Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-01

FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A large number Of hands have been dis
charged from the railroad works in st.
Adams.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET-DEC. "a
Owing to the intense cold, the market was
not very active: Common to fair 5 to Doc. ;
medium to good, 90 to 25c choice, IS to
2Sc. selections, SOC.
Hiram B. Sowles, who was President Of
the st. Adams Bank for several years, and
well known and highly esteemed in that
P.attsburg, N. Y, where be went on business
a few days previous.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
We learn from the Newport Express and
Standard that serious accident recently oc-
CURED at the Mempremagog House. Some
thing being wrong with the gas, MIR. Bow
man and Canadian called - Joe went ID
the gasoline tank a few rods from the house,
and decended into the hole, some ten feet
deep, where the gas is generated. Mr. !
tect what was amiss, when the gas took fire,
having escaped from leak in a pipe, and !
both men were very badly burned, but it is |
thought not fatally. Both are much dis
figured. An explosion took place when the
was almost miraculous.
Measles in Glover, canker-rash in Charles
ton, diphtheria ln Crattsbury.
RUTLAND COUNTY
The 23d annual meeting of the Vermont
State Teachers Association will be held in
Rutland, on Thursday and Friday, January
Both and 3lst, 1873.
The Rutland Independent says: The
building of railroad to Woodstock is again
being agitated Several prominent gentle
men have been in town this week in consul
tation relative to the object.
The Rutla nd Herald says look out for
lozenges wrapped in green paper. One
wrapper is sad to contain three grains OF
metallic arsenic. Two grains have proved
fatal TO an adult, only two thirds the guam
tity found in single wrapper. No doubt
many children have been killed by this Grim
lnal carelessness.
A NEW DAILY.-Many of our State papers
have recently announced that the lndepend
emit, and Courier OF Rutland were to be con-
solidated, and new daily paper started in
Rutland, with Henry Clark, ESD, as editor.
This is news to Us, the Courier Il shts on it's
own hook, and is not to be consolidated or
managed by any one other than the present
editor, who never had any idea of the kind.
We learn, however, that a new daily Is to be
started in this place by about the lst of
January, Of which we shall freely speak
when We can ascertain its tone, its temper
| its politics ana its managers - Courier.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
DR.. w. L. Rockwell, Jr, Tor many years
connected with the insane asylum at Brattle-
| borO, and since his fathers resi- gnatIon its
superintendent, has resigned to take effect
at some subsequent time.
Miss Mary Warner died iu Cambrdgeport
VT, on Friday, 2Oth, ult., at the age OF
seventy years and two months. She was
Familiarity known as " Polly and was or
a period of forty SIX years housekeeper IN
the family OF Judge Baxter Hatc Of Bellows
Falls), deceased, and tor the past ten years,
and up to the time OF her death, with john
n. Bax OF Rutland, making ttty-slx years
Of continuous service with two generations
OF the same family.
Hosea W. Bingham has been appointed
Postmaster at Sadawga, Vermont, rice Cy-
rus Temple, removed. Sadawga Is village
in the town of Nottingham. WindhAm
county,
The remains of Rev. j. DeForest Richards,
formerly pastor at Charleston, y. H., and,
for some wears resident at eathersheld Bow
where he married his wlie-a daughter Of
the late Hon William Jaryls-but who has
lately resided in Alabama, have been brought
from Mobile, and deposited IN the family
plot.
WINDSOR COUNTY
The Standard notices two important sale
Of standing r,ipa tifnbar INST bpinx Once h,g
village, amounting to SlU,500, to parties II
Leomlnister, Mass. Inc purchasers take al
the timber, exceeding twelve inches II
diameter and have Two years to remove 1t
a steam mill is to BE- erected conveniently
near the primises to work the timber int
chair stuff preparatory to shipment.
William Curtis alas Samuel Lucas, who
stole horse in Windsor last fail and dld
other improper things, was nabbcd IN Cam
bridgeport, n. Y, and last week was LODGED
in " oOdstock jail. Thea came communI
cation from Bennington saying that he wa:
wanted there to answer to d charge 0
burglary committed in 1861, and 50 Curtis
Lucas was shipped to that hospItablc place,
in spite OF the thermometer. Post
: A cow belonging to Jay Wilson of Bethel
t fell INTO the river, where they were takin
5 out ice, on Monday, but was rescued.
The "monument-munimen act has nc
yet been put in force there evidently.
A patent has been issued to NJ f. Tuckc
of Barnard, for u combination mdi saw au
planer. This invention Is said to be the bes
t Improvement ever made in lumber manu-
j featuring machines.
The number ofdivorce5 granted in Windso
county since 1910, is three hundred and SIX
or about an average of fourteen year.
Mr. and Mrs John L. Bowman Of Royal
ton celebrated their golden wedding on tn
18th of November, on which OCCASION thei
eight children We're all at hone-the "chai
J unbroken.'
+ Rev. B. W Smith and wife of Yves
Hartford We're surprised by the uuannOunce
appearance of one hundred friends to cele
bIate the 25th anniversary of their marriag
g not long since
; The safe of Frank Felt, at Audovel
= was broken open during his absence one da
n recently, and $50 stolen, by Jay Dawn
an employee. who fed with his booty, Blu
was subsequently discovered and arrested q
f Clarendon, with Sis of the money on h
c person.
s The superior flock of merino sheep belon.
n ing to the estate of Nathan Gushing, number
3 ing three hundred and fifty, is to be sol
Immediately at private sale or at auction
lots to suit purchasers. In perlecting tn
n flock Mr.. Gushing has spent over thirty year,
n and Its reputation as one OF the best IN til
cou try is by no means undeserved. Breeder
il are referred to DR.. Henry Boynton WoOd
stock Standard.
t Woodstock has arranged with a New Yor
/, Company to supply gas for the village at fiv
q mills per foot.
: DEcEAsED.-Rev. Richard Newhall, th
e officiating clergyman of the Methodist churc
~ in the Union congregation at AscutneyS
l. l. vile. For many years he has been an az