Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-08-22

hen hawk, which he shot near his nOur5 inc
preceding Thursday This hawk was nearly
as large and fierce locking as young eagle,
and measured four feet, three inches, from tip
to tip Of wings, and twenty three inchcs
from beak to extremity Of tail. His haSkship
was evidently an old settler, and bad made thu
vicinity where he wac captured his rendezvous
aud abiding place for some time, much to the an
noJs1ce OF tho jewellers near by, whose chicA-
cas- and young turkeys he " confscated " with
olt the form Of a military order, or the sem
bance even Of its necessity as war measure.
At last, Mr. Sterling concluded " iorbearance
had ceased to bea virtue" and, although sixty
two years Of age, took up arms in defense Of
the poultry. After tea, Thursday, bis vile in
formed him that tho hawk bad made another
swoop for a chicken, and was sailing for the
wood, near by. Selling bis musket, Mr.. 5. sal
lied forth and watched the bird till he alighted
on dry branch of a tall maple. Taxing cir
cuitous route, our veteran got in the rear Of the
enemy, and drew up at arms length. " Just
then" said our huntsman, IN his somewhat
cjmcal way, his hawkship turned his head
partly around, and sauclly cooked his eye a. me,
wlio at the same moment cooked my mus
ket at him. pulled the trigger, and the hawk
pulled for the ground, and, with scarcely flop,
the chicken sJealer was gathered to his faith
ers. Mr. s. isa veteran in the ranks of the
defenders Of poultry yards, and by this feat has
fairly won his b'eyet as Brigaiier General in
that army.
SgARr GtRL-Elith Wheatley, daughter of
Nathaniel Wheauey Of Brookheld is what We
call " smart girl, though but fifteen years VI
age. She has this season rake1 100 tons u lay,
and while guiding the rake SIC qIieily pursued
her knitting IL can be truly said that Mss
WheI.ley ls" hard to beat. - WaltoH's Daily.
Vel, II may b. 50 True the sorry belongs
10 a class tha! persons with but ordnlry cred
ullty might denomina'a tough - sill if the
editor OF the Daily insists upon bis readers
believing it we suppose dizzy mus'. Perhaps,
however, he will cJuiescend T. inform them Of
the oiodui operlaa by which one pair q hands
can guide a hone and rake and make any con
siderable progress in knitting a, the same time.
Several OF the anxious and sinless would lie
pleased to zee the thing practically demonstrated
A FATAL Accumulated Tuesday noon
man ramed Frederick Wiley was run over by
fgeisLs train, near Mortified depot, and 50
shockingly crushed tia he survived only d
few hours. Young Wiley had come down from
Roxbury on The train IL such state Of lnebfl-
alton as to ItquIte more care than those running
the freight could well spare from their other
duties, and at Mortified they refused to take
him further. He insisted on going Cd, and just
as the train started tried to jump aboard. Miss
ing bis footing he lCl On the track, and eight
ears passed over him. lie leaves q wife and
one child to mourn his uutimely end.
ADMINISTERING Jusr.cB.-They have nc
lookup at Mortified and so when q Towd5
gets into too uncomfortable mus cheat.
ing stranger takes them TO-, or wandering
peddler essays to talk too freely or to take i'm
proper liberties with their wives and daughters,
the citizens take the punishment into their own
hands. and are pretty certain that the offender
docs 1t go unwhipt Of justice" LIS; week,
foot peddler, whose arden. temperament had
led hun into various indiscreet expressions and
actions while hawking his wares from house to
honsa w cotUhf otF hr, Il II, 81
justice, and soundy whipped in the Office cf the
hotel, and then taken into the street, an again
pretty Thoroughly pummeed. The German
Adonls left the town quite well convinced that
Mortified was no place in which to ply his yo-
cation
~ The Vermont Board of Education, at its
recent meeting in Bennington, unanimously
adopted report highly recommending the New
Geography and History Of Vermont, by Rev. s.
r. Hall, LII D.. for US, in all the schools Of
this State.
Capt A. T. Laayenworih, late Of the Vernon.
Ninth, has become principal Of the Hnesburg
Academy.
The Rutland Burlington and the SARATOGA
and Cheshire Railroads have purchased new
passenger cars to be run from Fltcbburg to Sar-
aIogn.
survey has been made for a railroad from
Rutland to White River Junction, throus b
Sherburne Hollow and Woodstock. Application
will be made to the mex, legislature for charter
A snake striped in appearance, and eighteen
inches long, was vomted from the stomach of q
son OF Ira Elliott OF Lincoln a few days ago.
The boy vas ten years old and had been sick
for year past
The last Of the first Vermont CAVIAR, were
paid Of at Burlington on the 18th inst. and
the military rendezvous in that city has beer
broken up
Oar friends in Western Vermont seem to have
quite rage for steamboats, this year. Yer
genues has recently purObated one at a cost Of
$4,000.
John Maloney, formerly brakeman on the
Vermont Central Railroad who was arrested fol
counterfeit ng at Troy, n. Y, aud afterwards
escaped, lGs again been arrested at Burlington
0ne day last week four horso team, owed
by ). NJ. West Son, Arlington, while crossing
the bridge over the BAtlenkill, near by the rail
ROAD sauon, wes precipltated some distance
down into water i've feet, owing to the giving
away oil tao brilge, but got out with only slight
bruises.
John Spsar,a boy Of H. belonging in Burlng
ton, was Crowned Saturday afternoon in the
Lake near Colchester Point, having fallen oul
oil boat In which he and Others had gone oui