Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-11-23
vermont Items.
ADDISON COUNTY

/ = ADDISON COUNTY.
y eRturday the 18th, the grist mill OF
tne A4hlon Slate Company at Fairhaven was
SET sa IRE, but the flames were extingushed
Deiore much harm was done. There is no
diary. al '"'eN-
The steamer Curlew has ceased her trips
across The lake to Port Henry, for this
Nearly seven tons of poultry were shipped
rom , New Haven and Vergennes last week
;. work has actually commenced on the Ad-
diSon county railroad, gangs of men being
az AZ Work near Whiting depot, and also near
hltihg village. This road is to run across
the sOuth-east corner of Shoreham, through
tne extreme north part of Orwell, crossing
the axe just south of Larrabee's Point in
Shoreham
fiRE.-The barns, sheds, including their
care - contents, also three horses, belonging
- - Severance of East Middlebury, were
y 2kped on Friday night of last week Mr..
loss is very heavy. No insur-
lncendiary, Louis F. Pierce, was
ehy Sheriff Trip, and commit
JsH In Burlington for safe keeping
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
j. u. Hollster of Manchester was knocked
down by the breaking of an iron guy sup
porting marble derrick at the depot, and
narrowly escaped fractured skull.
Charles d. Munson, agent of the Harlem
Extension Railroad, at Manchester, VT, shot
himself about nine O'Clock A. M. Nov. q. At
SIX o'clock in the evening he was still alive,
but there are no hopes of his recovery.
On ten days in succession boys in the knit
ting mill at Factory Point had part of their
thumbs taken off by q carding machine.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
Hiram Daniels and Frederick Caldwell are
| preparing to put up steam saw mill on
osborn Wards land near the Greensboro
line in Wheelock.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
st. Adams merchants are promptly shut
ting up shop at O'Clock in the evening.
LAMoILLE COUNTY
y. NJ. Wilcox has been appointed Post
Master at Jacksonville, in place of l.. ).
IIebb. resigned
Ex-Governor Hendee has gone back to the
practice Of his profession at Morrisville.
( Mrs. Ii. j. Perry of Jacksonville has
+ picced and quilted beautiful worsted rose
/ bel-qult containing 1880 pieces.
/ The working force on the Lamoille Valley
Railroad Is being rapidly increased.
/ Heman Winters house in Morristown was
burned on the 18th. No one was there but
Mr.. Winters himself. and everything not on
the 6rst floor was burned-S200 in produce,
$40 IN money and valuable papers Insur-
anoe 500.
ORANGE COUNTY.
In Yershire, a little son of Lyman Porter
was 30 badly scalded by sitting back into a
-. l.
on the ID inst. The child is the sixth whose
loss these afflicted parents have been called
70 mourn.
As the workmen we're digging a well for
the Hon. William NJ Pingry at Perkinsville,
to the depth of Ia feet in solid hardpan they
dug up two living toads. They kept them
alive two or three days.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
On the 18th inst, Orlando Clapp of Lowell
broke a leg by fall into the wheel-pit oil
his, saw-pill, and had to crawl, wet and
Brt7s6d, Nearly mile before he could get
help
Frank Hancock of Irasburgh took drink
from spring pipe the other day, and felt
something come into his mouth besides wa
ter he spit it out and it proved TO be an
adder about three inches long.
Chester Bulls of Newport cut off his great
Toe instead Of a saw-log, the other day and
another day his father had thumb taken
of by an axe flying from the hands of fel-
low workman. All that family "axes is
let me alone :
4 few nights since about $40 worth OF
clothing was burned for j. E Chase of Jay.
It 1aught from candle carried into the
room by child.
quarry of very fine granite has been
opened on VIM. Wilson's farm in Green's
bor5, pronounced equal to the Quincy granite
and more easily worked.