Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-12-28
Vermont Items.
ADDISON COUNTY.

IkeF. Mt. Dduey OF MlOuieDuFy gave MS
Lecture Poem, entitled, a. The Rebellion Of
inst. The audience were highly entertained
and a complimentary and thankful resolution
was passed by the audience At the close.
The clOtbes-pin factory at Salisbury was
recently consumed by fire. Loss, 10000
No Insurance.
Kerosene oil is selling at NIidiIsbury at
"a cents per gallon.
Petty thieying is on the rampage at Mid
dlebury.
Teachers, AssocLATIoN.-Th annual SEES
sion Of the Otter Creek Valley Teachers will
be held a New Haven, on Friday and Satur-
day, January Goth and 2Ist.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
4. Bishop Of Woodford recently gathered
ten pounds Of spruce gum in one day. As a
reeompense he received SIPS per pound
/ Henry L. Richardson has been appointed
Postmaster at North Landgrove.
LYNX KmLED.-On Saturday last Mr.
Melvin Wadsworth found Grey Lynx, Of
large size and great ferocity, caught by a
fore paw in one Of his traps near the &" FL
bow, on the old turnpike, at the top of the
mountain Just east of this village. With a
club Mr. w. subdued the ugly Yarmint
This is supposed to be the animal that hur-
/
tain few days Bennington Banner.
Some boys in the eastern part of the vii
lage Of Bennington, inclined to equestrian
exercise, have lately been in the habit Of
taking horse from barn in their neighbor-
hood, and indulging in a moonlight ride.
But one night last week, they omitted, on
their return, to take the bits out the horse s
mouth, and their little game was found out.
4 watch was set, their names ascertained,
and promises made to their parents, that
Bennington - won't do so any more.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Decentralization has a well selected
town library of one thousand volumes, started
I by the late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens while a
student at the Academy there. He also aP-
/ propriated by his viii one thousand dollars
| for the benefit Of this library.
The town of Barnet has been overrun with
coons the past fall. Nearly hundred have
been killed within a mile of Stevens village.
There is a good prospect of the establish
ment Of a sewing machine mandatory at
Barnet, which will give employment TO some
two hundred persons.
Sherburne Moore of Barnet, has a native
yeerling CotswOld sheep which weighs III
pounds.
John b. Rogers has lately been appointed
postmaster at Walden, vice F. w. Cheever
resigned
Paul B. Du Chailld lectured in st. Johns
bury, Tuesday evening, on his experience of
ten years in equatorial Africa.
On Tuesday noon Of last week Charles
McGatfey Of Lyndon Centre, aged % years
dropped down in a fit and died
Alex. Albee Of St Johnsbury has this
has manufactured into brooms.. lie under
stands the business, and makes a broom t.
wear.
cHITTESDEN COUNTY.
The Postmaster General in readJusting the
salaries Of POstmasters, has fixed that OF the
Postmaster at St. George, from July, 1870,
at $500 per annum. We guess it should
read $50.
The iron bridge near the Orville CLARK
place in Milton, has been completed, the cost
Of which but little exceeds that of a wooden
one.
Nasby's lecture in Burlington ATTRACTED
the largest audience that has appeared thi
season.
Joseph Fisher Of Colchester, was called OF
by person who wished to make him al
agent for selling a washing machine, an
urged Mr.. Fisher to write his name in
memorandum book that he might have hi
address. Mr.. Fisher himself being a yer,
reliable man, suspected no wrong, and did a
requested Recently he has received motto,
from "A firm in Middlebury that they hold hi
note for $50, and demanding payment. In
vcstigation showed that this note was writer
over the signature he had written in th
memorandum book, making the signatur
genuine, though the note is a swindle.
Leslie knight of Shelburpe, has boy sil
years old that weighs over 100 pounds b.
is thought to be the biggest boy Of his year
in the state.
brother Of Mrs. Flora Alexander {
Charlotte, lately returned home from CalifoI
MIA, where he had been ever since the frs
breaking out Of the +" gold fever - none
his friends heard from him, and he was lon
ago thought TO be dead
John Tebo, an old Frenchman in Burling
ton, was found dead Sunday morning, nea
the south entrance to the Fair Ground. b
/ his side were bis treacherOus companion