Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-15

we were going to Boston with our slelghs
heavily loaded with wheat" said Mr.. B., I" when
the snow was plump four feet deep on the level
making it utterly impossible to turn out, unless
we were lucky enough to hit on some place
where the snow had been beaten down for the
purpose. In going through Brookfield, and
while in one of the wost Places we met team
loaded with salt when, finding thele was no
way of getting by each other but by unloading
our seighs and turning them up sideways on
each side Of the path, and SO running them by
each other empty, we all three fell 10 unloading,
run the mans sleigh past ours, and, as it hap
pened, first reloaded his sleigh and got him
ready to start. Judge Paine and myself then
turned back for the purpose of loading up our
own teams, expecting that, Of course, the stran4
ger would assist us. But the next instant we
heard loud crack Of the whip behind us; when
looking round, we saw the fellow mounted OH
his sleigh and putting his horses into a run to
escape and leave us to do our own work. Judge
P. looked after the fellow an instant, with eyes
that fairly flashed fire; when, hastily throwing
off his coat and hat, he gave chase on foot, run
ming as think never saw man run before,
till he overlook the team, leaped upon the load,
seized the mean delinquent by the collar, and
made flying leap with him sideways into the
snow. He then drew his prisoner into the road
and lead him back by the collar to our loads
when, giving him a mighty significant push to-
wards our bags of wheat still lying on the snow,
he cody observed, -" There, friend, if you will
take hold of those bags and load up both our
sleighs, we will be much obliged to you,-very
much Obliged to you, sir" The fellow sheep
shly obeyed, and we looked on, the Judge not
permitting me to assist in lifting single bag ;
when we rode on, leaving him to sneak back
after his own team, with oil the comforting re-
Elections which the incident was calculated to
suggest to him.
SPRING.-Spring, that most interesting of the
revolving seasons, has again come to reanimate
the dark and desolate earth, and gladden. the eye
and spread out its lessons of instruction TO the
mind capable Of reading them. We know not
but that we might have been disbeliever in
future existence, but for st. Paul's most beau
tiful and instructive illustration Of the resurrec
tion in the seed that dies only in the roproduc-
ton of another existence. And the return of
this season, as we look on starting germ and
budding flower, ever mpresses the lesson anew
on our mind, and makes us grateful for these ST.
lent monitors which point US to light beyond the
darkness Of the grave.
A SPECIAL HAUL OF TROUT.--Mr. Aurora
Mallory of East Montpelier, took from Peacham
pond, one day last week, in about eight hours,
with his single hook and line, eighty-sir pounds
oftrO,d! Who can tell bigger story than that
for true one?
JOHN G. SAKE has, we believe, four appoint
ments to deliver poems on different public occa-
sions, the ensuing season. This is for him a
hattering indication of the increasing popularity
of his efforts.
AN extraordinary mortality from whooping
cough formerly was common in the South
Sea Islands. Its intensity, has however,
been materially modified by vaccination,
which was also the case in South America.
In Buenos Ayres vaccination was for some
time believed to be specific against hoop
ing cough as we'll as small pox.
ISAAC T. PARKER, Esq, of Hill, N. H.,
two years ago had but one sheep, and he
has now eighteen, all from the increase of
that one. The way it came about was as
follows: In the Spring Of l949, his one
sheep produced two eve lambs In the
spring of 1850 she produced two more, and
each of her first lambs produced one; and
this year the old sheep has again brought
twins, and each of her first years lambs
have twins, and the others one each
making eighteen in all, from one in two
years. Mr.. Parker says if any one can
match this, he should like to know it. We
rather think it will be hard to beat, anyhow.
Family Gazette.
PROSPECT OF CITIES WITHOUT NOISE
An omnibus, we are assured, has been rum
ming in Philadelphia, for a year or more,
with tires on its wheels made of gutta per-
cha; and those best acquainted with its
properties believe that in two years it will
be adopted universally in this city for our
public vehicles. If so, it will at least save
our ears much noise.-ErpresS.
HORACE GREEDY is on his way to Europe.
We should admire to see that gentleman in
state of sea-sickness. We will bet high
that, between the upheavings, he will argue
to his next neigbor that half the pain Of
emesis would be removed by some plan Of
association, and that vomiting, under the
control of such system, would tend, in
evitably, to the restoration of man to hi!
original dignity agdspurity, besides furnish
ing him with.a farm protected by the home
stead exeI ."-SpringfeM RepubH
can. M
STATUE charlottesville equestrian
statue Of Jackson will, it is said, be read
to be placed on its pedestal, opposite tn
!. Presidents house, on the 4th of July next
The number of applications at WASH
ington, for bounty land is said to averag
about four hundred per day, and there ar
already ten thousand applications on fiji
which have not yet been touched.
FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF BLACK SNAKES
The New London Star says that a youn
son of Thomas J.. Fox, of Waterford, di'
covered den of black snakes, on 'Gret
Neck, so called, in that place, not Ion
since. Upon examination, one hundre
and tWenty sir were taken out and kllIet
some of them measuring six feet, but Il
average length being about four feet "
turn out Waterford against the world {
snakes.
The annual reports Of the different ra
roads in Massachusetts, to the Legisatu
show that over $4,000, 900 passengers ha'