Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-11-18

Jonathan Cook, ED, IN aged and +
spected citizen of Morristown. says that whs
be came into that town in 1905, there wei
fifty families in town, and that now only OF
member. Mrs. David Little, survives. She
about 80 years of age.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Mr.. Noah Paine. of Chelsea, has q heift
that was two years old ON the twelfth day
September last. On tho first of July last
she calved. and before that time she had civ
en- six hundred and five quarts of milk. Thi
is considered to be an extraordinary instanc
and challenges the world. The animal is q
tho Ayrshire breed.
RANDOLPH NORMAL SCHooL-Fifteen can
didates were examined for graduation in tn
first course of study at the Randolph Norma
School last W eek Of these, twelve passed
and were graduate three failed to pass
At the same time two were examined 70
graduation in the second course Of study botf
of whom passed and were graduated
ORLEANS COUNTY.
A COOP HAUL.-AbOut a fortnight ago
John r. Thrasher Of Coventry, and two O.
three others went fishing with a seine il
Lake Memphremagog. and by working par
OF two nights took nearly a thousand shad
to say nothing of suckers. The whole catel
"CiRHtO dDOut cOU Ids
The town of Greensboro don't intend I,
be IN debt they voted last week to raise
tax of 40 cents on the grand list to pay the
towns Indebtedness.
Half an acre Of land in Jay has produced
200 bushels Of potatoes.
Besides containing more natural ponds than
any other County in the State, Orleans Coun.
ty possesses two remarkable boulders, one oil
which is forty-one feet long, twenty-five feet
high, and twenty two feet wide, containing
twenty thousand cubic feet the other is
the rocky stone spoken of by Prof Hitch
cock in mis- Geological Report. 1t is nice
~ balanced that although nearly as large AS
the other, it can be moved by an ordinary
man. The :. Green Mountain Giant, " in
Nottingham, which weighs come 3 500 lbs
is the only boulder in the State that can
compare with these.
Mr.. Huse of Charleston lately shot four
coons in his corn crib.
The building occupied by Foster and Che
ney, Austin Miner, Lawrence E. Thayer, and
the Custom Office at Derby Line, was burned
few days since loss SIS 400 insured for
$4,000.
j. A. Prouty of Westfeld, has sold his
farm lying near Russell Cummings, to Will
ard 5. Tucker of Whcelock for $1,000
Rev. Mr. Chase and his wife. of Barton
Landing, were considerably injured, few
days since, by the giving way of culvert
while driving over it,
Mr.. Stephen Priest, of Bloomington, lost
his eye by Inflammation, caused by getting
some foreign substance into it.
Russell G. Hopkinson, of Derby, formerly
a prominent Democratic politician, and for
several years collector of Vermont, died at
Derby on the 3lst ult., aged IS years.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Justus Hyatt, of Brandon.
celebrated their golden wedding on the 9th
instant.
In Brandon, the other day, boy named
Hatch, aged nine years, fell out of window
in a barn where he was playing, and broke
both arms and on Sunday, child of Mr.
Coggwell died from the effects of a scald
Mr.. Harvey Adsit, carpenter. fell twenty
feet on pile of bricks from the roof of a
new building being erected by Mr.. j. B.
Harris, of Rutland, and was badly bruised
and cut, but strange to say no bones were
broken.
There was raised this fall in Middletown.
Vt, single tomato plant ten feet high and
eight feet in breadth, which had upon it one
bushel of fruit, some of them weighing a
pound each. They are called the perfect
tomato are thick meated. have very few
seeds and grow very large.
Last Wednesday afternoon, Mr.. Samuel
Preufer, tin ware dealer, said to belong in
Ru tland, Vt, fell from a third story window
in Concord street, Boston, to the pavement,
and was killed almost instantly.
Miss James Castleton, while riding past
place in a road, in Mendon, which had been
washed away by the river, was capsized and
narrowly escaped being drowned
Mr. Elhanan Winchester, recently of
Westmoreland n H., but who was accom-
panying his daughter, Mrs. McCracken, to
her home in Cleveland, Ohio, while waiting
for train in Rutland on Wednesday, fell
dead in the depot. He was II years of age
and for some time past has been very feeble.
His remains were taken to Westmoreland
for burial.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Kew B. f. Foster, for twenty years pastor
of the Congregational Church at Dummcrs-
ton, died on Monday of last week. He was
sc years Of age and native of Salisbury,
n. III.
The Rev Asa F. Clark, of West Brattle-
boro, has accepted recent call from the
Congregational society in Peru to become
their pastor, and he commenced his labors
with that society last Sabbath.
The old bridge across Black River at the
falls, in Springfield, has been taken down,
and a new one viii be Immediately erected.
Samuel Grover, of Guilford, was on Friday
last arrested and bound up for maliciously
shooting and dangerously wounding val
liable colt belonging to A. B. Melendy.