Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-30

CINE Company No. !, are Foreman-Henry
Wells; Firss Assistant-R. O'Connor; SEQ
ond Assissa.t-Frank Dillingham;; Foreman
Hose-George H. LsAss, Jr.; Secretary
Will. E. Carpenter.
The Seth Warner Company 10 offered -
follows.
Foreman-Gsorge H. Lsase First Assis-
tant-Willism Deal Second Assistant-Geo.
w. Atkins Foreman of Hoss-Farnham @.
Stowe; Cierk-D. NJ. Knighta. Col. H. B
Dewey is Chief Engineer.
MI. r. Covsll, of Berlin, We presume is the
oldes: subscriber to the FREEMAN, and has paid
for it until January 1868. He will be 80 years
old in February. His bale and hearty old age
is, undoubtedly, owing to the fact that he reads
The FREEMAN every week, and..psys for it invari-
ably in advance. This is better than medicine
or an insurance against accidents. Moral
Those who would live to . venerable and hale
old age, should take the FREEMAN and pay
for it in advance.
man named johnson was arrested in Mont
pelier on Wednesday. for stealing q watch,
evercoat and horse and sleigh from q farmer
in Barton.
POISONING CASE IN RurLAND.-Mr. and
Me-. A. w. Clark Of Rutland and four OF
their boardsrs, MIR. and Mrs. Henry Kingsley,
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Fl. Dyer came near
losing their lives on Tuesday night b. poison
ing with arsenic. Mrs. Kingsley and Mr..
Dyer, sre in 9 critical condition. How the
poison was administered 10 not known.
FIRK.-On Thursday night of week before
last, the barns of Joel Gerringhre, of Nor
wich, with their contents, we're destroyed By
fire. lie also lost IS sheep, yoke of oxen. u
span OF horses, harnesses, wagons and all bis
farming tools. Insured for $525.
| Wood S. Proctor, Esq :, of Boston, a ma tive
of ProctOrsvIlle, died the 10Th of January
from an internal hemorrhage caused by over
exertlon in reaching his residence during the
severe snoW-stOrm.
| OUTRAGEOUS AssAULr.-Lass night, Stark
Morse with TWO boon companions were hav-
ing q drunken revel at the house of his father,
| Ben amin Morse, about three miles from this
village, when mis- father entered the room and
asked them to desist. Stark thereupon seized
bis father, stripped of his pants which Stark
claimed a. his. and then gave him a very Sc
we're beating about the her d. This morning
the parties were brought before Justice Sar
gent, and Stark was bound up in the sum of
$500, and as no one could be found 30 foolish
a. TO furnish bail, he was committed to Jail.
The others were discharged. Stark is a noted
character, and richly deserves the severest
Observation-Disclosures Erpress
LIQUOR Law IN EssE1.-Samuel Tyler and
ono Greeley Of Essex junction. have been each
| fined $50 and Gusts for selling liquor.
| Henry Hurlburt OF Essex Centre was also
fined $40 and cost for the same ofense.
The Vermont state temperance society ba.
reelected Rev. w. w. Atwater Of Vergenncs
its Secretsry and general agent, and proposes
| to enter on an active campaign for the ensu-
ing year.
Darius Pride. for many years q prominent
citizen of Williamstown. died at Hopkin.on
| recently, aged 81 He was one of tho original
| corp. ratc-s of the Vermont Mutual Fire lnsu-
| rance Company, OF whom the president, Dan
iel Baldwin, is now the only survivor.
John Webb, an Euglishman who had for
many years lived hermit a. Victory. died a
few DAYS since from the effects of fail received
while saving wood. He brought with him
| from London q large quantity OF gold which
| be boarded IN expectation that Victory would
sometime become city, when he would IN
vest it in land .peculario at the proper time
and become immensiy rich.
AcclDzNr.-Oa M)aiiy morains tia cattle
train on the PAssumpsc roAt WAS thrown
| from the track 10 ,rnet. Seven cars were
mashed and quite number Of cattle killed
and others injured.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Wood
stock Rail Road on the 23t inst, Peter L
Wa.hburn, was chosen President, Sylvester Z.
Munger, Treasurer, and Luther o. Green
Clerk.
Rutland is to have a new Masonic hall, 90
by 100 feet, thrse stories high, and built by a
joint stock company with 100000 capital
On the town records of Barton is a warrau,
for q town meeting in 1902, >" 10 see il the
town will agree to have the small pox In tht
said town OF Barton IL was voted TO have
it, and committee appointed TO aid the Sc
lecsmen In making regu lations for its control
United States Marshal Henry made a for
oible entrance with axes into the machin,
shop of Henry Sargent and Morris & Abbott
sewing machine makers at Brattleboro, Satur-
day week, and carried Oft all the machines
either completed or in process OF manufacture
Porter g. Wheeler. a New York firm, clam
an infringement OF Their patent. and hence th'
difficulty.
LYNDsN.-The new machine and repair
shops OF the Passumpsc railroad at Lyndor
are nearly completed, and will be occupied b.
workmen about the first OF March.
ACCIDENT.-Oo Saturday ev snlng Miss ii
A. Burritt OF Burlington slipped and tell q
The sidewalk front Of the new bankin
house OF tile .. First Narional Bank on tn
corner OF Church and College Streets, end dis
located her hip.
BROKEN UP.-A gang of thieves who hav,
been operating among the farmers of FAIR
field have been brought to grief. About tw
months since, two or three parties wer
caugh, before they could secrete their plund
er, and u ot ster S. Flood, one of them, afte
attempting to break Jail. turned State
evidence against Silas and George Mitchell
OF air6eld, " no were arrested on Friday las
and bound over for appe Ara noes at the Franz
lin County Court In $500 each, and In d.
fault of bail were committed to Jail.
Newton & Thompson, Brandon, Vt, Vi
two thousand cords of wood year, and en-
ploy sixty men, women and children, in NAL
ing pill boxes and spools. The factory turf
out five hundred gross of boxes per da,-72
600 boxes daily. OF 81 600, 600 per years wor
of 300 daye.
Joseph Bushy has been arrested at Brandc
for passing counterfeis scrip. Is there ar
genuine
A collision between railroad trains OCCUR,
on the Ogdensburg railroad. near Rouse
Point, on the 25th. VIM. DAVIS, engin
was killed Benjamin Pecor, fireman. had
burgh was seriously wounded in the hea
and two passengers from Canada were woun
ed.
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