Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-01
State Fair at MONTPELIER.

.'e'a'y VI INC CtiZens Vi montpelier, the
Board OF Management are enable to offer very
superior inducements 10 Exhibitors to bring for
ward all articles OF Production, whether Agr-
cultural, Mechanical or of the Liberal Arts.
The expense and trouble of transportation
are almost wholly avoided, under an arrange
ment by which articles are carried to and from
Montpelier without cost to the Exhibitor and
without change Of cars.
The Grounds are extensively laid out and
htted with great care 10 meet oil the wants of
the Exhibition. A fine Course, commanded by
large galleries for spectators. to exhibit the speed
and action of Horses: convenient and covered
stalls for Horses, and sheltered stands for Cat
tie: covered pens tor Sheep abundance of wa
ter upon the grounds, and feed OF all sorts for
animals: spacious and well protected Halls for
all varieties of manufactured articles and careful
ly selected grounds for The Flowing Match have
been provided and placed at the disposal Of the
Society, for the Use of Exhibitors.
premium list Of more than $500 dollars
prepared by the President, and, admirably adapt
ed TO call out and suitably reward every Indus.
trial Energy OF the State Is offered to conpeti-
tors. Great care has been bestowed in the Sc
lection Of dlsnteresled and competent Commit
tees of Award.
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has been committed to Mr.. Lyman P. White to
whose care articles for Exhibition may be direct
ed but 1t is expected that Exhibitors will take
charge of them before Entry at the Enclosure.
| The Department OF Manufactures, is as last
year, under The management Of Mr.. John Howe,
Jr., of Brandon.
Gentlemen who have been appointed on Com
,nittees of Award and who will not be able 10
| "A dpsrpu N ~ mi n it'll the undp-
signed at their earliest convenience
The Committees are invited to report them
selves at the Secre.ary's office Immediately on
their arrival.
The Flowing Match will take place on the
morning OF the third day at 9 O'clock. The
other arrangements of the Exposition, IN detail,
will be published hereafter.
II IS deemed especially desirable that a full
representation of the Industrial Interests of every
quarter of The State should be made this year.
The healthy simulous Of the two last Exhb
tions has been sens,bly felt in the increased
amount, and quality Of Productions, and IN large
ac:essons 10 market values of many kinos Of
property in the state; and this increased activity
is 10 be KEPT up. only bv repeated opportunities
for exhibition and comparison.
The General Committee remote from The
of the Safe, are particularly invited to see to It
that the productions of their respective neigh
boz hoods are fairly represented, at the Fair.
By order IF the Bard
J. A. BECKwIrH, Cor. Sec.
Mddebury. Aug. %, 1853.
Nathan Chase, of Somerset, r. l., while
waking in by road leading to his farm, esped
large black snake on a rock He threw
stone at it, which cut it in two and, to his great
engagement, from the body of the snake no less
than sixty.two small ones crawed
Mr.. While, of Marlboro, N H., victim in
the Norwalk bridge slaughter, has received
$2685 from the New fIaven Railroad Company.
He was in the first passenger car.
Col. Washburn of Montpelier, recently met
with severe if not mortal accident, by being
overturned and dragged IN his carriage near
Malone, N. Y.
A woman residing at Brandon, VT, not vet
thirteen years old, has recently become a moth
er. She was married before she was eleven.
A FORTUNE MADE BY MIsFoTuNE.-Mr
Quigley, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, it is
said bought large quantity oftobacco last win
ter, expecting to ship it to the southern market
before the season of low water and high freight
Unfortunately. apparently, the Ohio fell before
he could get his tobacco out of Green River, in
consequence of which it had advanced in value
on his hands to the amount Of $40 900.
The removal of tho University at Norwich tn
Montpelier, is talked of-the condition being
that $4,000 shall be contributed towards the
erection of buildings, &c, by the citizens OF
the latter place. About "a coo has been already
subscribed.
RAILROAD FATALITY.-The total number of
railroad accidents in the United States, from the
LIST of January to August 18th, was 65 involving
the loss of one hundred and seuent-sir lives, and
wounding three hundred and thirty three persons.
This is certainly an appalling aggregate.
. THICKNESS OF NEGRo's SKuLL.--The
Memphis Appeal relates that few days ago
while barrel OF flour was beng lowered from
the upper story of wareh use, and when yet
=. at considerable elevation, it slipped and tell
upon negro, trlking him full on the head and
forcing out an eye. The skull was not even
fractured, however, and the negro is dong we'll.
AUSTRALIAN ANiMALs.-Of the fifty-three
species OF four legged animals, known to exist
in Australia, not one is 10 be found anywhere
: else they are all residents OF New Holland ex.
clnsve!y. or of the adjacent islands. On the
other hand, the very connonest OF the old world
qnadrepeds are not to be met with otherwise
than as colonlss in Australia.
u AN ANCIENT FoRTIFIcArIoN "A cores
: pondent Of the Albany Journal states that in
= Murray County, Georgia, and near its southern
= boundary, at the summit of a mural precipice,
Ir0n r,at in ,Iur ho,, Il
the remains of al ancient torti6ca,ion con
stucted Of solid mason work, covering five acres
u, = OF ground. Within the enc osnre lofty fores,
u trees, two and three hundred years DID, real
their heads to the tempest, covering with the II
yeriant foliage an ancient hearth.stone, once III
. use by Its ancient occupants. -....'..
e A locust plague appears 10 be affecting tn
+ people OF several parts of Central America
h A cloud of these devourlng insects had aligh'e'
D upon the territory between the Blrranca ant
e the Chacarlte, consuming the crops and TN
n Bishop of that region had directed pu lie prayer
4, for relief to be offered up. The locust had ais
fallen upon the city OF Salvador.
The United States has paid out $53 1853 t
= Spanish subjects al New Orleans, whose proper
= ty was destroyed by mon IN 1851.
y PKorrrs or A LAw-SUIr.-On the Sd Of DE
Z !. cenber, 1852, the snip Georgia was wrecked OF
u Long Bach. N. j., and beled (tor salvage, W
!, presulne) by Thomas Bond. After IL months q
:, litigation, The United States Court, at Trenton
"A closed the ulattc- by distribution of the sale
- said vessel to the hbellant, Thomas Bond. In
proceeds amounted to s. ,005 the whole of who
Of was swallowed up in the costs of the Court, ex
re cept $40 which the hbellant received. hi
It, CLAIM was So 282,37. Abou, three per cent ft
a. justice and nnetyseuen per cent. tor collecting
W Y. Tribune.
A lad recently fell into the Elk river, Md
u, ~ IN an epleptc it, and went directly to the DO
~ TON IN deep water, where he remained from !
"s to 20 minutes before he was brOught up afte