Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-16
Vermont News.

ADDISON COUNTY
John j Rounds, member Of tue oopho-
more class in Middlebury College, was
drowned in Otter Creek, last week, while
bathing. Rounds was foe young man,
and took one of the prizes at the Parkerian
Prize, speaking the evening before. The
event casts deep gloom over the Com
mencement festivities.
Within few weeks past two citizens Of
/ Middlebury have been held for trial for adul-
terry. Ia the case which caused the greater
, scandal, petition for immediate discon-
tinuance OF the prosecution was circulated
and numerously signed by citizens Of Md
, dlebury and vicinity. The Register asks :
- Are these facts evidences of screw loose
in the public sentiment on the subject 30
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
William Martyr, a Vrginian clergyman
was travelling wIth two friends through the
town of Bennington, in the year 1880. At
dinner beef steak was placed before Mr.
Martyr. who was much engrOssed with
the calls Of his appetite that he utter ed not
a word during the meal. One of his com
panIOns remarked that he was very sorry 70
be witness to as melancholy a scene as a Mar
tyr-dltnlJ at the stake.
A very vealy Bennington couple, he Is,
she IA, eloped to Troy last week, and went
to six different clergymen to be married,
neither OF whom would tie the knot, and the
terrible i0fants took the evening train for
home, signing and sad. bat hoping for better
luck by and by.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
\ few weeks since, IL c. Dickerman caught
in the Passumpsic river at Hail. mills, Lyn-
don, two trout, one being p 81 inches long
and weighing 3 pounds and ounces the
other was II inches long and weighed ,
a - h.
sic are scarce, but make up in size what they
lack in numbers. Dickerman caught these
by running his hook through the back Of
small mouse and letting HIM swim upon the
surface OF the water. Large trout are too
cunning to bite ordinary bait.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Henry W. Webster has beea appointed
postmaster at West Bolton, vice Smith A
Hall, resigned.
ESSEX COUNTY,
Essex county calls for rain. The ponds
are getting low.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Elwin S. Chase of West B-ookfeld, has
scandalized himself in a Grim con case
Mr.. Chase is a teamster. and afinitized TO
Mrs. Mary ). BallOu, the young and pretty
wife Of one Of his employees. Mrs Ballou
went on a visit to her home in CRANKY, and
Mr. Chase persuaded her husband that she
would bear watching. That innocent was
easily persuaded, and at once started Chase
in pursuit Of her. Of course he found her,
and then the far but frail Mary justified her
husbands suspicious, by afinitizing IN her
turn and spending two nights with Mr..
Chase.
Then the most excellent Chase went home
to his wife and told her all about it, and in
order to restore confidence and insure dOmes-
tic felicity in the future, they set about re
moving the cause of their difficulties and
Mrs. Chase entered a complaint against the
beguiling Mary s., while Mr.. Chase appeared
in town under the guise of an officer TO look
up the evidence.
At the instigation of Mrs. Ballou s friend,
a complaint was also entered against Chase
and both were arrested-Chase while in the
act of trying to persuade his - cO-defendant''
to elOpe with him. Both prosecutions failed,
and the only point gained seems to be that
Ballou is convinced that be has sent the
wrong man to look after his wife, whom he
has taken anew to his affections. and declares
that he shall never lose confidence in her
again.
franklin COUNTY.
Mrs. John Chafee of Berkshire, VT, was
recently bitten on the back of one of her
hands by an insane daughter, and the hand
and arm are so badly swollen and discolored
that it is feared she cannot recover.
A shower great severity visited the towns
Of Richford and Montgomery, VT, on Tues
day evening The rain fell in such torrents
that IN few minutes brooks were swollen
to rivers, and the fl Jod swept everything be-
fore it, Hail fell in large stones, so that
crops were much damaged even above the
water courses. On the Stanhope brook in
Richford the saw mill of S. S. Garvin, a
highway bridge and new Il. r. bridge on
VI. &. G. r. road were carried away. Mr..
Field, proprietor the saw mill at Richiord,
lost heavily in logs by the breaking of his
boom. The farms and crops of Freeman
Flint and Sherman Sears, in Richford, were
badly damaged by the brook changing its
course, and throughout the country visited
by the deluge bridges were carried away SO
as to interrupt travel.
The horse-barn of DIR. George @. Briggs,
in Franklin, was burned Wednesday after
noon, together with some hay. The other
contents were saved The cause of the fire
is believed to have been the carelessness of
children in playing.