Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-21
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n1cKorc,s PATENT CIDER n,i.l.


duccd and keep on hand for sale, this celebrated
Cider Mill, which should, and doubtless soon
will, supcrscde all others now in use. Though so
light and compact that it can 30 put into Il one
horsc wagon and carried any where where wan
ted, it yet, hy one man lahor in turning, &C.,
can he made to turn out more barrels of cider
in II day, than any Of the old fashioned mills
turned by horse power. At least call and soc
it, farmers. Tho price Of mill is $40, but
one of them is enough for neighborh0ad Of
cider makers.
From 'ToTnRR SIDE risE WoRtp Il city pat
ron in the shipping business with all parts of
the world has sent Us Il packet Of Australian
newspapers, one of which, though Daily, is
almost us big as u Bay State Shawl, but contains
acres Of advertisements 10 inches Of reading
matter. Among the latter, however, We ;ss2er-
tanned the significant fact, that the ''Go-A-
HEADS" of that rapidly progressing now CONT
nont, were, at the dato june 18th, drumming
up u great National Fair, soon to como off ut
Melbourne, now Il populous city, promising, ere
long, to vie with the most important cities Of the
east.
PERPETUAL Morioyl-A Mr.. J. G. lionlrirk-
sou, Of New Jersey, claims to have discovered "
boaa Gdc perpetual motion, Ills machine con-
81 SIS of u hollow cylinder, with balls or weights
inside, one Of which is made always to be ready
to lubber left, SO us to keep the cylinder rolling:
1t goes like Il whrlisig, they say, and will never
stop Of its own accord. The inventor seems con-
i.'lmt he has got the Hing at last, and good
power with it.
THE VERMONT MURAL FIRE INsrRANcE CoN-
PAYING have received the 9th Annual re-
port Of this old and wel-tcstcd company, which
for soundnrss, good management, and the extent
Of its operati0iis, under the direction Of its
prudent and able President, the Hon. Daniel
Baldwin, may well challenge comparison with
the very best institutions of the kind in New
England. The Report shows the operations OF
the Company in details setting forth the various
CLASSES Of property insured, their amounts, num-
Der of policies, premium notes, losses On each
and assessments made to pay them the past year,
the aggregate of all which is as follows
There were at the date Of the report III force
Policies, l7,l4G
lnsuring property to amount Of $l4 CTS, +79,0O
Amount OF premium notes, S4,059 OH III
The artrdge assessment On the premium notes
for twenty-sev,n years has been IL per cent
For the past year it was B per cent. The range
of assessment has been hctwccn 81 and 5 per
cent. I'm Is years of the p the assessment has
been per cent or over.
The Company has insured in all to the
amount of $6000O,00t
The ,rhoIe cost Of its insurance is SG67 ,697
Or lis 100 per cent.
OF this whole outlay, there has been paid oi
incidental expenses (that is, for all expenses rx
ccpt for payment Of losses by fire, sl3, 5lt
Or about per cent of the whole.
The DEATH OF Mrs, BGNToN. The eXcellen
wife of the venerable statesman, Thomas ii
Benton, died at Washington, On Monday of las
week, She was adorel by her illustriouS hus
band, and her death will add another to thos
severed cords once binding him to earth, t.
which, with the pathus Of the Hebrew prophets
he so touchingly alluded in apublic speech lar
year at st. Louis. And through sympathy t
him, the whole country will he her mourncrs
Washington County Fair IL Champion Horse
owned by John Morse of Calais, made the tim
of . minutes and 81 seconds, with little train
ing. A Champion Colt, four years old, owne
by Alphcus Bliss of Cahis made the time o
three minutes and Is seconds, with little or II
training. The above horses arc sired by tn
old Vermont Champion, springing from tn
Sherman Morgan, now owned by Geo. NJ, am
Benz Town of Montpelier.
An AMAruRE BEAR I[uNT.--Nine bears
driven by the fire from their home in Washing
ton Co., n. Y lately und rlook TO emigla,e t.
Vermont While swimming the bay cOnpl
Of mites from Whitehall, Il woman and bow
gave oh Sc to all old she bear that was swim
mug with her cubs They rowed up to the Of
lady and raped her head with an oar Sh
TUNED and pat her paws on the edge of tn
boat and proposed 10 come aboard to settle til
big bear turned abou, to see if it was " fire.
fight" and if so they wanted to be 81 cuuated in
The Loa,mcn, finding bigger fight than the
had hargained for, proposed 6 compromise,
aud both parties made n straight wake for tn
shore in opposite directions II is generally SUI
posed that the woman and boys will not SUI
90 on another bear hunt on Lake Champain
A GENulSE CURIOSITY Mr. James Robil
SON Of Manchester, n. H., While cunning alon
the bank IF the Connection, River, two mile
below Springfield, a day or two since, dscovere
two Singular looking fish swimming beside eac
other near the surface Of the wafer, and killt
them both at one shot. On taking them fro
The water, they were found to measure eat
l2 IL inches in myth and Two inches in CT
cumIrrance, their bodps very nearly lesen'hlir
those Of the common plckerpl, bn, IN the plat
where pickere s heads ought to have been, lh'
iapeled of into ropnd, sharp po'ntcd hills, tbr'
inches in length, opening closc up 10 The eye
and exhibiting four rows Of shark s teeth in mi
nature The 6 oldest babitant' on the bal
of the river never before saw the Ike among
funny population
MINoT's LEDGE LIGHTHOUSE. The Was
Inn Star hears than ihe pans for the new llgl
house Oh Mn0ts edge 1T the entrances Of l}u
Ion bay are nearly maiured, and that the mat,
will be rapidly pushed forward. !, is expec
10 be of solid masonry for at least forty ie
from low water mark the lantern, which is
be Of the second order is to be eighty ic
tlcm low water and she space in the wef, j
.erveneine between tho top Of ihc solid va
and the lantern cha Der, 10 BIZ diyiIedipio s,orj
(aparlmens) OF twesty feet diameler, ior kee
els quarters, stores. Ne.
SINGULAR AND FarAL AccIDeNr Sileey
l'arcu o, aged 10 years. only son of the Ia
Judge l'arculo, was accidcnlly killed at Pong
keepsie, N. Y, or the lth inst. He WAS
S hoo playing and nv running rapidly arou