Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-01-17
Vermont News
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

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has sailed for Europe in the Abyssinis &C be
al cent a lev weeks % 11siness.
Frank r. Proud, g manned soldier, having
lost one a-Il 10 che service, committed suicide
by hanging b.mse-fin Gains w0c5s. POWnsl.
The body wg= found on Monday. lie VAS
watchmsn in the Custom House 81. Burling-
ton for number ot years after the Wsr, hut
lost bic situation last winter, and since that
time has been dependent ami unhappy
which added g. domestic infeiicitics il sup
posed 90 have been the cause Of the sad ac;.
a hurricane passed over the village Of
Manchester. Friday, blowing down Chimnics,
tearing slate from bnilding7 \ slate from
the new Congregational church went through
window of house some distance away,
and another striking horse knocked him
down.
CHII-ESDES COUNTY.
The PlaCssburgb mail stage has commenced
running between Burlington and the former
place, Messrs Laduke and Slaves proprietors
On Friday last the II5les says. after deliver
ing the mail at the POET Office yesterday
afternoon il accidentally overturned, near the
Tines building Mr.. Clark Keeier, keeper,
I Uf the hotel 81 South Hero, suffered a DIS
I location % the shoulder. Or. E. ). Peck
wac the attending surgeon. Ne bl0me Is
attached % the driver.
/ Hon David French an old and respected
citizen Of Burlington has passed away. Mr..
( French vas @ native Of the town % " ilistOn
and one Of the oldest surviving graduates D
I he University Of Vermont, of the Glass al
1 1913 lie vas Senator from this county
/ n 1912. lie was for many years Register
Of PROBATE. snd 10 every relation Of lie hsd
/ the esteem and RS yect p ma fellow citizens
FR:ssLIs COUNTY.
81 NH 1Frtq eI-...Hr9
0 Richiord is nOY completed and IN Uork.r 2
ordsr TIE Office is iD T. NJ is5isQuoi rsssen
/ ,er depot
3ir. Charles a. Tinker, ne Meesenger Of
the " sstern Union telegraph offce wash
lngtoD, has Ecceptd the poFItion o! train
disDateher u the Vermont Central Railroad
40 q. Albans
A hossisr 10 the employ Of Wm. Pitcher
Of Fairfax lel1 rather suddenly recently, TAX
ing without leave Nrs Pitcher watch
which Vas recovered The same day BY o. Evans
on ths railroad train south, 10 whom word
wss sent By telegraph.
The St. Adams Mssesnqey degotes several
columns 10 details OF lmpr .Vemen,s 10. st.
Albaus during 1871 Il says enough new
buildings have been erected during the past
year 70 constitute Uf tLemse.yes 8 iaiT sized
VI Ilage, and within 5hs last swo years mora
have teen built than any other village in she
county can number Is estimates the popu-
lation Of the iown aS 5000.
Hon. John Gregory Smith has been elect,
President Of the franklin County ARricul-
tur al and Mechanical Society
ozASaz COUNTY.
Rev. Daniel Wild was formally dismissed
from the pastorate Of tho First Congregation
al church, in Brookfeld. on Tnesdsy.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The Vermont Dairymen' g Association met
at Rutland this week l7thl9th, Col. Daniel
Needham, Secretary Of tho New England
Agricultural Society Is expected 20 bs pres
enb.
The extensive tanning works Of E. Brad
ford & Co, WalliDgford, we're consumed by
fra on Monday morning Loss from fifteen
to twenty thousand dollars, on which there
was an Insurance Of ten thousand dollars.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Mr. 5 A Gage has retired fro 10 the posi-
ton of conductor on the Passumpsie Rail
road. He began as baggage master on the
first train which ran over the Vermont Cen
trail. v as for sixteen years conductor on the
Central, and Tor the past seven or eight years
has been on the Passumpsic road. The
travelling public will miss the genial face and
accommodating manner which made him one
of the most popular OF conductors. we be-
lieve Mr. Gage retires to a very pleasant
a. homestead . on the left bank Of White
River. rot far from the Junction, where, all
who know him, will wish him long time
table and easy grades for the balance Of his
trip.
Recent additions ~ the inmates Of the State
Prison raise the entire number to about loO
the largest number in confinement for a
long time.
Fifteen divorces, only one Of which was
for adultery, were granted at the recent seq
. sion of the County Court. - Intolerable
severity was the chief ground.
Fifty-six persons died 10 Woodstock in the
year 1871 a greater number than that o.
: several years past. OF these there were ten
persons over eighty years of age, and eighteen
between sixty and eighty between thirty
:. and aixty, twelve; between fifteen and
thirty, eight, and under fifteen shers were
I eight.