Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-26


st. Albans, on the 18th inst.
LANoILLE COUNTY
w. Il. II. Bingham has returned after
prlef absence in New York
The Morristown Dramatic Club give
" Our American Cousin " on the evening of
the 2Sth.
AS Geo. w. White was crossing the R. R.
track near E. NJ. Gifford's in Wolcott, the
accommodation train going west came along
Just as the horses were over the track
BENG frightened, they turned round and
started down the track, but Mr. White man
aged to get the horses off just as the engine
struck the sleigh, and at the same moment
he jumped and found himself down the
dump with his horses. Mr.. White and
horses escaped injury, and report says that
his sleigh was not injured-for kindlinq
,oood.-Ne,csdeaZer.
on the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad
In the town of MorristOwn, seventy new
buildings have been erected within the last
! two years.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
! w Wednesday morning the new steam mill
at Greensboro, was entirely consumed by
fire. The fire was first discovered about |
O'Clock, too late to save anything. The mill
was built the past season by Messrs. Simp-
son, Delano Co., and had only been run
ming about two months. Loss, $25, 900 or
$5O,OOu. No insurance. The loss of lum-
Der was only some ten or twelve thousand
shingles. The lumber teams continue to
draw to the mill great numbers of logs daily
| and as the engine and boilers remain, but
slightly damaged, and the actual loss of
property may not exceed $4,000 or $l2,-
o0o the work of rebuilding will undoubtedly
proceed without delay.
Henry Turner returned to Craftsburv on
Saturday from his confinement in the Or
leans County Jail for the shooting of Charles
McRoy on the third OF March, 1872, without
trial.
Major Josiah Grout, OF Newport, lectures
IN Orleans county. Subject Greeley.
The governor appointed no locating com
mirtee in the matter of the Orleans County
seat, SO that matter OF removal has fallen to
the ground for the present.
In the case Of Evans VS.. Smith, in the
County Court, in which the jury gave YER
dict for the plf. the court set the verdict
aside for the reason that the jurors decided
the case by drawing cuts to see whether the
plf. or dett. should have the verdict 1t is
strange that twelve intelligent men sworn to
try case according to the law and the evil
denee- should make such fools Of themselves
ORANGE COUNTY.
The Trotter House has been rented to II
E. Harris Of Brattleboro, who takes posses
sion about the first of March. n B. Ste
vens Il Son, who have run the house so
acceptably for some time, will retire from
the hotel business, for while at least
An old gentleman from Fairlae was sit
ting tilted back in a chair near the front
window of the Bradford bank, and getting a
little excited in telling a story, lost his bal
ance and turned a backward somersault
through one of the large squares of glass in
the low window, landing in the snow out
side. 1t only cost about s. to repair dam
ages.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Gen. II. Henry Baxter and party of
friends have left New York for New Orleans,
TO remain for the balance of the season.
Poultney slate quar- les are thriving, the
business increasing fast.
Arrangements have been made for grand
musical festival in Rutland. May 18th to
10th.
The Rutland Herald prints a table show
ing the circulation of weekly newspapers in
Rutland County, printed in said county, from
returns made by postmasteTs, which foots up
as follows-We ekly Herald 1884 Courier,
404; independent, AS; Rutland County
Journal 4; Dandy News, l24; Poultney
Bulletin 30l. The Independent and Rut
land County Journal are issued from the
same Office
Frederick II. Campbell, formerly Of Rut-
land, died recently at Washington, where
be had been a government clerk for several
years.
Isaac NJ. Guy, for nine years cashier ofthe
Castleton National Bank, has accepted the
cashiership of National Bank recently
instituted at Whitehall, of which L. j. n
Stark is President.
wlNDHAM COUNTY.
There is to be meeting of the Commits
sioners OF the Bellows Falls and Grafton
abroad, chartered in 1870,
The Vermont Central will build a new
depot at Brattleboro.
The case long pending in Weston, be-
tween two physicians, Drs. Smith and Ed
munds IN regard to the right Of the latter to
practice medicine in that town, lately came
TO trial. a verdict was rendered, giving
DR.. Smith one cent damages.
Brattleboro town hall came near being
burned.
j. II. Elliott, formerly of the Home Jour
nal and OF Brattleboro, has become one OF
the owners and editors of the New York
Dramatic World, new weekly Journal.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
PARDoNED.-GOv. Converse has pardoned
ID
Prison He was convicted at the June
term OF the Addison county court. in 1871,
and sentenced tor three years. Charles ST.
Charles of Orwell, has also been pardoned
He was convicted at the county court, in
1871, for larceny, and sentenced for two
years.
Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock is
the Vermont membe of the Greeley Monu-
ment Committee.
Stephen Farr of Andover thought it was
hedgehog which his dog was tarking at
under fallen tree, and proceeded to punch
it. Presently big black bear crawled out,
and when the woodsman tried to strike it
with his ak be found himself without any
thing 10 his hands While the dog was at
lacking the creature in the rear his master
male some pretty good time, even though
the snow was deep.
A Norwich clergyman has resigned, ow-
ing to a controversy among his flock as to
whether he had been guilty of sin or only
an indiscretion IN playing " blind mans
buff
The prizes at the Reading town spelling
school were awarded to Miss Inez Watkins
and Miss Lizzie r. Davis.
Miss Emma Hoadey of Felchville, who
has been teaching in the Centre District
in Cavendish for two terms past, met with
an accident on the 9Th. which resulted in
her death on the 18th inst She had finished
her school for the week, and was going to
her home in Felchville, in sleigh diven by
a young lad named Charley Wiley. While