Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-10-23

cease OF an esteemed member of our Lii |
beu7 Mission Conference in Africa. Our
Information is by the arrival of the brig
Louisa.
AGlTATING SCENE IN CHuRcM-Our
correspondent at Hanover N. H., informs
US that last Sabbath, tOct. 18th J at the
morning service at the College Chlrch al
Dartmouth College, as the clergyman had
proceeded little way in his sermon, the
front door was suddenly opened and per-
son IA night clothes entered and walked rap
IDLY up the broad isle some distance, when
ne was arrested and carried out. His
ghastly c"untenance and delirious look at
once betrayed the truth that Thomas B.
Mack, OF the Senior Class, from Gilman
ton' suck OF typhoid fever, had escaped from
hls SICK chamber in the momentary absence
OF hIs attendants, and was on his way to
his accustomed seat in church. The agi-
'at!oh OF the audience my easily be concei-
Ved' Order, however, was restored, md
lne services were finished inthe usual course.
ne young man died on Monday night at
IL O'Clock, having been sick but five days
lie was the son Of Andrew Mack, ESQ, of
GllInanton, N. H., and was young man
OF Piety and promise.
At sea, August g. on board the brig
Louisa, on the passage from Gambia to Sa- |
lem, Rev James Moore, late of the Mon
roVla Mission. His death was occasoned
by the trysail-gaff falling and striking him
on the head"
Taylor Murphy was executed at Camp
bellsville, KY, OH Wednesday last. He was
convicted Of the murder of his wife some
time since-of having struck her down, and
afterwards burning her remains upon the
hearth OF his own house. He wrote out
confession shortly before his death, in
which he confessed the murder of his wife,
also to have murdered seven of his own in
tant children.
The Hon. Linn Boyd of Kentuc y, is
spoken of as the Democratic Candidate
tor the Speakership of the next Congress-
The Providence Journal, in speaking of
the =" sweet Swan of Erin" Miss Catharine
Hayes, says, She is an Irish Jenny Lind
without the Barnum"
The railway from ST. Petersburgh to Mos
COW, was opened by the Emperor in person
on the 3lst ult
1t IS an extraordinary fact, stated on au-
thortY, that there are at the present time,
more of the Irish population in the United
States of America, than there is in Ireland
itself,
JUDICIAL DECISIONS. The Supreme court
ia session in MiddIesex, Mass, have decid-
ed that if stable keeper lets team on
the Sabbath, he cannot recover in suit
Tor injuries to the same.
Hoes CATCHING THE CHOLERA.
Dubuque Express says that during the prev
alence of the cholera this season, several
members of one family had died of the dis
ease. After the death of the last, the straw
pallet on which he lay, was thrown out, a
number of hogs Bodied therein. Every one
Of them died.
Broken BANKS. The following named
Banks have recently busted" so say the
New York papers. James Bank, Sarato-
ga county Bank of New Rochelle; Far
mers' Bank of Nina Western Bank, White
Creek Peoples Bank, Paterson, N. j.;
Commercial Bank, Perth Amboy the Bank
of Salisbury.
JENNY LIND.-The New York Times
says it has been reliably informed that Jen-
nv Lind will return to that city in a short
time, and will appear at Castle Garden,
early in January, in two Italian, one French,
and one English Opera.
Another son of Victor Hugo has been
condemned to nine months Imprisonment
and fined 1000 frances for an article on
the expulsion of Foreigners from France.
There are more landholders in the State
of Massachusetts alone than in all England
and Ireland together.
The Gardiner (Me.) Transcript says the
crop of winter wheat in that State this sea-
son will yield over one million bushels
far exceeding the wheat crop of any pre-
ceeding year.
IT is estimated that over one hundred
persons were killed by the explosion of the
steamer Brilliant, near Bayou Sara LOUISE
ana.
The N. o, Picdyune relates the arrest of
Dorothea Walker on the complaint of her
husband, for having quarreIleo with him,
threatened his life, burnt him with hot
iron, stabbed him in the neck, and beat and
kicked him. The parties had been married
four weeks.
Mrs Judson Fanny Forester and her
children, are among the passengers by the
Canada, having come home from Burmah,
by way of England. Her health has very
much improved.
DESTRUCTION OF THE CINCINNATI Or
PHAN ASYLUM BY FlRp.-A despatch dated
Cincinnati, Oct Is, says:
"This morning a fire broke out in the
Orphan Asylum, which destroyed the en-.
tire edi6ce There were at the time one
hundred and six boys in the building, many
of whom saved themselves by Jumping ou
of the windows One hundred of the chill
dren were saved, and six, it is feared, per
ished in the flames. Three bodies Of the
six have been found in the ruins. Many o
those saved were badly burned, or other
wise injured while making their escape"
The Washington Republic states that OF
Wednesday morning, Mr. Swartzman
the Dead Letter Office, destroyed one hun
dred and sxty-four bushels bags OF dead let
ter, the accumulation of three months
They were all emptied into ravlne nea
the Washington Monument and gwen to IN
flames Having, previously been deprVe'
of their valuable contents, the boys VIII