Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-02-23
Ol)e News Gleaner.

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by our paper, The Rltic arrived at New York
on Monday last, bringing the latest, and very
important, intelligence that the Emperor of
Russia had rejected the note of the Four Powers,
which closes the last chance for peace. The
Russian Ministers had left England and France,
both of which nations were starting anew, and
in earnest, to forward their immense prepara-
lions of war.
CoNcREss.-1he doings of Congress is now.
even in both Houses, confined to the Nebraska
bill, TO which every thing else gives way. Sew
ard made a telling speech against it toward the
close of last week. Sumner was to have spoken
Tuesday this week.
WASHINGTON County GRAMMAR SCHOOL COM
menced its Spring Term on Monday of this week,
under the supervision of Mr.. Geo. R. Thompson,
a recent graduate of the Vermont University, as
Principal, and Miss Sarafna Taplin in charge
of the Female Department. We understand
there is a prospect of a fine school.
MAINE FEMALE SEMINARY.-A notice of this
aourishing Institution will this week, be found,
in our advertising columns, and we speak from
personal knowledge when we say that the school
1T every thing it processes to be. Indeed, we do
not believe that, at this time, there can be found
in the whole country, an Institution, exclusively
designed for the education Of females, which
more happily combines in its system, thorough
ness and extent in the solid sciences with all that
can be asked for in the ornamental branches.
And We heartily commend it to psrentsin Vor-
mont who have daughters whom they wish to
send out of the State for their education.
TUcKER's CUrLERY.-Wc would invite the at
tention of our readers, who are, or may become,
interested in the purchase Of Cutlery and for
eign Fancy Goods, to the card of Joseph A..
Tucker, which will hereafter, for the present
year, be found in our columns. Those who give
him q call when in the city will find the choicest
of Goods, and the fairest of dealers.
BRowN's SARsApARILLA AND TOMATO BITTERs,
which we are still advertising, is about the best
thing of the kind out, for humors in the blood,
and the whole crop of diseases that spring from
that cause. We have ourself used it with the
best effect.
Oh, yes oh, yes ! oh, yes! y! Dodge, the
inimitable OssIAN E. DODGE, is coming to town!
Nuf sed. See his notice.
C,.,,s, C,rr,r IL ,ot foil 10 road n,.ory
word of it. ~
FIRE.-On Wednesday morning of last week,
the dwelling house Of Orrin Slayton, in East
Montpelier, was destroyed, with its contents
Insured $425 in the Vermont Mutual also, on
Tuesday morning the pail factory of L. II.
Vaughn, on Muddy Brook, Burlington, was
destroyed with its contents. Loss $40OO.-W.
Patriot.
The Salem Gazette states that notwithstand-
ing the mercury was from five to eight de-
grecs below zero, on Sunday morning, 5th inst,
several converts to the persuasion of the Second
Adventists were baptiscd, by immersion, that
forenoon-a sufficient opening in the ice being
found between Phillips wharf and Hatborne's
Point.
MORTIFIED BANK.-At q meeting of the
Stockholders of Mortified Bank, on Wednes-
day, the following Directors were chosen
Calvin Ainsworth, Williamstown; Perly
Belknap, John A. S.. White, Mortified Ruben
) Peck, Brookfeld j. B. Hutchinson, w. Ran
dolph.
BANK OF WATERBURY.-At a meeting of the
Stockholders of the Bank of Waterbury, on
Monday, the following Directors were chosen :
Paul Dillingham;, Leander Hutchins, W. W.
l Wells, Waterbury V. W. Waterman, Morris
> town, Orrin Perkins, Stowe.
A singular m%otality is raging in California
among birds and beasts. Many seagulls, peli-
t cans, chickens, hogs, dogs and cattle, have been
taken sick and have died the deaths among
r the sea-birds being very numerous.
DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED NAVY OFFICER
A On Sunday, the 18th inst, about midnight Com
mander James B. Cooper, of the United States
Navy, died at Haddeniield. N. j., at the ad-
4 vanced age of 90 years. He was the last sur
vivor of "Lee's LEGION so celebrated during
the war of the Revolution.
1t is stated that the number of ducks and
y hens eggs used in England last year was fifteen
hundred millions, valued at about fifteen million
dollars.
;. Some six hundred acres of land have recent
y ly been purchased in Iowa, on which a colony
: of monks have settled. Among their peculiar
y habits may be mentioned that they never min
y gle with the world, and when they put on a
. new suit of clothes, that suit is kept on, walk
ing or sleeping, till it falls off, or become unfit
for wear.
, A Pigeon Roost ten miles long by FIVE broad,
r in Franklin County, Indiana, is now swarming
r with pigeons. The roar of their wings on ar
r irving and departing from the roost is tremend-
s Gus and the locks, during fight, darken the
heavens.
. . The culture of tobacco in Connecticut is
said to be coming extensive and profitable. In
! many of the river towns, tobacco is the princi-
pal crop grown. In order to promote its cul.
ture, a company has been formed in Hartford,
: with a capital of $25 900, for the purpose Of
= opening a tobacco inspection warehouse in that
y city.
e The winter of 1880, it is said, was unusually
severe in New England. For forty days after
o the middle of February, there was no %percepti-
d BILE thaw on the southernly side of any build.
ing, and 50 deep and hard was the snow, that
loaded teams passed over walls and fences in
d any direction.
:, DEATH OF AN AUTHOR George Lippard, q
4 writer extensively known in this country, died
4 on the 9th inst, Of consumption, in Philadel.
u phia.
Col. Eliab B. Herrick, Morrisvilla, Vt, was
a instantly killed, and several other persons slight
= ly injured, one day last week, by the o%vertnrn.
le ing of a large sleigh, at Stowe, Vt.
A meeting of the heirs of the original pro.
q prietors of the Western Reserve, Ohio, is to
be held at Hartford on the 22d of March. II
"a is believed they are legally entitled to certain
surplus lands which are now quite valuable.