Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-04-21
Menus an0 Uonlllleuts
April.

Yesterday was jewel worthy the coronet O
Summer itself. The grass is starting rapidl
upon the Common and in the yards, sprinII
towering plants are well up and blooming, AM
the lilac bushes are OH the point Of putting on
their leaves, Humanity has also received
new impulse of life, and the streets are crowded
with eqaipages, shoppers and promenaders
Illus far this month we have had the usua
variety of weathcr-warm southern breczes
bright sunshine, frosty nights, clouds, ram
snow, &c. The poets have sung great dea
about April, and tho following is very good
but little too carly for our climate
Gan day the low hung clouds have dropped
Their garner'l funess down:
All day that soft gray mi st hath wrapt
Hill, valley, grove and town.
The very earth, the steamy air,
Is all with fragrance rife;
And grace and beauty everywhere
Are flashing into life.
Down, down they come--those fruitful stores!
Those earth-rejo cling drops!
momentory dcluge pouIs,
Then thins, decreases, stops:
And ere the dimpes stream
Have circled out of sight,
Lo from the West parting CLEAN
Breaks forth of amber lgh'
But for our climate, Henry Kirk White ha.
best described April:
'Emblem of life see changeful April sail
In varying vest along the shadow skies,
Now bidding Summers softest zepbyr's rise,
Anon recalling Winters stormy gale,
Thu pouring iIosi .ne olona nc. sua a, hal
While Iris i, with her braid tn. welkn dyes dyes,
About the last week in this month, in this
lattitude, unless it is very backward season
there is marked change in the face Of nature
The buds swell to bursting plants ana trees as
bloom, the green grass springs up, and all yes
tiges OF winter disappear. he the DECK Oh
Ap'" a
yiOl.ts whose breath the curious Winds endow
Those CUPS prou.e. like drops Of gold that blow,
MN rne sasay Wett s anu Yellow n0s'tow
The green moss, thcsening rich in MONDAY sum
KindIng withspruuts, by thousand dews are spun.
Load the fresh sale mix NIKE eonseua ssh
Journal.
FRocs AS another Indication Of the nea,
approach of the season of flowers. family Of
frogs have lately moved into pond under GU,
near vision. where thew have kept up series
of serenades and lectures upon Frogology. 70,
the past week, notwithstanding.
The wee-bts of chorus
From the harp OF Old b0reas'
By-the-way, where DO frogs come from? Dc
they burrow in the ground during winter p
Certainly there was M water within ten rod,
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Oh 'heir present aP'ue N's' iaii 10 '"ey 'f0eA'
up or go down into winter quarters.
VERMONT CENTRAL RAnRoAD.-On and after
Monday last, the time of tho cars leaving
Montpelier will be as follows; Going South
$40 A. NJ, y NJ, and $40 p. NJ; Going
North-S,40 A. M. and 4,30 P. M. We are
informed that business is quite lively on thi
Road, and increasing with the opening Spring
1t offers the best facilities for Western trave
via the Ogdensburgh and Grand Trunk Railways
to Chicago.
NJ E.cno,v G,v,srr another column i,
an advertisement for Factory Girls to 60 tc
Lowell. From an experience which we have
had in that kind of life we say to the girls that
if they must 60 to the Factory at all, this OPP
portunity is as good one as they can get.
During tho week. ending Anril 5,b. the fol.
lowing natents were Issued.
Matthias L,udlum of Fair Haven, VT, fol
improved water light doors for marine safes
Sias G. Randall of Middlebury, VT, for i'm
provement tor keeping air springs supplieu WIFI
aif'
The FIRST MAY FLowERs.-Fresh, blooming
and sweet, in the beautiful boquet of May
flowers which Cooley has thus early laid upor
our table, 1t is a perennial flower, a MONTH,
rose, it blooms continually. The frosts Of thu
financial world make it no less lovely, it has {
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a soo
wv roaa i a. al n,r srhsor,hors in connection
-.:., 49, r..ou,e, % ko nor roo. Far hotb
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REPAIRING UP.-We are pleased to note thu
many signs of improvement in our village an'
- " s.,' '. .t:. 80. o.hou,
MI . w.. ...l;u aoa :,
-, ada;.;on, b. tho ooauonioneo q tbo;,
r. Ca.a. o.nnn aad avn nro,oroa IN sbo,
customers a neat shop, as we'll as a good assort
ment of Dry Goods, Groceries &C., &c.
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MONTPELIER UNION ooho0l'--1A" "''outu''
Trr;or Soboo, nistr;ot yas hold ot the Cour
uanaa ~ . ~ 1a,h ;aat pn rnto tho moatir,
iiouS' vi 'ne io'h ''''.' ny 'o'0 VIC 'A'''"'