Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-21
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| grounds 70 the fear that 10 viii soon become an
endemic, If not a general epidemic in this coun.
try. For several successive summers il has more
or less prevailed ut the South and West, and in
many of Our Northern cities. And it has again,
still earlier than usual, broken out in the VAL
ley Of the Mississippi in many localities with
great fatality little as is said about it. In New
Orleans during the week ending on the Cd Of
June no less than 2S9 persons persisted of the
fearful disease So early and so fatal! What
may we not fear for the hot months of the Sea.
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The AMERICAN VERD ANTIQUE MARBLE Coz.
PANY.-At the October session Of the Legisla-
ture, in 1858, q company of men, residing out
out of the State, and in Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, we believe, were incorporated un-
der this name, for the purpose of working mar
Bile in Roxbury. The difference between this
and other Vermont marbles, however, was mo-
at that time, nor is it even now, generally, bu A.,
very imperfectly understood. 1t like no oths,
marble in Vermont, like no other it the United
States, and, indeed. it is like no other known
quarry in the world. 1t is the green antique
marble,-the rerd anfico of the Italians, the
came that has been found in the ruins of the
the Grecian or Roman temples; but from what
part of the Eastern continentit was brought, or
whether any more remains in itsoriginal local
ity. is, at this day, wholly unknown The dis.
covery of such n splendid marble, therefore. was
no ordinary occurrence, and led very naturally.
as soon as the existence of such quarry was
clearly ascertained by the. discoverers, to the
formation of the Company in question. The
quarry was first found, it issaid, by gentleman
from Bethel, in an examination, probably of
the well-known Serpentine Ledge, which lies on
the rail road, in Roxbury, nearly half mile
South of this quarry, but which is altogether
different thing. Serpentine, however, is one of
the components Of the yerd antique marble, and
limestone the other--a combination that takes
the highest possible polish, and then PRESENTS
with its irregular sprays of white, on field of
green much disappearance of the dark-green ice
of newly-frozen pond, fractured by a slight
blow from the head Of an axe. '.IE
We recently had the qualification of visiting
this remarkable quarry, and the works put in
operation by the Company to avail themselves
OF its valuable products. There are now about
twenty-five hands in employment in blasting
and getting out the stone from the ledge, truck
ing it down on their wooden railway to the fac
tory, fifteen or twenty rods distant, and attend
ing the machinery, which consists of five gangs
of saws and poishsrs, driven by thirty five
horse power steam engine. We were shown, by
the kind and intelligent superintendent. Mr..
Rundlett, great variety Of specimens of all
shapes and Sizes and in all the different steps Of
manufacture, from TIL, rough block to the mir
ror-lik" surface Of the polished cenotaph or ia
BILE. Among this was table, four feet square
and about two inches thick, only, which was
worked to meet the order of the the Governor
General Of Canada, and which, we will venture
to say, will be pronounced equal in finish and
beauty, to say the least, to any marble table to
These marbles resdily sell at 81 90 per foot
surface; and as the demand for them increases
rs fast as the knowledge of them extends and
as the quarry seems nexhausti BILE, this estab
lishment must soon be an important and noted
one, alike advantageous to the State and the en-
terprising Company under whom. the works ara
being 80 perseveringly prosecuted. 90
The STAFF OF LIFE AND THE IMPLEMENT or
DEATH.-It is a most curious coincidence. that
on the same stream. in Delaware, the noted
Brandywine, and not far apart, stand the four
ing mills that produce the most celebrated -four.
and Duponts powder mills that produce the
most celebrated gunpowder in the United States.
Thus, as often happens in this world of strange
contradictions, are seen fourishing side BY side
the greatest sustainer of human life and n.
most fearful Implement of death.
A MODEL FARnsG-TowN LrBxaRy.-W;l,;ams.
town, the town that takes so many paners and
suffers no printer to go unpaid, has, and has
maintained for thirty or forty years one of the
best and best-managed farming town libraries in
this or perhaps any other State in the Union
1t consists, we are told, of about 800 volumes.
whlS' with their population, is four or Eve vol.
umcs to every family in the town, and which a.
II triding annual expense, affords every inbah;.
tant an opportunity to read the whole. Sueb
libraries when well managed and kept up. will
ever prove OF the most incalculable Importance
to the morals, general intelligence, and eon,e.
quent influence, and, We believe we NAV also
"od' aggregate wealth and independence of ev-
cry town where they are established. II has an
proved In the noble town in question and twill
50 prove everywhere. Let the example, then be
lost to no portion of the State.
isrHE EARTH Mass OF FIaE, AeAr,,---Tbo
editor OF the Scisntfc. American, in resno.d;ns
to our remarks, in connection with bis ar,;cle
On the subject, says the argument we presen.sd
against this theory,in the fact that the sea il no
warmer ut its greatest than at its ,hallowcst
depths, !" is good, and will withstand MANY
stout assaults; but that we, in saving {" his mr..
same''s had occurred to us" could not have
been acquainted with the fact respecting some
mines growing colder, instead of warmer as ".
descend which has only recently come 10 LIGHT
That editor is right. We intended IN have
cepted that very significant, if not cooolns;v.
, IA which WINS new to US, and. commented
'nereon; but, in our then hurry, we un;n.er.
tionally omitted to do SO. s.
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