Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-08-19

| Gold has recently been discovered in a
brook east of Glover village, by gentleman
formerly miner in California.
E. P. Cotton. has completed an accurate
history of the town of Irasburgh, and will
probably publish it soon. Aes- -
Supreme Court commences Aug. 20, AT
Irasburgh, with % cases ON the docket.
The Republicans of Glover formed Grant
and Colfax Club last Friday evening, electt
ing DR.. Tcmpleton President, and Jane
Simonds Secretary. The Club lis to meef
weekly.
Chauncey Randall of Newport, recently
killed black snake, 10 feet long; a
species rarely seen, in Waltham, Vt.
Mr.. and Mrs Faunce Hammond of Glover
celebrated the fftieth anniversary of their
marriage on thei30th of July. Six childenr,
thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-one other
relatives were present, and spent few hours
pleasantly with the aged couple.
Benjamin Jerome of Irasburgh, only twelve
years old, lately, shot crane while on the
wing. 1t stands five feet high and measures
six feet from tip to tip of wings.
A Grant club was formed at North Troy,
lately and subcommittee appointed for each
and to see that every Republican is at the
polls.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The West Rupert Cheese Factory Associa
ton made their fourth shipment of cheese
the Sd inst, of five and half tons, which
was sold in New York on the 5th for l6 ID
cents per h., netting the patrons at the fac
tory trifie over Is l2 cents per ID.
Arson A. Nicholson, ESQ, of Rutland,
has been appointed a United States Com
missioner for the District of Vermont.
The estate of the late Gen. Isaac Nc
Daniels, of Rutland, is estimated by some as
high as 81 900 900.
While Daniel Balch, one of the persons
complicated with the recent Shrewsbury
murder, was standing in his door Tuesday
evening, an unknown man concealed near by
fired at him. and the ball struck him on the
forehead, but glanced and inflicted only
severe flesh wound
Edward Caswell, of Rutland, has been fined
$22,9S for whipping his mother-in-law.
An application will be made to the General
Assembly at the next session for charter
for Railroad from some point on the line of
the Rutland and Washington Railroad in the
town of Poultney, through the towns of
Poultney, Fairhaven, Westhaven, Benson
and Orwell, to some point in the towns of
Orwell or Shoreham.
Last Saturday evening the house of Pa t
rick Brislin at Center Rutland was forcbly
entered, and Mr.. Brislin and his wife severe
ly beaten, after which the premises were ran
sacked, and forty-fve dollars in money alb
stracted. The parties who committed the
deed have, to our knowledge, not vet been
arrested.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Ten head of western cattle. out of a drove
of twenty seven belonging to W. f. Richard
son of Brattleboro, which were purchased in
Albany less than three weeks ago, died with
in few days after their arrival. The disease
is pronounced by competent authority to be
owing to the exhaustion consequent upon long
confinement and want of proper care in
and entirely distinct from the
- Illinois cattle disease" which is creating
such havoc at the west. The disease among
Mr.. Richardson's cattle has apparently ex-
pended itself, and probably no more deaths
will occur. In some instances those which
seemed for time to be hopelessly affected
are recovering.
There recently visited at the house of c.
d. Willard in Westminster, at one time. six
ldulcS WHOee ulilIcu ages amounted To $50
years. The oldest was sc, the youngest %
Three of them are natives of Westminster
\ heavy shower passed over Bellows Falls
Village lately, during which the lightning
struck on Mt. kilburn, and the conclusion
was so great that it broke out quantity of
glass in a house on the Terrace
Charles Ii. Farnsworth, a teacher of pen
from Lowell, hung himself in the
d. Ill.
Charles S Lord son of Captain Thomas
c. Lord, of Brattleboro, died at San Francis
co, where he was prominent merchant, on
the 9TH instant at the age of 35.
There have been five cases of suicide in
Brattleboro during the past twelve months
one by shooting and four by hanging.
The annual fair of the Wilmington Agri-
cultural Society will be held on Tuesday,
Sept. Is.
Mrs I W. Stowell of Westminster, has
an interesting relic of the war of 1912, being
an illustrated paper after the manner of
those days. 1t is entitled. &" Hierog liphics
of John Bulls overthrow or, A View of
the Northern Expedition in Miniature -
There is date to the sheet, but it contains
an account of the disastrous attack of our
forces on the heights of Queenstown, dated
Buffalo, Oct. 20, 1912. The pictures are
exceedingly primitive, and evidently in /
tended a comic take off on that unfor- /
tunate affair. 1t is printed on but one side !
Of the sheet, and shows that the art of
comic illustration has progressed some in the /
last tifty-six years. So says the Bellows
Falls Times.
At the last meeting y the Grant and Col
fax Club of Brattleboro, over 100 names |
were added to the Climb, and speeches were
made by Rev. Addison Brown, Captain R. |
w. Clark. II. F. Smith, Major John G. Ty- |
Ter and others
Warren Boyd, of Wilmington. found one
Of his cows dead in his pasture a few days |
since. Supposed to have been killed by
lightning.
A bet has recently been made between E.
A. Puffer of Dummerston and j. y. Ship |
man of the same town, under the following
conditions If Grant and Colfax are elected |
Shipman finds and wheels barrel of good
saleable apples to Brattleboro and Puffer has
the pay. If Seymour and Blair are elected,
Puffer wheels the apples and Shipman has
the pay.
VI. VALLEY RAILRoAD.-The annual meet
ing of the Vermont Valley Railroad oompanv.
was held in Bellows Falls on Wednesday,
and the following persons chosen directors
for the year ensuing: Hugh II. Henry, Gov.
Morris, Alex. Hamilton, G. r. l. Bowdoin,
Charles Chaplin, Joel Page, j. III. Williams,
President, Hugh IL. Henry.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
They have in Windsor hill of corn fully
% feet high.
One Sabbath, the 9th, while the family