Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-11-01


liable colt badly injured last week. The
morning train over the p. & o. r. r. so
frightened the colt that he jumped over
fence, tearing the flesh and muscles completely
off one fore leg.
a partridge flew into the house of Martin
Drew of North Danville, lately and was
captured.-He was taken to Lyndon, had
ring put on his neck, and was let loose.
A telegraph office has been opened at Dan
vile Green, and 5. II. Stone VINO is the Sta
ton agent there, is to be the reporter This
will be great convenience to the people of
that section, as well as their friends who
may wish to reach them with early news
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Last week several boxes of honey were
stolen from the bee house of Joseph Marsh
of Hinesburgh. and on the same night four
fine turkeys were taken from the roost of a
neighbor of Mr. Marsh. That thief goes
for the sweets as well as fat of the land.
/ The Richmond market was dull Monday
for butter and cheese. Three hundred boxes
of cheese sold at from 10 to i lents for farm
/ dairy y to y ID cents for factory and
sage and about one hundred and fifty tubs
of butter good sold at from % to % cents,
and choice at from = to 80 cents per pound.
80 cents for Early Rose potatoes.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mrs. Storrs of Island Pond, was found I'M
conscious in her woodshe1 on the morning
of the 4th inst, and died soon after. 1t is
supposed that she was taken with an apo
plectlc fit.
franklin COUNTY.
Only about six hundred volumes Of the Lii
brary were saved from the fire ON Lake street
St. Adams, and those not the most valuable
and not complete sets. The eminently reiia-
I IL M nr,fl fbn
eight hundred dollars insurance, and the
/ Trustees have $1,000 in hand, so that the in
stitutiOn still lives The Trustees have voted
to cXpend the insurance money at once in
making good far as may be the loss by the
fire
\ new room Tor the conductors of the VT
Central has lust been fitted up in the passenger
station at St.Al5lns where the telegraph office
1 formerly was 1t is neat and convenient,
being provided with stove, running water,
gas, and row of d closets where each con.
duetor can keep his traps under lock Of his
own.
St. Adams is to have a hook and ladder
truck, with all the appurtenances thereto
I belonging, bought in Brooklyn, y Y, for
/ Sl,0jO.
LAMOuLK COUNTY.
Coupons and registered interest due Nov.
Ist, on the Joint Bonds of the Lamoille Val
/ lev, Montpelier, and St JOhnsbury and Is
sex county railroad companies, composing
the Vermont division Of the Portland and
Ogdensburgh railroad line, will be paid in
gold, free Of United states tax, on and after
Nov lst, at FIRST National Bank, Boston,
and at the office of Fairbanks and Co, Fiuan
cial Agents, 30 Broadway, New York.
The young ladies OF WatervlIe have
formed an antl-tObaccJ society, refusing b
associate with the young men that use it.
Peter {. Loyejoy, of Stowe, aged s. years,
framed and finished a building Box Il this
season without the aid OF glasses. lie was
the first representative tho old town of Mans
field sent To the legislature was born IT
Westminster, and his mother was the first
child born there.
Ira Potter Of Belyidere in jumping from
his wagon the other day, aliyhted on the
end OF broom handle, which entered his
body, in the groin, and passed upward until
it struck rib which it broke The broom
stick was also broken but he was able 10
pull the end of it out OF his body before help
reached him. His injuries were serious but
not fatal and he is now reported doing
well
ORANGE COUNTY.
The 25th anniversary of Nathan B. Clark
=
al has dwelling house at Randolph. There
must have been fully three hundred people
present. which showed that Mr.. Clark and
wife have many friends. The silver present
ell amounted to 5000, being of the choicest
selections.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Two daughters Of Augustus Wright Of
Barton Landing. aged three and five years,
were playing with matches IN the barn last
Monday morning, and with them they fired
the hay. They were burned to death.
The dwelling house shed and c4rriege
house OF Nathan Whitcaw in Greensboro.
were consumed by fire last week.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
4 patent has been issued 70 Thomas Ross
Of Rutland, for a stone dressing machine.
Patrick Sullivan Of Rutland has been sen
fenced 70 two years confinement in the state
Prison Mt Windsor, for maliciously manning
and injuring the horse Of John Cam.
The Vermont Musical Association at Bran
don was a success.
/ A Young man named j d. Cochrane, clerk
twcntv-one years of aye, has been missing
/ from Rutland, for the past ten days. lie was
/ last seen in the ears going t) Troy. ii Is
supposed to be insane
1 Nineteen applications for divorce have been
] ueArQ az buc present term Oh lllc INu-iAu4
/ County Court, Of which seventeen have been
/ granted, one denied and one is yet undecided.
Azem Churchill of Cnittenden has raised
the present season nine pumpkins that
/ weighed l72 pounds. All grew upon one
vine, beside a few green ones. The. largest
Weighed - ID and the smallest 10 pounds.
The dwelling house and barns OF Thomas
Henry, in Chittenden, were destroyed by
fire last week.
EyINDHAM COUNTY
\ peculiar case Of libel was tried by the
county court at Newfanc, the other day
The aggrieved party, Dwight \. Connable OF
Bernardstoa, Mass, brought action against
Charles Babcock Of Guilford, for SANDER il
uttering the words Dwight took false oath
at Greenfield, and for libel in publishing
some verses entitled, Dwight's Character
which placed Connable in an untavorable
light Babcock pleaded in justification that
all he had said and sung was true, and il
seems the jury thought so, too. as it returned
a verdict for BabcOck.
Joel Dillingham; Of Newiane has raised