Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-02-09

nov Lewis w ED, Principal of the American
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford,
", recently died of congestion of the lungs
Hls place has been filed by the election of Rev
VIM. W. Turner, who has been one of the In
structors in the Asylum for thirty years
Mr.. Joseph P. Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury,
last winter kept Al sheep, CT the common coarse
wooded breed. from the wool Of which flock Tin
Guiding AZ lambs) he realized $lS7-thus ma
king little over $4,75 from each of the IL
sheep. The lambs were sold for $3.50 each,
and $500 were offered few days afterwards.
On the night of the 26th ult., the St. Law
rance River became suddenly choked with ice
just below the Indian village of st. Regis and
the water rising fourteen feet above high water
mark, poured into the village, carrying with it
mingled masses Of ice, timber and rocks, which
crushed into the dwellings, completely destroy
ing many of them, drove some 500 inhabitants
into the street, in which the water was several
feet deep, destroyed their provisions, and drown
ed their cattle and horses. The thermometer
stood at 30 degrees below zero One woman
swan 70 rods before finding foothold.
The SoULE DUEL.--Recent accounts from Eu-
rope do uot confirm the report that Mr. Soule
had been killed in another duel. The last re-
ports in relation to the condition of the French
ambassador, who was shot by the elder Soule,
are very unfavorable for his recovery from the
wound
A young man, named Carlton, of Windsor,
was found naked in the snow on the sidewalk
about one o'clock in the morning of the 18th
ult., and taken into house near by, where he
died in about ten minutes He had been subject
to fits of arrangement from infancy, and that
night left his bed and went into the street, with
nothing upon him, after all had retired
The house, barn, and out-houses of Mr.. Aaron
Stimson of Ludlow were burnt on the night Of
the 23d ult. The family narrowly escaped, and
saved nothing, A young man named Kelley,
residing with Mr.. Stimson, who was away at the
time of the fire, had his clothes, $l4 in bills and
notes against Mr.. Stimson to tho amount of $3.50
burnt with the house, which so operated upon
his weak mind that he hung himself with log
chain.
At the recent term Of the Orange County
Court, James Rogers of Bradford, E. A. Rogers
and Edwin Harvey of Newbury s. G. p. Craig
of Brantro,, j. B. Huntoon of Topsham, and
j. G. Burnham of Randolph, were admitted as
attorneys at law.
ESCAPE FROM JAIL.-Six prisoners, named
Wilson Arlin, Samuel c. Dearborn William
Randall, Phillip Cassidy, - McIntirc, ~
Charles Dearborn, escaped from Jail at Concord
N. H., on Thursday evening, Feb. I'd. A re-
ward has boon offered for their arrest
RREsr.--Rev. VIM. Rankin, preacher o
the Methodist persuasion, formerly of Potion
but recently resident of Patterson, N. j., wa
arrested at Potion, last week, charged with til,
murder Of his wife at Patterson, short time
previously After an examination before Mag
istratc, he was committed to Montreal Jail, t
await requisition from the Governor Of New
jersey. Report says that Il grand jury in New
Jersey have founda true bill against him, basot
on post moriem examination Of the body
of his wife which showed that she died from til,
effects of poison &anstcad Journal.
A meeting of the stockholders of tie Pas
sumpsic Railroad Company, held at Whit,
River junction, recently, instructed the Direc
tors to receive proposals for the immediate con
struction ofthelaoad from Johnsbury to Derby
Line, and in their discretion to put the SAM
under contract. Eighteen thousand shares o
preferred stock at par value of one hundred dol
lars per share We're ordered to be created an(
issued. The engineers are said to be now enga
ged in surveying the western route from Barton
, to the Line.
, In New Boston, N. H.. last week, Henry N
Sergeant, who had conceived violent affection
, for Miss Servilla Jones, which was not recip
rocated, shot her dead as she was on her way t,
school, and then put rifle ball through his owl
head, so that he died in six hours after. Sar
. geant was % years Of age; Miss Jones II.
OLD SPAM-Tt is rumored at Washington
{ that there is a scheme in preparation for q cou
d'etat at Madrid, having for its object the dc
thronement of Queen Isabella, the establishment
Of liberal constitutional monarchy, and tn
placing on the throne of the young Duke d Alba
brother-in-law of Louis Napoleon, who is sal
to favor the project, and is expected to rende
, material aid. The republicans and ultra libe1
/ alists of Spain are understood to have unite
= their forces and their aims in this matter, an
they also contemplate the union of Spain an
Portugal under one government. If this proiec
: carries, it is said our Government will have n
D difficulty in purchasing Cuba.
Z MOVEMENTS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON. Mr.. San
s ders, tho American consul at London, in one
4 his letters to the New York Herald, states tina
" Louis Napoleon is preparing for war on til
grandest scale. 1t is known that he will hay,
: by early spring, an invading army of seve
: hundred thousand men fully equipped
A farmer in California recently killed lars
: panther in the following manner "The an
}, NAL attacked his pig pen, killed fine hog, an
eating about half OF it. He then Amounted I'll
other half with strychnine, and left it on IL
n same spot. The ensuing night brought u
depredator again to its feast, and the next morl
ing huge she panther and three cubs we
y found extended lleless on the ground. III
II animal was Of an extraordinary size, measu
ing six feet from the nose to the root of the tai
y and nine from tip to tip.
e A New KIND OF RATTLEsNAKE.-Lieut A
), brey, in his journey last summer across ii
country, from the Pacific shore to the r
u Grande, encountered many rattlesnakes of 1
uncommOnly large size, and differing from t
ordinary species in the fact that their tails we
" covered for o distance of some six inches fro
10 the point, with alternate white and black rim
g. of hair Or bristles, about quarter of an in,
10 in length.
O. The growth of Chicago is unparalleled
ID American history. A census just taken
n order of the City Council shows that the no
- ulation is now 8O,6j2. In 1850, according
; the United States Census, it was only q $50.
IN A very respectable young woman named Ma
Drake attempted to commit suicide at Wheelin
" on the 18th ult., by jumping off the suspense
er bridge into the river, distance of 30 te,
l. Strange to say, she was rescued uninured, aft
t. floating amidst the ice for nearly half mi
DEATH OF MISSIONARIES Information b
been received ut the Missionary Rooms In II