Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-08-12
Vermont News.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

Henry F. La,hrop of PttsforL has sued the town
Of Bennington, claiming $4,000 damages upon the
ponds and coupons issued in aid of the Lebanon
Springs railroad the writ being rcturnable at the
lext term of the Rutland county court.
The democratic county committee have substi-
uted n. G.. Remington in place of Rev. Z. H. Hub
bard for senator.
few days since, as Mr.. Geo. Knapp, of Wood
ord was moving with a ;ythe, his little son, in
playing around him, got in front of his father, fell
On the scyhe and b ad one arm nearly severed from
The body.
\ dispatch to the Troy Times from bennington,
announces the arrest of a woman named Flynn. |
who has child answering the description OF
Charlie Ross the Kidnapped Philadelphia boy. She
tells contradictory stories.
\ Bennington girl named Josephine Ward, IL
years old is the victim of a remarkable>pece OF
rascality. Oscar Penn, book canvasser, won her
affections some months ago, but before ne had
obtained her fathers consent to their union, ne
induced her to marry him and elope, telling her
that her father had refused sanction the match
Soon after the couple left town. 1T was ascertalned
hat Penn was an escaped Sing Sing bird, and the
father started in pursuit After months OF hunting,
the couple having been tracked to CALIFORNIA Via
Chicago and Kansas, the woman was found on
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had deserted her Jar she had given birth to child
which lived but three days. After he abandoned
her. she had dressed herself in clothes left by him
and was in service as 4 shepherd when her father
found her.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
St Johnsbury is somewhat excited, in common
with many other towns in the state, over the law
lessness developed of late. Although there have
in
st Adams and Rutland there is woman-insuter
who prowls about the street after dark, fright
ching every unprotec ted female; and in one in
stance at least has seized a girl and attempted to
carry her off bodily. BY q vigorous use OF her
vocal organs the girl frightened the villain so lht
he dropped her and ran away. The police o1ncers
get no cew TO the perpetrator OF these oulrages
St John bury to have the privilege on the 20th
of hearing in concert and oratorio Mr. j. h Per-
kns, the eminent basso of her Maesty's theater.a
London, who is now on visit to his native state
/ The occasion of Mr.. PeIkins's singing will be q
musical festival of four days DURATION Of which his
brother, w. o. Perkins OF Boston, is conductor
CHIrTENoEN COUNTY.
A.. Whittemore of Burlington declines the tenn
pcrance nomination for States attorney.
The b arlington and Lamole Railroad projec
seems to be very popular Jericho Falls takes sai,
O00 worth OF the stock
The town of Essex has voted to take see 00(
worth Of the stock of the proposed Burlington and
Iamoil Railroad.
The city council of Burlington has facetiousl!
referred to the committee on the fire department
the women's petition for the revocation of III
licenses of eatin- -houses where liquor Is sold.
There is stalwart individual in Burlington VIII
makes his living in a somewhat peculiar way. IL
tails down in some public place and goes through
an epi epic ft for the amusement and instructor
= of the by-standers. After VIII CHI he jumps mp sm
, ing-and passes around his hat for sympaiheti
: pennies.
| six hundred Burlington Catholics have forme
an ass ocaton of prayer for the repression OF Ii
{ temperance. They Will receive the communion an
oGe special prayer for the attainment Of their oil
: ject, in body next sunday.
: The burlington people expect to make the
: Soldiers Reunion from the 18th to the 20 h OF tn
&. month, grand affair. President Grant will pro-
f ably be present with Senator Conklmg OF NeS
= York.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
: 4 Frenchman namel Philip Abair who lived
Windmill Point, Alburgh, jumped on the rear c.
Of passenger train and on getting of was walkin
along the track, when detached car struck hi
and fatally injured him. The train men saluted
o. him. but the tram he had lett made much nOls
he dill not know that the car was following it,
The authorities are still hard at work ON t
: mystery Of the murder Of Miss Ball st. Alban
e and think they see little light. Charles Barabo
Frenchman about 80 years old, is one of the maj
persons arrested, and there is considerable e
" Ience against him. lie lived ut Vergenn es up
the Saturday before the murder, when he we
y TO his mothers st Adams He has failed 10 tel
straight story in regard 10 his whereabouts on t
- day OF the murder, and though he has very lit
II employment he has not turned out with the rest
Il the people 10 hunt for the murderer His mott
y once esthed that the mask that the murderer W.
l. was one of her own make but afterwards " hen
Is of her sons hal suggested to her that she might
IN somebody into trouble, she denied that 1t was !
tie work.
Rev" Adirondack Murray delivers the addr
rs at the Franklin County Fair in ST Adams, Scpte
OF ber3.
- \ man who had been on spree wandered il
, The yard of Mr. Mead at Swanton, the other d
eu and asked for something to eat, and the cl
III dren were so frightened that they alarmed
IS whole ncighborhood, and some sixty men search
rs the woods for him afterward
y At Uighgate an innocent Indian, who was max
~ baskets in the fore st unwttingly scared the PEG
so that they went In pursuit Of him with guns a
II" pistols.
" \ couple of women were terribly scared WI
passing through a pasture at Enosburg Falls,
~ o'hcr day, by a bare-headei man who fell on
'se knees and groaned " murder" Half dozen n
'y were prevailed upon to investigate the case,
nj they found the old fellow, who confessed that
had been on his knees for the purpose of prayer
III Mrs Bradley Barlow gave reception to c
Justice Waite and other prominent men at
)hI Adams Tuesday evening.
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~ GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
IT. F.C. Mooney, Esq, of Grand Isle, was rai5 il
flock of Il9 young turkics for the holidays.
other night some miscreant visited his premi
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