Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-19
Ihe News GIeanfr.
MAY DAY.
A CONCERT OF FREE CULTU RE.

MAY DAY.
A CONCERT OF FREE CULTU RE.
A correspondent offers good suggestion, that
MAY-DAY may be brought into general and
beautiful use, as day of public tree-culture, or
the setting of ornamental trees for public pur-
poses. Let the public-spiritcd of each locality,
large or small, according as the spirit move
them, rally to supply the grounds of their street
common, local church or schoOlhouse, having the
kinds of trees Ia view, the plan Of setting and
protecting them, the labor distributed, and eve
rything arranged so that by an early hour of the
afternoon the matter may be done up. Then let
the ladies provide a suitable festival banquet to
consummatc it, and give the young folks then,
if they please, their May Pole and their ball to
play. Perseverance, is the great matter in tree
planting, and this will make the work, and the
improvement of it, public interest from year
to year, and our public grounds and streets, es-
pecally our school-grounds, become gardens of
attraction and taste, from one generation to an
other. 1t is the few of the philosophical who
begin things. After that, all will agree that
day for the purpose is good thing, if its pur-
poses are' good. Our correspondent suggests,
that, the first of May coming Tuesday this year,
the first Tuesday Of May hereafter be our May
Day, and that it be ga custom in Israel" So
say we, Brethren!
Sr. ALBANs.-A day and night spent among,
our friends and patrons in the village Of St. An
bans, last week, has given us new idea of its
thrift and beauty. Where, as late as in 1910,
there were but one hundred houses and less than
one thousand inhabitants, may now be found
three or four hundred houses and nearly three
thousand Inhabitants, mostly located on the
Main Street, two miles in length, and running
North and South along the magnificent swell of
land on which it is located The location of
this village, indeed, with its amphitheatic hills
around, its gentle slope and out-spread lake be-
low, and the New York highlands rising in the
blue distance beyond, is doubtless, one of the
most beautiful in New England. And we were
!, happy to perceive among its inhabitants an
awakening spirit for improving these natural
= advantages. An Ornamental Tree Associa-
ton has been recently formed, which will, this
Spring. 60 about the objects of the Association,
f. Houghton, Esq Fire Engine Companies are
9 being formed, and the much needed sidewalk
enterprises, we trust, will not long be suffered
to lag behind. The inhabitants do not seem to
have realized how beautiful place they might
make their village; but they now seem to be
waking up on the subject, and have already
done many things to add to its attraction, and
the credit of the place, among which, all travel
ers, at least will give prominent place to their
now excellent Hotel, the Fremont House, which
has been renovated and furnished throughout,
and under Its present keeper, Mr.. j. L. Sander
+ son,it makes travellers home, which for neat
!. ness, convenience, and the good fare of the ia
bles, is second to few no public houses in the
/ State.
!. NuNNERY 1NyEsTIGArIoN-The opponents of
the dominant party in Massachusetts are making
+ quite muss about the visit of Legislative
;, committee to nunnery in Roxbury, charging
l. the committee with rude behavior, &c., on the
e occasion. These charges of the Hunker presses
: have led to public invsstig which has
: elected nothing but what, at any other time,
= would, probably, have passed wholly unnoticed.
: The visit, with 80 much parade, was rather
foolish affair, doubtless; but we don't see that
: any great harm was done. One nun got Hist
: little-that's ALL
% The RAIL RoADs.-These are hard times for
}. tho rail roads all over the country. At this
= time OF scarcity in money and provisions, and
!, dimunitan of trade and travel their business is
% comparatively small. while their expenses are as
great as ever But though this is the case with
# the railroads generally, yet are grati6ed to
u announce that there is one rail road in the coun.
= try that was never before so prosperous-that is
# the Underground Railroad.
The BURNS TRIALs.-Theodore Parker, Wen
v dell Phillips and Others indicted and bound over
! for alleged aiding in the attempt to rescue the
u fugitive Burns, have been discharged. The
q Court much against their will doubtless, were
V compelled to quash the indictments on account
e of some radical defect in the drawing.
= AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. We received
e the February and March Numbers of this new
u monthly devoted to the Biography of American
men, American history and American principles,
rs and found it an able and valuable work, and
o Just such an one as should be widely circulated
g 1t ispublshed by j. S. Tuttle & Co., Boston,
I for $500 per annum.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
>: PoMFRET BEAT In the Green Mountain
n Freeman, of week before last, we discovered the
Is following
IS "A little son of Edwin and Ruth Allen, of
' Pomfret, VT, has eleven grand parents, all liv-
Q ing-fve grandfathers and six graudmothcrs. y
" Harley Nelson, son of Alonzo d. and Dulce-
na Pearce, of East Calais, Vt, has toelre grand
parents, all living-four great-grandfathers and
four great-grandmothers whose ages average
IS about eighty years, and all residing in Washing
e ton County. -
a A CONVENTION To HASTEN THE EXTINCTION
d OF SLAvERy.-A meeting was held on the 18th
IS u!t at Cincinnati, in the Associate Reformed
e Presbyterian Church, to consult on the propriety
of calling convention of Christians, of all evan
10 geca denominations to be held in that CITY. in
e May next, for the purpose OF considering what