Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-27
Items of State News.


An ANCIENT DocUMEyr.-Mr. Willard Arms
Of Yves, Brattleboro has left in office doc
ument written On parchment bearing the date
# 1866, icing ore hundred years old.
1t wss found among the papers of the late DR..
Willard Arms, al Is d Commission appointing
John Arms ESQ. Major of the Regiment Mi
litIa Foot in the Province of New York and the
territories depending thereon In America' 1t
bears the Royal Seal, and is signed by sir Henry
Moor, Baronet who was al that time captain
General and Governor of the territory, and
couptersigned By John French Though the
parchment is so new hat soIled, the writing, in
bold hand, is easily read BraitIeboro Phonir.
The agent Of the Vermont Bible Society, who
has carvassed the town of Concord, Essex Co ),
Vt, reports the following peculiar distripution
Of the church goers: Universalsts 10, Metho-
dis III. Freewill Baptist 80, Congregations
list ;. Miscellaneous 49, Making total
of 300 or less than third Of the people, that
re- llariv attend church. Perhaps 1t is not
sufprig ~ hat the statistics show q loss OF pop
ulation Of l3o in the town since 1850.
THE UNION CHEESE COMPANY of Westford,
after er, ctIng suitable building, began opera
tons June 3D., 1868, and made 81, 246 lbe OF
cheese 10 four months, from 400 cows giving
durIu, that time sol 293 lbs. milk The Reese
boxed and delivered at the railroad was sold at
an average Of 10 , cents per pound, amount
ing 20 So 1860,
One hundred h - were kept and the profit
on 7 * Ovsr cost Of stock was S9lo.34 Ii was
found hat il required little more than 81
lbs. OF milk for pound OF cheese. Two males
and two FEMALES performed all The labor in the
est4b ishment Free Press.
SHEEP TH1EF We learn from the Middle
bury Register that some recent mysterious disap-
pear4aces Of valuable sheep from the farms in
= 4 ~. ~riai b.-tb s
haulng Of q sheep dealer. Isaac kingsland
who VS. Ii ing sheep West. Two farmers sus-
pecIng him, followed him 10 Onondaga CO., y.
\ where ;hey discovered some Missing sheep OF
theirs IN his flock The whole flock, of thirty four
sheep, Of which it is supposed that nearly twenty
wefc stclen has been brought back, and the thief
LOGGED in Middlebury jail.
NEw RAILROAD BRIDGE AT RoYALToN.-The
Woodstock Standard speaks highly OF the new
bridge over i hite river, built by the Vermont
Central. 1t is 600 feet in length, and cost the
road about $4,000. Although twenty-one trains
u....d and repsssed every secular day and night
FIR zine months, and the deck OF the bridge was
tifsv feet above the bed of the river, there was
interrupt on of the trains. and no accident to If
or limb occurred while the work was 10 progress
TuE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE
AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGE.-We learn that at
meeting OF the corporation held last evening,
Prot Bartlett Of the University of Chicago, was
elected 70 the office Of President Of the Unlver-
sitv Of Vermont and State Agricultural College.
! VERMONT GIRL IN WAsHISGToN.-Ther
Wa a grand ball at the National Hotel IN Wash
iustoo the evening before Lent. The Repu6lican
saws the dancing kept up until four O'Clock
IN the morning, and the star of the galaxy of
beauty was young lady from Vermont, niece
Of Nr Senator Foot, who dressed with
simplicity that charmed every one who saw her.
Her dress was pure white alpaca, covered with
TRANSPARENT lace, and she wore not an ornament
either Of iewelry, ribbons, or anything of the
kind Her hair was allowed to fall naturally with
out comb or any visible confinement, and her fig
ure presented picture worthy of the pencil of the
old Italian masters"
Vbe amount of cheese manufactured at the
En- shurgh Centre Cheese Factory, last season is
estimated a, 300 900 lbs. consisting of 2,l0Ol
cheeses, made from 2, 10000 pounds of milk.
NoRrHERN PAcIFIc RAILROAD Gov. Smith,
President of the Northern Pacific X. r., IN COM
many with several members of the Execu tive
Committee, has been in Washington tor the
purp3se of a conference on measures which will
secure the immediate commencement OF their
road.
Among other subjects which have had ccnsid-
Grafton is a system OF emigration, more elaborate
and complete perhaps than has ever been de-
veoped 10 the Unned States, Tor the purpose OF
settling the new territories Of the Northwes.
EASTERN VERMONT RAlLRoAD.-The stockhold-
ers of the Eastern Vermont Railroad Company
are wanted TO meet at the junction House,
White River Junction, on the 9Th of March, for
the election of seven directors.
PERsoNAL.-Msjor Thos. H Halsey, Paymss-
ter, L. 5 A, who has been stationed at Bur
lington since early in October last, has been or
dered - duty in New York city. He will, how
ever pay the Seventh Vermont on their arrival
at Bra,leboro.
County CoMMIssIoNERs.-The following are
among Temperance nominees for County Com
missIoners in the State
Addison-Rodman Chapman. Vergennes.
RutLdnd-E ID. Selden, Brandon.