Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25
a belt on a swift-running wheel, when his mitt en-
caught in the belt drawing him into the wheel and
killing him,

CHIrTENDEN COUNTY.
George +. I.oomis Is to start an extensive basket
factory in Burlington. .
There was cock fl yht at the bar o. the Stanton
HOus sc, Bur lington, Sunday afternoon. The inst
gators were brought up in the city court and fined
81 an'i cost.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
An EXPIRE train recently picket up horse and
ishing the cart. The engine carried the horse
twenty-five rods on the cow-catchcr, AMI took INN
off withOu: injury.
The town of Berkshire held a netting Friday to
see if they would aid the Lamuillc Valley junction
Railroad to the amount of 81 so. \ motion was
made to pass the article, and carried by
unanimous vote.
FATAL Acknowledging +. p. Leavens of West
Berkshire, killed by the kick of horse, Mon
day evening.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
An aristocratc lady in Morrsyile, turned off her
hired girl the other day. because she $50
ty." She did not rinse the oysters before cooking
them.
There is man in Bclviderc about one half of
whose potatoes were not dug last fall, and his
India wheat is also wintcring out.
Miss Ellen Sales of stowe started last We'd
nesday for the West. When she got as far as Bur
lington she purchased her ticket for the remainder
of her jou ney and stopped TO kiss her sister good
bye. during which time a hltle girl picked her
pocket taking her wallet, ticket, and twenty dol
lars in money. No ice of it Immediately given
TO the policemen and the girl was found, and con
iessed the crime, when she met her mother and
few words of French changed her story wholly.
She il in Jail, and Miss Sales returned to stowe
Saturday morning, to await the result.
AT the last March M Getting in johnson, Hon. ). 5.
Pike was chosen town clerk for the rhrty-third
consecutive year.
james l.. Crocker. for my years :, pI ointment
citizen Of North Iydepark, and formerly The hotel
keeper there, died recently.
Mumps in Bclvilere.
Morisville Academy has III students
Orvllle Morrill, Of Stove, has been carried to the
Insane Asy YUM, ut Brattuboro.
ORANGE COUNTY.
In the town Of Braintree for the year ending Dec.
81. 1873. there was one marriage. fhe groom WAS
seventy three. and the bride seventy -Iour years OF
age. 1t her second and his fifth marriage.
There were also IN town twenty-one births and
twenty deaths.
Mr. r. Richardson of Topsham, is better sup
piled with disits than most of He has lin
gers one hand IL is daughter, Mrs. Dexter has
six fingers on each hand, and she has a little grl
who ha, toes one foot Those who have
extra fingers supposed To have extra siren -th.
Roswell Ford, OF Dtailtrc. has c,u sht, this sea
son, % skunks . foxes, coons, Is mask rats, =
mnks and any quantity of email game.
ORLEANS COUNTY
Much sickness prevails in JAY.
raltsbury Academy HI, aDout pupils.
The Monitor wants cheese factory IN Barton.
\ project foo: 10 connect the south East
ern railway WIKI the Grand Trunk, either at Norton
or Island POnI.
VIM. y. Wylc at Glover, has colt three years
and eight months oil, that wei5hes 1870 pounds.
He's black.
Jay seems 10 bea tolerably healthy town. The
clerk repo,ts twenty live bltlhs 10 death last
year, for Il population Oft
1t rumored that the Irasburgh bank Is not going
TO Baton ut all.
/ Newport lAles have ovet ID names on their
/ temperance plcdg.
Mrs. Ida Wakefield, of Westhcld, rescued Lewis
| Young, boy OF "A years Old, from swollen
stream. But Tor her heroic cNcrtions he would
have been crowned.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
y. W. Hyde, of sudbury, Is ALREADY making
engagements for the accommodation of Il large nnm
Der OF guests at Hylc's hotc- thc.olIcst summer
in Vermont He is gaming rapidly the lau
rcls which his father Icservc4ly wore As :. pop
ular land oId. and ete long sudbury II require
more extensive accommodA than even It now
has for sumner visitors.
shrewsbury a. dairy community is rapidly
/ becoming among the ioremost in southern Vermont
Several Boston parties already negotiating fol
the product OF the coming year of both the butte
and cheese Of several of its farmers The enter
'plise and influence of Hon. Henry {. Gleason
have done much to brin! the town into the hrs
rank among the iairymen.
\ house at West Rutland, owned by Clement {
Sons and occupied by two marble workers, wa
destroyed by fire on Thursday. Partially insured
y convention Of slate producers was held a
Poutncy The 7th INST, an association wa
: forhed and Pit ". Hyde of IylevIlc, elect
cd prcoitlcnt. \ letter fom senator Morrill, W
/ read, advising them not to agt.atc the subject o
increasing the duties OF imported slate II do 5,
would endlnser even the present duties.
X. :. Williams OF Pennsylvania thinks he has HI
. upon vein of coal in Pawlet, aud with force o
miners, sinking shaft to test the uchnes. of tn
deposit.
The raid the Rutland liquor sellers still contn
ues. Three places searched Friday, but onl
one OF them developed anything stimulating.
In Wesihaven, Al-pox has made lis ap
4 pelrance. A pc Ilar who had bought rags &
e people in the same town, stopped at niyi at on
Kelly's and left the infection. The town OFF ser
!; were solicited to take care OF the first cases bu
= they did not heed the appeal. Now there is gres
commo,ion there AMI much ad litonal expense t
;
p. whitehall and it will be taken care Of
1t is said some of the locomotives on the Rut
land division OF the Central Verm pnt Il rlroai ar
: to be equipped as coal burners Immediately.
!: George ID. Wheaton of Pittsiord has recent
= purchased the well known flock OF merino shec
!; owned by Milton q. Barber, OF HubbardtoD, an
: which Were bred by him.
h Mrs.J. . Hawkins of Brandon has among he
great variety Of plants an orange tr in her sitn:
: room, with nine large sized ripe oranges, twent,
6 five green ones OF different sizes with 4 number
/, buds for blossoms.
}, Mr. Bassctt Loveland OF Ptt~ford, ha- IN hi
- possession a large bald eagle which he captures
: on his farm during the winter. 1t me ,Sures seve
feet from tip to tip AMI is ctplbie OF lin a large
/. sized lamb.
= WINDHAM COUNTY.
: VIM Conant OF BraftIeb pro has made in th
:, past 30 years over 500 victims, worth from SO t.
$50 each.
Twelve hundred tons OF ice have been cut tn
winter by the Bratteboro Ice Company.
Another hotel at Bellows Falls is talked OF.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Is Hen. W. NJ. Pingry of Weathersfeld, who r
% ceived severe injury to one of his eyes, fe
weeks since. has entirely lost his sight.
The st. Louis Democrat says that Frederic
o Filings of Woodstock has bought $4,000 wor
e of railroad land IN south western Missouri.
Edwin Pinney, of Ludlow, is alb )ut to start f,
1t California with cargo of sheep.
e There is consi lerable ex Item mt in Norwich o
J. account ofsnall pox yoln, m IN al Post Mill
D. village has died with the disease.