Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-30
Vermont news.
ADDISON COUNTY.

vermont news.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The shores of Lake Champlain, says the
Vergennes Vermonter, are dotted with the
tents of pleasure-seeking parties, and their
boats may be seen from morning until night,
in earnest pursuit of pike, pickerel, musca-
lunge, Oswego bass, &c. One party left Yer
gennes some days since, whose headquarters
were at Thompson's Point, in Charlotte, re-
ported the following as the result of their fish
ing during their stay of eight days: IF pike,
| they caught forty-six ; pickerel, nine ; bass
htty-three perch, sxty-seven pouts, one
hundred and twenty three cells, four gar
| fish, two.
j. R. Crane, the famous bee-keeper of
Bridport, counts on obtaining 900 pounds
of honey from his hives, this season.
| BENNINGTON COUNTY.
| The New York Graphic calls Manchester
one of the most substantial and arstocratc
summer resorts in America.
The Banner in mentioning the prepare
ton of a young man to enter College, 10 the
graded school in that village, notes the fact
that the Rev. E. II. Chaplin Hon. Horace F.
Clark, Z, S, Robinson, D. E., of New York,
and Hon. William L. Yancy of Alabama,
were fitted for College at Bennington.
Bennington is to have a fremen s muster on
the 10th Of August. The prizes will be as
follows First prize, $500 second prize,
5000 ; third prize, 500.
| John II. Flagg of Bennington, Principal
Executive Clerk of the United States Senate,
is at present in London.
| Waterhouse & Dench, at Manchester, have
had to suspend their factory business because
of the loss of THAR milldam, which was
undermined by mud-turtles that were seen
seen working at it short time before it gave
way. Next
The Burritt brothers of Manchester caught
another bear last week This makes the
forty-ninth which they have captured. aud
all nearly in the same place. Each Friday
| for the past three weeks they have caught
ear without bait.
| CALEDONIA COUNTY.
OF eleven boys who enter college this year
from St. Johnsbury, three go to Dartmouth.
three to Cornell, two to Amherst. one to
Bowdoin and two are undecided.
At the scale works ll67 scales were made
week before last. Six were railroad track
scales and ninety-nine hay scales.
In grading for side track for the ?. & o.
in Fairbanks village, large piece of ice and
| frozen earth was un-earthed the 2lst day Of
July. Cool for the season.
| The Caledonian complains OF assaults upon
citizens of St. Johnsbury by drunken ruff
fans; by insults and thefts and various
mean crimes, mainly attributable to rum.
Things have come to pretty pass when the
stald village of St. Johnsbury is 50 afflicted .
A dreadful accident occurred at McIndoe's
Falls the 18th. Two boys were playing on
the river bank below the dam,-one son Of
John Dixon, aged eight years, and the other
a son of George Raymo, aged five years.
when they got into an old leaky boat that
had been abandoned and left on the shore,
and pushed out into deep water. Some work
men soon saw the boat bottom up and the
boys hats on the water. Len. Greggs, an
expert swimmer, went into the water, and
after diving three times, brought up the
Dixon boy. The body of the other boy was
not recovered for two or three hours. Cal
elonidn
CHITTENDES COUNTY.
Some 100 900 900 feet of lumber was ship
ped, last year, from Ottawa to Lake Cham.
plain ports, and quite or over 200 100000
will be forwarded the present year.
The Chttenden county agricultural society
holds its fair at Essex junction, September
1918.
RICHMOND BITTER MARKEr-JULY 28.-
Good butter sold at % to 26c.; choice, pc
> Cheese, farm diiries, 9 to lie; factory
U3c.
ESSEX COUNTY.
We find by observations Kept by II. A
Cutting, the State Geologst, that the fall o
snow last winter. was fourteen feet, lackin!
one inch. The largest fall any previous sea-
son for twenty years was In '6l-2, when only
little over twelve feet fell. These obser
yations were taken at Lunenburgh, Mr.. Cut
ting's home, and doubtless more snow fel
t here than on the low grounds.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
, Deputy Collector James Lang, on Friday
seized one horse at St. Adams, and the sam
day, two horses and wagon at Essex june
. ton. Mr.. Lang was much assisted in hi
: seizure by Deputy Sheriff L. W. French, o
, Essex junction.
Thursday morning boy named Jane;
Quigley was killed at the Evergreen Stat,
quarry in Ii ydevile. The hame strap Oh
the derrick broke, which threw the sweeI
around, striking the boy three times on tn
head and breast, killing him instantly.
The State grand lodge of Oh Fellows
meets at Rutland, August 20.
George Jones, publisher of the New York
Times, is spending short vacation in Poult
ney, his native place.
Crosier, the man who killed his son-in
, law on the Fourth at Halifax, is out on bail
g the sympathy in his neighborhood being
e strongly in his favor.
v A brakeman named Douglas, on one of tht
passenger trains of the Central Vernon
, line, was knocked iato the lake and drown
ed, at Rouses Point, Saturday evening. HI
was standing on the steps of the platform o
one of the coaches, which collided with an
other car.
Morris O. Donnell, an elderly unmarrie
= man of Swanton, who was worked for tn
s railroad for twenty-three years past, wa
, found drowned in the Missisquoi Bay la:
r week. He leaves property to the amount Q
. about 81 900.
The report comes from the southeastern
4 part of the State that the apple yield viii
o be exceedingly small
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
The annual catalogue of the State Norma
d School is out. From it we learn that tt
Of entire number ofgraduates of the institutio
10 has been 1877. consisting of eight ladies an
= three gentlemen in the second course, an
3 one hundred and two ladies and twenty-fot
IN gentlemen in the first course. The numbs
he of students for the past year has been, ladi'
seventy-seve gentlemen twenty-eigh
The school has done an excellent work
m the past, and its friend look forward to al
IN ;norea sed snhere of usefulness for IL in I'll
nd future. The present principal, II. S. PER-
!. 20, A. NJ, is one of the best teachers in ii
Il" State-an excellent scholar and thoroug
e disciplinaran.
Last week Chauncey and Harrison Ware