Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-31

Some scoundrel, too mean to live and not
fit to die, poisoned q chickens belonging to
Mrs. Leonard, widow woman of Glover.
Quite a severe accident occurred in Lowell
on Tuesday of last week. Mrs. Cheney, a
lady 60 years old, started to drive from home
to the village, and in passing through gate
on their premises the horse started, partly
turning the carriags oyert throwing her into
the ditch ,frsctarinfk one socne in her arm !,
severely brnising hsreibo wand one hip, be.
sides other internal injuries of a very dan
gerons character but she is now recovering.
Monday night, Aug. %, the safe of A. c.
Robinson, Express Agent Of Barton, was
blown open, and S75 together with quaint
/ ty Off. r. tickets, were taken. The Express
Agent had that day received a package of
$4,000, but did not put it in the safe. One
Of the robbers was subsequently captured.
A few days since, Welcome AIlard of West
more, while in front of planning machine,
stumbled and thrust his right hand directly.
over the rollers. His hand was at once drawn
into the knives, and before the machinery
could be stopped, his entire hand and wrist
was cut and mangled in the machinery. It.
took twenty minutes to take the mach merry
to pieces and release him from his dreadful
situation. His arm was amputated below
the elbow.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Brandon has gained 4s5 in population
since 1860.
James Moulton of Poultney fell from
staging recently, and broke his leg.
S. L. Goodell has been nominated to rep
resent the town Of Brandon in the next
Legislature.
Potatoes sell from 40 to so cents per
bushel in Fair Haven.
A new freight depot is being erected at
Poultney.
An attempt was recently made to fire the
house of Alanson Rice of Poultney.
Poultney has gained 55S.in population in
the last ten years Fair Haven, $50.
Four hundred and fifty dollars in premi-
ums will be trotted for on the track of the
Rutland Trotting Park, September 9TH, sth
and 9th.
Application will be made to the General
Assembly at its next session for an act in
cooperating the village of Rutland into
city, and the division of the town, by the
city limits.
The Poultney BuLlehn says 1t is not gen
orally known that one of the greatest Geolo-
gical curiOsities exists only few miles from
this village, at a place called Carver's Falls.
north of Fair Haven, on the Poultney river,
and the remarkable change of riEer-bed was
made during freshet in 1873. The river
previously had run through a rocky gorge
over fall $50 feet high, because, probably,
its old bed on previous century had been
filled with sand. But having been diverted
back again by human agency, it is said, into
the sand, it soon cleaned out its old channel
and left the falls dry. A legend AYERS that
man ran q furrOw across the place where
| the present bed is located, and thus began
what finally changed the course of the river.
Benson, at town meeting held August
| Doth, voted, with certain conditions, to bond
/ in $50, 900 to aid the construction of the
/ Fair Haven and Lake Shore r. R.. as an
outlet to the Whitehall and Plattsburgh
railroad.
wiNDHAM COUNTY.
| Blackberries have been drug in Whining
ton at 6 cents per quart.
/ Five car loads of excursionists recently
left Brattleboro for Boston.
A WHITE WooDcHUcK.-A. y. Kidder &
/ Co, have at their marble shop a live white
woodchuck. caught few days since by
Winslow d. Damon, near the mouth of Will
liams River, and they suggest whether the
/ gentleman from Grafton would not like him
| TO send to Montpelier next October to settle
the bounty question on woodchucks.-B. F..
! Times.
The Annual fair of Black RiverValley take
place at Perkinsville, September 18th and
! 10th.
Six gentlemen recently caught 90 piekerel
and 100 pout in Ludlow pond in one day.
James Ellis Of Westminster recently lost a
barn and contents by fire caused by children
PLAYING with matches.
| A Mrs Cable of Westminster was thrown
from a carriage recently, and both arms
broken.
j The Bellows Falls Times complains of the
unusual amount of drunke mess in that vii
lage.
/ w. A. Hessock of Brattleboro shot crane
recently that measured feet inches from
tip to tip.
WINDSOR COUNTY
On Saturday last, B. F. Hemenway, the
proprietor of the Armory House, Windsor,
was arraigned before Justice Pollard, for I'M
lawful traffic in intoxicating liquors, and on
trial by Jury, he was convicted of eighty.
three counts and fine of $3.50 and costs
was imposed for the misdeeds. He appealed
to the county court, and gave bail in the
sum of $500, to answer for trial nexi
December.
| The Adyents of Vermont will hold a camp
meeting in Bethel, two miles north of the
depot, on the line of the railroad, commenc
ing September 18th. and continuing at leas
one week. Elders Miles Grant of Boston
John Cauch of Chelsea, Mass, and others
are expected to be present. Arrangement
will probably be made with the Vernon
Central Railroad to have all passenger train
/, going north or south stop at the ground.
jeremiah Sully, employed in repairing
drug store in Norwich, stole drink from
bottle of tincture of aconite, which he sup
a posed to be brandy, and died.
a Luther Kendall of Felchville has sold dur
z ing the past year, 500 worth of butter an
o cheese made from one COW of the nativ
e breed, beside supplying himself and wife an
occasional visitors with milk and butter, an
raising a,calf for which he was offered 81
: Judge Barrett of Woodstock recent
J, passed SIS coupon on the barber there 10
J, a shave The barber passed 1t on as tie
cent scrip, going through a number OF hand
a and finally to the bank. The Judge MISE
4 it. got on the trail, and secured it again fc
, ten cents.
y Sunday morning, the 18th inst, John Tag
CART Of Stockbridge was attacked In ms oar
N nv his four years old horse, and SO lnJure
{. that he died within an hour.
The annual town fair of Barnard is to
D. held September 18th.
Corn in Barnard is better than for mar
m years.
es The history of Barnard is being write
by Moses E. Cheney.