Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-08
Vermont news.
ADDISON COUNTY.

from the cars within half mile of West
Salisbury station.
A. F. Styles is about to develop a mine
OF rich copper upon his farm in Mlddlebury
II VERGENNEs MARKsT.-There were shipped
from this station on Tuesday, 1923 lb..
butter. Butter sold for Is to 35c cheese 10
TO II lie; eggs zoe per daz.; potatoes 40
to soc per bush; beans 81 "a 20 $2.37 l-2c.
per BUSH; hay and straw $l4 per ton.
NRw HAVEN MARKET.-On Tuesday 49,
500 lbs butter were shipped from this
station; $500 lbs. cheese three boxes poul-
try five bb's. eggs; one Dbl. beans four
cars Of hay. Butter 80 to 35c cheese l3 to
IL LIE; eggs % to 24c; hay to $13 to $14
per ton.
John B. Foot of Middlebury, while at
work pressing hay for Mr.. Charles Steele,
on the Oath ult., fell and was followed by a
bale of hay which struck him, injuring him
seriously.
Mr.. stephen Benton of Cornwall had
large bay mare, a valuable animal, stolen
from his barn on the night of the Goth ult.
No trace of the thief has yet been discovered.
The Western Vermont Musical Associa-
ton, whose meetings We're announced last
year to be held in Middlebury for the next
| three Years, is to commence December 2nd,
and will continue four days.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
A building occupied by l. ,omis & Lamorre
for marble works, was burned Sunday even
ing. large amount of work was destroy
ed. The fire is supp lsed to be the work OF
an incendiary. Insured.
| Franklin Fl. Orvis, the proprietor !of the
| Equinox house at Manchester is to have
charge of the new Potter Palmer hotel at
Chicago.
! CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The st. Johnsbury Caiedonian says: Bust
ness at the Fairbanks Scale Works is un-
usually god. They cannot keep up with
their orders to do their best.
Homer Orion, aged ten years, son of
Lyman Orton, OF Hardwick, was kicked by
horse recently, and seriously injured.
The Hardwick Reporter says of the ST.
Johnshury delegation to the Morristown
lair, Every third man was the worse for
liquor" We think that statement will
bear reducing crow or two in the thickest
part CdLedonian
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Ex-Mayor Ballou of Burlington has sold
out his book and stationery store in that
town, and is going to Omaha, Neb.
Eliza Beach, modest-looking girl of
10, has been arrested at Burlington Tor ex-
tensive depredations on the wardrobes of the
families in which she has been employed
two pairs of pantaloons among the rest
She has already served three terms in the
state prison.
RICHMoND MARKET, OcT. 6.-Butter and
cheese active, although not as much offered
as usual on account of its being a very
rainy day, There were received about 800
boxes cheese, which sold for ii to ii LIS.
for farm, sage II to 13c. Of butter, 300
tubs s)ld, ordinary % to 30,., good 80 to
SIC, choice 80 to 33c.
| FRANKLIN COUNTY.
/ The position ct editor-ln-chief of the new
paper in St. Adams has been rendered to
Mr.. Luclus Bigelow, now OF Washington
d. c, and formerly connected with the
Burlington Times. No better selection
could have been made. Mr.. Bgelow is an
abe writer and accomplished journalist,
and, should he accept the place, we shall
welcome his return to the newspaper frater-
nifty of his native state.
A farmers grange. with membership of
"a, was organized at Fairfax, recently
Ira c. Bishop was chosen master, aud Luther
B. Hunt, secretary.
ton Smith, ex-president of the university of
Vermont, have removed from st. Adams to
Chicago.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
The recent unpleasantuess in money and
stocks in the large cities sends it's iuduence
everywhere. The Portland & Oydensburg
Railroad is not insensIbe to its effects. Re-
lying as 1t does mainly upon the sale of It's
bonds to extend the road, lt has become ne
cessary to withdraw large part of the
force at work between Hydepark and John
son. Thus the panic is iet even in this re-
mote quarter, Press.
The new factory, at the Mills, in E len is
progressing fney and Mr.. White has gone
TO Boston, to market his lumber and to get
machinery to put IN. They intend to get
it running this fall.
There is talk of building grist mill in
Cambridge at the Boro' on the site of the
one that freshet carried away in 1916
built in 1885 by Amos Fassett.
The dwelling house and sheds belongin 2
! to Sanford Kenteld of johnson We're burned
to the ground, with all their contents a few
days ago.
, ORANGE COUNTY.
The first number of the Green Mountain
Herald appeared at West Randolph on the
4th.
| ORLEANS COUNTY.
D. w. Sisco's store ut Westfeld, was
e damaged by fire to the extent of 81 900, the
other day.
While Charles Elkins, Of Coventry, was
going from his barn to his house, Sunday he
was assaulted by two young men who knock
cd him down and would have killed him
had not assistance arrived. Eikins is iguor-
ant of any cause for such treatment.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Sunday morning the foundry of Mansfield
| and S5imson in Rutland was partially burn
ed. The loss is $1,000 with 5000 insurance.
Butter sold at Brandon on Friday from Is
80 81 cents per pound. Amount sold las,
week, $3.50.
The tri,l of Hiram E. Adams, formerly 8
we'll known jeweller of Rutland, for grand
. larceny, which has occupied several days 10
the Rutland County Court, resulted in his
acquittal by ,the jury, on Friday morning
The friends OF Mr.. A 1ams, who was present
J in large numbers. received the verdict with
acclamations IF delight and approval.
| George P. Conant, who died at Pawlet
the other day, was lineal descendant oil
Gen Israel Putnam
Charles H. Ripley of Colorado, youngest
son Of VIM. Y. Ripley, is preparing to shiE
o some four hundred fue merino sheep to biz
? place on the Arkansas river. They will b.
shipped in about one week.
The centennial of the congregational church
A at West Rutland, occurs on the 18Th of DC
tober, 1873. Among its early pastors wal
Rev. Leinuel Haynes, colored, whose clio.
auence and eccentricities gained Tor him
q worldwide reputation.
Wallingford will combine an agricultural
: fair with her centennial celebration, October
18th and 10th.
Charles Bateman of Poultney, the son o
a widow WAS drowned In Lake Austin. last