Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-20
Che Nous Gleauer.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

UREEN-MOUET CEhETERY.-The new Cemetery |
below Montpelier village, which, the past year,
has been in process of designing, preparing and
was, last Saturday, in presence of
large asscmblage of our villagers and others,
round booth pavilion on the grounds,
by the above name, in the following
ceremonies
An Original Chant-by the Union Choir As
Reading of appropriate passages of Scripture
by Rev. Mr.. Heminway.
Prayer-by Rev. w. H. Lord.
Address-by Rev F. W. Shelton.
Dedcation-by Rev W. H. Lord.
Original Hymn-by G. G. Eastmen-sung by
the choir to the tune of Old Hundred.
All these exercises were of high order, each
being excellent of its kind, and all combining to
make ceremony at once neat, appropriate, and
replcte with melancholy interest.
Thus appropriately, and in the best taste, has
been opened our new and beautiful home of the
dead and we trust its managers, both of the
present and future, will see to it that nothing
coarse or inappropriate in the workmanship and
sculpture of monumental stones, or in the senti-
ment and literature of their Inscriptions, be suf-
fered to enter its walls for, in and on these
hallowed memorials, we shall, year by year, be
unconsciously writing our history for the peru
sal of future generations.
BosToN PIANO FoRTEs.-An article is being
sent the rounds of the country papers, by those
in interest probably, which may be calculated,
we think, to give an unjust precedence to one Of
the Piano Manufacturers of Boston over Others
equally, If not more, meritorious, in the same
city The article in question goes to show that
Boston Piano, from the mandatory of A. W.
Laid d Co., recently received the highest prize
medal, at the great Paris Exhibition, over all
other European and American instruments. But
1t leaks out in the course of the article, that
this Piano of Messrs. Ladd & Co. was the only
one presented from Boston; and it by no means
follows that had the other manufacturers nre.
sented their Instruments, one of them would not
have been awarded the prize over that of Ladd
q Co., Indeed, we feel confident it would have
been so, and equally confident that the dstinc.
ton would have fallen to one of the superior in,
strumcnts of Jacob Chickering.
The END OF THE MURDERER who
committed the diabolical murder in Fletcher. ar
account of which, with some slight inaccura
cies, we published in our last has become biz
own executioner. 1t seems the wretch had SO
GREETED himself in neighboring swamp, where
he had often been heard to say he could hid
himself against the search of the world. Thi
remark led to thorough search of the swamp
and he was at length discovered setting on log
but before he could be reached, he drew the sam
fatal knife, with which he had slain his neigh
Dor, and severed the arteries of his own throat
How true it is that the wages of sin is death
TIE STATE FAIR.-The State Fair, at Rutland
last week, as inadequately as the State. as
whole, was represented, was yet very interest
ing and credtable exhibition. The number o
people in attendance, accol ding to an estimate
we made, when the grounds were fullest, BY
counting squad of 1000 on a given area, ant
reckoning the equally dense portions of tn,
crowd on other parts of the grounds, with run
ming cast of the scattering, amounted to abou
$4,000 in and about the enclosure, which, will
the multitudes all the time to be found in tn
streets of the village, must have swelled tina
number, We think, to nearly 10000. Tn
grounds enclosed, which are about one hundre,
rods to the north of that part of the village re
Gently built up around the Railroad Depot, con
sist of about thirty acres, with a swell on tn
westerly side, crowned by beautiful mapl
grove, which, on Wednesday, when the Their
Inometer stood at nearly 800, proved, with it
welcome shade, blessing that could hardly b
ever-estimated.
The display of foreign breeds of cattle, thougl
not extensive, was choice and good The shov
of sheep, led off by the superb French Merinos
&c., of the noted and enterprising Mr.. Bingham
of Cornwall, followed by those of other wool
growers Of Addison County, and those of MI
Gregory of Mortified, made an exhibition whic
would have done honor to any State in the Un
ion {; while it sgnally evinced the rapid progre'
of wool-growing in our own. But it was tn
display Of horses which constituted the gre,
attraction of the day. There were, probabl,
forty Blackhawks and Morgahs on the GROUND
that could have made their mile on trot With
three minutes, and some of them actually did
in two minutes and half. And such horse
too! For strength and beaaty combined, we
not believe superior collection could be mao
out Of all the warehouses now in the Crimea.
Among the most noticeable of natural pre-
ducts on exhibition, were the states and marble
of Rutland county; and of the former were th
polished states of the new quarry in that cour
ty. which, by newly discovered process, AZ
made to resemble, and even surpass, the mos
beautiful of variegatcd marbles. The marble
on exhibition were from the mandatory of G
r. Anger, in Centre Rutland, consisting of Head
stones, Mantels, &c. On one of these Hoa
or Grave Stones, we noticed piece of sculptur
of hand pointing upwards, by young man
of the name of Josiah Young, in the employ O
MIR. Anger, which is trophy of genius in on
50 young, which should encourage him to perse
vere
The Floral Hall was not what it should be
because its contents made but a meagro displa,
compared with what might have been collecte
us the product of the native genius of Vermont
Some of the best of those products, however
were there. Among these were The Forum
Teller, an oil painting by Miss Sarah A. Hoyey
of pownal, which was finely expressive A land
scape, by Mr., N. Howard, house painter o
Rutland, which was his first attempt, and Ger
tainly n most promisinv one A beautiful it'll