Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-02-15

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I UNlrED STATES SENATOR'S Since our article
on this subject was PIT intype. we have received
intelligence of the election of a Senator by the
Illinois Legislature The successful candidates.
Hon. Lyman lrumbull, an Anti-Nebraska Demo
Graf of a firm and reliable character Last Au-
gust he was chosen member OF the House. by the
District now represented by Col. Bisse There
viii, therefore, he vacancy IN the representation
in the House. Mr. Trumbnll took decided stand
against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
and in favor of its restoration, and during the
Summer campaign met Douglas in debate at
Springfield 1--WE think) and ohtained Il singular
victory over him We are not aware III It he has
been suspected Of wagering and we believe, from
what We know him, that he will creditably rep
resent the State.
Mr.. lrumbull takes the place of Gen. SHE DIS.
The voe in the Wisconsin Legislature s IS as
follows Whole nunber, 1917 necessary for
choice, 81. Charles Durkee had 81 Byron Kill
horonne 80, altering 10 Mr. Durkae succeeds
iioa. l'ac ?. Walker, who is strongly in favor
OF freeing the lands of the county, but does not
care much about freeing the men. Mr. Durkee
was me ber of the House of Representatives
for Two successive terms He has been an A DO
lilionlst ever since 1912, is a man of Great firm
ness and unlmpeachabla integrity and u strong
friend of temperance He received every vote of
the Republican party in the Legislature. being
just enough to elect him.--Bostoa Telegraph
The N. Y. Express is Informed, upon what is
considered good authority, that his holiness the
Pope, in token Of his gratitude to Archbishop
tluges and the other dignitares of the Roman
| Ca hoc Church, in the United States for the
Zeal and earnsstness exhibited in aiding the set
Element of the linmacplate conception, has con-
sented that the famous " hiking Mad ma of Ri
MIMI and the celebrated Weeping Madonna, two
pictures whose moving eyelids and falling tears
have agtated all Catholic Italy, shat visit the
T United States Arrangements are milking for
their trlnsportati hthcr, and it is probable that
the distinguished strangers will appear in New
York on about the Isl OF April The Express
further says that the priesthood who had the
| Winking Madonna in charge were very unwilling
to part with it, inasmuch as it was so wonderful
a nianifcs,ion Of divine favor and brought so many
dollars to their purses, and submit ted very un
gracefully to the command of the Pope The
appearance ofthe Madohnas in American, 'findeed
they are brought to our shore will be an event Of
no ordinary interest and Importance in the Roman
Cat 1oc world.
A ball of cotton saturated with terpentjne. and
loaded with powder and slugs, was dropped down
the chimney Of Christopher Swishelm of Gin.
cinnati, but instead { exploding the instant it
touchad the and killing the family who sat
around it, as probably intended, it rolled out on
the floor, AID Mr. S. olapped it into Il pail of
water, before the cotton burned into the charge
SMART Doc On Monday, IA small dog named
" Watch, belonging to man in Hanover st Get,
Ca me into the Chief Of Policies office, and walk
ed gravely up to the clerk, with the following
note in his mouth -
"Mr. Chief Of PoAce.--please grant me
new license, and obIige former icenced dog
Yours, &c. WATCH.
P. S. | do my own elrands."
The cl 'rk made out Il new license, which the
dog received with bark of delight, and then,
with wag of his tail rs an adieu, rotted off,
holding the paper firmly in his MOUTH Boston
I'rapelr.
| The MAINE GIANTEss. Passport Ar
gus (Portland) furnishes an account of wo-
man, II naive of Maine, who is Of giant physi.
cal proportions. Her name is Silva Hardy She
is seven f'et six inches in height. is rather lean
than fleshy, yet weighs three hundred and thir-
teen pounds-is nearly thirty years of age, and
is stall grow'ng She has heretofore maintained
herself chiefly by service in the capacity of
nurse, having the reputltion of being most ex-
cellent one
Her mother is said to have been below medium
size, and her father not above IT, She was a
I twin; and at birth weighed but three and a half
pounds. Her mate did not live. She has al
ways b en- an unusual small eater, and accus-
toned 10 labor, 1t is impossible, therefore to
perceive what could be the cause of her extraor-
binary growth
A child of two years was killed at New Ha-
ven on Friday by crawling upon table and into
a kettle of boiling beans, by which it was scald-
ed to death.
A New Work. "STANBoPE RuRLEIGH.-
The Jesuits in Our Homes" by Helen Dhu, is
the title of a new work in press by Stringer Il
Townsend, 1872 Broadway, New York. The
work is to appear in one volume Of over four
hundred cages, illustrated by the best artists.
Notices of the work by several gentlemen who
have read it in manuscript are highly fatteriug
An advance copy of the book was sent by SAM"
to every member of the New York Legislature
RE- ELECTION OF SENATOR SEWARD --ANa-
ny, Feb. 6.-Mr Seward has been re elected u.
S. Senator from this State The ballot stood as
follows Seward 10, Dickens 5, VIM + Al
len 2, and five others each in the Senate. In
the Honse Seward 60, Dickinson A, Seymour 10,
Hunt s, Dix 7, and IL scattering,
The MAINE LAW PASSED AND SIGNED IN
MICHIGAN.--A correspondent of the N. Y.
Erening Post writing from Lansing, Michigan,
under d ,to of Feb LIST, says that the Governor
J, signed the Prohibitory Liquor Law on that day,
and it takes effect in ninety days afterwards. In
the Senate only five members q Democrats and
2 Fusioniss) voted against it. Ia the House
most of the Decocrats voted against it.
Juan Pages has been found guilty of man
slaughter at New Orleans. with a recommended.
ton to mercy, for killing Juan Foster in a duel
This is he first time in the annas of Louisiana
that conviction for duelling has taken pace,
although the the statutes making the staying of
E man in duel murder, are coeval with the con,
sttution of the State, The duel was fought
with knives.
DISCHARGE OF WOMEN ARRESTED FOR SELL
ING LIoUoR From the Cincinnati CONNER
ciai, wa learn that the women who were arrest
ed for attaching liquor shop and destroying tho
3 liquor at Mt Pleasant, Ohio, has been dschasg-
, ed. The men who stood and looked on were
arraigned, only. 1t was proposed 10 use the la
dies as witnesses The counsel for the defence
moved to quash the proceedings, he claimed that
The Couit had no jurisdiction in the case, and
the whole were discharged. We are inclined to
think thera was a disposition on the part of
Court and counsel to let the woman go clear.
Rev. John Moore who died suddenly in Con-
cord, N H., last week, had preached in Nashua
the day before, and had returned home in the
cars. While on his way to his house he fell,
and though there were people near, before they
reached him, life was extinct. The New Hamp.
shire Patriot learns that the he complained of
difficulty in the region of the heart on Sunday,