Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10

The Rutland Herald notes a sign of the good
effects Of the temperance agitation the decreased
number of persons applying for United States
revenue licenses to sell liquor. Some Of the aell-
have written to the deputy collector that things
are so uncertain that it won't pay to take out a
license al present.
At Rutland on Friday evening, while AMI engine
company was exercising. milkman was observed
to back up under the stream with the lids OF his
cans. Charitable persons will not allow them.
selves to think other than he desired to have them
washed.
DR.. Middlet n Goldsmith writes to the Free
Press from Berlin in the following degusted strain:
1.-The surgical cnqu, was sheer disappointment,
only about sixty students in attendance. don't
think there is surgeon in Vermont who would
have called The transient delirum OF erysipelas of
the head an face meningitis, treat it with ice
haSs to the head-and beer. II what saw was
| the surgery of Germany, it is a long way behind
/ that of our country in its practice.
Thlrtyhve of the boys in the Brandon high
school stayed out to see game of ball, the other
day, and in consequence eight of them were
pended. The young men then held feeble indig
nation meeting but the upshot of 1t is that all bur
the eight suspended have returned to the fold.
Rutland will probably have soldiers monument
soon. Post Roberts has appointed a committee
consisting of Gen. E. Ii. Ripley. Colonies Veazey,
Proctor and Kingsley, and Maj John A. Sheldon to
investigate the matter, decide upon plans, location
and cost, and raise money to defray the expenses of
| such monument, if built. 1t is expected that a
meeting OF citizens will soon be held, at which an
other committee will he appointed to act with that
appointed by the Post.
The Rutland Herald says there are about $50 men
in the employ of the Central Vermont Railroad
1T tbafn . foEa al,o
"pay them of"
young man named Michael Welsh, about 25
years old, boarder at the Bomosen House al
Castleton, made attempt to commit suicide
recently by cutting his throat with a common peck
ct knife. The young man is evidently insane, hui
, will probably recover from the present wounds
James +. Baslee, well known bridge builder
recently died at Rutland. Probably his mos
$ important work WAS the construction of the cele
brated Havre de Grace bridge, 5000 feet long
the Chesapeake Bay, between the towns Of Havre
/ de Grace and Perryvile, Nd. lie also built thu
$ longest bridge across the Mississippi River a
/ Quincy, H. erected two bridges on the Al
Line Raj ro.d in Connecticut, and put up the lowe
bridge across the Hudson in Albany.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Bliss Goddard of Londonderry, whose $1,000 o
+ United States bonds were burned in The akettl
= in which he had placed them for safety, during tn
recent Burning of his house, has had the who'll
amount restored to him by the treasury depar,
ment.
The people of Sewfane have decided to celebrat
the centennial of the town, July 4th.
u Gen. J. W. Phelps, of Brattleboro. has recent
issued pamphlet of which he is the editor, entitle
- " Secret Societies-Ancent and Modern" being a
: outline of their use, progress and character witt
To tha
e government. 1t is an attack upon the institutio
: of Masonry in particular, and incidentally upo
4, all other secret societies.
. WINDSOR COUNTY.
r. Frederick Billings of Woodstock has returne
home greatly improved in health.
,e The Green Mountain Association OF Uniyersalist
5 Windsor County Republican Convention is allie
u at Woodstock on Tuesday, the 23d inst.
lie A Ludlow has just sold a flock of 100 SHEEP
Ii in California for nearly four times the sum the
would have brought in Vermont.
in David Burnham of Reading fed his hogs 81
'e meal in greenbacAs, besides some notes they bein
ie in his vest which he left in his hog pen on the 18th
o. c. Boynon of Springfield is largely engage
in the manufacture of ready made clothing. H
employs % hands in his shop, and 200 sewers on
side. lie also sells 300 sewing machines year.
ed David Jonnison, who keeps the hotel at Ludlo
Dr.. has weighed the milk from his COW, night al
C. morning, for 30 days, from April 10th to May 49,
c inclusive. The totals ,l97'. lbs, which is an
erage of about 90 lbs per day, in measure IS guar
Vi or $50 quarts in all. This, al cents per quar-
IN amounts to $3.50 income for one month T.
largest milking weighed 234 lbs, and the smalle
I'm one Il lbs. This is half Alderney and hi
10 Durham, and the milk is ofeAcellent quality.