Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-29
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

BENNINGTON COUNTY.
woman uamed Cummings, who locked
up in the county Jail at Bennington tried to com
NIT suicide, the other day, by tying a shawl around
her neck and fastening it to the footboaid of her
bed, and then throwing herself down on the floor
and drawing tn. shawl up tight. but The uer en- =
tered in time to save her life \ woman who
would make such desperate effort certainly
deserved to succeed
Burdens Cornish miners at bennington have
been reinforced, and large quantities ofiron ore
will be turned out, this season.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Royal Cummings has bought the interest Of DR..
I. I'll Hoskins, his partner, in the Vermont Farmer
published at ST. Johnsbury.-O. q. Hale has re-
covered $500 and costs from a local company for
damages caused by the ineficicncy of tarred roof.
ing made by the Ready roofing company, with
which he covered the Avenue house.
The report that Horace Fairbanks has disposed of
the bonds of the Lamoe Valley Railroad in New
York at advantageous rates, ETC.. is premature
CHIrrENDEN COUNTY.
Prot Homer b. Sprague of Brooklyn will de-
liver the address before the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety at the University of Vermont in Burlington,
commencement week.
Henry l. Dodge has been elected Superintendent
of schools at Burlington.
petrifel rattlesnake perfect that six rat
ties were distinctly visi le recently found III
Il block of marble at Burlington.
RICHMOND BUTTER MRAKET.-The mar ket was
active Monday at an advance of to 5 cents
pound over last week lS5 tubs were sold as fol-
lows: Ordinary to fair 25c to CSC; good, 81; to
SIC; choice, 35c.: skim cheese at 4c. to Sc.
Constable White of Burlington, one of the most
efficient officers the state, cougrauaes him selt
that during his long term of service. not IA single
return yet maize by him, ever set aside by the
courts. The writing is such that when any ques'
ton is raised he takes able counsel and it will read
just he wants it, and no expert " has yet been
found able to disprove it,.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Hay sells Mt $40 to SIG per ton at st. Adams.
On Friday night last Or. John Branch, who lives
about a mile north of st. Adams was callel up by
young man who sail he needed to attend a
very sick woman at Byron Tullar's, but just ne
WAS leading his horse from the stable the fellow
attacked him with club inllc ting several severe
blows on the back Of his head and shoulders. The
doctor attempted to grapple with his assail ant,
which the latter fled anil has not yet been discovered
The doctor is suffering much from his wounds, and
it feared they may prove fatal. He is one of the
oldest. ablest and best known physicians of St.
Adams. lie is about 65 years of age. We learn
that the police have arrested two suspicion
but without any definite clue, and they still
searching. A reward of 81 900 is offered for the
arrest of the villain.
Martin Seymour of ST Adams, no has been W ell
known in come ton with the business interests of
Vermont for 30 years died at burlington on Thurs
day. lie for many years a banker in Burling-
ton but. ~ years ago, moved st. Adams. He is
the man whom the reDel raiders treated so severely
and locked up In the bank vault when they wen
through the Institution in 1854.
There is man In5 years old. named A. Peneau
living in sheldon; he has been blind for 30 years.
The Burlington convocation of Episcopalians
opens a quarterly session of week at HIghgate
May
LANOILLE COUNTY.
y genius m Watervilc is astonishing everybody
10y eating boiling hot sugar from the kettle without
mi lring his mouth stomach. How he does it is
4 mystery, but there seems to be no doubt of his
ability to do it.
'Tylord Ncmoner " is what person in schoo
district No in johnson died of last fall according
10 the report of the district c'erk to the Town
Clerks Office.
Monisyille is going to build $4,000 school
house.
ORANGE COUNTY.
/ Hon Pelley Jones OF Chelsea, whose death We
recently notice ;, was a graduate of Amherst Col
lege, lawyer by pro'cssioe, and had been jnd ge
of probate county clerk, register of probate, and
several times 4 member of the legislature.
ORLEANS COUNTY
y gentleman passing fIom North Troy to Jay
last Friday reports sleighins still quite good
saturday afternoon. it commenced showing and
continued until Monday morning by which time
/ fully TWO feet had fallen. Up among the noun.
tains the farmers have just commenced sugaring,
in primitive style with kettles etc, being rather
behind their neighbors in the valley in this re-
spect. When the palace cars! commence running
through there in the summer, how nice it Will be
to stop and have susarins or.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
/ Or. Mid teton Goldsmith and wife Iert Rutland
last week for New York, slrom whence they
/ sailed IN the steam ship NJ, 'ellc, Saturday, To-
Europe Their daughter, Mrs. Patterson, OF
! Philadelphia accom-, anies them.
There are rumors at Rutland that the recent
meeting of the Vermont Cent? and Rutlanl raj /
road managers in New York resulted in Iii sagrcc
ment that The Rutland lease Is to be broken, and
the road turnel over to its former posses ors.
/ Cot Reldeld Proctor of Rutland, has been invit
ed to deliver the Grafton on Decoration Day a
| Castieton.
\. r. Fuller o Kutland, who h Is he m raj lei up
on pretty perss ltly and fined So for selling
the other day has closed his bar and draped TIL
shelves that tocm rig bore his b)tlc5 in mournin:
and inscribed upon 1t such notices as, 81,
bottles mourl for you.'
Segcrai cases Of small pox are reported in
/ French set lemcnt, near the village of Rutland
The Burlington and Rutland papers are just now
much interested in the game of checkers. 1t usc,
to be buG"
WINDlIA VI COUNTY
The Connecticut river valley medical association
holds its annu Il meeting at Bellows Falls, MAJ
6 tn.
John Wilmot, who has charge OF +. w. Ban
crofl's place at Bello Falls, was shot while il
The barn on the evening of the I'D inst. The
ball went through the lower part of his ear, enter
ell his neck about two inches below his ear an,
came out two or three inches from the place it cr
tered. The motive is yet unknown, but it i
generally supposed it was robbery. The wounC
/ is not dang rous.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
JAS. Elton who used TO be representative from
CavendIsh has been fncl for being drunk bu
appeals his case, an | also proposes to fight the
SUIT against him for disturbing the peace of
school meeting
The selccimen of Lu How having closet the bill
lard hall in that village, 20 young have 70 rm
ed a billiard club known as the Temperate
| knights of the sphere and wand" and will have
a-reading room connected with their hall.
risky colt ut Springfield ran away, the othe
day, with gig jumped ten-loot fence and rolled
down bank 80 feet high, and that was the last o
both colt and gig.
Mr. Ellis the Springfield manufacturer who 81
mystcrous!y disappeared last year has returne,
10 his home.
| a large and enthusiastic railroad meeting was
held in Woodstock the 2lst, at which it was re
solved TO proceed with the Woodstock Railroad
and that they commence laying the track at Whit,
River Junction, and go far and as fast as tn
funds realized from the bonds will allow. 1t il
! stated that will cot Ia IN, rand