Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-24
Che Nous Gleauer.
Notes and Comments,

IS0kCS auu NOMnGuLS
BosroS MvsIcIPAL FIOE ALARs TELEea ApH.
Most of our readers, we presume, ave heard
Of the Fire Alarm Telegraph, WHICH yss last
summer put in operation in Boston. and which,
BY is network Ct telegraph wires, extending to
the various cepral stations oyer lac city, so That
those visited by fires may 10 g few steps reach
the nearest one and iulsp,ly communicate to
The central office, jhai % instantly comma ncates
by bells, the legation of tbs fire, the fire compa
~ or companies Taniad, the extngs ishmept or
spread of the fta, and anything necessary 10 be
known to any and al concerred-has proved OF
ouch lncalculah9le ImpoTtauca in savlrg the prop
erty Of that city from the devourlng element
But though most Of US have heard of this most
Ingenious and important application Of magnet
lam, yet few. probably, know any thing of the
inventors, The inventors, or diseoverers, perhaps
they may more pop 'ry be called, are DR.. Chan
ming and NJ. G. Farmer, Of Boston, the latter
having been the principal eonslructoy and opera.
nor Of the establishment, VIC think, from its in
\eption. With DR., 6. we are not acquainted,
nt with Mf.aEarmer we are, and deem him a
Dung gan,lemaIIof much personal worth; and
e genius, in the deesfimcnt Of maehauicai
ence in which 10 is engaged lie light of
cannot lcagbe hia under the bushcl Of
E;trs Indeed. we are informed that his
sSseady engaged in constructing
llcgrapla FIR other cities; and we have
Ny seen il as,nouaoed that he has made an
Eovament in the Battery now in use, by which
he cost OF working il is reduced oae.half In
oncusion, we will Only add that we are truly
ratified with Mr., Farmers success, for we know
III no one more deserving Of it.
JENNY LINp's MISTAKE -'rhis noble girl
married asman who was m expert fiddler, be-
lieving, probably, under tle has Of her profess
sion, that one 80 gifted in producing harmony.
could never destroy It in domestic lite. She
was aware that he had small body, but did not
discover, TIL ton late, that his soul was stu
less. But shs has now made the discovery. it is
said, aud having separated from him, ia again
coming to America.
DEspoTIsM.-" There is time when man
ru!eth another to his own hurt" said the wise
man in that system of ethics, on which all the
moralsts from his day to the present, have
scarcely made an improvement. And 1t Is
great truth. Heed it, we social as well as polit-
ioal despots We may occasionally submit to
offensive dctaton in silence, because resistance
at the time might do US injury but we do not
forget the dictator, who, in the hour OF his want
need not wonder that he DO left to call in vain
for our aid and sympathy.
OLD FATHER Rowan eccentric, and. or
many accounts, very remarkable mau, who
was known by the appellation Of old Gather
Rowe, died few years ago, at very advanced
age, in the town of Baldwin, in Maine, where
having outllved all his relatives, he had long
Ned lie a poor hut, with no other companion
small dog In early life he had been
in the old French and Indian Wars, and
the lead of the Loves, Churches, ant
bf the noted Indian lighters of the times
couted over almost every mile Of the how
lderness from the coast settlements o
England to the great river of Canada, en-
hardships and effecting hair-breadth es
Is that sometimes seemed to throw the wild
Isl creations Of fiction into the shade.
Among the curious incidents of his life, which
we gathered formerly, while on visits to relatlve
in the vicinity of his residence, there was ont
that particularly interested US as Vermonter ::
lie was once captured by the Indians, some
where in Northern New York, stripped naked
bound to a tree, hedged in with dry faggots, an
every thing made ready for the horrid death b.
fire, to which his Gend-l like captors had doome
him, without the least apparent chance TO es
cape. But by an effort of despair, he burst hi
thongs, dashed through the encircling ranks
his grim foes, fed for dear life into the hlcke'
of the woods, and succeeded in dis anclng c
lodging his pursuers. And in this condition
wi bout shoe to his feet, covering to his hea'
or one rag of clothing to his back, he traverse
entirely across the State of Vermont, then witt
out white inhabitant, and at last, after days an
nights of suffering from cold, hunger and lace
ated limbs, reached an opening Of new settle
in New Hampshire. On coming in sight OF tn
log but. he haloed from distance when W.
man, The only person at home, appearing, i
made known his situation and retired into tn
..,. woods. The woman soon brought out an o.
suitsof clothes, laid them on stump, and
turn retired to give him chance to dress al
\ come to the house. as he now did, for food al
rest 10 enable Tim to reach home.
Rowe was a man OF great simplicity OF cha
cier, frank and honest but odd and eccenrl
every thing Although he was very plou
nxgulary read in the bible and prayed alot
Rrning and~evenlng, yet he could new
RSow off either the habits or languas
Nj; MD his inadvertent mngling
ID and profane, as he sometimes did
me act, was both shocking and iudicrou
heighbor wenttosbls hut on some errand OIL
Morning, and finding him at his Devotion paus'
| the door ard glanced through some of Il
numerous creviccs to the scene within. II
4 old man-had cooked his breakfast, and cover
itup in the spider with plate, to sit by the f
", till utter prayers. The dog sat wistfully looki
Il, the covered spider, while his master, with
cane by his eide, was kneeling by q chair, a
earnestly invoking the blessings of Heaven.
Presently the rafting of the plate apprised I
old man that the dog was taking mean adva
tage of the occasion; when opening his ey
and tourishlny his cane over the head Of /