Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-06-20

do DO No, Miss wing.
Monday, June 2G No 8--Miss Watson.
do do No. Miss Hobart
Tuesday, June y, No. 5-Mlss Grow.
do do No. G--Miss Hartman.
Wednesday Juae %, aud Thursday, June 49, Nos
and s-Mis, arown aud Mr.. Gorham.
The schools will occuoy the entire days sss gnsl
saca.
Friday afternoon June 80 Declarations and Compost.
lions Of the Ae4iemcal Department in III, Hall.
Friday evening, Annual Levee at the Hall
PA OADEE OF COMMITTEE
TnE FOURTH AT MONTPELIER. "A meeting was
held at tn P.yillion, las. Thursday evening, to
see what measures our people would adopt u
insure proper Observance Of the approaching
Foufth Of July, and it wa, voted to celebrate"
A Committee Of Arrangements wae appointed
to whom tho matter Of raising the proper funds
for the object contemplated and arranging
suitable order OF exercises, was conf led. We
understand the Committee are progressing favor
MAKE tbs celebration a i.ci3d success Calp.
lain D. b. Merwn, has been invited to deliver
the grafton, and will probably accep: the invita-
ton. We hardly need suggest to our citizens,
now that it is decided to have a celebration the
proprIety and necessity Of giving the Committee
OF Arrangements a ready and hearty supp.rt,
both by their influences AMI their money, # they
would make the occasion cre1itable to the town
and satisfactory TO those who may attend
Al ACCIDENT Mr. 0rson Skinner Of Berlin,
while coming down the bill near his house late
Sunday night bad bis wagon upset by coming
10 contact with another team, and the horse, |
wagon and himself were thrown down the bill,
Mr.. skinner was seriously injured and h's car
riage almost entirely wrecked.
The friends Of Capt Oryll Btxby, Go 2nd) /
will be pleased TO learn that his wife has at last
succeeded 10 obtaining his body. His remains
nov rest, far from the scenes Of strife and blood /
shed, 10 quiet churchyard in Chelsea. bis native
place. May The remembrance Of oil such brave
and noble ones, who have fallen IN their country. .
cause, ever be sacredy cherished
A RAID X BERLIN few nights since sew
eral young men from this village went up to
Berlin Pond On a fishing excursion. The waters
we're " high" the angling for pous exciting,
aad the scenery BY moonlight inspirting o.
course the party got slightly " elevated 10 their
imagined themselves " Down in Dixie, " and .
views. Starting for home, they took the route /
via B IRE, and when in the East road neighbor-
hood made a valiant charge on all the intrench- /
ments and obstacles IN their Teach. Fences, gates
and doors we're carried at the point of their
boots and 10 several instances carried even beyond
that-tO far distant points The boys reached .
home next morning but not til the Berlintes had I
obtained descriptive lists Of the party Most OF /
those concerned, after having 40 opportunity % /
calmly lay down and loJk at the matter, yery /
good naturedly met all claims On them for an
lawfully coadscatng property in friendly cJun.
try. The rest are To boz invited up to the cay
tain 3 office to settle
Vermont hens are getting famous in their pro-
ductous Tney seem determined that # the
prics Of eggs will not come dOica the Nse OF them
shi 90 up A 'oupe Of egg- have b. q sent
% tn L,ni0n Uiloa, one vt w1cl mslsur,s
: BY IA inches in circumference, weighing
sbJut three aud halt ounces, and the other
measuring 1 by IL inches, and weighed
three ana a quarter ounces. Another has been
sent 10 tne bennington Banner, that measure.
: Ia by IA Inches one to the lydepark
-NtWs1ea.er, that is by 5 inches III crcumler-
ence, aud still another c he best OF ali) to the
Bellows Falls Times which measures 5 - by
iuehe', aud weighing nearly slX ounces.
Tue above IL going the round Of our exchanges
aud the hens 10 this vicinity have felt themselves
called upon to " lay themselves out" in the
premises The result is, one of our subscribers
we dldn t learn his name "a few da s since left
upon our tabl3 a couple of hens eggs, both of
wulch eclipse all the egg stories we have heard
Que being the biggest and the other the smallest
specimen we have yet seen. The small egg is
about as large as a robbins egg and is doubt
less resulting consequent ol the hen trying
to spread herseli on the blg egg. We in
END to invite the editorial fraternity Of Mont
paler to breakfast on the large egg, aud to make
a present Of the little one to Tom Thumbs hA-
Dy-ii Tom ever has a baby
lnE PoEucAL ConBLER on Main Street is an
- Institution, and no mistake. Last week we
we're IA quest Of shoes fir one Of our juveniles.
lud,altet vain search Tor fits elsewhere be.
thought ourselves Of BIcKroRD, ana his poetry.
There W. weat rue voice OF song was hushed.
No music hlated on the air What could il
neau' We stepped IN and found the poet as
GLENN as an owl, IL was soon explained
3ckiord had just returned from funeral, aod
idn't yet got of tn d" solema" that he had
s,amad Tor the occasion. Wemade our ernud
in1wo, AMI Bcktorl WAS himself again. lie
not only provided the yOungster with nicely
itiog PAIR of boots, but fairly colxei US into
'rierIng supply Tor the feet of the other mem.
)ers Of the household. All this time he gave ia
never note OF music, hut blandy insisted up
IN our leaving him several small bank notes as
h token Of remembrance. No matter how GOOD
3lckord's shoes may be, he never refuses to
ell them to any body who has the cash in hi.
hands to pay for them.
BOYS lloE.-About the best thing We have
ieen IN The shape Of " tools for boys is a boys
hoe Manufactured by J. Ellsworth & sons, the
"ell'known manufacturers Of the celebrated
BoswoIih hoe, at Berlin Corners. Que Of our
youngsters has had present Of enc, and feels SO
Ilpugpd with n tbut ,.. Al. - -.