Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-03-30

trout invariably has broad even tail, that is, a
tail all evenly filed out to the end of this fin
like appcndage; while the lunge is swallow
tailed Other than this, the difference between
the trout and lunge is often no great Than he
tween trout reared in different waters ANA rs
writers and others make their classification on
the report of those not netting this characteristic,
it is not very strange, perhaps, that they should
show such confusion and uncertainty in their
accounts.
We, in common with the majority Of people
probably, formerly believed that these fish pass
ing for trout, which weighed ever six or seven
pounds, were lungc, and that trout never grew
above that size But an Investigation of the
matter has led us to Different conclusion ; and
we speak FROM personal knowledge when we
state that the common brock trout hare been
known to reach, in eur New England waters,
sizes varying all along from five to twelve pounds
and, we have reason to believe, some pounds
more, At the presentsite of .Langdon's Mills
Oh Onion River at Montpelier, a trent was
caught, in the first settlement, weighing FIVE
pounds, and another at Goedenew's Mills, few
miles above, weighing four and three faurths
pounds. At this time there were 40 trout in
Berlin pend, on account Of the high precipteus
falls of the outlet, which made 1t impossible fer
the fish to ascend through the cu6et and the
date Samuel Hubbard, one Of the first settlers Of
that tswH, as he himself told us when hey,
clnght dczem or more small trout in Stevens
Branch, ard, carrying them three nites in .
pail, put them into that pend. Twenty years
afterwards trout was speared, ard subsequently,
found dead, which weighed nine pounds, and
another w+s afterwards washed ashore dead
weighing az pounds. But the NEST remarkable
and dearly-defaed CAGE occurred, seme Fifteen
or twenty years ago, in the town Of Woodstock,
N. H. A man caught few small brock trout,
an enc ef the litde mountain streams ruRning
5nto the Merrimac, and took them ia paid to a
pond selae mies OF in the weeds, in whseh, 1t
had been well ascertaiaed, there were ne fish Of
any kind After the lapse Of sene years, this
man and brother began to fish; and for maEy
years they obtained all they wanted, still care
fully kcerans the secret to themselves. But a
fisherman, happening to calls at enc Of their
houses one day, caught sight Of a raenstreus
trout, WHICH they were cutting up for the pan,
guessed cut the secret amd spread 1t, and caused
a perfect rush to the pend, from which the treut
were tskcu, the fast year, ia cart lsad3 had Of
a size beyond anything ever known in has Region
many weighing mine, ten and dcvcnpaunds, and
one, full twelve pounds. OF the truth Of THIS
statement there are nov, IN this sectiGn ef'Eg-
mont egae, several diving witnesses.
Thus CUT statespent, that the cemmcn brock
trout may, and sometimes de- grow to the weight
of at least twclge pounds, must, we shlnk, be
regarded as an established fact This, hewevcr,
doubtless is rare, and occurs emily whegethe fish
are seldom mslested, ard where She quality q
the water, and the quality and quantity Of then
food, are calculated for then highest deydep
ment.
SAxE's &" YANKEE LANb".-0,u last 1yceuN
Lecture was by cur natiyo poet John G. SAKE
who recsted and very handsomely too, his ''Yan
kee Land" to- full and delighted audience
AZ poetic satirist, humerist, and epigran,-
asst, SAKE, s1hxs humhe. opinion, has scarce
4 Iisiass sssuzi.ssass " --.4-- 49,. So
& # thss he toe high praise, We will qualify tn,
opinlen, as hes II enc Of tAs political tilts VIC
some times have With him, recently asked us to
do touching the hanging of the New Englan{
Senators whe voted fer the Nebraska Bill Be-
m the latter he must eycuso us poets and poll
ticians are two different animals, and never NOR
40 than ia case of cur TIVE justly neted Greer
Mountain poets y
VI. CENTRAL RAs1RSAD.-We understand
that the Hon. john Smith, of St Aabans, ha
been appointed President Of the Vermont Cen
trial, in place Of Mr. Lee resigned. We thinl
81 better choice undor the circumstances ooule
mot have hecn madc
We understand Mr.. S. p Redfistd has been
appointed. by the Governor, sergeant-at Arms, il
place of D. W. Keith, resigned and gone " est
The n L. LIQUoR LAw has passed jfhe Legis
laturc by fifty majerity-amende4Ao, 40 int
effect in May.
Oh, what Weather. Does anybody remem
her such last half of Marcht 1t 10 worse thaa
two Januaries-
BLACK HAWK HoasEs.-A Black Hawl
horse, owned by Hon L. B. Peck, of Montpelier
was recently sold at $1,000, and another in Barre
we hear, for the same sum, while the hal owner
ship of Mr.. Hanhett, of East Montpelier, il
another was sold for 1000, or at the rate G
$4,000 fox the horse.
lIoLroKE WEEKLY MIRaoR. -Spch is the It'll
Of large AMID handsome sheet published at JLo
yoke, Mass, by A b. F. Hildreth, formcrl
publisher Of ths Bradford Family Gazette. Nj
H. always made the Gazette readable and il
teresting paper, and the contents Of the Myye
show that i" Richard = himself again.
FAE.-The Dwelling House of Mr.. Wn
Smith, of Greensboro, took fire by the store Dir
on the ODD inst. betreen o and 10 O'Clock 4
NJ, and was burned to the ground, with all h
grain, and all the furniture in the chamber
with the woodshed and wood. No insurance
We call the atteRten Of our patrons to tt
adve ;tisement Of Messrs W. p Tenney a. G.
Their warefoom, over the Boston & Maine Depc
covers an area Of hearty one half acre, and pro
ably the largest and best OF the kind TO be- foui
in this country. The most of their samples a
exhibited on one floor, thereby rendering it ca