Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-01

LANoILLE COUNTY.
On Tuesday last, some person or persons
entered the bee-house of Eli Jewett of Hyde
park, and stole therefrom a hive of bees with
their honey.
A large catamount was seen in Hydepark
last week. Ii was up a tall Eastwood tree,
and jumped from one of the limbs TO the
ground, a distance of thirty feet.
The days for holding the Lamoille County
Fair have been changed from Sept. ODD and
23d, to Sept. ODD and oath, for the con-
venience of the orator, Hon. Horace Greeley,
who will deliver the the address on the Oath.
Eight petitions for divorce were granted
at the recent term of the supreme court for
Lamoille County.
A short horned bull from A. w. Girls
wold's Malvern Farms, at Morrisyille, was
lately sold for $4,000.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Col. Powell Sayre of East Thetford, had a
narrow escape from death Saturday before
last. Upon going to his pasture for his cow
he was attacked by a two year old bull, and
though he made a sharp fight with a cane,
was knocked down, and then rolled off a
bank by the Infatuated animal, which last
was probably the only thing that saved him
from being terribly gored, if not killed.
Once down the bank he crawled about a rod,
made his way through a fence, and kept
crawling until assistance came. For several
days Col. Sayre was unable to help himself
at all, except move his arms, but is now con-
valescent.
A young man by the name of S~palding,
living on the East Hill, in Chelsea, received
a serious wound in his side by accidentally
falling on a scythe on the Oath ult.
Henry Keyes of Newbury, president of
the Passumpsic Railroad, has been elected
president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
A young child of Ora White of Barton,
aged about three years, was attacked by bees
last Sunday and stung so seriously that he is
not expected to live.
John Holton's house in Charleston, caught
fire accidentally on the eve of the 18th. A
servant passing through an unfinished room
with a lighted candle, set fire to a bed quilt.
The Oldest son being out of doors, discovered
the fire burning through the roof, and by
great exertlon they put it out with but
slight damage.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles Clement of Center Rutland,
has at the entrance of his grounds, a gate so
contrived, that it opens of its own accord
when a carriage approaches. If one wishes
to shut the gate after having passed through,
he has only to turn a little to one side from
the main track, and it closes at once. 1t is
a very convenient contrivance, and the me
chanism is not complicated.
A little boy aged two years, a son of Geo.
W. Peck of West Rutland, was so badly
scalded on Wednesday last as to cause his
death. His mother, engaged in hopping,
went TO shut the door, and playfully spatting
her hands at the child, 1t went backward,
falling into a pail of boiling hot water,
scalding it in such a manner as to cause its
death in a few hours.
Some boys at Rutland recently played a
small swindle on several of the business men
there, by calling upon them and saying they
had left berries at their residence and had
been sent by the wife for the pay. The
amounts thus collected varied from thirty to
seventy-fve cents.
The Unknown Base Ball Club of Rutland,
and the Clipper Club of Castleton, play a
match game at Castleton next Saturday, for
the prize bat of the First Congressional Dis
tric. The bat is now held by the Clippers.
Dewey & Dewey's store, in East Poultney,
was burglarously entered a few nights ago,
and thoroughly ransacked, though but little
of value was stolen.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
The Democrats of Windham county held a
convention at Fayetteville, on Saturday,
August 2Ist, and made the following nomi-
nations for senators II. F.. Ball0u Of vii
nington, D. Campbell Of Rockingham.
Azhel Clapp OF Brattleboro was thrown
Of a wagon by the sudden starting Of tn q
horse, Aug 20th, break his collar bone
and badly 5ruising hE me- md head.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
True HERoIsA.-On Friday last, as four
little girls were playing upon a rock by the
side Of the pond in Bridgewater, the little
girl of 4. w. Pinney, aged about twelve
years, fell in, when Nellie Carpenter, daugh-
ter of G. B. Carpenter, and Of the same age,
by great presence Of mind and heroism, saved
her little mate from drowning. She first di-
rected the two girls with her TO run for some
men, and then waded into the pond up to
her chin, but failing in that way TO get at
the drowning girl, she next procured a long
pole, and finally, after much exertion, during
which her pole broke, she succeeded Just as
the girl was sinking the third time.
Mrs. Hannah Seaver. wife of Samuel Sea-
yer, of Proctorsville, aged rs years, a most
estimable woman, sat down to dinner on
Saturday, the Dist ult., and Immediately
expired. Mrs. ). had been for three years
and more very much disabled by paralysis,
but was in her usual health till the moment
Of her death.
Parties are briskly at work on Locust
Creek, in the town Of Woodstock, washing
for gold and silver, this latter being found in
varu rood nrantItHaG So fhau