Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-14

ShoTt distance west OF Inc uepOl chuPPiHS "oo"'
encountered three hugh rattlesnakes, measuring
respectively feet inches, feet inches, ana
4 feet inches, having with them thirty young
snakes, each measuring thirteen inches IN length
The favorable position in which the three elder
snakes lay, enabled the courageous Frenchman
70 kill the three at single blow. The corpu-
lent appearance of some of The trio led curiosity
80 far as TO cut them open, when the interesting
ltile family of thirty, with one rattle eaeh made
their appearances, Only to meet the fate OF their
elders. Those who have time and inclination to
ascertain the aggregate length of this dangerous
crew, viii find that it amounts to about forty-flve
feet five inches
A Prayer for Rain. A correspondent of the
Boston Chronicle reports the following as old
Parson SIS prayes for rain "Oh Lord uncork
the bottles of Heaven, and let them pour down
intn the throat of the earth, till it becomes a
cunfrmed old soaker-- for Chlist's and human
ity s sake Amen"
The heirs Of Augustine and George Law. of
Londoun county, Va. have offered to set free so
slaves valued al $50, 600 provided the Ameri-
can Colonization Society will send them TO Libe
ria and make the usual provision for them after
their arrival out. Some Of them have husbands
and wives belonging to other masters and efforts
are about being made To secure their freedom
also. 50 that there shall be no separation of fam
lilies.
A COSTLY DAUGHTER California, the
youngest of Uncle Sans daughters, is very
expensive child. The large amounts of gold
which she furnishes yearly TO the AT antic cities
are sent back bv the General Government in
pi1us streams. The appropriations ma,Ir hr
California, at the hst session of Cong - *
elusive Of the salaries TO judicial and hler pub
lie officers. and the expenses of Tia Ard ,nn
mission in California, include items t. li.> Slo
of 80 COO ,050.
The extreme drought has ,at is said. =
respondent Of the Boston Transcript brot
the bears down from their mountain homes {, !
| into the very streets Of some of the vii ages Of
New Hampshire. A few days since, one of
these shaggy gentlemen made his appearance in
the main stree, of North Conway. N n and
performed some curious antics and early on
Saturday morning last the passengers in the
st ge from the :, hte Mountain NoIch for Lit
Teton, were treated to an exhibition not in the
bills for every sage large black bear. with
her three Cubs, came into the road directly ahead
of the coach, and lesureIy looking about the
path, passed into the wU0ds
SAM PATcH-The mother of the word re-
nowned San Patch died ct Pawtuckel, r. l. a
few days since, aged 80 years.
THE INDIANS - The Chicago Congregational
| Herald pr0nonnces the missions among the Indians
at the North West almost entirely nudity so
far rs permanent influence is rPgard ed. in con-
sequence of their free intercourse with the whites,
and the regular annuities granted them by Gov
eminent. The labors Of missionaries twenty or
thirty yeas age accomplished much at the time,
and the evidences of this are still apparent but
every year since the whites have pressed so
50 closely upon them, and money and rum have
been 50 freely distributed the tribes have been
sinking lower and lower in degradation there
seems to be no hope for them
San Francisco papers contain interesting &C
counts of the dedication of the new Chness
Chapel in that city-lhe first ceremony of the
kind that ever took place in the United States
The cost of the building and lot was S25 900 :;
and besides lh' audience room there are accom-
modations for the pastor family, for a school,
study, store a., The interior walls all around
are ornanrnted with tablets covered Chinese
heoroglyphlcs, enbodying appropriate texts of
scripture and with this exception, the house
contains nothing different from ordinary plares of
worship Rev. Mr. Spore. The pastor. will
devote himself a ike 10 the spiritual educational
and social interests of the Chinese under his
charge
A gentleman from Thoruld Canada, went tc
Buffalo on Friday last to pros cute a claim
against certain parties for 81 Geo. The suit oc
cuped two says, and resulted il a verdict in hi,
favor for $lG5. His connsei fees and expenses
reduced the pile down to an even SiG0 On
Saturday night he started to take the cali for home
but found that he was too late and must rempu
over night He therefore took lodgings. ant
a"okc Oh Sunday morning to find that he hat
been robbed of the surplus 500 His journp,
and a~snli did not cert ,inly turn out much of :
speculation.
Unclet Sans Domain On the 3oth of June
1853, the surveyed lands of the United State,
amounted to 1856, 2O2, acres the unsulye, ed ,s
1857 ,o25 ,306 acres Up to the same date there
had been sold 1873, 1877 1856 acres
A Pr HIBIroRY Liquor Law IN CANADA
The Montreal p lot sass that reso'ute ef;r, +
now ing made by the advo"arcs ortempp-anc
IN tie Canadian provinces for the ,nactm nj of
law and tits thought that the effort will be success
iui Tor When the proposition was last brought be
fore Parliament it was lost BY but single vote
and since then large number of candidates hoy
pledged themselves that if sufficient number @
petitions are presented to show the uneqnivoca
approval OF the peope, majority of member,
wi woe for III" law, Thns the enactment of the
law depends chiefly upon til" people
A Heavy SwlNDLE. The Chemical Banl
Va LII.
sept l. A man giving the name of Jam
nlshop, owed a small account with the bank 1
lew days ago and on Wednesday las, dcposite,
a certified check for $4,000, purpor,ng to b.
drawn by James Thompson, on the Americat
fNchango bank On the day he made the de
| post he drew out thu sum Of $1,000; and tn
check for SIG eco, after having been honored b,
the American Exchange Bank. was found to l.
forgery. The swndler has made his escara
AT The latest accounts, six persons were .i!
on Inc shore, dad, and, IL was sGsnoscd Tia
10 OF IL others were thrown overheard al,
: drowned
, TuE PnoFiTs OF Gone TO LAw.-The cas-
! OF Israel 7 Brown vs. the town of Plymouth
4 W., which has so long been pending in th
. Windsor County Cont, and has found It's wa,
once or twice TO the supreme Court and bacl
y was decided last week in tvor of the plaintiff
alter occupying ten days of i1e OF the Cour
IN the trial. piece Of m uu,aiu land in tn
' town of Plymouth, valued, a, we ar6 informed
: a. about forty doars is tn matter in controversy
: The costs which have already been incurred il
! attempting 10 setlle the question u utia vii
probably exceed $4,000.
A correspondent of The Tyqrellsc wri,inc fro,
T th9 white Mountains, states tha, day or tw
since, llItle hoy irem Salem, Mass six year
old, walked with his father from raw iold's t
r me summit OF Mount " ashingtou, in half da,
ana after ealins dinn'r could hard be persuade
10 SIT down ana rest but " shed to skip about
and gather mica ston's. Few so young hay
g ever assembled Mount Washington.
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