Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

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Charlotte. and OF Split Rick lighthouse.
she water being 40 feet deep It that
place.
The receipts at the Chittenden county
fair amounted to over So 600.
Tue Vermont Medical journal, bi-month-
ly, containing original articles rom leading
physicians and surgeons OF the State, Is to be
started ut Burlington by John NJ. Currier,
| in October.
A daring but unsuccessful attempt was
made by burglars, the other night. to blow
up the safe in the Vermont Central railroad
depot at Winooski.
The fourth annual meeting of the Yer
mont Pharmaceutical Association opened at
Burlington. Wednesday, and continued
Thursday. An able address was delivered
the frst day by Prof. Seeley of Mddlebury,
and L. E Sherman of Ludlow was chosen
president for the comm year. In the
afternoon an excursion aas made by steamer
to Piattsburg, where the society was enter
| tAined with ao elegant supper. Thursday
was occupied with the reading and discuss
ing of number of interesting papers on
different subjects.
The Chittenden County Teachers Associa-
ton will hold it's annual meeting at Charlotte
on Friday and Saturday. the Oath and 25th
of October.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Some forty or fifty years ago, Rev. Alvah
Sabin of Georgia cut stick from a pc par
tree, and after using it as a whip stuck it
in the ground on the hill west of Georgia
Centere. 1t is treo $50 feet high.
Miss Addie Wadleigh, daughter of F. A.
Wadleigh Of East Berkshire, has been elect
ed to the Professorship of Chemistry in the
Pennsylvania Female College, Plttsburg,
with a salary OF 81 300.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
John W. Brennan, brakeman in the en-
ploy of the Central Vermont Railroad, was
run over by freight train at East Alburgh.
Friday morning, while uncoupling the en-
CINE from the train when in motion. Nine
teen cars passed over one of his legs and side,
but he survived his terrible injuries about
| two hours.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
1t is estimated that 10000 pounds of
butter will be m ade and sold in Cambridge,
this year.
A wild cat found its way into the town
of Hyde Park few days ago aud was freed
by some hunters, who, however, dared not
shoot it, and so it departed in peace.
| ORANGE COUNTY.
| A Lodge of Good Templ4rs was organized
at Washington on the 18th, by R. Il. Dustin,
State Deputy, assisted by J. r. Cleaveland If
| Brookfeld, and a large delegation from j.
b. Mead Lodge of Willamstown, all earnest
workers in the cause. Judge II. A. White
was elected Worthy Chief Tempar and deo {.
f. Smith, Secretary.
| There are twenty-three voters in school
district No. Norwich New Boston)
Twenty-Five OF these attended school in tits
district when young seventeen have sent
scholars to the snme school. In one family
the fourth generation is living on the old
homestead.
| Mr.. II. Buchanan, OF Springfield, has
I" freed and killed, with his dog and gun.
eleven raccOons within the past three
weeks.
A bright, popular lad Of about Is, known
as " Tommy" Leonard, was severely injured
by kick from horse at Woodstock, Wed
nesday. HIS jaw was broken and one eye SO
badly hurt that it had to be removed.
Amos E. Head. prominent citizen OF
Chester, died on Wednesday.
Hon. Charles n Davenport, of Brattleboro,
will deliver the annual address before the
Back River Valley Association ut Perkins
vile, on October Sch, and other prominent
speakers are expected TO be present.
The annual me, ting of the stockholders oil
the Vermont & Canad, Railroad Comp IN =
will he held at White River Junction. at the
Junction House on the 10th day of October,
It CLOCK P. NJ.
| ORLEANS COUNTY.
The Orleans County Bible Society will
hold their annual meeting at Lowell, Tues.
day. Oct. I.
The barn on the farm owned by Alpheu.
Harding, in Lowell was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday, Sept. II. IL contained some
six hundred dollars worth of hay. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
Charles Bartlett of Jay lost his barn
with lnrgs stock of hay and 80 head Of
o.t.le, Is acres of grain and all his farming
tools, by fire, a few days ago.
The steam mill at Newport village has beer
sold at auction, to Newton Brothers o
Holyoke, Mass. Price paid for the mill and
real estate SIC, 900.
The Hardwick Reporter says postal cardl
are a nice arrangement on some accounts
Last week, a nice young man in Greensboro
had his heart lacerated still more by posta
card from his Ann Eliza which said, :" You
} needn't come Saturday night, nor any other
night l don't want to see you
Among the large enterprises of northern
Vermont il the manufacture of potato starch
One mill in the vicinity of lrasburg washe,
ard CRATES up 200 bushels in the autumn
season. Eight pounds of starch is about thu
average yield OF bushei of potatoes, thos
5 freshly dug yielding the most.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Ex-Governor Page has returned from Eu
5 rope, and is at his home in Rutland.
In the southeastern part of the town 0
Dandy, near the marble lodges, is caver
which descends like a we'll into the soli
3 rock. Persons have been let down by a rop
$50 feet perpendicularly into this caver
without discovering any bottom. 1t is wei
0 worth a visit to see this natural curiosity
3 A dog is said to have been thown into thi
q cavern few years ago and was heard t
a howl long after he disappeared. 1t is sup
n posed by some that this communicates wit
5 the cave in Dorset, on the south end of thi
D mountain.
James Fish, postmaster of Dandy, died o
the 10Th inst, aged 43. He was a muc
respected citizen of that town. and represent
ed it in the Legislature in 1868.
l.. B. Clogston of Fairhaven has invense
a gang for saving marble, which promises t
completely revolutionize the business.
= works upon an entirely new principle, bu
ls very simple in construction.
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