Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-17

daring burglary was recent perpetrat-
ed at Burlington, on the jewelry store of
Louis Fireman.. The burg lar entered Mr..
Fremau's sleeping room, took his safe-key
from hIs pants pocket, and, going TO the
store underneath, rlaed the safe and show
cases OF $12OO worth, including is watches.
seven OF which were gold. There were five
persons sleeping in the building, hut not one
OF them was wakeLed. A reward o! $500 Is
offered for the arrest f the burglars.
TIE University of Vermont opens on the
| 18Th. w lillian Z. Summons of Newport, r. L.,
and Harvard graduate of 1866. has been
apppi nted temporarily to the chair of Greek,
made vacant by the resignation of professor
Haynes. Rev. Spencer Marsh accepts the
proiessorship of modern languages. He is
now III Europe, perIecting himself in Ger
man and Frencb, and will assume the du Ties
OF his 70 essorship in January.
| RICHMOND bUITER MAaKrT, SEPT. Is
Two hundred boxes che sold Farm dali
rles, 10 to lie. sage, II IL to IL. Two
Bic. 4; fair, 25 to %.
| FRANKLIN COUNTY
| VIM. Colby's mill at Fairfax Falls,
together with shingle mil and tub factory
neal by, were totally consumed by fire on
the night OF the 29th. Loss partly covered
by Insurance.
Abler Forbes of st. Adams, for many
years the efficient chief clerk of the Vermont
Central Railroad, died in that village Sunday
evening of last week of apoplexy. MIR.
Fol- bes formerly resided IN Windsor, aud Was
a man. OF excellent common sense ami strict
integrity.
The drought in Swanton is SO. severe that
farmers get water Tor their cattle with Diff
Guilty, AMI wells and stream. are DRY that
have never been known to Iail be ore.
Work has commenced in earnest on the
Lamoille Valley Railroad at Swanton. The
contractors are now in Canada looking for
help. They propose to put several hundred
men at work soon as possible.
John Ray, st. Adams mason, aged 60,
made AN INT tfectual attempt at suicide with a
razor Frid4y, and his arms had to be tied to
keep him from tearing the ban lagos from
his throat. Family trouble was the cause
P. Spencer OF East Georgia has purchased
the stage line between johnson and Under
, hill.
Rev Mr.. Edison, agent of the American
and Foreign Bib.e Society, while spending
the night of Sept. 1lth at the house of Dea.
Klngsbury, IN North Fairfax, in passing out
,rom the door stepped from platform to the
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mis- leg 50 severely as 10 require amputatiou
between the ankle and knee.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
George Moore, son % John Moore of North
Cambridge, four years of age, Was thrown
from a wagon, with others, a few days ago
and died soon alter from MS injuries.
Old Mansfield showed white face one o
the last mornings 10 August-an event fol-
| a, h,f, tol
MS recollection.
ORANGE COUNTY.
A marriage notice 10 this weeks issue will
correct a wrong Impression arising from al
Orange County item OF last week.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
At Troy, on the LIST Inst, while j. P
the g brake =" that used for stopping til,
machine gave away, breaking tue 0rlv'
wheel and au iron pin struck Mr.. Martin IL
the side and broke Two of his RIBS.
On the night OF the 4th, james Garland
barn at Sutton was strucs by lightning al,
set On fire. From the barn the fire commu
nIcated with the shed and house, aud bot
were SOON CONSUMED. Me-. u. was abseu
> rom home, and the uoIher and chIidre
we're overcome with irIgnt and barely sue
ecded III escap NJ with the clothing the,
j nal upon their persone.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Camilla Urso, Tue Famous vlo!inist, has re
turheu iI,m EuIUle, and will RON give
Concert IN kutiaud.
The bax National Bank building is th
most elegant and III gu, nceut structure i
No. thern New Eusla I'D.
: Brandon VIII huid her tenth annual fai
on ednesday aud thursday, Septembe
, 9th and 20 II, under tue auspices Ut til
FARMERS and NJ chanics' Clue, of whici
ii ~. n. I. opra5Le Jr., is President. ih
add ess wul be delivered by President Buck
uam ot the State Agricultural College.
: a cuiored woman CHASING aiter the ex
\ pres ,rain Tor Burlington, and hauling
n coored man from the rear platform vi til
II drawing room car, and then giving him
> lecture, was among the things that recent
d unused tie crowd at Rutland.
v On FlIuay the price of butter at Brandon
t was % CENTS ler pound. The amount sol,
J. lor the week was loUO pounds.
" TIE parties WHO ran the snake I" Sid
Show " on the FAIR grounds, lost on Frita
n their big snake, aud he could not be Ioun,
& during the day. On Saturday morn
) .ng he was discovered curled up under TIL
table IN Floral Hall. What sc.mperin,
n there NUulu nave Uteu iTum IudI Ildti Id'
n MS snakeshlp showed himself ON Friday.
l. The Congregational church at West Rut
e laLd, which Is, with one exception, til
j. oldest west of tie Green Mountains, vii
Il celebrate It's centennial October 8.
l. The Eddy family of Rutland, who hav
). excited considerable attention of late b
their pretended spiritual {" manlies tatIons,
d have Ueen interviewed by several reporter
), and pronounced {" humbugs." Their plan
= were exposed and their exhibitions prove
+ TO be poorly contrlved receptions.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
> A correspondent Of the Gazette says Sid
l. ney Plumb took from the village pond, Jack
y souvlile, a string OF cells, twenty-iour II
l. number. and 1t was mt much of day 10
eels, either. " bile fishing, he came acros
y an old cannon that was thrown into the pom
at the commencement of the war. To
water in the pond has lately been draw
down for the purpose of making repaire
and the fishermen have been quite busy fo
the past week. Tnere has been a larg
amount Of fish taken from the pond. On
Vi little fellow got stuck in the mud and ha
&C to be helped out. A new scythe was ioun
at the DO tom of the pond, below the bridge
n, but nothing has yet teen seen OF the fais
}; teeth lost by Mr.. Hicks while bathing.
WINDSOR c. UNITY.
of Alexander Packard, of Barnard, lost an o
I'd worth 500 last week. lie saw the O
&c run from an apple tree and in few mir
utes after found him dead. He supposes
was cboked though no positive evIdene
could be found. 1t was fat and APPARENT
- healthy.
- Business at Cavendish is as lively as coul
d. be eApected-the two factories are runnin
under fell head, especially the one known i
n '.Spring Mill" run by Rooert Elton He
driving his to its utmost capacity employ IN
it, d huudred hands or over.
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