Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-10-11
Freeman for the Session.

Inc ! FREEMAN Will contain Il carefully pre-
pared digest Of Legislative proceedings and
debates. reports of anniversary meetings. the
carrent news Of the day, local and State
items and such other matters as 20 to make
valuable and interesting newspaper. Il
will he furnished postpaid To members and
others during the Session for 40 cents or
~ cents viii pay for three months subscrip-
ton Single copies Will be furnished at the
counting-room. for 4 cents each.
A material and liberal reduction will be
made t. those ordering several copies during
the session. or for large numbers for any sin
gle week Members desiring the paper in
quantities arc rcquesJcu 10 Icuvr uirvi1 vr,tvr7
at the FREEMAN Counting Room a. soon as
Saturday afternoon. 20 that all may be sup
piled.
IHFRoy ENEMA much needed improve
ment has been recently made in the tele-
graph and express office in the station house
of the Vermont Central railroad in this vii
Iagc- About one-third Of the gentIcmens
room haS been added to the office, and it mas
been entirely rcnodeled. and handsomely
fitted up. The office II now large. and con-
venicntly arranged, and the public will find
it much better adapted t. the large business
Of the Express and Telegraph Companies
occupying It: and Col. Hopkins, who con
tinucs. of course. to occupy it, is to be con
graduated on this addition both to his ia
cilities for the transaction Of business and
10 the pleasantness Of his official habitation.
PERsoNAL.-Hon. d. =. Thompson. Of
Montpelicr, whose illness we noticed not
long since. l.. we are glad To know. recover
ing his usual strength. His many friends
will he glad to hear of his convalescence.
Re- u. c. Roberts rector of Christ
Church, Montpelier. was unanimously chos
en- chaplain by the Senate, and Rev. DR. y.
Foster was elected by the House, in the
organization yesterday.
THE CLERks.-The House Yesterday, as
was expected.-and it CO.. ld not have done
better. -unanimouely elected j. III. FLAGG,
Esq. Clerk. and Mr. FLAGG has appointed
his old and efficient corps of assistants VIZ ;
ALBERT CLARKE. Esq, Of Rutland, EDwIS j
HARTsHoRN, of Rutland. and ID. WEBSTER
DIXON, Of Bennington.
The SENATE was organized without ripple
Of opposition. MR. CLARK being chosen Sec
rotary and Major PECK Assistant Secretary,
without objection from any quarter We
are not sorry to zee that these offices do not
provoke anv contest. although reckon, if
any applicants for the places had appeared,
the popularity of the present incumbents
would have brought about the same result.
GOV. PAGES Message will probably be
sent to the Legislature this afternoon. We
shall give it in our next weekly issue. which
will be published Wednesday morning.
VEGETABLE WoNDER,-Mr. William
Bancroft of South Barre has shown us vcrI-
table wonder in the vegetable kingdom
being nothing less than several cucumbers,
some six feet in length and six TO eight
inches in circumference. bearing almost an
exact resemblance to a huge serpent partly
coiIed up. The seed of these vegeta bles
was obtained from Marblehead Mass, and it
l. called the Snake cucumber The
larger end is almost exact profile of a
sernent's head with indentations for eyes,
mouth &c. The taste Of the vegetables is
about like that Of the ordinary cucumber
with perhaps a slight tendency to melon
flavor, and they are more crisp and tender
than cucumbers in general.
Hon. Levi Underwood. of Burlington, has
been elected one of the Directors OF the Erie
railroad.
DRESSED AND LIVE WEIGHT.-Notwlth-
standing the general impression that hogs
shrink one-third in dressing, it has been
ascertained by actual experiment that the
shrinkage is only about one-seyenth
The express train on the Passumpsic Raii-
road has been discontinued The mail tram
runs on same time heretofore.