound wisdom in the example OF
this good and gifted daughter of Sweden.
The KING FIsHER's % ANNUAL REPoRr-
Our noted trout catcher, Aurora Mallory of Elst
Montpelier, reports to us this year, as the fruits
OF his single hook and line for the fsh-cal year
ending Nov 80, 1851, seventeen hundred pounds
Of trout, taken in Peacham and Osmore ponds,
the time spent averaging about one day in each
week. The last haul was taken last week,
through the ice, in ten or twelve hours, and
weighing 100 pounds. Dozens of our best an
glers have, at different times, been out in the
same boat with the King fisher, on trial of
skill but he would always take two to their one
though nobody could ever tell why his hook
should be preferred unless it be, as a waggish
competitor once sad that the fishes dar'sent do
other'0ise'" We published last year univer-
sal chlllenge to all trout fishers to try to COM
pete with Mallory; but it was not accepted, and
we now renew it, with directions to serve specia!
notice on ex-Congress member, William Henry,
Of Bellows Fals,who is the only man in Vermont
of whom he enterlains any apprehensons of
successful rivalry.
A NEW DlscOvERY.-Th clergymen of New
York city appear to have recently made the dis
covery, that costly meeting houses, mahogany
pnIpits, and csrpeted pews, are not, as it seems
to be generally supposed in this era Of moral re-
fnemcnt, an essential prerequisite to the preach
ing of the gospel, and that there may be peo
pie among those unable TO own pews, or 10 dress
SO as to be admitted into fine meeting houses,
who have need of the gospel, and who have re.
ally a right 10 hear it. And, in consequence of
this important discovery, the cergymen of that
city are making arrangements to ensure preach
ing, after the fashion of those old, forgotten
preachers Peter and Paul, in the streets, at
such points in the city, as will best convene the
unfortunate class who have SO long been under
the ban Of church ostracism.
The Wink OF COOPER, THE NOVELIST
The CooperstO,sn Freeman publishes as follows
the viii Of this noted writer a '----T-e
WM-I, James Fennimore Cooper, declare
and publish this TO be my last Will and Tesla
ment give and bequeath to my wife, Susan
Augusta, all my property, now in possession, OF
to which may have any claim. now or hercaf
ter, whether real or personal, or IN xed, to be
enjoyed by her, her heirs and assigns for ever
make my said wife the executrix Of this my
Will" Signed, &C., 9th November, 1649, an(
proved of record 26th of September. 1851.
This we venture to affirm is the briefest valiC
will on record 1t reminds us of deed W.
once saw in Virginia, from General Washington
to one of his ncphews, conveying plantation
and written in seven lines, and about sixty words
on one side of haIf-sheet of small letter paper
1t was found to be perfect legal conveyance t.
the grantee and his heir; but there was not on
single word that could have been spared
THE SAco (Me) UNION tells about sin
gular sea monster captured at sea, abou
twenty miles from that place. He is described
as having a head like a porpoise, shark
teeth, fins like whale, and tail resembling
a lizards. He is sixteen feet long, and whe
taken, weighed 800 pounds. His skin ha
been stuffed and is now on exhibition.
S. B. Goss of Wisconsin, has invented
Flax-Puler a model of which was exhib
ted at a late Fair in that State. This machln
will pull fax at the rate of 20 acres per day
and do it in a most perfect manner Nov
Cor raising flax, and manufacturing "aa'
cotton"
Boston Thursday, Dec. A.
The VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD
The Directors Of the Vermont Centri
Railroad Company finished the opening {
the Proposals for the Mortgage Bonds la
evening, and accepted offers to the exter
of ,OOO,OO0, at prices varying from {
to 81 per cent, No proposals below s
were accepted, and it has been determine
to dispose of no more Of the bonds at lei
than 80 per cent.