Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-03
Vermont News.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

Henry Preston and wife, who were mar
ried recently at Centre Bennington, and who
were returning from their wedding tour, lost
three trunks OF $500 value on the train that
ran into the WelIand canal last week.
Thursday an accident occrrued on the Har-
lem Extension, at Arlington. the noon mail
running against an extra freight train. One
passenger was somewhat hurt.
The L orCharles Barney's dwelling at Ben
nington was struck by lIghtuins. and Mr..
Barney knocked senseless, remaining so until
his wife and nelghbors had extnguIshed the
molisbed chimney.
The cornerstone of the new Congregation
al church at Bennington was laid. with APP
propriate ceremonies. The estimated cost OF
the edl6ce is 1884, 900. and it will be COM
pleted IN June, 1874.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Third Vermont Regiment will have
reunion at ST. Johnsbury September %.
Rev P. y. Granger while at Lyndon the
other day fell in front of the Union office.
Chase says - If we can find out who sold it
to him we shall favor the prosecution
Conductor Benz Gage on the Passumpsic
railroad has been suspended for some irregu-
larity in the use of his stop-over checks.
They shoot blue heron in St Johnsbury.
The Passumpsic road is raising the Key"
of its whistles. They say brakemen hear
'em better 50.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Burlington has five steam saw-mills, with
capacity of dressing from 5000 900 to TO-
600 900 feet of lumber per mouth. The
amount oil capital now invested in real estate,
docks, mill, machinery and fixtures is esti-
mated at 81 900 900. and the railroad freight
bills are about $4,000 per year.
The proprietors of the Burlington Free
Press have enlarged their quarters by adding
story to their block, making four, and ex-
tending it II feet in the rear.
venerable locust tree at Burlington was
struck by lightning, few days since, and
the inside burned out, the shell remaining
whole and standing.
Among the papers read at the science as
ISOLATION at Portland was one read by Prof.
g. Ii. Perkins of the University of Vermont.
on an ancient burial ground in Swanton. He
said the graves were but one or two feet be-
low the surface of sandy ridge. The sand
was dlscoored by oxide of iron, which had
probably been used by the aborigines as a
paint. Most of the bodies faced the east, but
| one was buried head downward, and another
erect No complete skeletons have been found
and the bones obtained are very friable.
A lad by the name of Cunningham, was
run over by the cars at the central depot,
Burlington, Friday, and died the next morn
ing.
BoLToN.-H. J. Fay has just completed
for Kim bali Il Co., building l24 by IS feet
of two stories, for the manufacture of wood
en- trays from birch and maple logs. A saw
mill is in process of construction for saving
out the tray blocks, which are furnished BY
II. j. Fay, on a contract for five years, be
renting Kimball & Co. the building and DOW.
er for the same time. Messrs Kimball & Co.
have made these trays for two years past in
Canaan, N. H., with ingenious machinery OIL
MIR. Kimball's invention, patented in 1871
which cuts both sides of the tray with revol.
wing cutters, leaving it ready for use with
a little SANDY pering. They now move
their machinery to Vermont.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The resignation of Gyles Merrill,l genera
superintendent of the Central Vermont Rail
road for fourteen years, has been acce pied
and John w. H)bart, long and favor
ably known as general freight agent, ant
master of transportation of the road, has beer
appointed in his place.
The Central Vermont engineers claim the
champion belt for heavy weights. Of the 3:
running between Essex Junction aud Bellows
Falls. II weigh over $50, and 10 over 20I
pounds.