Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-05-12


ABANDoNED.-In June, 1s49 Geo. Wash
ingon Henderson, of Wood Coumv. VIRGINIA,
commenced suit in Circuit Court, u. S. dis.
tlct OF Ohio, against David Putnam. Jr.. of
washington County, for knowingly and win
iuiy oostructlng and hindering plaintiff from
selAng and arresting his fugitive slaves and
also Tor hhreorlng and concealng his fugitive
slaves Sterhen, Allen, Susan. Charles, William,
Marvin, john, and Adeiine and Jerome Harris,
who owed service &c, damages and pen liy
only Sl55OO. Council for plaintiff, Samuel
r. Vlnton, and Swayne and Bates. of Columbus :
Mr.. Putnam'a council. Salmon P. Chase. Well,
few days since Mr. Putnam received a letter
RON N. ii. Swayne saving be 'was directed to
discontinue the sud.-Cleuetand True Democ, at
TAbL SNAKE SToRY.-We pit the follow
ing facts against any incident OF The kind, at
least IN these parts. On Thursday of last week
Mr.. Russell Todd. OF East Farms, tn rec miles
from this village, seeing black snake crawling
round the remalns of an old we'll had the curl
osl,y to ascetan whether there were any more
OF the same sort, when his research was rewar.
dcd, with the assistance OF crow bar, by bring
ing to daylight IS of the tribe, ranging from
three and half to six feet in length all of
which were of course deprived of further as.
sociution. We have the above from and I'M
doubted source Waterbury american.
PERsoNAL--We have in our town probably
the largest man in New England, in the person
of Mr.. John ]. Nourse. He is native of Lynn {;
has resided here eight years; weighed last
three hundred and eighty eight pounds! and is
now forty-tour years old. MIR. N. was not above
the ordinary size until about twelve years since,
when hehad severe fever became convalcscent.
afterwards experienced relapse, which brought
him so low that his lie was despared of for
some time. When at the age of twenty-one
he weighed only one hundred and forty pounds.
Since he has attained to snoh remarkable size,
his health has been invariably good, his appe-
tte never fails. he rests as well, and sleeps as
soundly as others. He has not been under the
necessity of calling in physician on his own
account since he has lived in the place, is seen
often about town both summer and winter, is al
ways apparently in good spirits, never out of
humor, keeps posted up upon matters and things
in general, a shrewd farmer and worthy citizen.
MIR. N. seldom it ever has any one riding with
him, from the tact, we presume, that his horse
is not above ordinary size and there is but one
seat in hie wagon.
The late Stephen Holt of New York weighed
BOG pounds, Hon. Myton Lawrence 345 pounds,
and we believe there is DR.. Brown now living
at Springfield, who weighed 800 pounds
.4ndoper .huerttser
CENTENNARlANs.--Da Hicks, native Of
Vermont died at Buffalo. N. Y, aged l0l years.
lie served under Gen. Gates. and fought at III
conderoga, Grown Point and Bemis' Heights,
and was present when Burgoyne surrendered
his army at Saratoga. Robert Sincloir, aged
l02 years, died IN Madison county Missouri
18th uli. lie took an active part in our revolu-
tionary struggles, aud rendered himself very
useful as spy on the frontier settlement of Vir-
GINA and North Carolina. He retained his
strength of body and mind to within few
weeks Of his DENIS
BITE OF THE RATTLEsNAKE.-In Georgia,
girl seventeen years old was bitten by rattle
snake on the left insep. Two hours and half
afterwards DR.. T. A. Atchinson, who describes
the case in the Southern Medical Journal, visit
ed her, and found her sightless, with her face
swollen and her mind wandering. He placed
her in hot salt bath, and administered whisky
and carbonate of ammonia until she had taken
three pints of the first and eight grains of the
latter; no intoxication followed, and she was
cured. In New York within a year or two a
physician was suffered to die of the bite of a
rattlesnake !; also Il physician in Philadelphia.
The London Times states the extraordinary
fact, that nnety-fve ou. of every hundred let.
tiers sent from the United States to ireland, con-
tain remittences of money to pay the passages
of relatives to this country.
RI; mt of (snuar
al Pierce, that he drinks no wine, and those
who enjoy an intimate personal acquaintance
with him, say that the bereavements and affllc-
tons OF his later years, and the pressure OF one
rous public duties since his election, have i'm
pressed him with deep sense of religious re
sponsibllitly, and given tinge Of gravity to hi,
character which forms an observable contrast
with the ardor and vivacity of his Temperament,
at earlier periods of his life.
SrIRTs -RAppING MAcHINE.-1he .New Io,h
Journal of Commerce says a manufacturing
house in that city is engaged IN making, "medl
UNI tables for people who live by their wits
The table is like an ordinary one, with a tor
formed of thick board but concealed within a
cavity, in the latter is small apparatus, with a
kind of hammer, for producing the 'raps." The
hammer is SO constructed with a wire running
down through the table ley, that the latter has
only to be in contact with nail head, Of some
thing Of the kind, in the floor, to enable thu
operator to produce the raps, by the means o
galvanism.
The Boston Mail states that subjugation o
Mexico is moral misson--a duty we owe te
the amelioraton Of mankind. The necessit,
consists in our preservation agalnst the cncroacl
ments of foreign and extraneous influences.
Two of the Hutchinsons- and Judso
are now at the CommoDsvile Waller Cur
establishment, near Cincinnati. Jesse was OF
his way home from California, and stopping I,
see his invalid brother, was himself takeu
sick.
-Four lads were precipitated in boat ove
the Falls in the Hoosac liver. at Schaticok
Point, on Tuesday and two of them, name,
Down and Finn, were drowned.
The Mount STIRLING Whig, referred to III
death of General Thomas Marshall, at Marys
vile, KY, says that he and Tyler, his tennan
quarreled; that the General snapped his gun a
Tyler, the cap ouly exploding, and that he wa
preparing to try to fire the gun again, whe
Tyler shot him.
The question who ownes Lake Michigan
has sprung up in the Illinois courts. The pc
sons owning land along the shore of the lax
claim to own to the middle of the lake, while
railroad company, that wishes to run a roa
along the shore, claim that all outside of higl
water mark belongs to the State.