Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-04-22
ADDISON COUNTY.

piotbcI VI ICOEulf1 selZcu q Ddr OF IRON dnt
struck Scollay upon the head, infictlng
severe but not dangerous wound.
The Teachers Institute of Addison count,
was held at Salisbury on Friday and Saturda
| last. The attendance was small, owing tt
the inclemency of the weather. or other
causes.
S. B. Rockwell, of Middlebury, offers So
in premiums to parties who shall set out the
largest and thriftiest elms in that village
and So to whoever Will cut down the most OF
the unsightly willows in that place.
/ An eagle measuring eight feet from tip to
| tip of his wings. and weighing ii 81 lbs
was shot a few days since near the mouth of
Otter Creek. Another about the same size
was shot on Friday last. Both were for
warded to Dr. Pond, of Rutland, for preser-
vation- These birds are more abundant this
spring than usual.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
A hotel is being constructed on the summit
of Mount Anthony, in Bennington, for the
accommodation of the many tourists visiting
the observatory thereon.
A Dorset correspondent to the Manchester
Journal says: 90 There has been, for a week
two past, bear our mountains. Great
ing no little excitement in town by killing
sheep for some of our farmers. Since first
seen by one Asa ] amphere. he has been
hunted most every day by companies of men
and boys, numbering from ten to twenty-five
in party, but so far old bruin has kept out
of their way
a cornet band has been recently organized
at East Rupert, who have been favoring the
people of Middletown with most excellent
music.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The committee appointed to locate the
seminary buildings in Lyndon are expected
to meet for that purpose about the first of
May. The quarterly meeting of the Freewill
Baptsts is held at Lyndon in the same month,
at which time decisive action will be taken
in regard to the location and building of the
institution.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The two industrial schools for girls, which
have been sustained tho past winter in Bur
lington, by the Episcopal society and the
Young Ladies' Christian Association, have
closed for the season.
STATE MILITIA.--Under General Orders No.
=. issued from the office Of the Adjutant Gen
eral, dated March -. 1865, j j. Monahan,
Esq, of Burlington, has enlisted full com
pany of infantry, numbering tifty-One men,
thirty-six of whom are old soldiers who have
seen service. A section Of light artillery is
also being enlisted there
The first annual exhibition and shearing of
the Chittenden County Sheep Breeders and
Wool Growers Association will be held at
Shelburn, on Wednesday. May 9th The
premiums offered are quite liberal and en-
brace prizes not only for the best feeces,
time of growth considered, but for animals
ft1il Haccas nd tho shOarcrs
their work quickest and best. An invitation
is extended TO the wool-growers and shearers
IF the entire State TO be present. and ample
provisions have been made for their enter
tainment.
During the absence from home of Rev \.
$ Cooper, Of Milton, week before last, with
his family some one entered his house with
false keys, and stole several promissory notes
amounting to over $1,000. and certificate Of
deposit for $1,000 Nothing else in the house
was stolen and nothing disturbed, showing
that the thief must have had knowledge Of
Mr.. Cooper's having the property in the
house, and where 1t was placed
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The ST. Adams Messenger says that John
Conner, one Of the first settlers of that town,
and ninety-one years old, cut twice, split and
carried six rods, and piled nine cords of wood
in the month of Ntrch. In his patriotic ar
dor al the fall ofRichnond in 1865, he climbed
up the belfry without ladder. and rang out
his rejoicings on the church bell. He is also
a regular attendant at the lodge Of Good
Templars-
Mr.. c A j. Marsh succeeds Mr.. j. ) d.
Taylor as Principal of the st. Adams Acad-
envy The change results from Mr.. Taylor S
declnation to serve longer without an increase
of salary from : 1880 to $500
The farmers who brought in their butter
at St Adams Tuesday, did the right thing at
the right time. They took fifty cents for a
good article. and ffty-one, and even fifty-two
cents was paid for prime dairles.
The % Green Mountain Martial Band : is
the title of a new organization of the martial
music of Fairfax and vicinity. The members
are nicely uniformed and equipped, and are
prepared to furnish the inspiration of fife
and drum for public occasions.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
The town of Cambridge. with grand list
of little over six thousand four hundred
and population of seventeen hundred, with
| a little over three hundred voters, claims to
have fifty men worth from SO 600 to $780,
| 600
ORLEANS COUNTY.
| An effort is being made to form stock
company for the purpose of building a new
hotel at North Troy, in the place of the one
recently burned.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
A Young man named James Mccall or
Monday last was charged with firing the
Franklin House at Rutland, on the night o
the LIST inst.
Several hundred workmen on the marble
quarries in Rutland are on a strike for high
er wages. They demand $l.75 per day.
Two distinct attempts have been made IL
Rutland since the last great fire, to set fire t.
a building connected with Mansfield d Slim
sons machine shop. In each case the fir
was fortunately discovered in time to proven
serious damage.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
The workmen who are removing the grav
! ell on the site for the new bank building, Il
5 Brattleboro, found a skeleton last wee
: about two feet below the surface of tn
ground. A part of the skull and some c
the larger bones were found partly decayed
the teeth being still sound. From the siz
of the bones it is presumed to be the skele
ton of Il child about a dozen years of age
: 1t was found living above decayed log whIc
. had evidently been used for an aqueduct
, The log must have been placed there at leas
eighty years ago. How long since the bod
was buried, or by whom, and under wha
circumstances, it were vain t. conjecture
; Seth l.. Randall has been app 'inied pos
master at South Londonderry, in place OF >
L. Pierce, resigned.
Mr.. Clough. of Putney, was recentiy con
siderably injured by blow on the head, irol
/ falling raiter to an old building which IA