Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-06


that she mad gone tn neighbor's and was going to
her folks in Chicopee, Mass, in few days. Ii
the morning, he called over TO have a talk with
her. but was informed that she had left, the night
before. She took the sheets, curtains his watch
and every thing she could get hold Of and run him
$40 in debt at the store, and yet he says that
though he was sorry to ahve her go, he would have
given her more money to go with. if she had ackod
Tor it.
CHIrTENDE\ COUNTY.
A couple of flcetious drummers who were a
train OF cars that WAS going very SLOW up.a sharp
grade near Burlington, the other day, made con-
siderable fun of the conductor for the ,lowpess
with which the were moving, and began to
amuse themselves by jumping OFF from the rear
car and running around the train. Soon, no ever
the cars reached the top of the hill and began to
spin off at rapid rate. OneIof the men succeeded
Ill jumping on, but the other was pitched heels
over head down bank his hat going one way and
his cigar the other, AMI he WIS obliged to walk
four miles to the next station.
+ he mayor of burlington has app )inted a COM
mittee of l2o citizens TO take measu es for form
ing a connection between Burlington and the
Portland and Ogdensburg railroad.
But one man in Hmesburgh has any hay to sell
He has 10 tons and 80 teams stood at his gate
Tuesday waiting for loads.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Kew DR.. SWetrs congregation at Swanton were
cheated out Of a sermon in a way that they des-
pise, last sunday. The doc or called on a friend
Saturday afternoon, and carelessly left a satchel
containing his sermon for the next day, with a lot
OF tracts ami Sunday school papers, on the ground
near the yard, and some knave made of with them.
An East Fairfield corr espOndcnt of the Burng-
on Sentinel says that few days ago Ella Lee
daughter OF Airs. Almira Lee, aged 10 years, went
out IN field with elder sister TO gather some
fire wood. The elder sister outwalking the youn.
ger, was returning with her port orwood when
she came across the PROSTATE and unconscious
ody of her sister Ella, who breathcd but few
times and expired.
The friends Of the deceased were opposed to n
post-moltem examination, consequently her
strange and sudden death remains 4 mystery
W w. Robinson, made on the premises of John
L Robinson, East >wanton, this season 1850 lbs
malle sugar from no trees.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
The Alburgh fishermen are having pretty lively
catch TINS spring One party caught, in one
day, 200 pike besides Il large number of other fish
There is much sickness on North Hero, and
several weknown citizens are not expected to
survive.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Noyes Brothers of HydeparL have failed for
about $4,000, with assets of $1,000 or 5000.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The dry house of II. J. Jackman OF Topsl.am wa 5
recently destroyed together wi about 5000 worth
of bobbn7 Loss $1,000; insurance.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
L. L. Answorth is about t. begin at Barton
Landing the manufacture of a new frc-escape.
which consists OF a cord with a BAH attached
which is n.turn fastened to lalder.made of wire
rope and harness leather. The apparatus can be
rolled up into small bundle and carried about
conveniently.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The Brandon Farmers. Club have becn putting
the question of the alullcratiol of LIQUORS to a
scientific test. statements having been made that
there was not a gallon of pure liquor in Brandon
specimens were sent to Prof Seely of Mddlebury
college, AMI after careful analysis, he has pro
nounced them free from the poispns that liquors
are said 10 contaIn-strychnne, str:,monium and
bcllalonna. He fu Their says that Every an
alyucal chemist VIII the idea of the presence
a strychnlne in liquors th1t have been distllcd;'
that It Is impossible for 1t to mnSIe with sucn IL
quors, the sooner the imp PRESTON that liquors haze
any poison in them worse than alcohol Is removed
the better will be for the temperance cause
Prof Collier says that the scare about s;rvchnine
stramoniunf etc, Is all "poppy-cock.p Deception
10 the N anuiacture of liquors Is practiced in this
! country, he admits, but fannie acid, calomcl and
fusil oil are the worst Ingredients while n large
proportion OF the expensive liquors are male from
hgh-w wines.
The Rutland Hcrdm very naturally regrets to
see the forests IN the state ftdlng away rapidly
Coal kiIns ave mul'Iplyin-, particularly IN the
southern and western counties, and the dcS truc-
OF forests is having effects IN climatic changes
VERY unflvorabe to the producnveness of the
farms. Fruits aud crops that have thrivel OF
themselves, within hllfa century cannot now be
grown without artificial help The scale OF wooL
and coal Is profitable enough now but the trees
are not going to last always, and the Heratd adyo
Gates some system Of tree culture.
An IRISH rum seller At Rutland. who recently
heard that. The police were coming lfter his mer-
chandse, went to the cellar where it was kept and
sawed the stairs nearly on. When The OH :ers ar
rived, he told them where his rum was but
warned them tn It the stairs woulI break down ii
they stepped upon them. The officers, OF course
thought he was trying to fool them, aud, starting
to 30 down, 5000 lound themselves sprawling on
the cellar bottom. They IN ,ie no report OF the
seizure.
y letter which WAS received at Rutland on
Wednesday is en- lorsel with statement by a
special postalagent that it was picked up y miles
from Austin, Eek, being one Of thpse taken by
hghwaymen from the san Anonlo stage on The
night OF the 9TH ult.
One of the speakers at the Second Advent onfe.-
encc i'll Rutland, week before last, said that he
wasn't ashamed of the name of Advent Christian.
m h,sV i.ht thu l,a,
new coat aud he would wclr it throush the streets
of the city, and if the Lord don't come in les
than two years you will see Il general revolution
in the theology of the churches" III Ter iItram
Munger of Chicopec Fails, Mass, iii that he was
sorry he was ever Woo ien-heaed rs to believe
in immortal sOulism.
Henry HulsUl had quarrel with - ME
strecter at Castleton on Saturday, an put a bullet
into him very near the heart, but StrccteG Will get
we'll The cause OF the sh ,oting seems to have
been Jealousy the part of Strceter from the init
macy Of Hudson with streetc's wife. Hudson
claims that he acted In scll-tlefcnse
The examination of IIu I5Ol hlS beea 10 ,tpone
to Friday the fifteenth, Slreetcr not being able tC
be brought into court.
Mrs Lizzie Kearney, OF Wet Rutland, while
aborinS under fit of temporary insanity browne,
herself and infant child in pool of water, on Mon
ward, completely dead. The infant only fly,
days old, had loated about six feet ava : and VA,
also dead when discovered.
/ WI\DUAN COUNTY
, Vernon Centre cl aims t. nave the biggest elm
tree in the Stite. 1t is SIX feet four inches in Il
e ameter, and less than one hundred years old.
n Samuel Smith of jam lca loses 800 by the burn
i ing of his single mill few days SINCE and Nose
Johnson lost 5000 shingles by the same fire.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The docket for Windsor County Court, Ma
Term, which will commence May Goth, contain
2G9 civil, eleven divorce and live state cases. Oh
the chancery docket there forty eight cases
Isaac Emory has sung in the choir of The Univei
sast society at Bethel for over % Ycars and hi