Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

son OF st. Adams. who went away for his
health last fall, found it, andI wife also.
| New houses are sptinFihs up in every
quarter of st. Adams village, about as
handsome growth as one can see.
! GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
! A beaver was killed in Alburgh recently,
that measured over five feet in length.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
| At the examination of teachers at the
school building in Worthwhile, the 18th,
twelve applicants were licensed.
The MorrisvilIe House has again changed
| landlords. Mr.. Hammond retires to his farm
in Wolcott and a MIR. JosIln Of WaItsield
assumes charge of the house.
| The Spring Term Of the Peoples Academy
and Morrisville Graded School closed on the
10th. Tuesday and Wednesday forenoons
were devoted to the usual semi-annual ex-
animation. Prize speaking occurred Tuesday
evening.
| In the year ending May /, 1871, the town
Of Cambridge made PSI 900 pounds of butter,
or $50 pounds to each family, amounting, at
80 cents per pound, to ST. ,O3S so, an average
of $2O4.6O to a family.
The sugar yield in the same town amounted
/ to 263 1872 pounds, ian average of two p FUNDS
and fourteen ounces to the tree,) worth $780,
! 1888 20.
The Congregational Society in Hydepark
have raised $4,000 toward building a new
church and the work is to commence at once.
The Summer term of the State Normal
School at Johnson, will begin on Wednes
day, May 18th. aud continue ten weeks,
under charge of Prof. F. g. hathaway, Prin-
cipal.
ORANGE COUNTY.
|. Ii. Dutton of Craftsbury has a peach
tree OF three years growth that is full of
blossoms.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
A son Of L. c. Dow Of Albany, nine years
of age, got some gunpowder without the
knowledge Of his parents. He put it into
an old cof e-pot, Int match and threw it
into it, As the powder did not burn as
soon as he expected he went to look in,
when it exploded, burning his face and eyes
badly but it is hoped that he will not lose
his eyesght
The K. r. company have leased all their
farming lands in Lyndon to the Weekses
for three years and have given up farming
for the present.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
workman in the employ of the Fair
haven marbelized slate company last week fell
into a quarry forty feet deep, receiving
broken collar bone and other severe injuries.
IL Is thought ne Will recover.
Samuel Williams, Esq , has removed from
St Adams to Rutland.
James Hope, the Castleton artist, has
closed his studio in New York and repaired
to his sketching ground in Vermont.
The appraisal of the property of the Rut-
land railroad will occupy several months as
the estimates cannot be contemplated till
reports are made by two men who have been
n, Rtttl tb,+
travelling over the different routes in the
country.
wINDHAN COUNTY.
The Rev. Amos Foster Of Putney is said
to be the oldest, or about the Oldest, clergy
in the State in active service. He has
spent Is years IN the ministry, and now, at
the age OF -, is hale and vigorous
Several families left Brattleboro recently
to settle in Colorado.
West Brattleboro is troubled with wild
cat, that screeches Economically
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The express train down on the 10th, ran
over Miss Eales, 20 years old, about two
miles below So. Royalton, horribly mangling
OF, worse, tearing her body all 70 pieces,
leaving nothing TO show that the vIctem was
human being. except the head and feet
She was walking with her mother on the
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mother probably not thinking Of cars left her
on the track and some distance to a
house for help, but before she returned with
aid the express train had taken the daughter
into eter-Ity.
The next annual meeting of the Vermont
Baptist Sabbath School Convention is to be
at Chester, commencing on W ednesday, June
9Th, at o clock. p. N, and closing the next
day at noon.
Qnite extensive preparations are being
made for Decoration day, at Springfield. The
military department viii be under the com
mand Of Lieut.. Kowel.
School District No. in the center Of tn
town of Pomiret made the past season from
y farms $40 lbs of good maple sugar,
being 1853 lbs to each farm.
Mr.. Nathan Spaulding of Springfield re
Gently lost about 20 valuable sheep by dogs.
fter considerable inquiry, it was found that
four belonged in WeaJhersfeld Bow. Some
body 81 course viii have little bill to set
tie.
Good butter is selling at Woodstock at the
remarkably low price of % cents, and is slow
at that. The like has not been known for
almost ten years.
West Rochester, Vt. is afflicted with black
hears to such an extent that the people an
ticipate the necessity of organized warfare
against them.
On Sunday, Levi Moor, Of Plymouth,
'ound in his trap a black bear, the largest
animal of the kind ever seen in those parts.
but spring poor
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION The first meet
ing of the White River Valley eachers'
Association viii be bed on the 9th and 10th
of June a. Sharon. f. +. Wright, the prin-
cipal Of South Royalton Academy, is Presi-
dent.
A comfortable farmer residing in North
SpI ingfeld invested some $50 in New
York Gold Watch enterprise, promising a
fortune, and received for his money a good
supply Of sawdust and sheet lead.
FIRES AT LUDLow-The village of Ludlow,
which recently suffered severely by a serious
conhagatiOn, was again visited on Saturday
night by destructive fire. The flames broke
out in the bakery building, and spread with
great rapidity. The bakery and two adj
ioining buildings were totally consumed, to-
gether with a house and barn, Sawyer car
rage shop, Dorvels blacksmith shop and two
other buildings in the rear. The village
was again. on Sunday afternoon, the scene of
fire, althou gh not of Sc serious character
The fire broke out in the dry-house of the
wooden factory which was speedily consumed,
but fortunately no further damage was Oc-
casioned.
MrNIFIcENr GIFT.-William Carlton,
Esq, OF Charlestown Mass, has just made
a donation of $50, 600 to the College at
Mortified, Minn>, over which presides Rev.
James W. Strong, formerly of Montpelier.
The anne of the College in consequence, Is
. to be no longer Mortified College but Carlton