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

HE BETHEL CELIBRAr1oN.-The dwellers
IN Bethel had more than their usual success
IN drawing a large crowd into their village
on the fourth. and they are always success
tu' IN that line as every one expects to have
a good time there and does not come away
dlsappointed-though sometimes wet.
1t was estimated that there were about
|OoO persons present at the celebration On
friday. And when they were pretty much
gathered there was such a shower as is sell
dom seen and more seldom felt. The rain
however did not break up the exercises of the
day further than that, for that or some other
cause the "oration " was omitted. But
Bethel folks can run a fourth of July without
the inevitable grafton and they did it effec-
tually not allowing the severe shower to in
terrupt the trotting. The judges for the
races were A. S. Sturtevant and J.. II. Race
of New York, and J. H. Moulson of Ran =
dolph. The large number of entries and even
trotting of the contesting horses rendered
niue heats necessary in the first race.
Tbs race was for horses which never trotted
better than three minutes, for a purse of
$5O-S25 to the first, $l5 to the second, and
$40 to tue third. The entries .wers Young
Cassius, Skylight, Maggie, Lady townsend,
Lucy, Black Warrior, Sam, Lady Merrill,
Lady Sherman, and Eclipse. Cassius won
the first and second heats time, 2,56 and
1853 l-2. Black Warrior won the third heat
in 2,52 IL Lady Merrill the fourth 10 2,56;
Maggie the fifth in 3,02 ga; Black Warrior
the sixth in 3.04: Maggie the seventh in
3,O3; Lady Merrill the eighth in 3.01 !;
Maggie won the ninth in 800 IA, and the
race.
Next was race for horses that never beat
$50. The entries for this race were as fol-
lows Shelburn Maid, Ida, Ella Day, Jim,
Aldridge Boy, Propeller. Jim won the three
heats in 2,49 IA, $50 and 2,52 IL. Shell
burn Maid came in second every time, and
Aldrich boy came in third twice, winning
third money. The Purse for this race was
800 ; $50 to the first, $25 to the second,
and SIS to the third.
The next was for horses that had never
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$3.50 to the first 500 to the second, and
$50 to the third. The entries for this race
were Kitty Thorn, Lady Gordon, Sleepy Dick
American Boy, and Propeller. Kitty Thorn,
won in three straight heats, without a break
in 2 At, 2.48 and 2.40.
Lady Gordon was second and American
Boy third.
The foot race was an interesting feature o.
the day, but came near being fatal as one Of
the contestants burst a blood vessel and blec
seriously, the physicians at one time think.
ing he could not survive.
The CREASED pig was the source of some
amusement. Ooe earnest pursuer seized him
by the leg, while a second took him arount
the body and slowed him away under hi;
arm. A fight finally grew out of the mat
ter, and in the operation the majesty of til
law and the person of a policeman are SAT-
to have been insulted and maltreated.
The professor of ballooning brought
small machine; too small to allow people
ride. And he claims all his contract re
quired was an ascension, which he rattle
, failed to make satisfactorily. He went u
; Just far enough to eight" safely on
friendly Pomfret hill. He assembled a littl
after six, and the celebration proper wa
ended.
COMMENCEMENT at the University of Vel
mont this week. The annual celebration
Alumni took place Tuesday afternoon. II
orator oil the occasion was Rev. N. G.Clark'
D. D., of Boston. The poem by Rev. O.C
Wheeler of Grand Isle followed.
2 The neurological report for the past yea
Il embraces the names of Justus Perry Whe'
9 Ter of the class of 1904. Nathaniel Read ella:
e of 1911; Samuel Hunt Upper, class of 49,
Y James Van Ness, class OF 1925; Geo. Russo
Huntington, class of 1876; Daniel Wilt
class of 1928; James Reed Spalding, class c
1910; Moses Strong Royce, class of 1844:W IN
Collamer, class of 1874 !; John Buckley Pc
~, class of 1847 ; Osceola Hardy Kile. elias
- of 1868; Nehemiah Pierce, class OF 1865. L
day come the o~rations of the graduating elias
. conferriDg of degrees ; and concluding socia
exercises of Commencement.
o Col. +. V. Randall is seriously i'll, t
cause being a painful carbuncle on the ba'
of his neck.
ed In Bethel, on Thursday last, Mr.. Jose
er Bowen in attempting to secure one OF /
of horses, which he had driven from the p'
In ture into the barn for the purpose of cate
ing, was kicked by the horse and SO serious
on injured, inwardly, that he died in abe
n,s thirty-six hours after he was hurt. He v
SO years of age, and leaves a family a
be friends who were strongly attached to hi
NJ and On whom the stroke falls heavily.
by During the absence Of Mr.. David Tore
ne of Bethel, and family from home on the a
he their house was entered by some pilfer
I'm and robbed of some fifteen or twenty doll;
worth of keepsakes belonging to the fami
he including some silver coin; all Of viii
Ell was much more valuable to the rightful OF
ge ers as keepsakes, than they could be to a
nd one else.
80 Vermont News.