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


his whole family severely, and himself IA
tally.
Amasa Campbell of Pownal, aged 70 years,
was so badly stung by bees on the 9Th inst.
that he died in a few hours.
On last Friday, B. S. Kendall of Bond
vile, Vt, caught an old bear in a trap,
Bruin had caught two of Kendall s sheep
and was of mammoth frame, though very
poor, weighing only AIS pounds.
Two brothers named Burnett recently killed
a lynx in Sunderland, which was 3 feet long,
20 inches high, and weighed % IL pounds
Were it not for the surrounding towns
those who live in Pownal would enjoy the
millennium. There is not a place in town
where Intoxicating liquors are sold.
The Republican county convention of Ben
nington, nominated Martin J. Love of Ben
nington and Franklin II. Orvis of Manches-
ter for Senators, and James K. Batchelder
of Arlington for States Attorney.
For the second Senator, a contest ensued
between the Hon. Harmon Garfield, the
able and efficient Senator of the past two
years, and Mr.. Franklin II. Orvis of Man
chester. Mr.. Orvis received the nomination
the first ballot. He is said to be a young
man Of ability, and it will be his first ap-
pearance in a legislative body, He is the
proprietor of the Equinox House at Manches-
ter.
C-HITTENDEN COUNTY.
A heavy robbery has been committed some
time within the last ten days from the safe
of Fl. A. Hodges, of Richmond. Asa Rhodes,
Esq, has made a practice for several years
of using the safe as a deposit of money and
valuable papers, always going to it when he
pleased. Last Thursday he had occasion to
20 to it, but found his package of money,
&C., &c, missing. There is yet no clue to
the robbers. There was in the package about
SC, 900 in notes, $1,000 in U. S. Currency,
and $1,000 in government bonds. The safe
has always been locked at night but was
not always in the day time.
CALEDONIA n
The summer term of St. Johnsbury Acade-
closed on the 10th inst. A class of five
young men from that neighbOrhood complete
their academical course with the term, and
enter Dartmouth College this fall. Two
others are prevented from entering college,
on account of i'll health.
Frank p. Dodge, of Providence, r. L.,
aged u years stopping for the summer at
the Willoughby Lake House, while cunning
the mountain near that place on the 18th
inst, displaced a huge boulder, which fell
over upon him and crushed his foot SO severe
ly as to render amputation necessary
A Barnet correspondent of the C~dyedonian
tells the following egg story
| have read much of late about large hens
eggs, but saw something the other day in
that line which beats the lot. Two dozen
hens eggs in a common sized tea saucer,
leaving room for a dozen more, and the en-
tire number would touch the saucer. They
were all laid by one hen, in twenty-four
consecutive days.
~FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Franklin County FAIR.-The Franklin
County Agricultural and Mechanical Socie-
tv will hold its Annual Fair, on their ground
IN Sheldon, September 22d. ODD, and oath,
1869. The buI lding is for exhibiting the pro-
duets of the county and being remodeled to
meet the want of each department. HOr-
ace Greeley. of New York, has consented to
deliver the annual address.
A post Of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie has been organized in St. Adams. 1t has
been called Post Badly Smith F." and its
is Albert Clark Senior Vice
Commander, L. Med Smith Junior Vice
John W Newton Chaplain,
i. o, Brainerd Adjutant, lizard Far
Quartermaster, Herbert Brainerd
Sanford X. Goldsmith Officer of
the Day, l.. P. Kimpton Officer of the
Guard, James p. Stone.
ORANGE
Mr.. Wood, a painter of West Randolph,
met with a singular accident recently. Hav-
a pipe in his mouth while in a scufie
with a friend, his opponent hit the pipe IN
such a manner as TO actually force 1t through
the under jaw, so that it protruded out OF one
side of his neck.
The whistle of F.. B. Salisbury's new steam
mill at West Randolph was heard a few days
since for the first time. 1t is grand struc-
ture and fully exhibits the enterprise of It's
1t is said he will lay a track connect
the main line with the mill, thereby max
ing car loading easier, which is a very feasible
plan.
While C~ampbell's Circus and Caravan
were exhibiting in Randolph a son of Milton
Green. of Rochester, aged about II years,
took a job with other boys washing the cages.
While washing the lions cage, he turned
his ewes from them for an instant, and one of
them struck him on the arm making three
scratches nearly or quite to the bone.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
On the 18th inst. a very high wind prevail
ed at Jaw. n DdTu DClOuRlBR " hI II Guy
40 x 60 with basement) was moved at one
a distance of eight inches and a build
ing belonging to o. F. Sisco, which had re-
Gently been moved on TO the spot where his
house was burned and left on rollers, was
a distance of two feet.
VIM. Cobb of Morgan has in his possession
the old family sugar tub, which will hold
400 lbs, and was made by his father "a
cx0 II - made Of nIna an6 has navpr
been repaired in any manner and it has
been filed every year, too, having held in its
day 81 900 lbs, or nearly ii tons of sugar.
A few DAYS ago, T.. j Sartwell, Esq, went
to adjust the wheel to his carding machine
at North Troy, when he found a mud turtle
under it weighing some twenty pounds. The
wheel had worn a hole through the back of
the turtle causing its death.
The Union Republican party County Con-
vention of Orleans County, is to be held at
Irasburgh, Wednesday August 18th.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The teachers and friends of edu cation in
the counties of Rutland and Addison meet at
Brandon on Wednesday, August 18th, for
the purpose of organizinga Teachers Asso-
citation.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
On the first Sunday in this month Rev.
Horace Fletcher of Townshend, baptized seven
young persons who were admitted to the Bap-
fist church in that place. Also seven persons
on the first Sunday in May.
A dwelling house belonging to Hiram
Wheeler, situated about one-half mile west
of the village of Wilmington was struck by
lightning early on Thursday morning last,
and totally consumed.
There was a fine impromptu demonstration
in Gen Sherman's honor at Bellows Falls,
Friday evening. Flags were displayed. the
big gun was hauled out to voice the popular
applause, drums were beaten and flies blown.
John Houghton, a man industrious when
sober, but a nuisance when drunk, became
intoxicated in Brattleboro last week, and
conducted himself in such a manner that he