Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-06-28
Improvements in Mortified.


awake, and deeply interested in the nomna'
tons.of Chicago and Baltimore, and yet they
understand that they will need houses and shops
as much under the Administration of Lincoln
as they have during the last four years, while
they have been afflicted by the frauds and cor
ruptions of the old public functionary.
Messrs. Orcutt & Nichols are erecting a
splendid block of stores on the north side of the
Depot common, which will be an ornament tC
the village as we'll as useful and beneficial tC
the proprietors. The block is to be three
stories high with beautiful glass front, and
finished in a style which will suffer no detri
ment by comparison with buildings of like
character in our best cities Great credit is
due to these two gentlemen for the perseverance
and public spirit which they have shown in
the prosecution of this work. The great in
crease of business here, and the limited accom-
modations, all;loudly for such building, and
we have no doubt the builders will realize q
sufficient remuneration to fully compensate
them for all their investments and labor.
Next on the list is a magnificent stone house,
which is being built by j. P. jerks, ESQ.,, on
Main Street. 1t is built of split stone, taken
from a quarry owned by Mr.. jerks, and prom
ises, when completed, to be most superb
building. The stones are split out four feet
long, and one and one-half feet wide, and
about three inches thick. They are set up
edge-wise in the building, and filled up inside
with brick-work The stone need no polish on
the face, except what nature has given them,
but are Strengthened on the edges and put into
the walls. They are the best stone for under
pinning which we have ever seen, and we would
advise all who wish for stone for such use,
which shall be as durable as granite, and much
more beautiful, to give Mr.. jerks a call. The
quarry IS on the west side of the river, and
within ten minutes walk of the Depot.
On Union Street, which runs towards Waits
field, A. D. Metcalf, ESQ.,, one of our most
enterprising and industrious citizens, is build
ing beautiful wood house, two stories high,
with fiat roof and gothic finish. We under.
stand that Mr.. Metcalf intends it for home
stead, and we cordially welcome him to our
part of the village.
S. B. Markham, ESQ.,, is also building very
neat cottage house on Vine Street. MIR. Max
ham is one Of those men who keeps everything
stirring around him. Sharp, shrcwd and vigor
GUS in business, he has accumulated handsome
property, and is determined now to appropri'
ate some portion Of it to advance and benefit
our village.
But, after all, we think theopalm is justly
due to S. A. Gage, Esq,-Condartor on the Vt
ct. r.. c., and who is known to everybody as q
kind, courteous, and gentlemanly man,-ior the
nice little cottage house which he has built or
the same street. 1t is certainly beauty. anC
no man in our community better deserves i
than he. Long may he live to enjoy it ant
serve the public.
Harvey Tenney, Esq, Superintendent o
Bridges on the Vt. o., has also made extensive
repairs on his house, on the same street, which
will add greatly to the comfort of the proprie
tor and the looks of the street. Mr. Tenney i
one of our best citizens, and needs only to b
known to be respected.
In addition to the above, which have com
directly under our eye, we notice that spiri
Of progress and improvement seems to pervad
the entire community, and almost every bod
is doing something to better their condition
to improve their prospects, and make them
selves and families more comfortable and hap
py. Painting building, repairing, washn
and scrubbing is the order of the day her
among all classes and conditions in life. Nov
there are various queries and conjectures her
as to the cause of all this. Some think tn
Gospel Millennium is coming, but account 70
it on the ground Of the consciousness whic
now exists in the minds of men that " Alb
Lincoln is to be our next President, and the
are anxious between this time and next Marc
to brush away the cobwebs of fraud, folly an
corruption which have been spun out durin
the dark days and nights of the present AC
ministraton, and paint over the black stair
which it left upon us, and the fourth of Marcel
1861, will find the citizens of Mortified dres
ed like bride for the altar, and anxious
waiting the coming of the bridegroom" Hol
est Old Abe" "G."
Judge Sempe Orr has announced himself
the citizens of Springfield as an indcpende