Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-13
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SONNfA HutLDtNdos-A olL6 nus
been selected for the Court House of Caledonia
County, recently removed and located ut St.
Johnshury, upon tho spot formerly occupied for
q grave yard, about one-fourth Of d mile fruln
the St. Johnsbury House.
Dr.. G. NJ. RuBLkR, late practicing Physician
and Surgeon in this place, has, as will be seen
by his card in another column, removed to Bos-
ton. DR.. R. has had advantages in the hospi-
tails in Paris which few have had, and his sue
cess here, especially in eye diseases, warrants
the belief in his success in q more extended
sphere of action.
For the benefit Of some of our readers, volun.
teers at Plausburg battle, and the fortunate
holders of land wa rants, we quote the following
from a New York financial paper =
LAND WARRANTs.-The price Of land warrants
even for twenty. four hours is so uncertain that
we prefer to let our paper 60 to press without
giving quotations. We are paying to day 81 90
per acre. From inquiries sent US to know what
we will pay for large amouets of warrants we
infer that dealers and spectators in all parts of
the country have an oyerstock, and therefore the
price must take a very decided turn downward
Patriot.
BREADsTuFFs.-Speaking Of the prevailing
high prices of breadstuffs and the immense sup
plies for expectation which the country is capable
Of ~affnrding. the Buffalo Courier remarks
There is hardly any limit to our surplus of
wheat and corn, and il the demand abroad should
garry off 4 200 900 bushels. which is almost four
times as much as we have ever exported in one
year, there would still be an abundant supply for
home consumption. Strange as it may seem,
that with a large surplus on hand, fully equal to
supply The demand from abroad, prices should
rule so high. it is, nevertheless, in obedieaee to
alaw of trade, which makes a sudden impulse
push the market values beyond a due limit. as
well as to another law of trade, which makes a
derandement in the ordinary channels Of supply
produce, for a time, all the consequences Of an
actual scarcity.
The steamship New York, building for Corne
Illus Vanderbilt, will be launched at New York
on Monday next. This vessel is of 5000 tons
burden and is the largest ever constructed on this
continent, though the Atlantic, now building for
the Collias line, is of nearly the same tonnage.
The keel of the New York was laid IN April.
She will ply between New York and Havre.
A party of seven who had deserted from the
tenth regiment United States army at Fort Craw-
ford, Prairie Du Chen, were overtaken north Of
Lancaster by a Lieutenant. On recognizing him
they left their wagons and exclaimed, We are
your prisoners He ordered them TO halt, and
the report is that the command and the firing of
his revolver were simultaneous. He shot one Of
the deserters in the back Of the head, killing him
instantly. The other deserlers then surrendered
md tha party prOcoodod IN Va0oactar Tho
Lieutenant was there examined and committed
to Jail. AT last accounts the deserters were at
large.
SALE OF BARNuM's MUSEUM -Barnum has
sold the American Museum to Messrs. Green.
wood & Butler, and is making arrangements 10
build a large dramatic establishment, on The plan
of As'ley's in London, with a Geological Garden
attached.
GIANTS WITH TATLs.--Prof. Hitchcock o.
Amherst, Mass, says in a letter to Prof. Sill
man, that he has procured a slab, weighing near
ly ton, from The town Of Gill, Mass. "con
tanning four gigantic tracks, apparently Of
biped, yet accompanied by most distinct traces o
atal." He adds:
"[t is certainly one of the most remarkable
tracts which | have ever seen, and will probably
throw light on the character of the animals tina
left the footmarks on the Valley propose 70
the name of the animal that mae the tracks
thato G'qadipus Caudaius, or biped tail giant
AFAcT WoRrH REMEMBERING. The com
p~arative danger of standing on the platforms O
railroad cars, is shown by the report of the stat
engineer, and the surveyor Of New York, b.
which it appears that over twelve million passen
gers were carried over their main railroad durin.
this last year. Out of this immense humble
twelve were killed. and of these, eleuen wer
standing on the platform.
In the Unitod States there are 100, 900, 900 q
letters mailed annually, and 500, 900 900 remit
ted in them. There are about 900 900 that mi.
carry every year. This is more than eight time
as many in proportion 10 the whole pumber, a
miscarry in England. Ia 100, under Franklis
the whole number of Post Offices was rs, nov
is %, 900.
STRANGE ExHUMATIoN.-The Winstead He,
aid says As Mr.. Hopkins of this village a
recently digging upon or near the location of tn
old Coe & Hubbel store, he uncovered from
depth of several feet, a partly decayed cask
which up N being opened was found to contain
mass of butter weighing about two hundred
ponds. This is queer enough. but, more sur
prising still, upon tasting, with the exception O
a thin coating on the outside, the butter wa
found to be sweet and posses ,ed of no unpalata
bic faint of favor. This mode of preservin!
butter was quite common some fifteen or twent
years ago, and it is supposed that the cask thu
discovered was buried in that place where no,
found at a point of time as remote as this, b
Messrs Coe g. Hubbel, and forgotten.
SpoxcEs.-Last year 25. 900 900 sponges wer
sent to New York from Florida. Five years ag
they cost IL l 2 cents a pound in Florida, an
now 40 cents. The annual value of the shiI
ment to New York is $l5,O 900.
Three children of Dennis Spellman, aged 7,
and Q years, residing on Palmer Hill, in Clinic
County, N. Y, were burned to death on Sundu
last The Keeseville Standard says that Il
mother wished to leave the house for a short tin
and locked the children in. She returned =
fine the house, and all il contained, a heap
smouldering ruins
Perseverance, REwARDED-Dr. Chaffe, {
member of Congress elect from the Springfe
Mass distiict is a native of Westminster. a
formerly attended a select school in this villag
As boy he was dittnguished for his induss
and perseverance, and he has now reaped
reward by having been placed 10 the councils
the nation Argus.
DIR. Chaffe resided for some years in Gorilla
county. N. T.. and while there was once t
liberty party candidate for Congress from Il
district, and by a union of the opposition up
him, made a handsome but unsuccessful r
against the winning candidate. VIII" we belle
was Gov. Young.-Springteid Republican.
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A SruresDous MosUMENr.-In the New "
Board of Aldermen, on the 26th. a commit
reported in favor of a proposition from Mr. !
ting, TO erect a monument Of iron, 900 feet hi
on the Battery, in honor of George Washingt
with a sta, lutte 90 feet in height on its summit
tho whole is to be finished within ten years.