Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-07-28

M LIN 49,
~ but we presume some informal consultation
will be hada to the advisability of proposing
anv amendments to the constitution, and
perhaps the Council will thus speedily end
their labors. The brief proceedings of yes
terday will be found elsewhere in this paper.
WIZ. W. FLINT, of the Sophomore Glass
of Dartmouth College, received the first
mathematical prize at that institution last
week. He studied the last year before enter
ing College under Mr.. Gorham's instruction
in our Union School.
The boys of our excellent Engine Company
Capitol, No. s." left this tuesday, morn
ing to take part in the Fireman's Parade at
Burlington. The Montpelier Band accom-
panied the company, and we trust their soul
stirring music will somewhat tend to relieve
the unpleasantness and rain of the day, and
serve to keep the boys in good spirits till
they return.
W~uLAMsTowN NOW AT REsT.-The lOca-
ion Of the soldiers monument, which has
Agitated the minds of the inhabitants of VIII
hmstown for the last few months, has come
tan end by the monument being located and
ected on the ground owned and occupied
the Congregationalist Church and Society,
VI just south Of their meeting house. Much
redit is due Messrs. Cobb & Walker who
have manufactured and erected the noble
etructure which for workmanship and beauty
of finish cannot be surpassed in Vermont
The chairman of the locating committee is al
so entitled to the thanks of the public for his
untiring perseverance and disinterested con-
duct in this matter. The people of Williams
town have now resumed their several avoca-
tions, although not all entirely satisfied with
the result.
- We learn that the day stage between St.
Johnsbury and Montpelier has been discon-
hhued for the present at least.
In the item relative to the fning of Messrs.
Irow " Goodnough for violation of the liquor
law at W oodbury, recently, it should have
been also stated that o. D.. Town, one of the
compliments in the first case, was arraigned
for violation of the law, plead guilty to one
ofense, and was fined so and costs.
NICE CuRRANTs-We are indebted to c.
c. Abbott, Esq, Postmaster at Worcester,
N for a box Of nice currants, grown in his gar
den the present season. The currants were
of the q Versailles, - ard the Fertile Dan
Myers . variety, color red, like our native
tuit, but taste much less acid, and of large
y, several of them averaging one and a half
each in circumference. Undoubtedly
g foreign varieties are superior to the ma
kurrant, and yet we suspect friend Alb
care and method of cultivation had
to do with the size of the berries.
tave noticed in our own garden some
that a little or rather a good degree of
ing up and e~nriching and mulohing of
Pground about the roots of the bushes in
yearly spring, was pretty sure to nearly
6ble the size and quantity of the fruit that
miner. OF course " blood will tell , but
our friends haven't foreign varieti of
srrants, just let them give the native fruit
ddicious care and liberal cultivation, and
they will be agreeably surprised at the re-
suit.
FRENcH's ORIENTAL CIRCUS AND CARAVAN.
Our readers will notice, by the advertise
ment in this weeks FREEMAN. that this mon
ster show viii visit Montpelier on the 9th of
August, and it will doubtless be extensively
patronized by the people of this section, and
the - rest of mankind" Besides literally
advertising through the papers, the show
bills and display placards of this combina-
ton, posted about our streets and throughout
the country, are nearly as large as all out
DOORS and are certainly gotten up in an
attractive and taking style. The institution
must Of course have merit, capital or pat
ronag &c, to justify these ~outlays, and from
what we hear we doubt not it is one of the
largest and most thoroughly organized shows
now travelling. {" A. Ward =" with his g wacks
works" &c, in his palmiest days, we pre-
sumo never INDUCED in the gorgeous dis
plays, the paint and pictures, and the
flourish of trumpets, that will herald the
advent and procession of French's Oriental
Circus and Caravan to and through our quiet
and rural commonwealth. We will not
here presume to name the " Stars, "-plucked
from the skies-that shine in and adorn the
arena of French's cOnstellation-for does MT
the advertisement and the picture bills do
that much more unblushingly and grandil-
oquently than it is possible for a modest
editor to do? Read the advertisement, gaze
display placards in our streets, and
n yourselves accordingly.
PLEASANT OCcAsIoN.-The citizens oil
It No. IL in B~raintree. had a pleasant
lie 10th, on the occasion of the close
summer school They met at the
puse, listened to the exercises anC
ion of the school, which showed
snt instruction and efficiency O.
Miss Ann Ii. Nichols,-were
the Town Superintendent and
were then invited to a grow,
he schOol-house, where the PEG
school children found tables am
it'll all the delicacies and sub
lat crafty and satisfy the appe
epicure as well as that of the
ehool boy. Much praise is due tn
getters-up of this pleasant sur
Fnong the honorary degrees worthil
lowed by Dartmouth College, at its re
kt commencement, we notice that of A. NJ
given TO Ex-Gov. RYLAND FLETCHER.