Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-18

Sunday afternoon a Spanish woman was
hung for stabblng to the heart man by the
name Of Canaan, killing hiuA ,instantly-
Mr. GREY informs us that the deceased, in.
company with some others, had the night
previously, entered the house of the woman.
and created riot and disturbance, which
so enraged her, that when he presented
himself the next morning to apologize for
his behavior, he was met at the door by the
female, who had in her hand large bowie
knife, which she instantly drove into his
heart
She was Immediately arrested tried, sem
fenced, and hanged at 4 o'clock in the af- /
ternoon of the same day. She did not ex-
hibit the least fear-walking up a small lad
der to the scaffold, and placing the rope
round her neck with her own hands, first
gracefully removing two plats of raven black !
hair from her shoulder to make room for
the fatal cord. Some $40 or 900 witnessed
the execution. On being asked if she had
anything to say, she Observation-Disclosures
would dc the same again if was so pro-
vOked''-and that she wished her remains
to be decently taken care of
PolsoNED.-At the boarding house of
John Carr, 100 Prince Street, New York,
ten persons were poisoned yesterday, inclu.
ding Mr.. Carr and his wife. The latter
and one of her children have since died, as
also child belonging to one of her board
ers. The remaining seven are in doubtful
condition. The poisoning was the result of
accident, Mrs. Carr having put arsenic into
the pudding by mistake. The coroner will
hold an investigation.
PHILLIPS FIRE ANNIHILAToR.-The A
merican patent for Philips celebrated Fire
Annihilator has been purchased by an As
ISOLATION of eminent capitalists and bust
ness men of the united states.
Hon. Elisha Whittlesy, First Comptroller
of the Treasury Department, has been APP
pointed President of the Company. Over
$1,000, 900 has been invested in this great
enterprise.
A SCENE OF DEsoLATIoN.-The Times
and Transcript says that the emigrant road
over the desert, beyond Humboldt river, is
literally strewed with dead carcases. A
friend who has just come in, counted twenty
head of cattle, in as many feet square; for
forty miles they average one TO every ten
feet; making total of twenty thousand
The wagons are one TO every rod. OF
eleven thousand that started for California
last year, not one-half reached their desti-
nation.
ONE OF THE TRoUTs.--Among the
choice things on which we dined at the
Bellows Falls Hotel yesterday was a trout
weighing FIVE pounds |. was caught by
that indefatigaole and successful disciple of
Isaak Walton, Hon. VIM. Henry. 1t is
worth the ride to Bellows falls to get taste
of such trout as that, served up as they
know how to do it at Williams and FeIts.
- Eagle.
DEAF AND DUMB.-There are at the pres
ent time eleven institutions in The United
States devoted exclusively to the education
of the deaf and dumb.
ABoMNIABLF.-A woman has been tried
aud convicted in Virginia, for teaching a
slave to read the Bible, and sentenced TO
two years Imprisonment in the pententary,
According to the indictment, she not
having the fear of God before her eyes, but
moved and instigated by theydeVi, wicked.
ly, maIiciously, and feloniousIy, did teach. a
certain negro woman to read the Bible, to
the great displeasure Of Almighty dod.' .
The story should be told in Austria New
England men are not inclined to believe it,
- Essex Freeman.
The earnings of the Vt. Central Rail.
road for July last, we're $5I ,2l2, 46-being
$27 1852 as, or liz per cent over July Of
last year. :
RIDE EXTRAORDINARILY Transcript
tells story of boy who rode from Boston
to Worcester, on Saturday, on the truck
beneath one of the cars, in such position
that his body was supported by one of the
cross-pieces and an iron rod, and with only
about ten or twelve inches space between
the truck and the bottom of the car The
boy said he belonged to Norwich, c., ant
he was sent home. The very next day he
with another boy, was found in similar
position on the arrival of the express fregh
train in New York, and what is more sin
guar, when discovered he was asleep!
PINs-The American Pin Company, a
Waterbury, Conn, manufacture, on an av
erage, 400 900 pins per day, or about l2(',
OO0,OOO per year
A YOUNG AVALANCHE FROM THE SKIES
The Boston Times says it learns from re
liable source, that lump Of hail weighing
two hundred and seventeen pounds. fel
near Dover, N. H., on the Goth Of August
The mass was observed at considerable
elevation before il descended, and create'
no little alarm among number of people
1t fortunately fell in bog and did no 9th
er damage than to throw up mud and dir
upon all who were in the vicinity.
A SPANISH WoMAN's VENGENCE.-Th
California papers give the following accoun
of the lynching of woman at Downervil
for revengng with death an outrageous in
suit offered to her:
FATAL MIsTAKE.-At North Bridgewa
ter, in this State. on Wednesday mornn
last, an Irishman named Murphy, feeIin
unwell, was advised by his mother to tax
dose of salts. A young girl was sent 70
them, but by mistake of her own got a
ounce of oxaic acid, which the unfortunat
man swallowed and was a corpse IN eigf
minutes Boston Traveller.