Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-25

well pleased with the progress and are salts
NED that the school is in good hands. The
year will close by holding rhetorical exercises
IN the Hall on Friday, at 2 P. n. Those who
are to share in these exercises have certainly
made selections of subjects that promise an
interesting afternoon. There will be levee
at O'Clock, Friday evening, at which tho
music will be furnished by Houses bind.
The Commencement Exercises of the Vt.
Methodist Seminary will occur next week
On Sunday, the 29sh inst, the annual sermon
will be preached by the Principal, at three
o'clock P. N. HIN. G. W. Willard will
deliver an address on Monday evening. and
Rev. E. ii. Newhall. D D., Tuesday evening.
The exercises of the graduating class will &C.
eur on Wednesday, commencing at ten
o'clockA. M. Monday afternoon and Tues
day will be occupied in the examination of
classes.
1t is expected that Miss Nj. Bishops of
Wisconsin, but native of Vermont, will
speak on Temperance in Village Hall, Satur-
day and Sunday evenings, June 18th and
29th.
report of lecture delivered by Miss
Bishop in the Congregational church at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, says " She held the close
attention of her audience for a full hour to
compact, straightforward, logical argu-
ment against the licensing of the sale of in
toxicating liquors. The directness, decision
and earnestness of her manner, denoted a
speaker who had som ething to say that was
worth hearing, and none went away dsap-
pointed
The REPAIRS on Bishops Hotel approac
completion. The American House has been
taken possession of by the new prop. ietors,
Clark and Coffey, and has been closed until
further notice, for the purpose of repairs,
which will no doubt be made in a thorough
manner.
A LUCKY MIss-During the thunder storm
on Monday night of last week the lightning
struck near the fine large barn owned by
William Cummings, Esq, of Berlin, and
ploughed into the solid earth to Gepth of
six or eight feet. The shock was felt By the
occupants Of the house, aud it was for the
moment supposed the barn had been struck.
1t was fortu 1ate the g strike" hit where it
did
Practical IF NOT BEAUTIFUL.-Some of the
dwellers on Berlin Street blessed with a
keener eye to the beauties of the locomotive
and train of platform cars than with ap-
probation for the fine belt of tall, thrifty
willows fringiDg the rivers oank opposite
their residences, have hacked off the upper
portions of those trees, and left the stricken
branches and tops in mourning about the
remnants of that willow border. The scene
along that street now has all the beauty anC
variety of an old fashioned " slash of sec
Ond growth just prior to the inevitable
burning, or of blackberry pasture in earl,
autumn after a protracsed drouth has ac
complished its prettiest in giving wilc
weirdness to the scene.
} WEST RANDOLPH seems to be just now the
subject of large number of blunderin:
paragraphs. An unfortunate man had tn
small pox in East Granville, a part o
Granville extensively known as Sandusky
He lied and the West Randolph correspon
dent of the Windsor Journal duly reporte
it, but the types put the item under the
West Randolph head and said that the mar
who was sick at I" Sam Dusky's - was dead
And now the thing is going under full hea'
that West Randolph has had a fatal case c
the small pox.
4 few weeks ago we disputed an liter
stating that West Randolph was rum hole
by a biunder the tatement was put il
quotation marks and it was only week Q
50 before We saw that denial credited to tn
| very paper that gave the original story cir
culatio q.
By the way, talking of the village, W
are reminded of remark that Conductt
Pierce made one day to an inquiring passel
; ger. Conductor Pierce's extreme volubilit
is known to every one who has travelled fro
| Mortified south since the Central WAS bull
The passenger was struck with the busine
like appearance of the town and the clee
look OF the village generally and turning
Ii Conductor Pierce asked him what was Il
= population of the place. Pierce, wayir
{ his hand at the usual crowd resent on tt
= ar rival of the train answered in the longe
spe ech ever known to have been made
The foundation tor Denison Dswey's ne
store Just west of the American House,
completed. The new building is to be tire
y storeis front and 60 feet deep. 1t will all
) extend Sc feet farther to the railroad track
this part of the store to be two stories
. height The building is owned By Carlo
. Bancroft.
> STRAWBERRIES The ladies of Trinity
e E. Church are to have Strawberry Festiv
d on the evening of the 4th of July.
q. hope they may receive very generous pa
ronage.
), REV. l.. g. WARE Of Burlington is expec
- ed to preach next Sunday morning, and
deliver lecture upon GENOA AND Pisa
! the evening, in the Church of the Messiah
, The Ladies of St. 'Augustine's Church W
3 hold Festival in the Village Hall ne
: Tuesday evening, July lst. All are cordial
Y invited
IT Mrs. Samuel Howard, of Randolph, di
ID very suddenly ON Saturday last. She b
. been an invalid for some weeks and was
III ter, being about the house on the day of
- death. She was seized with severe fit