Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-01-19
METEoRoLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Made az East MontpeHer. IN the a,car 1874
Mean

Wariaest sunrise, August 18th, 60 degrees.
Coolest sanriSe, Feb, Goth, 20 deg. below zero.
Range SO degrees.
Warmest noon, June 10th, So deg. Coolest
Moons, Jan. 10th and Doth, and Dee. Goth and
29th, s deg. Range 80 deg
Warmest sunset, Aug. 18th, II deg Coolest
sunset, Jan. 10th, l deg. below zero. Range,
7S deg.
Narmest day, Aug. 18TH mean temperature
Is 2-3 deg Coolest day, Jan. Goth, mean tent
pcrature l-3 deg below zero Range II deg.
Clear days, l27: cloudy days, 2O2; rainy
days. 20 snowy days, 49, Clear evenings, 1876;
cloudy evenings 1870 rainy evenings, q snowy
evenings, %.
SNow.-January, l3 inches; February, 36
inches; March, 26 inches; April, inches;
October, inches; November, 10 inches De-
Icembcr, 24 inches. Total, 10 feet and 8 inches
MIRACULOUS EsCApE.--NobLc Conduct Of
Wonrda.-'rhc Quebec Chronicle, of Dec. 30th,
has the following On Saturday afternoon, as
one of the ferry canoes from the city reached
the battures at Point Levi, a mass of sheet ice
drifting down with the ebb tide bore it away
ere all the passengers were able to jump ashore
Notwithstanding the greatest efforts OF their
companions to rescue themby hauling the boat
ashore, they were forced to witness their three
fellow pass 3ngers. a woman and two men, borne
off rapidly by the ice, with every prospect of
meeting watery grave, or freezing from the
intense cold
The force of the tide and current is SO strong,
more particularly with an ebb tide and West
wind, that no human power can stay the pro-
gross of any thing once in its grasp-as the
writer can testify, from q narrow escape two
years since. The unfortunates in the canoe
were therefore most reluctantly abandoned by
their comrads, and left to their fate.
During the course Of the night, they were
thus carried down the river till opposite st.
Thomas, u distance of thirty-fve miles from
this city. With the rising tide they were again
brought up az far Us Berthier, where at noon
on Sunday, they were observed by the people
were rescued from their perilous situation, hav-
ing spent nearly "a hours on the river, includ-
ing one of the most severe nights that are ever
experienced throughout our winter season.
Their escape is altogether due to the cxer-
tons of the woman, who from time to time en-
conraged the men to work to keep themselves
warm, and this she had to do repeatedly, as the
two men, believing all exertion in vain, laid
themselves down in the canoe frequently dur
ing the night at the risk of being frozen in their
slumbers. The name Of the woman is Begin, q
widow, and the mother Of young family liv-
ing at Point Levi.
The Boston Post says " We learn from head
quarters that should The Vermont Central, in
the coming six months, increase its earnings at
the same per ceatage that has been actually OBJ
tanned in the last half ycar, twill pay the Can
ada s per cent, the interests ON all its bonds,
and its current expenses, of 100000. On
Saturday, j. s. Eldridge, Esq, was elected one
of the trustees of the road, under the first mort
gage, in place of John 4. Thayer, Esq, re-
signed"
William Henry was tried in Providence on
Tuesday of last week, for kissing three ladies
i'll the street against their consent. lie was
fined five dollars and costs on each complaint,
amounting to $3.50 for each kiss.
Sixty-one executions occurred in the United
States in 1888.
1t is said that during the year 1853, there
have been 81 steamboat accidents in the United
States, whereby 3l9 persons have been killed,
and l5S wounded.
In Boston, 1870 deaths were reported last
year, at the Office of the City Register
The citizens Of Troy recently gave grand
banquet to General Wool.
The Liquor Law is working admirably in
Michigan.
The returns of the vote on tho prohibitory
Liquor Law in Wisconsin, foot up largely in
favor of the enactment of the law.
DEATH OF A MEMBER OF CoNGREss.--Mr. Muh-
lenberg died in Washington Monday night, of
last week, of hemorrage of the lungs.
Intelligence has been received of the escape
Of Smith o Brien from Van Dieman's Land.
A VENERABLE APPLE TREE,-Mr. Marsh of
Litchfeld, Mass, has on his premises an apple
tree which measures fourteen feet in circumier-
cnce, and yielded twenty bushels of good fruit
the past season. 1t had yielded previously to
1885, about 100 bushels year. 1t was carried
to Litchfed from Hartford by the first settlers
of the former town, and has borne delicious
fruit for 1870 years.
There were 1873 railroad accidents in the
United States in 1853, killed 1913 persons, 400
wounded.