Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-06
NORTHFIEID. Nav 1St- 1874

NohIHFIELD, May ISL, 1914.
Such May Day! Rough and buster
ing as midwinter. Not bare knoll in
sight. Snowdrifts many feet deep; not
old drifts, on the leeward side of hills, but
newly fallen snow, just heaped by the
rushing winds. Do MT believe that " nu-
merous person, the 80 oldest inhabitant, "
can recall the like.
And such an April as we have had, too
Not furrow has been started vet, here
abouts Not solitary peep" from
swamp or mill-pond frog has yet been
heard In all our borders Robins and the
like ushers-in of spring, seem to have
returned to winter quarters; barns be-
coming pretty well emptied of fodder
stock of all kinds requiring full rations
Men who, two months ago. fiattered them
selves they had an abundant supply of hay,
are driven to the necessity ofbuying. For
tunate, indeed, is he who has it to sell.
Every bitter is said to have its sweet ;
so. with the bitterness of this unreasonable
weather, we are enabled to gather the
" sweets . yielded by the sugar bush .
Ihls backwardness of spring seems pecu-
harly unfavorable for us. farmers. from
the fact that the winter closed in upon us
very suddenly, obliging the leaving of
much work usually done in the fall.
u. T. \.
For the Freeman.
WATERBURY, April 3O.-Ground frozen
Six inches of snow and more coming
April showers
Bring forth May flowers
Messrs. Graves and Powers employ four
teen men about the manufacture and sale
of their Washington County Milk Cooler.
Deputy d. f. Boyden (P. O. address,
Waitstield, Vermont organized Grange
at Proctorsyille, April 80, 1874. Name.
Fletcher Grange.
Charles ID. Parker Master; Nbin G..
Blood, Overseer; Henry H. Amsden, Lee
turer; Joseph w. Eaton, Steward: Otis
}. Hemenway, Asst Steward; Charles C.
Spaulding, Chaplain; Almon Peck, Treas
urer; Peter /. Spaulding, Secretary: Jacob
f. Parker, Gate Keeper Mrs. c. ID. Parker.
Ceres; Mrs. Otis Hemenway. Pomona
Mrs. j. F. Parker, Flora: Mrs. p. T.
Spaulding, Lady Asst Steward.
He also organizeda Grange at Spring
field, April 28tb. Name, Springfield
Grange. James r. Walker. Master; C.
W. Mudgett, Sec'v.
Also another ut Grafton, Windham Co.
May2d, 1874. Name Grafton Grange. 5.
d. Conant, Master ]. H. Putnam.
Sec'y.
The Grange at Proctorsville is named
FLETCnER GRANGE, after Ex- GOV.
FLETCHER, who is Il member.
General Superintendent Hobart. of the
Central Vermont Railroad. has issued IN
order to conductors. station agents. &c.
on that road, to see that no liquor is either
carried for or delivered by them to I'M
authorized receivers Offenders will be
held strictly accountable.
Nearly every man in Irasburgh, Orleans
county, who owns rod of land. and some
that don't, have taken stock in the pro-
jected railroad. 1t is thought the sub
scription can he raised to $4,000 or
$4,000.
Ira II. Fi>ke, NJ. D., of Hardwick. was
brought before Henry Perley. Esq. last
Wednesday, charged with the crime OF
adultery with Martha A. Chandler. He
was bound mp for appearance to county
court. in the sum of $3.50.
ST. ALBANS BUTTER M,RKEr, MAY D.
The market was dull. Prices. common to
fair, % to 2Sc; medium to good, - to Oc 3
choice, Soc; selections, 37c
NERGENNEs MARKEr--From this sta
ton on Tuesday the 18th. there were
shipped 62SS lbs. butter, bbl. eggs. On
Monday eight veal calves Prices I'M
changed.
New HAVEN MARkEr.-On Tuesday,
2Sth, 1880 lbs. of butter were shipped to
Boston market from this depot, and 3 bbls
eggs. Butter 30 to soc; eggs 16c pota-
toes zoe; hay SD and SIS per ton.
At Richmond market, Monday, 900 tubs
of butter Were sold; good, }2c choice ST
to Soc, the latter price for gilt-edged.
Sixty boxes of cheese were sold ut from {
ITO Sc for good.