Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-27
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

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spending the summer in Middlebury. These
Young men are of the first families in Japan,
and are sent to this country by the govern
ment to learn our language and receive an
education.
Willie Day, aged nine years, of Addison.
had his leg broken near his hip, by falling
from horse.
j. |. Ireland, of Middlebury, agent of the
Addison County Marble Company, sold re-
Gently pair of oxen Weighing four thousand
pounds.
Five hundred live trout were recently re-
moved from Messrs. johnson s. Norton's
ponds in Starksboro, to Springfield, Mass,
for spawning purposes. They were placed
in two boxes in water and ice and required
the constant attention of two men dipping
the water over and over to keep it fresh. The
price received for them delivered was under
stood to be fifty cents each.
Seth Langdon of New Haven recently for
got that it was his seventy fourth birthday,
and with one pair of horses moved eleven
acres of grass 1t was on tie old family
farm, on Town Hill, where his father pulled
the stumps in the early agricultural develop
ment of that town. 1T is now one of the
finest farms in the State.
J.. L. Hawkins of Salisbury is TO have
charge Of the mechanical department of the
American Institute Fair, in New York.
Butter sold at Vergennes and New Haven
markets last week at 27a3Oc per pound.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Charles son of Albert Dunn, resident of
Woodlord, was drowned in the Hudson river,
between Troy and Albany, N. Y, a few days
since.
On Sunday night, ninth, the only child of
Mr. Charles Fisk died on the Harlem Extern
sion train at Bennington. The family have
been living in Colorado for a year. About
tour weeks ago the child sucked kernel of
corn into her windplpe and Immediately
coughed it out. The attending physician
became satisfied that the girl could not live.
The parents started with her for North
Bennington, where they formerly resided,
and where they wished to have their child
buried.
Hiram Whitrow of SYNDICATE recently
heard noise about his premises, and pro-
ceeded to investigate. In getting over
| fence near his house. he slipped and partly
| leil, and at the same time gun was dis
charged by some concealed person, the
charge passing through his hat and grazing
| che top OF DIS neau
| Bennington announces that her Jail has
been empty now these two weeks, and hall
her rum shops are closed up, and thinks it
time that item about her " sixty rum shops
and a Jail full of drunkards - was called
in.
| A Bennington daughter, whose domestic
nature is equal to her natural simplicity.
was invi ed by an Advent exhorter to join
his sect, get her white robe ready, and pre-
pare to ascend. /" can't the maid re-
piled. I" Father and mother are going up,
and somebody must stay to SEQ to the cat
| tle.''
| The private fish pond of A. s. Davis of
Arlington, was broken into on the 18th inst.
and nearly all the trout stolen by some mis-
creants.
| CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Caledonia Fair Ground Co. appointed
Emerson Hall to fill the vacancy oil
clerk and treasurer caused by the death oil
A. G. chadwick. They have also determined
to have balloon ascension on the third day
Of the fair, and have:engaged balloonist Allen
of Providence, R. l.
The St. Johnsbury academy opened on the
10Th, and the new buildings, erected and fur.
nlshed by Thaddeus Fairbanks, are occupied
for the first time. The students have tree
laccess to the Athen eum library of 5000 vol.
umes.
VIM. Horton, clerk in Shaw's insurance
Iofice at st. Johnsbury, is deiaulter to the
extent of $500, and has disappeared.
Mrs. John Page of Sutton, 81 years of age
has spun five skeins day during the las
three weeks.
!. On Wednesday night Abner Howlsnd O
West Burke lost horse worth about $4,000
It was kicked by another horse, n the Mon
day before, the toe cork entering the feshy
part of the fore leg. The horse was vel
, enough till next day, when swelling began
, making the leg double the usual size and ex
tending along the body and neck. Howlant
thinks the swelling on the neck choked tn
: horse to death.
? Several merchants of st. Johnsbury woul.
/ like to interview Fred Gray, who recent,
left that place, and in his haste to get of for
got to call around and bid them farewell,