Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-12

| by bill of s75 in one highway district, for
breaking out roads.
An entertainment given by the ladies of
West Fairlee village, Tor the purpose of aid
to propose d fire department. secured Sl44.-
1S6.
The Vermont Copper Mining Company
are about putting in steam drill to facilitate
operations in their mines in Vershre.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
A son of Cutter Seavey of Barton. aged
about ii years, while attending school several
months ago, was hit on the head with a
snow ball, and has been an invalid ever since,
and has now lost the use OF his limbs.
Truth stranger than fiction Two or three
years since, a man was residing in Orleans
county, who married and buried two
wives, and subsequently lived widower
thirty years. At the age of 76, he WAS
united in holy wedlock with the lady he
would have married first had not untoward
circumstances prevented. The bride had
been married, and within the space of a year
after her husbands death the marriage took
place.
There have been 5000 cedar posts and
10 900 logs drawn to the Bend in Greensboro
this winter.
Last Friday, as the hostler at North Troy
was grooming one of the stage horses it broke
away, and instead Of going out doors went
carefully up steep and difficult stairway
into the hay loft The task of getting it
down was not 80 easy, but removing the
hoor and building up pile of straw from
the lower floor, 1t was finally accomplished.
They had no mail for four days at South
Albany on account OF the last snow storm.
There have been eigh. deaths in and near
the west village of Albany in the last five
months, two of which were of paralysis, and
three of consumption. The ages of the
deceased ranged from five weeks to eighty
four years and ten months.
There were ten marriages in Craftsbury
durlLg the year 1872.
| A mass meeting of all those interested in
| the construction Of the Montpelier and Black
River Railroad, will be held at Craftsbury On
Tuesday, March 18th.
On February Oath, the house and barn Of
! Oliver Smith at Mill Village, Craftsbury
was destroy ed by fire. Some Of the furni-
ture and the cow were saved. Insured for
! about sIX hundred dollars.
! RUTLAND COUNTY.
The mercury was ten degrees telCW zero
!
! A Quincy, Mass, girls you ng dream OF
love came to a sad ending at K utland hotel
the other day. The old folks didn't like the
match, but she knew better; so when she
woke up the second morning of the Ioney-
moon and missed her other half with $3.50
and her best logger twas sonnet hing of an
illumination.
S. S. Brown Of West Pawlet has in his
possession a curious relic which is kept as
family heirloom. 1t is large powder horn,
with a smooth polished surface, and on one
side bears this inscription Jonathan Bid
well, his horne, dated at Lake George, July
| 1850, cut in large plain letters using | for
j, after the manner Of d" We olden time. Or
the other side are many quaint and ianclfui
devices, done after the manner OF Indian
hieroglyphics, such as ships sailing. birds OF
various kinds, fish swimming, walls and bas-
tons of a fort with guns mounted en Jarbette,
a military chieltain a central figure, and
also the date again, 1850. The inscription
is supposed to have been worked 10y Bldwei
while the English army and provincials were
encamped at the southern extremity of Lake
| george.
4 Rutland county oVerseeT OF the poor has
a charge of three dollars for - taking paupcrs
to menagerie Good for him
ID. Ii. Phelps of Fairhavcn, has been elect
ed cashier OF the First National Bank Of
FairhaveD, vice S W. Bailey, resigned.
Miss Nancy Kelley, an old maid of Dres =
den, was wooed by a railroad contractor
and went with him to Falrhaven, Vermont
to have the knot tied. Before the thing was
done, however, the contractor wife ana ten
year old son appeared and spoiled the joke
completely. Mr.. Contractor had his cars
boxed severely and was forced to promise
better behavior in the future
An active revival of religion is now in
progress in the Baptist Church in East Poult-
ney. Several conversions are reported, many
are anxious and the people generally in that
part Of the town take deep interest in the
meetings which are held
The citizens Ct Castleton lave arrange
for a course of free lectures. the first OF who.
will he delivered hy Rev. II. c. Farrar, Fri
day evening.
! WlNDHAM COUNTY.
Albert Walcott, brake man On the Rut-
land railroad, fell under the train at Bellows