Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-05-27
VERMONT NEWS.

The Argus announces the death Of Asa Went
wor Ii, ESQ. Of Bellows Falls -" Asa Went
worth, E.a.. father of Col Wentworth, OF tais
village, aged 80 years, died at FelchviIle on the
9th inst lie was born IN GfOt0n NJ ass. 10
l77G. He was the oldest man 10 the town. ana
probably IN he county Of Windsor aud the last
Of family OF 9 children, Of whom lived to be
90 years Of age His father, Moses Wentworth,
was born IN ! % and WA, at the battle Of Que
Doc in 1853, under G-n. Wolfe
Tie S'h Vermont Regimen. is with General
Phelps Brigade somewhere above New ORLEANS
4 relative OF Capt. Samuel +. pingree who
was severely wounded at Lees Nils writes IN
der date Of May 2oth IS follows
" rhe notice Of the death OF Capt Samuel
Il. Pngree, which has appeared j. the papers IS
incorrect. Though be IL very sfk OF typhoid
fever, be was dong well on the 10Th instant,
with fair prospect Of recovery am 80 in
formed by DR.. Lewis W Harlow who Is in at
tendance upon him." The motto OF the death
Of Capt Piusree we first saw in,he Burlington
Times. We are happy to learn hat he Is sui
alive and that there is Il prospee oil hls recoy-
ery.-NaRdnrd.
Personal The Rev EDWARD WINTHROP, a
brother Of the lamentc1 Maj Winthrop, Is OIL
eating az present in Frankl.a County as
preacher 20 st. John : (EPscpaD church,
ilishgaie FAILS.
Can. Edward SAKE. vi1, as captain Of one
81 the Wisconsin Regiments, $50. IN the thick.
est OF tie iieh; at Pittsburgh L'rl'ng and was
numbscd among toe kiiieC Ms i native ul
Sheldon, Frausln County, w. lie was "a
brother o. the lion. RohcrtJ SAKE, late Repre-
sentative, from sheldon and now one OF The side
Judges 70. Franklin CYnuty. aud was highly es
teemed as brave anu efficient officer as well Is
an honorable. patriotic and intelligent man.
Darlington Times.
ANOTHER Hen SToRY.--A friend writes us
FROM IInesburgh that hen was found in a hay
NOW, IN the barn OF NJ. g. Bostwick, which had
been buried there zine months She was in q
space OF about one by Fix leet, and was alive
when found.
This is the third case OF the kind that has
been recorded this spring Pre- Press.
The Council of Censors will meet here on the
lst Wednesday of June next,
HSAyY.-Jesse Crane let, of Bridport, shear
ed on the 10Th inst. three year old Spanish
Merino Buck, whose feece-just Ons year s
growth--weighed twenty..threc pounds and
twelve ounces.
The citizens OF Orleans county have loaned
the Passumpsic Railroad Company $50, 900,
which settles the extension and completion oil
the road without doubt, it is said. One hun.
dred aud fifty suits have been commenced against
pon.paving subscribers east OF the line of the
.Oad.
Two hundred thousand slate pencils were
manufactured and put up Tor market in tour
DAYS last week, ia Adams 4 Browns mill. in
Cas,letnu On one OF the days, eight thousand
aud two hundred were put up aud boxed ;or
shipment. Last year this concern was closed
up about the middle of the season. This year
they have all the orders they can NIL, and bust
ness constantly increasing Rutland Herald.
DlsoRpERlr liorsK.-Ambrose Liyoks keeper
of &, bad hole" on Main Street. opposite lhs
Post Office. was yesterday brought before Jus
tce Holenbeck, charged with keeping disor.
berly house. aud the evidence being quite strong
AGAINST him. he WAS bound over IN 800 fol
trial Mt the next term OF the County Court =
Free Press.
SrIc,pk.-Geo. Hale Of Leyden, u single ina
in easy circumstances. SO years old, was found
suspendcd by a rope from the beams In his own
barn on Thursday morning Ii waa supposed
that he had been hanging about ~ minutes. -
Partial insanity was probably the cause of th,
act-PhGn'r.