Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-24

WIS u!SchNerfN III wa or tntre titT pointS HUI
cattag extel.siy Gres. We understood that some
200 cords If wood belonging, it was believed,
to The Bennington and Rutland Railroad, were
on fire, and likely to be consumed Albany
Jour-, Thursday.-
A Nav METHOD OF CLEANING HOUSES
The Salem Journal says thai Mr. J seph Pond
Of Salem, recently h d two of his houses cleared
of tenants in a summary manner by the aid OF
Catholic priest. Som" difficulty occurred be.
tween the Irish tenants aud their neighbors, and
the piest, fearing trouble, proceeded 10 cauIse
the houses As the Irishmen did not dare 10 &c
cupy house accused they were completely
cleared of their tenants in the course of week.
DISTRESSING CASUALTY AT FALMOUTH A
young man by the name OF Timothy Prince, ac
complained by little boy about three years of
age Ga son of Azekipl IIodgden of F) started
out on the morning of the 18th in boat for the
purposa of fishing for mackerel 1t is supposed
that soon after starting the spirit sail swung
round by which the little boy was knoc( ed over
board. Some one from the shore SAW Mr. Prince
plunged in to save the boy. and after long and
ineFa tual attempts so to do sink to rise no more.
Thus were both man and child engu'phed in
watery grave
The death of the child under these circum-
stances is additionally painful from the fac, that
another member of the same family lay dead in
the IA hers house al tho same time Portland
Advertiser
The 'Know Nothing newspaper of Boston calls
upon the Schemers of the National American
party to fix time and place for grand Nation
al American onventiou, to give National shape
and organization to the party.
Mrs Stoves new book, Sunny Memories,
has rapid sale We learn that the printers aud
bookblnders are already preparing the fifteenth
Thousand.
GOLD IN VERMONT. The Woodstock Age
says that for the las three or four weeks, from
Thirty to fifty workmen under the direction OF
Capt Ira +. Payson, of N. Y have been ell
gagged IN digging in o and examining tn" prcml-
SEES of l'rdge~ alter, where gold has b en- dis
covFred, and that lne rcsu t thus far, ha. be
entirely satisfactorily The Age concludes by
assuring the public that there is no mbug about
this matter, and that the mines will prove among
the richest ever discover d-NOThtrn Adr0tdfc.
AN INDIAN FIcnr- A pitched bate took
place some three weeks since in what is known
as the" i!uifa Grounds " between about 400
Deawares, Potawatamnes and Sacs, and about
700 theyenncs ard Arrapahoes, in which the
latter had over fifty of their party killed, while
the former lost only some three or four This
difference considering the disparity in numbers.
is accounted for by the fact that the former We're
armed with rifles. while the latter had but few
fire arms and depended upon bows and arrows
r., H. D.. III l,;ol
was sigened by the President about 10 clock
on Thusday night, required for its enrolment one
thou and sh els of parchment. costing $500! 1t
is recapilulation of all the existing post outes
in the United States to which some six or seven
hundred new ones are added.
Il The Civil WAR IN CuINA-1he population
of China at the prs mt time is three hundred
and forty millions. 0r about fifteen times more
than the United States Of this number, it is
probable thata majority acknowledged he nsurgent
chief as their Emperor, and should Pekin fall ,
the remainder will fal away from the present
Tarter dynasty. Already thousands Of lives
have been So rlhced in this war; ard many mo c
will perish ere order is again restored
CHoLERA-Ca,sse and Efects-A private let
) ter from Freeport, Illinois, mentions the case Of
family, consisting of ten persons hey bought
f quantity of ha spoiled fresh pork and brollcd
and at" it, without salt bread Or thing At
night they slept in he open air, and shower
coming on, they were completely drenched Be-
fore mkt day. seven out of the ten were
dead.
They are building bridge for the Lexington
and DaHvillc road. across the Ken lucky river,
pointing south the mos, magnificent on earth
one span of ire, from cliff 10 cliff, tweine Hundred
feet long.
J. R Hind, London has discovered another
new planet 1t is like star of he tenth magtn-
I, tude. and situated almost exactly upon the ccip.
tic, about midway between two stars of fifth mag
nitude-29 and 80 of lIanlseed in CaprcJrnus
, Was first Sc n IL AS mean time, night of ed.
THE Warrington (Va) Wing says -" Eas
tar. negro woman, the property of Mis- Eliza
, F Carter. near UpperviIIe, in Faquier County
died on The nth of July, having attained the age
of one hundred and forty gears
The Vermont State Agricultural Fair wi be
he at Bratteboro', VI. on the 18th, l4th and
10Th of September. The New Hampshire State
Fair will commence at Keene on the Sd October,
and continue to the 9Th The Connecticut State
!, Fair will be he'd at New Ilaven-coutinuine
from the 10 to the 18th Of October
, The Tribune says that on Wednesday of last
week. a carman in New York became enraged
, with his horse and pulled out the poor animal s
2 tongue The cruel wretch WIS arrested and
: committed for examination.
At Mi'dletown, Ct, last week, a family of
four persons james liurnham, wife and two
children all died of cholera and were buried
within 49 hours
A Book DENoUNcED.- trustees of La
, Place College Institute, A ALBANIA, have resolved
; that Wayland's Moral Science contains Abo-
l,ion doctrine of the deepest dye" and accord
l ngy denounce said book and forbid its further
use in the Institute.
FEMALE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS The fifth
annual announcement of the Philadelphia Female
Col eye states that the success Of those who
have graduated at that Institution and engaged
in practice, has realized the most sanguine expec-
tai ons. The receipts of several for their first
wear S practice, have been over one thousand dol
, lars and all have done well
An Irish girl in Worcester, Mass, disappointed
a in love. the other day threw herself in front Of
- a locomotive, but was caught and saved from
. death though severely injured by the cow-catcher
L. X Wildman Of Danbury,t,t has invented
n an alarm to clocks that goes off just before they
are about to run down A good idea.
= TnE OLDEST CLERGYMAN A correspondent
8 the N. Y. Euengeiit states that the Rev john
Sawyer. of Garland Me is in all probability the
e Oldest officiating clergyman in he United States
y lie sa IS that " Father Sawyer will be- ninety
IS nine years old next October. He was born il
e Hebron Conn, on the 9th of October, 1855
is He was ordained in 1887, and has ever since
1t been active in the duties Of the Christian minis
t try. lie recently preached three times on on'
n sabbath"