Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-05
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PAY.-There are fep of our subscribers who
have not as yet taken it upon themselves to send
us our pay. But We suppose that we have only
to remind them that we are in need of it to pay
our expenses to have it sent at once, and we
make proposal to them that if they send
$l.50, or 81 90 and two new subscribers before
the LIST of July, it will pay their years subscrp-
ton. There are few sold soldiers" who
have never paid our predecessor any thing, that
we shall cut off if we are not paid by that time.
One dollar and fifty cents is easily paid if at
tended to.
From all parts of the country we hear accounts
of the public demonstrations of the excitement
which the outrage in the Senate Chamber and
the proceedings in Kansas has caused
Mr. Sumner is still in very critical condition.
Gut Cut, Cadarcut Says the old Hen
Mr.. Levi Grant of Orange has n hen that on the
18th of May layed an egg measuring the short
est way inches the longest 3-4 its weight
was between 3 10 and 4 ounces, measured it
myself aud saw the weight. The Hen is mostly
of the native breed and not large.
Yours for good things,
J. F. Woodman
Ifany one has a larger one will they please
grace our breakfast a" table with il!
Coon Cows.-Mr. Wentworth Cove of Berlin
has two Cows which give SO lbs of milk day,
he made ID "a lbs of butter for the last week.
Who heats il!
Hopkins the person who broke open the Post
office at Island Pond last fall was sentence to
five years Imprisonment, last week.
Snow - For three days last week snow was
lying upon the hills in the vicinity of Orange to
the depth of two or three inches.
The REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION convened
at this place, on Tuesday, and nominated the
following delegates at large to Philadelphia
Hon. Hiland Hall, Hon. Geo. F. Hodges,
substitute, Hon. Heman Carpenter, Hon. D.
p. Thompson, substitute; Hon. Erastus Fair
banks, Hon. Daniel Ncedham, substitute Hon.
VIM Skinner, Hon. j. NJ. Flint, substitute
Hon. L. Brainerd, Hon Portus Baxter, subs j.
tute; Hon. Levi Underwood. Hon. Sam'l Mer
riam, substitute.
Harmony prevailed, and strong resolutions
were passed.
THE CINcINNATl CoNvEN rloN met on Mon
day with an unparalleled wrangle among the
mo ley crowd, and general war raging in the
Camp. Buchanan is ahead
A little daughter of d. I. Cook, of Orange
Co., N. Y, died on the llth ult., from the et
(ects of poison taken in the stomach by eating
stcwed apples which had stood in an earthern
jar until impregnated with the glazing.
AM Tippet in Washington. D. g., is at
work on a steam balloon. and it is stated in some
Of the papers, that an appropriation is about to
be applied for in the Senate, to enable him to
construct one to carry the mails to California.
The business portion of the town of Hopkins
vile, Ky, was burned on the afternoon Of the
4th--loss estimated at nearly 100000.
The new mixing mill at Gorham blew mp on
the 9Th. Alfred Il. Allen of Gorham was killed;
no leaves II wife and two or three children.
The last steamer brought dispatches addressed
by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Relations
to our Minister at Madrid, in reply to the de-
mands made at different times for redress in the
matter of firing into and OBTAINING the steamer
Eldorado, by the Spanish man ot-war Ferrolano.
The Spanish Government, most decidedly, but
courteously refuses to comply with the wishes
Of our Government, and the Minister argues
that, according to the law OF nations, the COM
munder of the Ferrolano did nothing more than
the peculiar circumstances at that time in the
neighborhood Of Havana jlclitei
The first passenger train of cars passed over
the bridge across the Mississippi, at Rock Island, ,
on the 22d. The bridge perfects the railroad
connection between Chicago and Iowa city
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT MEREDITH BRlDGE,
N. H.-rhe Meredith Bridge N. H. Democrat
states that David Hull, of Clifford, had been com
mitted TO Jail by Justice B. NJ. Sanborn, o Gil
ford in default of bail in the sum of $4,000, on
the charge of attempting to take the life of Ben
jamin Dow, of that town, on the ewing of the
the "a ult Subsequently, the wife OF Dow
was arrested, charged with committing adultery
with Hull, and was bound over in 500 for trial.