Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-05
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A New WAY 70 BLow UP +" A RIVAL
A couple of representatives of Young Ire
land, awhile since, took their "lady loves
one evening for a walk, and upon reaching
the canal upon Suffolk-st sat down on {
large stone by the waters edge. By some
means the pairs got misplaced, the girl.
sitting inside, and each young man beside
the others partner. One of them, in this
predicament, found rather too much billing
and cooling between his sweetheart and his
friend, and having a quantity of powder
in his pocket, laid a train to his rivals
back, depositing quite a pile directly be.
hind him. Then deliberately applying a
lighted match, an explo-ion ensued, setting
the young girls dress on fire, obliging her
to undergo a complete immersion in the
canal to extinguish it. The powder remain.
ing in the pocket of the "gunpowder plot
man also lgnited, tearing his clothes into
"smithereens," and burning him so that he
was confined three weeks to the house,
Our informant vouches for the truth of the
SUI -LUUEGt VOJ 4 OUu[l.
SPONGE TRADE OF KEY WEsr.-The
sponge trade is creating quite a sensation
in our midst. A large number of our citi-
zens are engaged in procuring it, and are
reaping a handsome reward for their labor.
The sponge is cured and brought into mar
ket, and sold to our merchants for New York
consumption, where they are manufacturing
a beautiful article of cloth from it. The
discovery was only made some six months
age, that it was valuable for such purpose ;
and now the article commands. in this mar
ket, from ten to twelve cents per pound,
and a first rate article we'll cured and attend
ed to, will bring even more. There is al
ways a demand for it, and it would not sur
prise us to see it, at no distant day one of
the principal commodities of our section
Key West Gazette.
ROTATION OF THE EARTH.-The Bunker
Hill Monument Association have voted to
permit the interior of the monument to be
used for the purpose of repeating the ex-
pertinent of Foucault, with a pendulum, to
demonstrate the rotation of the earth. The
privilege was granted on the application of
the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic
Association, and the experiment is to be
made under the superintendent of Mr..
Bond of the Cambridge Observatory, and
Prof Horsford of the Scientific School. 1t
is understood that arrangements will be made
for the admission of the public to view the
experiment for a small charge. The ex-
pertinent is also to be repeated in the ship
houses at the Navy Yard, where a wider
space may be obtained for the sweep of the
pendulum, The length of the pendulum
at the Bunker Hill Monument will be about
PIG leet.-N e. Farmer.
ENORMOUS Mass OF PURE CoPPER.-It
is stated that the cliff mine on Lake SUPERB
or has more copper uncovered than can be
got out by the present force in three years.
HORACE GREELY is one of the Chairmen
of Jurors who are to make the awards at
the Worlds Fair.
The Maryland Convention have adopted
the new Constitution, which provides for
the election of Judges abolishes imprIs-
onment for debt grants homestead exemp-
ton to the value of $500; abolIshes lot
teries and gives a more uniform repre-
sentation. The Convention will adjourn
sine die this evening.
ON the Cd, the Russell Ministry were
defeated in the Commons on a motion by
Mr.. Hume to con6ne the operation of the
property tax and bill to one year. The
Jewish disabilities bill was read a second
time.
FIRE.-Twelve houses on Wiley street,
P~ittsburg, Penn, were burnt on Monday
afternoon.
HARRIET WILLIAMS, about forty years of
age, threw herself on the track of the rail-
road, near Peekshill, and was instantly kill
ed by the locomotive.
CAROLINE STEVENS, of Ossipee, N. H.,
had her hair caught round a shaft running
at a speed of one hundred and forty revo-
lutions a minute, in one of the Dover Cot
ton Mills, on the 18th inst and was drawn
up and carried round the shaft, her body
striking the loom, wall and plastering, at
each revolution. The mill was stopped,
the gil taken down, and it is now thought
she will recover without the loss of a limb.
One leg is badly Observation-Disclosures
Gazette.
FLAT BURGLARY.-A gentleman of Fitch
burg while travelling in New Hampshire.
last week, on a marriage excursion, had hi:
trunk with his wedding suit stolen from
him. The sacreIigious thief has been ar
rested.-BOStOn Courier.
THE Mormons have accommodated A
w. Rabbit their representative in Congress
for administering run to the saints HI
denies having treated.
Boy KILLED BY AN ELEPHANT.-We arr
informed that during the exhibition of tht
menagerie in Derby on Wednesday last,
little boy was killed by being struck will
the trunk of an elephant. He was anus
ing himself, in company with other boys, b,
feeding the elephant with nuts and othe
articles, when for the sake Of sport HI
pricked the animal upon the trunk will
some sharp instrument, which enraged him
and the boy becoming frightened, withdrew
into the crowd. Soon after, he approached
toward the elephant, though cautioned tt
keep away by the keeper, when he receiv
ed a blow on the head, which injured hin
so severely that he died, This melanchoIy
event should serve as a warning to all boy!
and we trust will not be without its efec
upon them.-COnn. paper.
SWALLOWED A GOLD PIECE.-A dog be
longing to Mr.. William Plunkett, of Will
minpton, Del, jumped on his desk, the othe