Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-05-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.

irohi Schooner, however, recently arrived
reports having passed, at a distance, a large
vessel answering the description of the missing
ship, which appeared to be aground, or in some
way disabled. The opinion of the Sea Captains,
Notwithstanding, now is that the Glasgow has
been crushed in the large bodies of ice this
& Spring found in the Northern route, and that
, she, like the il-fated President, has gone down
, with all on board
A New NICARAGUA TREATY.-Mr. Borland,
our Minister of Central America, has made and
sent to Washington new treaty, securing, it is
F reported, not only the right of way, but an ex-
tension over the Mosquito country, now claimed
by the British.
A CHILD ScALDED TO DEATH in GLoyRR.-A
son of Mr.. w. Mitchell, aged four years, came
to its death in Glover, on the 18th ult., by set
ting down backward into kettle of hot water
The NEXT VERMONT STATE FAIR is to be held
at Brattleboro on the 18th, 18th and l4th of
September next. This was decided by vote of
the Managers of the State Agricultural Society
ct a meeting held week before last at Rutland.
| The WALKER EXPEDITION FIzzLED oUT.-The
last arrivals from California announce that the
Fillibustering Party of the rodoubtable Capt
Walker was dispersed, and that he, as he ought
to DO, has been arrested for trial by the United
States Authorities. Here's hoping that same
luck to all Fillibusters, whether Lower Califor-
MAN or Cuban.
The New YORK CRYSTAL PALACE is to be re-
opened on the 4th of May. not the l4th, as
part of our article on the subject, by an error,
had it last week. And everything indicates that
they are going to have splendid affair it.
TERRIBLE D1sAsTER.-The great Clothing Store
of jennings Co., on Broadway, New York,
was last week destroyed by fire, during which u
partition wall, run up in the usual himsy man
ner of the New York city buildings, fell,
killing fourteen fremen, and wounding many
more.
The Snow OF LAST WEEK, which at Montpe-
lier, was snow, sleet and rain, alternately, and
making one of the most comfortless pieces OF
weather we ever saw, fell eight inches deep at
Burlington. 1t did not reach four here, but on
the highlands we presume it fell foot deep.
MELANCHOLY CASUALTY Aaron G. Holt,
of Sherburne, VT, while cutting timber on the
mountain, the 3lst of March, was fatally in
jured by the fall of tree, which caused his
death in about seven hours. He was nearly AZ
years of age By this painful dspensation of
Providence, aged parents, a wife, and seven
children, are deprived of son, husband, father
and support.
THE STORM of Friday and Saturday, in which
immense quantities of water fell in the New
England and Middle States, has everywhere
caused great floods. The Connecticut at Hart
ford rose q feet above the high water mark.
Our Boston CARDs-Almost an entire new
set of advertisers, presenting all sorts of induce
ments to country purchasers. Preserve them,
and when in the City you will know where to
call for approved articles
| BRowN's TOMATO BlTrERs.-This is the sea.
son of year when Browns Btters are especially
serviceable. We are now using bottle, and
find the pains and glooms of jaundice and kin
bred diseases, going off every day under their
health giving effects.
Few are aware how frequently publishers are
compelled to insert among their advertisements
statements which they can neither sanction or
believe. A pleasant exception to this disagree
able necessity are the advertisements of DR.. j. G.
Ayers Cherry Pectoral and Pills, which will be
found in our columns. We have published for
him before, and always with the Feeling that
in so doing we in no wise lend ourselves to de-
ceive and mislead the public for we have had
indisputable proof that his words are strictly
true, with abundant reason to believe that his
medicines will do all they PROMISE and all that
can be reasonably expected from any medicine.
His Cherry Pectoral is too well known in this
community to need any commendation from
us, and his Pills, we are credbly informed, are
not inferior to his Pectoral. -Propidence Mr.
ror, r. l.
HEARr-RENDING TRAGEDY.-A correspondence
of the Cleveland Plaindedler, writing from Wau-
pacca County, Wisconsin, tells the following
tragical tale
"a farmer sold yoke of oxen to an individ-
ual in the neighborhood, and received his pay in
paper money. The man who purchased thesx-
en-, being in hurry to start off, requested the
farmer to assist in yoking them up. He accord
ingly went to the yard, leaving the money ly-
ing on the table. On his raturn to tho house,
he found his little child had taken .ths money
from the table, and was in act Of kindling the
fire in the stove with it. From the impulse of
the moment, he hit the child a slap on the side
of the head, so hard as to knock it over, and in
it's fall it struck its head against the stove with
such force as to break its skull.
The mother, who was in the act of washing
a small child in tub of water, in an adjoining
room, on hearing the fracus, dropped the child
and ran to the room whence the noise proceeded,
and was so much terrified at what she there be-
held, that she forgot the little child in the tub
for time, and upon her return to the room
found the little one drowned The husband,
after few moments reviewing the scene before
him, seeing two of his own children dead, with
out further reflection, took down his gun and
blew his own brains out y
/ Five mon who Went oeer hunting from ran
dolph, N. H., the last week in March, lost their
way under the White Mountains, and would
have frozen and starved to DEATH if their neigh
bors had not turned out and found them. The
cold in that region was terrible.
l BALTIMORE, March 22d.--An accident occur
red yesterday on the Mountain track of Va,
Central R. r. A car containing 40 passengers
broke loose and descended at rapid rate. 1t
finally came in collision with the engine and was
I dashed to pieces, but strange to say, only one
man was seriously hurt, Others sustaining but