Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

The town of Essex has got to raise upward
OF 10000 TO pay a claim of @. r. Whitney,
which might have been settled at one time
Tor $500, but which his been stubbornly
contested IN the courts for several years
until the award of damages and the costs of
the case amounted to the above sum.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY
The butter market at Richmond on Mon
day Of last week was dull. Prices varif
rom 90 to 25 cents per.pound. Cheese sold
at 10 to II cents per pound for late ends of
dariies. Skim cheese at 6 to 10 cents.
Mr.. A B. Seaver of Burlington died
"wednesday, presum bly, of heart disease.
tie was sitting in a rocking chair at home,
eonversing with his family, apparently in
usual health, when suddenly falling forward
he expired almost instantly. Mr.. Sesver
was well and favorahly known in this vicini-
tv, having been long teacher in our public
schools, though at the time of his death he
was in other business He was highly e.
teemed member of the NJ. E. Church and will
he missed by his larg class in the Sunday
School. Dir. Seaver leaves a widow surviv-
ing, and son ard daughter, both students
in the University OF Vermont.-Free Press.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
a correspondent of the Boston Advertiser
thus portrays the brilliant future of Swan
ton:
The coast survey engineers have Just COM
pleted survey Of Swanton harbor at the ter
minus of the Vermont division of the Port
land and Ogdenshurgh Railroad. A break =
water is to be built here, making the pHr
equal to Blu Ellington. Half of the lumber
can reach tn e consumer by the Portland and
Ogdensburgh line when opened through,
cheaper than any other route. A great um-
her finishing mill is to be built alongside the
docks by a party now extensively engaged in
the same business elsewhere. A company
with ample means has just been chartered by
the Vermont legislature, for man u featuring
at the same 20 mt. The railroad will COM
mand great business from this station in
lumber coal, iron, salt, plaster, lime, mar
hle7, d Ior tiles, soup stjne5, hides aud leath-
er, hay. potatoes and other articles moving
IN or out.
The snow in Franklin county is reported
deeper than it has been for years. The roads
le4diog into It. Adams were so blocked with
drifts on Tuesday, market day, that but few
country teams were in the principal
streets Of the village.
For some months, parties arrested for
drunkenness at St. Adams. and required to
tell where they got their liquor, said they
got it OF man IN the street somewhere
rhe police have at last found this travelling
~niskey shop BaptIste Montey OF Bedford.
p. @, VIII runs it WAS nab ped NJ Inday, and
6ued tor selling without license and for sales
which he admitted, and costs, 81.
The Vermont State Spiritualist Associs-
ton viii hold quarterly convention in St.
Adams, on Friday, Saturday, anI Sunday,
she l7th, Is h, and 10Th of January, 1873 =
Able speakers VIII be IN Attendance.
The butter IN II <et at ST, Adams on Tues
day WAS dull, and prices declined, ranging
from 20 To 80 Tor common 10 tsir p to 80 tor
medium and god, AMI 81 for choice.
Orange CIUNTY.
At a recent meeting OF citizens of Bradford,
a Committee OF sixteen was appointed To take
measures for the suppression of the unlawful
liquor traffic in town. John b. Pickett Is
Chairman.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Col. John B. Mead OF K tndolph, Grand
Worthy Chief Tempar of the Good Tenn
plars Of Vermont, IL lecturing upon temper
ance III Orleans county.
The Newport Express states that work on
the Misssquoi aud Clyde Rivers Railroad Is
progressing finely. Track laying will be
resumed at both ends Of the line this week
and it IL thought the road bed will be IL
readiness for the iron as fast as 1t can be
land. II deep SHOWS do not prevent, tie
track Will lie rapidly laid and Newport PEG
pie will be surprised not long hence with
rail communication with RIcAord and Mon
treal, by the new and direct line.
Aunt Sally Horton OF Newport, seventy
seven years old, makes nothing Of walkIng
tive or FIX miles a day, aud last summer sae
caught from mphremagog from 300 50 500
pIckerel
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Fifteen persons were baptized at the Bap-
list church one evening last week; tie church
was d,n-ely flied and the services were sol
emn and Impressive.
Paul CLARK has been appointed Postmss-
tsr at ChIttenden, in place OF J. NJ. Far
man.
Mrs. Mary Ann Mclaughlin, widow of she
late Col. Thomas McLauhlin Of. Rutland,
died very suddenly tuesday afternoon OF
heart disease