Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-06-23
ADDISON COUNTY

lEJth anu L lIHCIt LiC SALISBURY DuIZldE6s
were arrested by Constable Fits last week
fore a Salisbury Justice and bound up in the
sum of 81 900. Piper was up at Middlebury
before Justice Henry c. Soper, of Bristol, and
bound up in the sum of IS 900. In default
Of bail both were committed.
Wednesday afternoon, while several child
rem were at play in a row boat on Otter
Creek in Vergennes, q lad Of twelve years
lost his balance, fell into the river and was
drowned. His body was soon after recov-
cred.
Mrs. Bctscy Abbott, a milliner of Yer
genncs, who was incarcerated for obtaining
goods under false pretences, was released on
bail, but was at once re-arrested and i'm
p~risoned at Middlebury for a similar offence,
on complaint of a firm in New York.
Eighteen cents is the ruling price for eggs
in Vergennes.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Fish culture is receiving great attention in
Bennington county, and Joseph lockwood is
stocking all the rivers with trout.
Very heavy freight trains arenow running
over the Lebanon Springs railroad, taxing
the rolling stock of the company to the ut
most.
By the spreading of the rails, three pas.
senger cars, tender and baggage car were
thrown from the track the other day in Pow
nal, and rolled over on the side. No passen-
gers were seriously injured, but q good many
bruised. One lady had her hair caught back
of the seat and enough pulled out TO make a
good-sized waterfall.
Two female operatives-Miss Wallace and
Miss Barber-had their fingers badly smashed
a few days ago, while tending a peg splitting
machine in Messrs. Flint & Co.'S. peg manu-
factory, in Arlington.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
A child died in st. JOhnsbury recent '
from eating pie-plant (rhubarb).
ii. Ii. Frye, of East Burke, has taken a lot
Of Fairbanks at St. Johnsbury, to catch 1906
Trout, every one Of them to average Al inches
n length, for $50.
C~HITTENDEN COUNTY.
High Bailif Joseph Barton, of Charlotte
has been appointed Sheriff of Chittenden
county, by his Excellency Governor Page
vice John G. Griffin deceased.
Mr.. I. W. Stevens. son Of 5. H.. Stevens 0
Enosburgh, a young man barely twenty-ont
years old, removed to Durant, Mississippi
last fall, bought half of a cotton plantation OIL
900 acres, has a large area planted to cotton
corn, &c, and has just been appointed Asses
oOA "a ALN1A AoA III SAALA 4
rankin COUNTY.
The Republican voters of Franklin count,
meet in Convention at Sheldon Creek, July I
to nominate candidates for Senators anC
county officers.
The master builders n carpenters anc
%joiners Of Richford, have adopted the twelve
hour system of work.
Oscar Wright of Richford, recently sheareC
eleven and one-half pounds of wool from one
Of our common native sheep.
Two persons were baptised at Montgomer,
last Sabbath, in Trout River, by a Methods
clergyman.
The Methodist minister at Barton Landing
Rev Mr.. ThurstOn, has received news from
England that he is appointed executor of his
fathers will, who was a wealthy retired
t~radesman, recently deceased in London.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
SPIRtTUALIsT CoNVENTIoN.-The Vermont
State Spiritualist Association will hold {
quarterly Mass Convention at Cady's Falls
IN Morristown, Oh Friday, Saturday, anC
Sunday, June 18th, Goth, and 9th.
Myron Clement, under sentence of so anC
costs Tor larceny, " fell out " of Hyde ParI
Jail on the night of the 9th, through a hoI,
that he had made by saving off two window
rods with n case knife which had been fur
nished him from the outside.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
A. j. Keith and ID. Y. Clark, on Frida,
last, caught, in one of the streams near JaI
Peak, POI trout in four hours. They wer,
of good size. some weighing half a pound.
As Mr.. John Brooks and others were re
turning from Burbank's sugar place on Yves
Hill, IN Coventry, last Saturday, they saw
some distance ahead what at first appeare,
to be a large dog, but upon a nearer approach
it proved to be a moderate sized bear benin,
a root eating a woodchuck, which he ba,
secured for his supper Brooks approache,