Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

DECORATION Day was duly observed in
Cambridge. The Cambridge COrnet Band
did themselves credit, and were highly com
mended by all who heard them. Rev. L. A.
Dunn Of Fairfax, delivered very fitting
address, and was followed by the Rev. Edwin
which were Highly appropriate for the coca
sion.
The Mount Mansfield Turnpike road will
be completed by the Goth of June so that
teams will be able to reach the " Mount
House
The Lamoille County Court is now in ses-
sion. In the suit Scribner vs.. Carpenter and
Stearns, claiming damage for Obstructing
highway by leaving log loaded upon a sled
near the Travelled path whereby plaintiff 3
horse took fright, broke away and was
killed, the jury were unable to agree.
Morrisville having d" pinned its faith - on
the success Of the Lamoille Valley railroad,
is erecting several new buildings, some of
them quite expensive.
The Lamoile county jail until within one
week for the past six months has been - for
sakcn and forlorn,' being simply - block
house" Nearly every live placed in it
for the last five years has not waited to be
discharged or removed, and hence committing
has been simply a matter of form.
Capt. Charles Carleton, who was wounded
in the leg during the late Fenian invasion,
is now at his home in Cambridge doing well.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The next Quarter Convention of the
Vermont State Association of Spiritualists
will be held in Glover OF the 10th, 18th and
18th Of June.
Glover is ahead They have boy there
who has in process reconstruction a silk quilt
that contains now over thirty five and half
thousand pieces, and will when completed,
contain eleven thousand more.
Miss Harriet E. Otis of Sheffield, so injured
herself in jumping from a wagon recently,
that she died in few days She was Il
years old.
Rev Moses Pattee. formerly Of Orleans
county, and for a number OF years a member
Of the Vermont Legislature, is a member
elect of the New Hampshire Legislature.
J. B. Cook of Greensboro has highbred
merino eve which gave birth last week to a
hugh deformty, consisting of the regular
formed bodies Of two lambs uniting in one
at the shoulders with a pedant leg growing
from each. The head was large It'll SUI
pera)us eye on top.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Francis Murthur has been appointed post
master in East Hubbardton vice Seneca
Root resigned
r. II Drake has been appointed assistant
postmaster at Pittsford and has removed the
post Office to his store.
4 well to-do farmer of Castleton named
Ransom was lately fined $50, and costs for
selling cider. lie thcreupon treated all
! the witnesses to cider and was again pros e
cuted and fined 500. Whether he dispens ed
more cider to witnesses after this OF not Is
not stated.
/ The new ho tel in Middletown has been
leased to Mr. Coleman, formerly Of the As
tor House, New York, for term of ten
years.
The citizens Of Middletown propose cele-
brating the Tooth anniversary Of its settle
ment.
Decoration Day in Rutland was duly OBJ
served. Places Of business were closed, flags
were displayed, and the contributions Of
. flowers for the decorations were large. The
grafton was delivered by Capt. Walter c.
Dunton. Music was furnished by the Jeri-
cho Cornet Band. Minute guns were fired
during the moving Of the column and the
decoration of the graves.
In Brandon the address for Decoration
Day was delivered by Col. w. g. Weary.
A barn belonging to Peter Shortslecves o
Brandon was burned Monday morning.
Rev. L. O. Brastow of St. Johnsbury lee
tured on @ True Patriotism " in Brandon
recently.
The wife OF Mr. jerome billiard Of Wal
Ii1gGord. aged about 80 years, committed
suicide May 29th, by throwing herself into
the Otter Creek. The lady was a niece 0
the late Governor William Slade.
fellow in Rutland, a short time since
offered to sell his vie to another for $500
the woman conserving u the contract.
The Pioneer Cooperative Association 0
Rutland, has been organized. The object j
to enable its members to procure such sup
plies as arc needed for family consu mptiOl
; and use at VIII Ocsale prices, with the add
? ton of the cost Of distribution.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The dwelling house of Mrs. Mary Wood
: near Barnard village, was destroyed by fire
n Saturday, May II.
The Northern railroad is to build bridge
across the Connecticut at White River juno
) ton, the present season.
: Ms L9rette s. Whitten has been J. az
e of } ). Written deceased.
San Francisco, it is generally known, i
extensively engaged in the China trade, 0
rather the trade in Cinnamon, but what i
- not so generally known is that every steame
from Asia lands about thousand persons o
Monaghan blood there. They are at land
g ing, piled in wagons more denscly than con
r victs in - black Maria" and driven to
,s section of the city which is known as China
town, the houses of which are built in snc
e a way greatly to economist room Thi
ze quarter has lately been visited by healt
l. inspectors, who give the most rueful account
% of what they found there, and the diabolica
= straits to which immigrating Celestials ar
{ reduced. They are crowded in garrets an
3 cellars almost as mephitc the notoriou
g Black Hole of Calcutta There sit tn
dreamy Asiatcs amid the reeking fumes
bodily exhalatiOns and opium, lOunging b
N the twenty and thirty in rooms too small fc
one man, their mild, almond eyes totally dc
void of expression, or at most expressin
G. feeble dislike Of such a bad universe as Thu
a In the midst of filth, the very hint of whic
r would sicken an American, they cook the
- food by the flames Of oil lamps, the smoke
= which must be delicate seasoning for thei
IN messes. Most of these buildings are owne
Y. by - companies the component member
ID of which equally divide the shares. Shout
, a contagious disease break out in Chinatown
= it is to be hoped that it will spread throug
the city till it gnaws the bowels-eminentl
at not bowels of compassionate the director
of these companies, nor would it be unb,
coming for it to attack and decimate I'll
Board of Health World.
It, Advices from England seem to indicat