Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY
During the absence of II. G. Sessions of
East Middlebury from home last week,
little gin some eleven years of age living
with him, took $l34 in money and burned
it. She confessed the act and as a reason
said she was angry because she fancied MIR.
Sessions manifested a preference for his own
child about the same age.
10 "ye olden time" Gen. living in Rut-
land, ard who prided himself on being in
style, went over to Mddlebury and wore on
his head a hat of the then new fashioned
&" bell crown" Calling for bis horse, the
colored waiter who gave the order was ask
ed by the hostler " whose team he wanted"
He said, d" don't know what his name is,
but it's de gemmen wild de butter frkin on
bis head" Some folks have no more artistic
taste than this colored brother
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The Gazette in discussing the troubles of
the Bennington Graded School thinks that
the change of text books is necessary be-
cause the Board of Education has recon-
mended it. We know OF no graded school
in the State that has not really controlled
it's couree of study through its committee al
Board has been followed as whole II
Bennington has lately changed readers, there
is " no compulson'' about anv new change
till the people get ready to make it.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
| Stories of a s. whipping to death" by Ho-
bart, the Peacham overseer, are abroad.
They are untrue, but Hobart last winter,
beat boy who afterwards died from heart
disease. Hobart has lately gone off. The
humane citizens of cur various towns should
see that the March meetings don't have
such spasms of economy as to elect brutes
for overseers.
On removing, recently, the body of the
wife of George Bennett of st. Johnsbury,
who died in 1854. it was found to be petrl-
fed and as hard as stone.
a Lyndon woman undertook to paint the
cellar stairs. She found pail of paint and
commencing at the top, painted herself into
the cellar, and had to crawl out of the cellar
window
George Bennett of Waterford, this year,
completes his 50th year of sheep shearing
He Is now 66 years old, commenced business
at l6 and has not omitted a season since
During this time he has averaged 1000 sheer
year, some seasons running as high as
500
CHGTTENDEN COUNTY.
James W. Miller, Deputy U. S. Commits
Burlington recently, and proceeded to the
farm OF George L. Reynolds and stocked the
Winooski river at that point with rs ,00(
shad from the Matching house at Hadley
Falls, Mass.
Mr.. A. D. Whitney, graduate of Mid
dlebury College, class of 1868, has beer
engaged as Principal of the Essex Classica
Institute at Essex Centre.
DR.. Samuel w. Thayer is rapidly recover.
Ing from his injuries. and proposes return.
ing from Minnesota in about month t.
make Burlington his permanent residence.
Three barrels of liquor were seized a
Richmond depot, on the 7th, GOES igned t
Leonard Love, by Deputy Sheriff Ferguson
and adjudsed forfeited by Justice W. D
Hall on Wednesday.
Two sons of j. G. Hodges, one younI
man, the other some four years old, wer,
:, out riding Tuesday evening. When they
| got home the young man embarrassed the
, horse and let him loose, when he kicked th'
, child in the head and killed him instantly
f Joseph Mossey. aged 65, teamster lon!
in the employ OF 5. b. Robertson Il Co., wa
struck by the freight engine Bethel, s. G
, Webster, engineer, while attempting t
= drive across the track near the Winooski de
pot, Thursday, and was instantly killed, hi
s head and right arm being severed from tn
body and his body frishtlully mangled.
/ French boy between eight and nine years o
r age, who was in the wagon with hun, wa
; dangerously injured by being thrown from
the wagon as the engine struck it, and prob
ably cannot recover. The Bethel was with
t out train and going toward Burlington.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Vermont Dairyman's Association is i
funds for printing its current annual report
covering the important me ting held at S;
Adams last winter. The money is a gil
E from gentleman who appreciates the valu
the positive injunction that his name shout
not be given to the newspapers. This is re
h treshing.
e The old brick building on the Judg
IS Farnsworth place." Fairfax, was destroye
by fire the night of the Fourth. Supposed I
e be the work of an incendiary.
9 LAMoILLE COUNTY.
:, Morrsville held rousing celebration (
\ the Fourth. A special train ran from We.
: Concord and carried a goodly number frol
= Concord, St. Johnsbnry and Danville, an
west OF the latter place it took the entiI
8 population. When the train reached MOI
, risville there were nineteen well-loade
h cars, drawn by two locomotives. Fran
. King, son of Samuel A. King, the aeronau
y made fine ascension in the ba loon " PriC
:, of Lamoille.' The atmosphere was ver
=. quiet, and the balloon was in sight an hor
or more. Night coming on, and then morn
ing, aud no tidings from the aeronaut, tt
people turned out en- masse to search for hi
;, in the forest over which he was seen to pas
- This search was continued through Sunda
'e forenoon, when just before noon Mr.. Kin
- found his way out, by following sma
=. brook which he struck in his travels. E
u had nothing to eat for 48 hours, and ha
70 worked up quite an appetite. He attaine
- the hight OF two and half miles, when /
70 encountered snow storm, which covered tt
- balloon nearly an inch thick. and sent
% % down rapidly about eight miles FROM VT Ell
~ he started. The balloon descended in tt
u u town of Eden (not of old) in forest sal
~ to rover about six miles square of that an
surrounding towns, perfect wilderness
- out of which he could not find his wa,
v Young King says that while in the wood
;e Saturday night, bear came within fe
70 feet of him, snuffed around, and left
IL ORANGE COUNTY.
l. A new covered bridge across the stream
s. Tunbridge Centre village is built at q cost
u nearly $1,000.
- Vershire is pleased to take stock in Il
- story of one Sullivan, employed by the We
mont Copper Mining Company, who CLAIM
sr to be a relative of Marshal MacMahon, Il
.. new President of the French Republic.