Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-12-28

sufficient to furnish fuel forever fer locOIao-
tiyes over the woodless sections of the route.
! Both east and west faces are being worked
at the Hoosic tunnels central shaft. About
fifty feet each way have been finished, and
compressed air drilling will be Introduce
when one hundred feet depth is attained
Among the many articles of value which
Treasurer Spinney has charge of IN the
vaults at the Treasury is large bottle oil
ottar of roses, presented to President van
Buren, by the Imaum Of Muscat, valued al
$500.
a young professor at one of the colleges
married lady twenty years his senior. Tins
was said by witty friend to be proof OF
his ambition, as he appeared DESTROYS to
study the ancients."
There is young apple merchant in Bos-
ton, not yet eleven years of age, who is lay
ing a good foundation for the future. lie
employs five other boys younger than himself
apportioning them their districts for selling
and reaps daily revenue of from four to
! ten dollars. All but one attend school, and
all are of native birth.
Professor Olmstead considers the aurora
/ borealis as being due to nebulous matter,
\ like that which furnishes material for met
ORIG showers or zodiacallight The light,
I ne bulukss Is cduseu by inc ITlCtlOH VI eoO
earth in plunging with its atmosphere though
this matter, which being partly metal
thus gives rise to the concurrent magnl
phenomenon.
A number of Americans are about
their luck in the diamond fields o
Africa, concerning which such strang
are told. They may make forum
it is quite as likely that they will nj
nothing but misfortune.
An exchange, abiding to p T. Ba
coming show says: Z" He is the a
that recently entered land out
falling off his horse into prairid
The hole will be exhibited among "A
ties -
A Jerseyman who has a Chines
complains that the heather will
old brass andiron, when the IA,
ers for prayer, and the other mOrEN
up before it two dead rats and burn
joss stick.
A certain town in Mass. has Gle
who has married one man five times
the women in the case are still
must be that by this time he hq1
change the usual formula, and
divorce doth you part.
Fur and leather clothing is "a
half of the inhabitable globe, foN
terials prevail in Siberia, Northern u
o-thirds Of North America and the south
ern extremity of South America.
The State Of New Hampshire borders on
Canada for distance of third or forty
miles. and yet there is not road Of any
kind across the line. 1t is wild region on
both sides, but little frequented except by
hunters.
4 FEw TOO MANY.-Four gentlemen now
claim seats in the Senate from Georgia. An
other has been elected for the term beginning
in March, and Attorney General Akermsn's
friends propose to choose him Or the same
term declaring the man last elected, Foster
Blodgett, not eligible Pretty soon Senator
will be as common a title in Georgia as
Judge or General.
The surprising announcement is made that
the Aurora island, one Of the New Hebrid e,
has disappeared beneath the waters of the
South Pacific with all its inhabitants, and
no mortal knows the date Of the catastrophe
It was a fertile island, &c miles long and FIVE
broad.
A telegram dated at Los Angeles, Cal, on
the 2Sth of November, has the following con
corning "a the ship Of the DESERT vessel
which has been regarded by many persons Of
fabulous origin - Clusker reports that he
has found the desert ship forty-fye miles
west Of the Dos Palmas station, IN the Ca
basson Lake He describes her as two hun
bred feet long, bowsprit and stern above the
sand Clusker has returned to the ship 10
take possession and examine her. p"
\ pleasant incident occurred at a wedding
in the Universalist Church at New Haven
last week. As the doors were opened to ad-
nit the bridal party. dove lew in and
Flightcd near the happy couple. aud remained
Is a spectator OF the ceremony.