Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-10-20
CABor.-Wm. Osgood's estate paid Sc
cents mills on the dollar

CABOT.-Wm. Osgood's estate paid 56
cents 6 mills on the dollar.
Mrs. Mclean, widow of the late David
Mclean, died in the West, and her re-
mtias Were brought to Cabot and buried
the II inst
The meeting, begun by delegates from
Die !. N. c. \. have good outlook, and
much good is vet looked for
The homestead of the late Norman
R0!irr, Is t. be sold ut auction on Satur-
Aav. oct. -. It consists of l , acres of
land, with house. barns, &c, and acres
Of timber lanl some 80 rods from the
houS"
EEnoKFIEI.p.-Ihe village school, that
of District 30. :. closed " cdncslay, Oct
ODER Is. having been taught by Mrs. A. w.
Freeman. End. duri . a divided term of
sixteen weeks, n vacation Of six weeks in
trvenin~ in the middle of the term.
'Yh' re lave been some textures of the
s-l oil worthy Of commcndable notice,
particularly the spelling. The scholars
Wrr,' >tim"lttrl to rather more than Ordi-
nary cNcrion in This branch the last ten
weeks Of the school. by the offer of prizes
for best spelling. and tie result shows
what may lie accomplished by persevering,
determined effort OF the first class, nine
in number, ape, from eleven to fourteen,
only two missed at all, the class having
spe icl IL l. words, inclu ling AL the test
words and difficult proper names found in
the " New American Sptller." The names
of those who did not miss are Gertrude b.
l. pkc. Alice +. Kinney, Lucy G. Upham,
Mary c. Upham, Florence NJ. Phelps,
Stella VI. Peck and George r. Patterson.
| Fred c. Smith mis- ed three and Nellie l..
IIyde four words only. Several others of
credit. and though not quite rs successful
VIII MT re.rct The efforts they have made
in this direction
W>rEtMUKY, -Thr carding machine
and box factory, 1T Min village, WIS burned
Friday night Insured for 81 90, mostly
in Vermont Mutual. The mill was about
lire. lttt,.r, 81 i mile from Watcrb Try
on tn. r1li - Ntp sc. and was owned By
\ H. NeIlr-h. M fir WIS discovered
about hall-Pt~t twelve o'clock, Saturday
morning. and y messenger Immediately
, et1ltvI for tn village for assistance. As
-oon - the alarm was given, the Seth
! Warmer Fire Compl,iv started with their
! engine. AMI in twenty minutes from the
time the fire was first discovered they had
two powerful streams of water playing on
the fire. which taking into consideration
. liz, distance the messenger had to 20, the
+ 'inc it took to dress and yet to the cnoin
! house al that time Of night. besides the
. distance t. the fire, which was over three
qtllrt,r~ o.. Il mile. from the engine hOusc,
with Il >l.n rising grade nearly all the
W.iV-W1- ~ guud time ~ the best com
ptil,~ would care 10 make. When the
cuu y nv arrived at the tirc. barn an
she'd attached. partly filled with hay. aud
standing. llpU, twelve feet from the Hill,
W:t~ ON liz" inside and out one stream
WAS turu,I on the barn and shed with
~.cl I. Il ct - 10 ~acn hlinr the fire under
.,.onIro, in ;uut direction. while the Other
W. tirnrj on Ike dwelling houses stand
IN uc.l hv. VIII, II were in gret, danger.
"Wing To III" heat which WAS 50 int,.iso
hat it W. lin & i,npu~~iblc t. stand be-
'wo,n TIL. hos~r> auA the iilc. HE fire
h.a Gained -u.h Roadway before ui>cov-
cred. lhat i WIS useless t. attempt To Save
'hc mill and uu'va small amount of stock
and machinery Was taken ont. The loss