Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-06


: united with the Congregationalist and Meth
|, odist Societies in this place, on Sabbath last.
The Vermont Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, will hold its next
Session at Montpelier, commencing the 18th of
May.
The work on the State House walls has again
commenced
WALroN's SPEEoH.-We give place to speech
of the member of Congress from this District,
which will be read with interest and pleasure.
The item referring to the perpetuity of Slavery
in Kansas, is new to us but nevertheless true.
DR.. G. n Brigham informs us that he has
given no authority for using his name as a re-
commend for VOLTS Schiedam Schnapps, adj
vertised in another column, nor does he use or
recommend them, This, in our opnnn, is about
as near correct as any Patent Medicine Dealers
generally get things.
STEPHEN BURROUGHS or, Crime and its Ret
ribution, the publication of which is commenced
on the first page, is tale of fact more than
fiction, and we commend it to a careful perusal.
New Subscribers who wish it complete should
subscribe soon.
few of our subscribers will please bear in
mind, that our terms are two dollars at the end
of the year, or three dollars for the year behind
and year in advance and that in no case
whatever can any subscription be allowed to
run over one year unpaid.
Charles Skinner, of Marshfeld lately sawed
a full cord Of hard wood in As minutes Pref
ty well for young man but II years of age.
On the 10th ult., little daughter of Barry
Williams of Mortified, VT, was leaning over a
tub Of water near the corner of the house, look
ing, probably, at her own beautiful shadow,
when the wind blew the cover off the tub, which
was attached by a hinge on one side, over on the
back of her head, holding her face into the wa
ter 50 as to drown the little angel
Two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars
worth of property was destroyed by fire in Fed
cral Street Boston, on the md.
Every student and member of Amherst Col
lege, Mass, have become professors of rel igon
Tuckerman, the great mail roobber, was tried
at New Haven last week, and verdict of guilty
rendered by the jury
L. G. Mead, of Brattleboro', has received the
commission for statute for the Allen Monu-
ment. The figure is to be eight feet in height
of marble, and will represent Allen in the char
$ acterstic attitude of impatience to get at the
I " Workers."
AccIDENT.-Wm. Putnam of Vergennes, had
a leg crushed, as he was getting on the steam
boat at Westport N. Y, on Tuesday of last
week, between the boat and the wharf, render
ing amputation necessary.
"PoIKE, PICKEREEL, Bull-plug, eb'ry kind o. fish,"
3 Mr.. Reuben Kellogg, of Ferrsburgh, caught
at one haul of his seine last week, t,ce1ve hun
!, dred and seuenty,fpe bull-pouts, one hundred
perch, three pickerels, and two suckers.
The Armory at Windsor, turned out two
thousand rifles in the month of March.
A The April term of the Franklin County Court
( is in session, Judge Bennett presideng.
The Post-ofice address of Joshua Tucker,
Stedman G., and Nancy G. Thicker, is Mortified
Vt.
O OxYGENATED BITTERs.-The cures effected by
n this remedy are truly astonishing. The CON
firmed Dyspeptic regains his pristine vigor the
l. Asthmatic g breathes freer," Indigestion dis
$, appears. These BitterS produce these wonders
t. Let all who suffer try them
~ STABBING AFFRAY.-In Vergennes, on the 10th
Or two men named Sheldon and Adams had higl
g words ending in a scuf1e, in which Sheldon wa
twice stabbed in the left breast and in the bacl
near the kidneys. Adams asserted that he dom
u it in self-defence, and did not leave the place
vi for some hours A warrent was issued for hi
y arrest, but was not executed, for some reason
y best known to the sheriff. Adams was pursue,
d. on Saturday, and was traced to the ceder Woo
y skirting the Lake, north of Adam s Ferry Pan
III ton. The affair has made much excitement il
- ~ Vergennes.
nc Mr.. G. L. Harding of Winooski, sold his fin
gray gielding, to Boston man, for the hand
d. some price of 5000. The horse, which man
-, Of our readers must have noticed at times in GU
- streets, was large noble looking animal, weigh
re ing when in good order from 1l75 to 1l9
nd pounds, of dark gray color, close built, wit
res a rather long body, perfectly kind and sound
= and trots his mile in 4 minutes, to q wagon
) with ease and without training. He is of Ham
IT, iltonian and Morgan blood.-Free Press.
lite
h., On the morning of April 22nd, hug
y bear came into the dpor-yard of Seth Sterling,
Ike Warren land then passed back into the barn-ya
ter and took a sheep from the shed (not over fy
RI rods from the house) and went off to the mour
10 tain, with his prey. There being about fou
, inches of snow, which had fallen day or tw
iFr previous, it betrayed all his movements. H
nj had passed and repassed but few rods from tt
of house, several times. A company of about or
hundred and twenty-five men gathered abol
noon and surrouned him on the mountain bl
=, he being fierce and resolutc broke away and e.
inc capped. Several saw him and some fred at hin
; Those who saw him said he was the largest be;
that had been seen on the mountains Watc
o'' man.
the The New MECHANIC SHOP The constructor
of the new shops to take the place of Phone
en- Shop consumed by fire, is going on with surpri
= ing rapidity Visiting the place Tuesday, v
" found the engine house restored-the found
ose rebuilt, and preparations going on for castin
md neat day. The North Shop was to receive
roof that afternoon and will be ready to recei
machinery next week. Mr.. Pattee informs
that the other two will be completed with
the from two to three weeks more. In ALL abo
it $50 men are at work on the ground, and eve
'ty' thing betokens energy and method in the wo
lrs, which promises to bring the entire concern il