Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
Vermont News.
A lnISON COUNTY

gentleman of Salisbury, who was about to be n
married to a young lady of East Middebury. had ID
furnished his house at a considerable expense x
and made all the necessary preparations for the o
wedding, the Cay was agreed upon, and, after an 8
an xious looking for, finally came. The parties
met, wheu to the surprise and chagrin Of the young
man, his intended had concluded that she could
not marry him. He thinks t
There's many a slip b
'Twixt cup and lip" =
lie appears to take things very cody, however,
for last Wednes lay, just week from the day of
his disappointment he married the intended BRIDES
sister.
Vergennes is 10 have free public library. g
The following is the prog ramme for commence
ment at Midllebury (vt) College, July % Sunday
baccaaureate sermon by President Weber; Tues
day, meeting of the alumni and address by the
Rev. Samuel Boardnan of Auburn, N. Y, class OF
ISL poem by the Rev. II. II. Shaw of Manchester;
Wednesday, commencement day.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The gas-tank belonging to Bradford & Co.'s
knitting mill at Bennington has been examined,
n the discovery of three leaks in it confirms the
theory that it the of the fatal explosion
| in the mill last winter.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The biggest drive of logs mad, on the Pas |
sumpsic river, was last week by ID. p. Hall and |
| gang of about . hands.
Thomas G. Clark, of Peacham attempted suicide |
May Is, but succeeded only in making an ugly |
cash in his throat. He has cen much depressed OF
late because of the loss of property, and undoubt-
ediy was out of his head when he made the attemp
on his life. He lost heavily in the Bost n fire.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
| DR.. E. NJ Curtis, an eminent physician and sur
geon who was native of Vermont, and surgeon
in one of the Vermont regiments, died May r.
at Sacramento, Cal, where he has lived and won
fame since the
The Chttendeu County Good Templars' Union
will be held at Richmond, the 4th of June next.
| They going to have great time at the re-
union OF Vermont soldiers in Burlington, the last
week of August and Gems. Sheridan, Mcdowell
and Hancock will be present, with sherman Burn
side and Doubleday, perhaps.
RICHMOND MARKET, May 25.-One hundred and
fifty pounds OF butter sold at &c to Pc and
; about 100 boxes OF cheese at Sc to l2c.
, A Teachers Institute for Chittenden county will
: be held at the Baptist church, Jericho Corners
commencing Wednesday May 9th, at Ii O'Clock,
a. m, and closing Saturday at noon.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Three barns at Guidhall belonging to Horace
N. Allen. with 10 tons of hay, Were burned on
We,ines lay night; loss $1,000.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles Felt N of Franklin, met with an &C
. cident on Thursday, the 2Ist, which came near
t proving fatal. He was in pen endeavorIng to
catch Il young pig when the mother attacked him.
, seizing him by the feshy part of his leg between
a the knee and hip, throwing him down and tearing
a quite a cash in his leg causing the blood TO flow
# profusey
4 The Burlington Sentinel says IS men were dis
q charged from the railroad shops in s.. Aloans'
;, last week.
Mrs. Daniel Green of East Richford, died very
. suddenly Wednesday,. She got up from the dinner
table apparently in her usual good health, but was
u Immediately afterwards taken with bleeding either
: from the lungs stomach, and soon died.
e bio Lewis is expected IN St. Adams again some
IL time during the month of May.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
" It's reported that Charles Me endy of Cambridge
l. sugared off 500 pounds of sugar the 18th day o
" May. This the latest sugaring since ls5O;-tha
he year Samuel Seeley sugared off 100 pounds on the
IT l7th. ..-.
- Rev X. 5. Hebard has rendered his resignation
- as pastor of the Universalist society in South
ie STAFFORD and accepted call from the Universal
- ist society at Portsmouth, \. H., at a salary Of
5000. ,-,
r The corner stone of the new Methodist church
IN in Brandon, was laid May 10th. The Rev. {
= Gregg P. E., conducted the exercises. Rev. A.
Is Ingalls,, the pastor, read the declaration.
A Rutland officer recently started for West Rut
land in search of criminal, and on his way took
at foot passenger into his carriage On arriving a
is West Rutland he aksed his compan ion where thu
ed criminal could be found. He told the officer som
e. sort of story, and disappeared. The office
Id shortly found that the man he had been in searc
ut of had been riding with him.
be Frank Fish, n hotel keeper of Hydeville, wa
fined $500 for 80 first ofenses against the liquo
law, last week, but he appealed.
I'd George L. Massey of Rutland has accepted
ed challenge from elder H. X. Flagg to discuss tn
~ momentous question whether one immersion back
er ward is the Bible mode of baptism. Massey take
to the negative.
n The new Ca holic church, at Fairhaven is nearl
he completed. 1t is one OF the most magnifcer
ed houses of worship in Vermont. The fresco pain
1t, ing alone is sail to have cost 50 500.
nc The marble workers of West Rutland, are a
eu work on los 600 head-stones ordered bv the
iu al Government for soldiers graves.
nv WINDHAM COUNTY.
III The monument over the grave of James FISH
Jr, at Brattleboro is to be dedicated, Decoratio
'o day, May 80.
= WINDSOR COUNTY.
Prosper Merrill, Of Woodstock, loses hftee
. thousand dollars by the recent disaster by waite
in Williamsburg, Mass, His book keeper
~ among the lost.
~ 1t is expected that the trial of James Vim, IL
-. | the murder OF William \. Donogbue will tax
e place at the approaching session of the Count
=, | Court at Woodstock.
ii Woodstock boasts by far the largest green fous
nc in the state and of the largest in the countr,
ri..k haS
ed property oi fieu'icA baiiihss' II mas cost aoo'
900; it has about $500 square feet covered wit
glass, and contains TO- 900 plants, some of thel
he very rare.
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