Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

George l.. Williams of Williamstown,
has an apple tree that has three times in
the last eight years blossomed when there
was fruit on the tree one-fourth grown.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
DIR. Jackman of Morrisvlle tells good
story of horse which has been shod at his
fathers shop in Irasburgh, for five or six
years. Being too old to be of any use the
horse was turned into the road, and few
days ago losing shoe, the horse went to the
door of the blacksmith shop, and quietly
waited until other customers had been served.
Then he walked in and held up his shoeless
foot. The blacksmith shod him, when be i'm
mediately turned and walked away,
McClintock, foreman in the Express Office,
has been appointed baggage master on the
South Eastern Railway.
The engineer of the Memphremagog steam
er left suddenly, and the boat could not be
run until another engineer was imported
from Montreal.
Sias King of Glover fell recently from the
loft in his barn to the floor, injuring him
severely. When found he was thought to
be dead, and is no doubt injured for life.
Adna Crandall of Jay 76 years of age, has
cut and peeled 103 hemlock trees, averaging
two feet on the stump, during the present
season of bark peeling.
An Orleans county man writes that he
has discovered sure cure for consumption
in strong mullen leaf tea sweetened and
drank freely every day for from three to six
months. The mullen leaves, unless from
young plants, must be gathered before July
25 tn -, and dried in the shade.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The money drawer in the Office of the
Bardwell House, Rutland, was robbed oil
! about $50, Friday morning, about 4 o'clock
while the porter went up stairs to call the
guests. A fellow, who was sitting in the
Office when tie porter went up stairs, but
who was gone away when he returned, was,
doubtless, the thief.
| Dandy looks down on Mount Tabor, be-
cause its charter was granted August q
i l16l, one day earlier than that of the other
place.
A Rutland youth, who " sloped" his board
bill, sent this exasperating billet to his de-
frauded landlady g Miss A.-Please do not
worry about me, Again | enjoy the com
forts of home. My present hashmaker i'm
proves on you considerable"
The Rutland lecture committee have thu:
far secured Cough, Mast, Mrs. LlVei more
Parsons and j. G. Holland for the next win
ter's course.
1t is rumored that a signal service ofic'
will soon be established in Rutland, and re
ports distributed to postoffices from tha
point.
DANNY ships 10000 bushels of charcoal
per week.
| WINDHAM COUNTY.
Crosier, the Halifax murder is now i'll jai
at Newfane, some of his bondsman havIn
become suspicious of his intention to alb
scond
Thirty instruments a day. or one ever
twenty minutes during the ten workin
hours, is the rate at which Estey and &C
are now managing their cottage organs.
Bratteboro has a mandatory of SEWN
silk.
S. W. Fink, hotel-keeper at West DUN
merston, he's come to grief. He has bee
fined $40 and costs for sellinga rum. III
liquor seized from him was pronounced IN
fit for use by the town agent, and therefor
split IN the gutter.
Farmers are rejoicing over the inestimabl
good done by the recent rains. Grass, cor
and potatoes are doing well, and good yiel
of the latter will be had