Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

the tlme oelnS. duu ut DstS gone u Aiken
s. c. hoping to receive benefit from change
of climate. W. E. Lamson, Esq, of Bos-
ton. in negotiating for the purchase of the
Compsney's furniture warehouse.
The Orange County Good Templars Union
for the current quarter will be holden at
Randolph Centre on Thursday next. =
The lumber mills of the Wells River
Lumber Com pany, were burned Tuesday
night-consisting of saw-mill and box fac
tory, together with considerable lumber.
Loss reported at $4,000. The mills were
located 1-2 miles west of Wells River, on
the line of the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Col. S. w. Dorsey, who was elected by
the Arkansas Legislature on the 18th inst
United States Senator for six years from
March 4th next, is a native of Benson, and
is just thirty years ofage. He left that town
with his parents for the West some fifteen or
eighteen years ago, and has won his way by
his own efforts to this position, graduating
at Oberlin, Ohio. Early in the late war he
went into the army and served during the
war. At present be is president OF the
Arkansas Central railroad.
Hon. Ebenezer Nelson Briggs, of Brandon,
who died Jan. Goth was born in Middleboro.
Massachusetts, November 18th, 1901, and
came to Vermont, with his father, Levi
Briggs, in 1919, and settled in Salisbury.
He soon after commenced the study of law
with Gordon Newell, OF Pttstord, and was
admitted to the bar at the December term Of
| the Rutland County Court, in 1928, and, in
1896, commenced the practice of his profess
sion in Salisbury, where he remained until
| 1910 or 1871, when he removed to Brandon,
where he continued to reside until his death
Ia 1928, he was elected a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention from Salisbury,
and, also represented that town in the Leg
islature of Vermont in 1881, 80, '33, "a
and IS. In 1881 he was also elected State s
Attorney for the county of Addison, and
continued to hold the same, by annual re-
elections down to and including the year
| 1889 term OF eight years. In 1886, ~
and '38 he was State Senator from Addison
county and in 1912, '43 and IA he repre-
scented the county of Rutland in that body,
being longer term of service, we believe,
than that attained by any other individual,
since the establishment OF the State Senate
In 1915 and '46, he represented Brandon in
the General Assembly of Vermont, and was
Speaker of the House both years. as he had
I
was delegate at large to the National Re
publican Convention of 1860, at Chicago.
John Cain, says that the long promised
new Rutland Daily is a fixed fact; the
necessary stamps having lo0g since been
guaranteed.
Luther Tucker extensively known through
out the country as Treasurer of the Agri-
cultural Society of the State of New York
and editor of the Country Gentleman died
at his residence in Albany, n. Y, on
Saturday, after brief illness. He was
born in Brandon, Vermont, May 9TH 1902
and was consequently in his seventy-drst
year lie was the founder of the Rochester
DAILY Asuertiser, the first daily Cf that city,
but soon devoted himself to the promoti IN
of agricultural science, first as editor of the
GeaesSee Farmer, and subseq GENTLY as editor
OF the CuAirat0r aud the Country Gentle
man.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
At Stockbridse, on TIE II 5h the dam for
c. a. Browns saw mill and Richardson &
Savage's tub factory was swept away by :
treshet. These parties will lose at leas
, four months of business, besides the dam
: valued at 5000 to $1,000.
That rapid little stream, w hte RIVER ha.
again visited the village of West Hartford
By filling few cellars and covering the
lower floors of two or three houses The
water rose, in a short time l6 feet. 1t vii
take several days to clear the highways IL
' that town of ice. The i e broke up d few
minutes past y O'Clock on the l7th, de
, stroying one barn and several are short il
the poultry line.
The Lebanon On. H. Free Press has al
LOO ha a IL.
c destructive consequences of the ice Jam a
White River junction. The ircshet o
January Il carried the ice out OF White
River. About mile below the Junction tn,
ice became choked up in the Connecticut
Q and up the White River as far as White
River Village Within this space there art
five long and costly bridges which wer
threatened with destruction. The extensly,
anufactories of the Messrs. Morris att
French K o., were forced to stand still
L and were likely to be destroyed when tn
ice was dslodged. In this emergency tn
Messrs. Morris decided to try the effects o
e dualin on the ice, and entrusted the work t
n Mr.. j. w. Cleveland. The first two DAYS
progress was slow, but that powerful ex
plosive at length began to tell, breach wa
fairly effected, and 1t is probable that With
= a few days the whole mass of ice will b
a sent down the river SO broken as to do n
. damage.
c Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, til
/ State Board of Agriculture held meetin
at Bethel in connection with the White r v
er Valle7 Agricultural Association.
Stephen Tracy, NJ D., died at his homo
in Andover, Mass, on the 18th inst, in b
sixty-third year. DIR. Tracy was born i
Hartford, VT, and had been a missionary
:, Siam.
e The Ludlow Gazette, speaking of the deaf
4 of Colby G, Partch, brakeman who wa
a struck by bridge near Proctorsville says
SO This is the ninth man who has been niul
ed by the same bridge and the fifth who hs
. died from injuries received"
7, wINDHAM COUNTY.
& A lady in Puney, VT, who is ninety-tw
1t years old, and lives three and half mile
1t from church, is among the most constant i
a attendance upon public worship Last wiz
Id ter and summer she hardly missed Sal
e. bath.
Wilmington farmer and his better hal
compelled to ma Ike trip in the biting col
to of Thursday morning, rode moderated
d, through that village with their feet upo
re the hearth of red-hot stove, while volun
of smoke issued from stove pipe aboy
,e their heads. They perhaps took the biz
/ from the Granville couple who moved
> Castleton in the cold snap of December.
of The night of the 9th special train fro
he Springfield for Brattleboro Vt, met with
re accident at Hoyoke, by which Charl
Kingsley. brakeman, of South Vernon W,
thrown from the train by the shock again
a telegraph pole, and was so severely injurt
" that he died on Tuesday. No passenge
a. were seriously hurt, though several we
Is tleboro was thrown upon the stove al
he burned his hands somewhat. DR.. c. !
by Tenney of the Brattleboro Insane Asylu
ed WAS standinp in the aisle and feeling fro