Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY.
The United States arsenal at Vergennes
was sold on the 7th, in accordance with an
act of Congress, to John NJ. Dyer of Shafts
bury for $4,000. The arsenal was built in
1916.
Mr. Joseph Morse of Leicester was made
the subject of a brutal assault on the evening
of the Sd inst, which resulted in serious in
jury. Two fellows by the name of Bronson
were recognized as the assailants and they
were arrested.
E. Ostigee, charged with burning a
house in Middebury. pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to State Prison for two years.
Messrs. Solace and Huntley of Bridport,
have lately sold to Col, Phyfe of New York.
four year old geIding, sired by Henry
belongs Ethan Allen, for 50 200.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
The Bennington valley sends 1000 quarts
of milk, daily, to New York, which is deliv-
cred to customers without the assistance of
middle-men.
An Arlington man found pitcher which
his careful wife had hid away in the cellar,
containing what he took to be cider. He
now wants to get his mouth and throat re-
4 lined by some skilliul workman, where that
lye had peeled it.
I A correspondent of the Manchester Jour
nal writes: " We saw snowdrift Monday
morning, June 9th, near the turnpike (ln
WinhalD which was half acre, more or
less, in extent, and from one to ten feet in
depth. The sun is at work upon it and will
probably finish it before July"
A barn in the east part of the town of
b, al Gnli;
and occupied by c. E. Bundy. was struk by
lightning at about halE-past two yesterday
afternoon. The barn was burned to the
ground, together with fine pair of horses,
valued at $400. Mr.. Bundy had only left
the barn a few minutes before it was struck
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Like Buzzel of ST. Johnsbury has lust
completed a new floor of three inch plank
in his machine shop. This is substantial
enough to sutain Buzzelrs ight, as pri
> vate citizen, but if be enters the shop in
the capacity of village trustee we shouldn t
be surprised if 1t gives little Union.
c. NJ. Stone, of the Caled0nian, in resum-
ing the editorial chair, returns his thanks
to Hon A. G.. Chadwick who has been con-
Quoting the paper during Mr.. Stones alb
f sence.
A five years old son of Geo Mann OF
h Walden fell from the door yard fence week
ago Saturday, breaking both bones of his
: left arm. He went into the house and said,
s Papa, have broke my arm" And the
r doctor found that he had.
e John Switzerland, workman in the mills
of the McIndoes Falls Lumber Company
had one OF his hands sawed off by an edging
4 saw.
T CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The trustees of the Burlington Saving:
Bank have voted to pay their depositors at
the rate of s per cent for the six months
> ending July lst The deposits now amour
to little over Sl,050,000.
Gen. George P Foster has been appointed
Marshal for the coming celebration and in
!; auguratiOn of the Ethan Allen statue.
: We regret to learn that Dr.. Samuel w
Thayer has been on crutches at Brdnerd
Mimi, for three or four weeks past Will,
in the discharge Of his professional duties
he stumbled and fell, injuring severely thu
ligament of one OF his knees.
The statue of Ethan Allen arrived at
Burlington the 9th, by the steamer Jane;
H. Hooker, of the n. Y. Line.
Captain White, the Government superin.
tendent of public works at Burlington, com
pleted Thursday the extension of the break
water some eighty feet, and proposes with
out delay to aid 220 feet more. He ha
forty skllfu! workmen busily engaged.
d FRANKLIN COUNTY.
d Abner D. Purmort of Georgia, 90 year
l. old in March, is hale and strong enough to
work in the fields He came from Exeter
n. H., rs years ago, and lives on the same
II farm which he Thea cleared from the wilder
Il ness.
- The Central Railroad shops at St. Alban
~ have turned out new frst-class passenge
locomotive, of the same pattern of tn,
al :: North Star and it has been named ate
7. the general ticket agent, NJ. G. Elliot.
The South Eastern Railway Company pro
&c pose to build an iron bridge in place of tn
- wooden one that crosses the Missisquoi i
Rchford,
ls There will be four stations between Rich
1t ford and Newport, viz: at East Richford, on
4 between East Richford and North Troy, t
= accommodate Mansonville people, at Mort
Troy, and at Newport Center.
The hotel keepers at Richford have bee
u WI ned to close their bars
lo s.. Albans is suffering the privations of
Blu tchers' strike.
The county meat peddlers are very popr
J. lar. People run out to greet them wit
l. waving handkerchiefs and the trus tees ar
70 are besought not ID impose lice nses on then
/, GRAND ISLE.
of A R. Manning of Alburgh owns a ew
Is which had lamb February Iss, which
p raised, and few days ago the same ew
gave birth to another lamb.
George H. Sowles, Deputy Collector a
~ Alburgh Springs, bas resigned and - Pc
N, tingill has been appointed IN his place
5. LAMOILLE COUNTY.
in A severe and fatal stabbing affray recen
of ly occurred at Cambridge. Harvey Buke
becoming jealous of the intimacy of OF
James D. Lathrop, who had been boardir
oh with him for some time, with his wife, il
IS, formed him that he must find another boar
,g ing house; dispute ensued, and Lathrc
"a drew large pocket-knife, and at the fir
nd 81 49, o.asn ~ ahdouon aauan;o q.
Ii muscles, afterward nficting six other stab
lc- severe and deep. AT jast accounts Bukt
was very law; Lathrop has been arrestt
and placed under bonds.
lS' ORANGE COUNTY.
JIG A snow drift on the farm of Ebenez
Y, Norton, of StraffJrd, measured four feet
NJ depth June lst
SO Mr.. Elias Flanders of Bradford, while
a work tearing down barn on the Medic
Springs premises, Newbury on Monday 2n
y fell, in consequence of the giving avn
ne of one of the timbers, striking girt 5 fe