Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-03-04


on account of the deep SHOWS. The Messen-
ger remarks '' Prices for medium and fair
qualities range from thirty to forty cents,
but the fortunate man who will bring in
good fall made butter can take forty-fve cents
for it easily; and he will earn it by the time
he gets through the snow drifts
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
Grand Isle county has twenty-scven justices
of the peace.
Ezra Chamberlain, of Newbury, took a
valuable horse to market for which he was
offered 5000, but which he declined to take
While driving the horse the next day it
dropped dead.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Albert Meanwhile, of Salem, returned
home from a long absence last Saturday, and
was arrested at once as an accomplice in the
robbery of Zebulon Burrows of Coventry,
last July. The evidence is strong against
him.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Elmore has voted eight thousand dollars in
aid of the Lamolle Valley Railroad. G. S.
Parker, A. w. Averill, and Selden Merriam
were named as Commissioners.
MAsoNIC.-A new Masonic Lodge has been
formed at johnson, with Herman A. Water
man as Master, Chauncey Lewis, S. W, and
William G. Doane Junior Warden.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Lodge of Good Templars was organized
in Dandy last Saturday.
fine hotel is to be erected in Rutland, to
be built of brick.
Mr. Elijah Bradley, of Dandy, was found
lately under tree he had been telling the
tree IN falling had struck limb on another
tree, which came down the unfortunate
mans head, fracturing the skull and break
ing his neck.
STATE CONFERENCE.-The Vermont Central.
Vermont and Canada, Sullivan, and Rutland
and Burlington, and Vermont Valley Rail-
roads, will carry for fare one way to the
Union State Convention at Rutland, March
18th.
RUTLAND.-The report of the Selectmen
and other officers of Rutland shows that or
ders have been drawn during the year
amounting to sos ,656 %, for the following
purposes
Highways, bridges and land dam
ages, 50 Dol II
Miscellaneous orders, AGO sc
Money borrowed, IL 200 90
Bounties, 9,445 80
Liquors to the amount of S4, 66l IS have
a net profit to the town for the six months
ending February LIST, of 1919 IS. The to-
tai amount expended for the support of the
poor, not including the overseer's salary,
is So ,307 %. The report of the auditors
shows the total liababiIities of the town al
sos 900 70. Liabilities to be met this year
! 4.2S7 3S-requiring a tax of two dollars
and thirty-fve cents upon the Grand List.
BRANDoN.-The support of the poor in
Brandon last year, according TO the annual
report, cost about Sl400 90. The town
owes S5.770 Is. The liquor agent report
is classified under the head of - Medicinal,
Chemical and Mechanical Department, and
shows that the liquor purchased amounted
to S4.Os7 30; profits on the sales for the
year, $500 50 {; amount sold 10 the people of
Brandon. s. $50 l /; sold to the people of
adjacent towns, 81 $50 50; with liquor left
on hand valued at ! ia II.
CLARE>DoN.-This town paid last year for
the support of the poor $735 81
The whole expenses of town, including
SAP p paid in a law suit, are LAG 66.
On Monday, as the IN ,rning train from
Bennington t. Rutland was nearing the Dan
by station, a Journal 10 box freight
broke, by which one end Of the car dropped
10 the ground and for more than one hundred
TOIS was dragged aiDn8 IN TINS way before
the breakagc was discovered
The Mon Musical Association was held
at Poultney four days, week before last, IN
der W. o. Perkins direction.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
school in Westminster with but forty
two pupils boasts, and that most rightfully,
Of twenty six, the records Of which show no
absent marks, and but two tardy marks.
Miss 5. l.. Leach was the teacher.
Chas. y. Davenport, a prominent Demo-
cratic politician and lawyer, is about to re
move to Brattleboro, for the practice of his
profession
At the recent term of the county court for
W INDIAN county nine divorces were granted.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Wilbur, of Vernon.
celebrated their tin wedding on the 22d ult.,
by pleasant and friendly gathering of their
friends.
A Bellows Falls minister was recently made
the fortunate recipient of twenty-five cent
scrip from loving couple whom he had just
= hitched " together for a life journey.
In default of other means Of grace the
meeting house being closed for the winter
the people of Newiane have opened dane
ing school, which viii no doubt be popular.
An EAR OF OATs.-Rollin Miller, of DUN
merston, who has been deaf for twelve years,
finds he hears better since DR.. Ketchum of
Brattleboro took some kernels of oats from
his ears which had been there all that time.
Probably he had often said he - couldn' hear
a {n)pte, while there were two of them all
the while right in his ear. But it is curious
that he didn t - feel his oats - We suppose
he will now give over the effort to Z" cultivate
his hat rec
The dwelling house Of James Brown, of
Athens. caught fire on the evening of the 10th
ult, but was discovered in season to prevent
serious damages.
Geo H. Mann, Of Dover. is the candidate
for county commissioner Of Windham county.
Several parties at Bellows Falls having
become Disguised with the water power de-
rived from the canal, purpose to build shops
during the coming summer, and run their
machinery by steam.
Samuel Houghton, of Guilford. eighty
years old. has planted and hoed corn for the
last seventy-fiv years, and he is now as Wig
OrOus and energetic as most men at half that
age.
The comm issioncrs of the West River Rail
road Company held their first meeting at
Fayetteville, Wednesday, 10Th ult, and or
ganized for work by appointing S. NJ. Waite,
ESD, Of Brattleboro, Chairman. and Austin
p. Graham, ESQ, of Winhall, Secretary
a committee of two from each town inter
estcd in the road, was appointed to solicit
subscriptions for the purpose of defraylng
the expenses of surveying the route. This
was quite Il spirited meeting of the most
substantial citizens of the West River Val
/ ley, and a very earnest determination was
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