Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-09
WINDHAN COUNTY,

The horse of MIR. s. s. Stoddard of West
minister took fright in Walpole, N. H., last
week, and running jumped from a bridge nj
teen feet down upon a mass of rocks. Mr.,
S. was seriously but not fatally injured. The
horse soon died.
A Brattleboro fisherman last week caught
a trout in the Deerfeld river at Searsburg,
which weighed 2 lbs. 10 OF. A number
were caught weighing in the vicinity OF Two
pounds apiece.
Abbott, son of Arad Davis of Nottingham,
II years of age was drowned, while bathing
in the Deer6eld river, Thursday.
During drunken iracas at Halifax N
the Fourth James Crosier shot and killed his
son in-law, William Smith. As Smith was a
violent fellow when drunk, it is thought that
the shooting may have been in self-defease.
DR. @. S. Clarke, dentist, had the small
bone of one leg fractured just above the an
kle, Friday morning, by being thrown from
his buggy while driving down Green street
hill, near the old Baptist church Brattleboro.
The Congregational fair and festival held
at the Brattleboro town hall on Wednesday
evening was largely attended. The gross
receipts from the festival amounted to about
S775.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The Post records the violent discussion in
Woodstock of the question whether given a
man and squirrel opposite sides of a tree,
squirrel on the tree and man at a distance
and they both 60 round the tree you know,
does the man 90 around the squirrel or the
tree ? around they 60 around. Some such
anyway. Ar ound;
Hon. James Barrett of Woodstock, has
been chosen President, and Rev. W. Il.
Lord, d. D., of Montpelier, Vice-Pres!dent
of the Alumni of Dartmouth College.
On Monday afternoon, the 23d inst, Da-
vid Brinn, of Proctorsvil!e, while at work on
the roof of E.. Ii. Atherton's new dwelling
honse, in Cavendish, fell a distance Of about
forty feet striking on rocks and gravel,
bruising him severely. He was brought homo
on a bed, and is yet alive.
Weathersield claims the champion sheep
shearer. Mr.. E. S. Haskell, of this town,
sheared in one morning thirty-hve sheep and
three bucks. At another time he SHARED for
sy-three sheep in six hours, and at another
time seventy-iOur sheep in one day. If there
is any one that has lone better he will try
again.
William S. English has manufacturer thi
season about four hundred dozen of HAND
f rakes, and he does not consider it a very goot
seasons work either.
| On Tuesday, July st, the Convection o
Bellows Falls of the Protestant Episcopa
Church, met at St. James church, Wood
stock, and continued in session three days.
r Improvement have been made in the expires
, and telegraph office in the w. r. Junotio
depot, which has been enlarged by taking il
a portion of the gentlemen s sitting and wasl
room. 1t has also been newly and TASTEFUL,
furnished.
The Standard had, 28th Of June, sno,
sent from Plymouth, and sugar, and liked ii
f A lynx has recently taken up his abode O
j, the farm of E. A. Hall of Chester, and by hi
prowling and "howlings," to say nothing c
t his raids upon ~sheep-pens and heu-roosts, ha
caused considerable disturbance to those VIII
Il court balmy sleep in that vicinity.
d
Fifteen years ago the first Atlantic cab
slipped into its roomy bed and. to-day, for
fellow ropes are already crowding alongside
making it decidedly uncomfortable nappiu
,e for warm weather. The first cable suffice
to transmit the congratulations of Quee
Victoria and President Buchanan, and BIZ
lain as dumb as the equator ever since. III
first successful cable, that of 1865, broke
, few weeks ago the cable of 1866 is worl
ing that OF 1862, or the French cable, hs
Just been broken, 208 miles from Brest, b,
has been spliced and, We understand is agai
1t working. The fourth cable was landed /
the Great Eastern June 9th at Hearts Coz
y tent, Newfoundland, and extends straigh {
Valentia, being little less than 1900 mile
long, or about the length of the cable
7 1866. The new cable is of three qualitie
A indicated as shore, intermediate and deep-st
. cables, the latter being the lightest. q.
s soon as the connection with America is esta
. lished, the Great Eastern will 90 back
2 within 500 miles of Valentia, where it W
/ grapple for the broken cable of 1865. ThiI
| of grabbing for that string 1900 fathoms,
/ more than two miles, below the surface
81 This is one of the NEST interesting feats
"a be performed, as it will determine the dur
billty and condition of cables in actual US
Springfield Republican.