Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-28

The remains of the late Bishop Hopkins
are to be removed to the new tomb at Rock
Point, on the 10th of June next. Over the
tomb is a beautiful monument, erected by
the Diocese of Vermont. On the same day
the ceremonies of consecrating the new GEN.
etery at Rock Point will be observed.
. III. G. Gilbert, foreman of the planning mil
of Blodgett, Son & Co., caught his left arm,
last week, in the gearing of saving ma
chine, completely tearing Oft the muscles and
flesh from the bones as far as the elbow. Mr..
Gilbert's injuries are terrible, but DR.. Lang
don hopes to save the limb.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The members of Post Badly Smith, st.
Adams, engaged their comrade, W. H. II.
McAllister, to deliver the Grafton there on
the Both inst. Rum.
Edward H. Farrar of Richford, a drover,
thirty-one years old, was thrown from his
wagon, Saturday evening, the 18th, nd
received fatal in uries.
At Fairfax 81 buys 100 eggs.
Capt. r. II. Start of Burlington delivers
the address on Decoratian day at Swanton.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
At recent 8" old folks dance at Nor
risville. the best player of the orchestra was
Dwight Marsh, eighty years old, and he play
ed upon a fiddle $50 years old.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Orange County Court will open the first
Tuesday in June.
Rev. Daniel Wild, formerly of Brookfeld,
acting pastor of the Congregational church
at Fairfield, departed this life on the l4tt
inst, after an illness of six weeks. He was
in bis seventy-second year. Mr.. Wild was
ordained to the ministry July LIST, 1880
and for many years, was the pastor of the
church in Brookfeld His entire ministry
we believe, has been spent in Vermont, and
for the past six years he has labOred at Fair
field
The silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. NJ. B
Gaylord, of Brookfeld, was celebrated May
7th, at their home, with the congratulations
and gifts of friends who made them visit or
that evening.
There is an epidemic among the sheep il
Orange county, nearly every large flock hay
| ing lost from ten to twenty-five or thirty.
The store-house of A. N, King Il Son o
Tunbridge, was entered on the night Of thu
18th, and several articles were abStracted
the chief of which was key of whiskey an(
some bottles of wine belonging to the town
which had been stored there since the town
has had no agent. The keg and contents
were found, and the thief has confessed.
Some wretch having placed a considerable,
quantity of gunpowder in the furnace of tn
| Baptist church at East Corinth, when tn
sexton lit the fire he was nearly blinded
with ashes and smoke.
H. N. Moore of North Orange, lost a foe
of valuable sheep, seventeen IN number, b
dogs.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
We understand that the Pullman cars ar
in readiness to be put on the Passumpsi
railroad this season, and will be run be
tween the Junction and this place, an
when the new railroad is open they will ais
run through to ontreal.-NelcPOrt Erpresl
Asa Barron of White River Junction, wa
assaulted by negro barber in Newport tn
other day. Asa pocketed a receipt for pay
ment of certain t0nsorial Indebtedness with
out having furnished the money, the barbt
claims. The barber was sued, and is in jail
Asa is still keeping few hotels.
John W. Currier of North Troy has nearl
completed one of the finest private residence
to be found in the State, costing over $40
600.
Mr.. Benja. Robinson and his two sister
Ruth and Louis are remarkable instances
longevity and yigor They are respective
in their Goth, 93d and S7th years, aggrega
ing go.
RUTLAND COUNTY
II. II. Hills cabinet shop and war
room adjoining at Brandon, belonging to Il
estate of j. Batchelder, were destroyed
fire, Tuesday night, last week.
Parties are purchasing all the uDiadir
green slate in Fairhaven. for the purpose
shipping it to England. This is a new ma
ket for Vermont slate, and one in which
commands better prices than in this countr
A number of liquor seizures were made
West Rutland on Tuesday of last week.
| WINDHAM COUNTY.
= Having no doctor. Dover h no need
It's town hearse, which was sold at aucti
the other day.
The original wagon which Jim Fisk on
e drove throughout Southern Vermont, is ne
$ owned in Athol Mass. being the proper
of one Prescott, a peripatetic peddler,
S A Grange of the Patrons Of Husband
/ was organized in Putney on the 18th ms
/ to be called the Putney Grange.
j. Ii. E. Stoughton, Esq, of Bellows Fa
e isl ying very ill at the residence of his broth
: E. W. Stoughton, in New York City.
Col. Kittridge Haskins delivers the orati
: at Brattleboro Decoration day.
Marlboro, the 10Th, boasted snow-dri
from four to ten feet deep.
is The Bellows Falls Times devotcs / colul
J, and a half to describing big bear hunt, a
winds up the graphic sketch, with the asst
. ance, that " the bear is still at large"
u WINDSOR COUNTY.
y With the last term Mr.. w. N. Wrig
, closed his connection with the South Woo
8 stock Academy.
/ On the first of June, the Black Rtcer G
% zette announces material improvement Wi
William Allen Bacon as managing editor.
II The house of Mr.. Chandler at Chester /
l. twice been set on fire by the reflection of
/, suns rays from milk-eans set to dry.