Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-21
Notes About Town.

NOtCh hutue AOWAs
The new Arlington block is to be sold at
auction tomorrow.
CLARK Powers, st. Johnsbury printer, is
now working at Lompoc, CAL, and sends
some good specimens Of his work.
Ed P. Carpenter, formerly Of St. Johns
bury, is doing thriving business in drugs
and Matchmaking, on Worthington street.
Springfield, Mass. Ed is a live man and
bound to get ahead in the world.
DIR. S. Il. Brooks returned home on Satur-
day from his three months cruise in search
of relief from serious difficulty in his
throat. His general health is good, and his
special trouble is very much improved.
Mr.. Bagley has commenced work on the
sewer near Franklia Fairbanks's 1t is to
be two feet in diameter and about four hun
bred feet 10 length, commencing at the ter
minus Of the stone sewer built last year, and
running down to the Danville road.
We understand that Mr.. Fleetwood held
two life insurance policies, one in the Mutual
Life of New York for $4,000, and one in the
IFtna of Hartford for $4,000. A part Of
this insurance was for the benefit Of his es-
tate, and the remainder goes to his family.
The village meeting on Tuesday evening
resulted in very little but talk, except the
election Of f. f. Brown and Cyrus Sargent
as 4 committee to examine the workings Of
the FIRE department of Sherbrooke, aud re-
port at another meeting. A meeting will
probably be warned for the purpose of rais-
ing money to purchase aud equip steam
FIRE engine, at which some definite action
may be taken.
A musical society called the st. Johnsbury
Choral Union, was organized on the 14th.
The following are the officers Geo. May,
pres; Harvliu Paddock, ID. Morrison, vice
presidents; @. NJ. Stone, N. p. Lowering
w. H. Herrick, IL. H. May, N. 2. Dodge,
directors; w. II. Nelson, secretary, treas
urer, and librarian. A code Of bylaws was
adopted. The Union is to meet weekly for
improvement in vocal music, except from the
first of June TO the first Of October. Any
person desiring to become member should
make application to the secretary. The adj
mission fee for gentlemen is $500; for
ladies $500.
The death of our most efficient postmaster,
Henry w. Fleetwood, has cast gloom over
our village. He died at 9 o'clock Saturday
evening, of pneumonia, after short but
severe illness, at the age of 80. Mr.. Fleet
wood was born in Barnet, but when quite
young his parents removed to Lowell, Mass.
In 1856 he came to St. Johnsbury and
worked in the scale shops until his appoint
ment as postmaster in February, 1867, since
which time he has held the office, been twice
re-appointed, and, so far as we know, has
served the public to their entire satisfaction.
He was ever courteous and obliging, often
putting himself to needless trouble rather
than to have anything go wrong with the
mail. He leaves a wife and q little boy in
sad bereavement.
A large audience assembled at the Town
Hall Monday evening to hear Mr.. o. 5.
Senter upon the great centennial exhibition
at Philadelphia in 1876. The speaker en-
larGed somewhat upon the occasion of cole
brating in fitting manner the one hundredth
anniversary of our national independence,
and gave some very interesting facts in rela-
ton to the buildings and the exhibition.
The amount Of money required to carry the
thing through is $4,000 900, about $780,
900 of which have already been raised the
city of Philadelphia aud the state of Penn.
sylvania having raised three millions The
buildings, some seven or eight in number,
are to be of iron and glass, the largest being
1900 feet in length, and they are to be COM
plete1 by the first of January, 1876. The
exhibition Is to be opened on the tenth Of
May and remain open six months. All the
countries in the world are to DO represented
affording an opportunity to study the man.
ners aud customs Of all nations. Everything
that is produced by the skill of man, oil
found in nature is to be represented. Yer
mont products, notably marble, horses
scales, organs; maple sugar, and not only
sugar but maple trees in their forest gran
deur, with buckets hung aud sap (imitation)
dripping, to show people of the world how
maple sugar is made up in "Varmount," are
to be there. Arrangements will probably be
made so that the whole expense Of going
from Vermont to the exhibition and return
ing will not rise much above S25.
The audience, which was not the most at
teutive that ever was, thinned out considera
bly, toward the close. Good music was rem
dered by the choir and the quadrille band.