Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-10-25
Vermont News.
AunINON COUNT ]

ADDISON COUNTY.
Asa E..n of Rn,,on has raised the past season
one thousand bushels OF Early Rose potatoes,
among which be seen many which weigh IRON
TWO 10 three pounds each. He also ralsed Deans
Wlil,am Wright a son of a IN mister and himself
IN occasional preacher. was arrested at CORNWALL
near Mtldlcbluv, for cattle stealing, Thursday
He seems 10 be monoman'ac on the s""J 'c'
having already served two terms in prison lo'
similar ontn>e-
1hr.<hllut OF Vermont sheep at the Centennial,
which WAS gotten up by the stitc Wool Growers
ASSET .,ion is SAID to be far ahead Of any other
section on the live stock sroun Is. The flock s
com,,,et of some of the best Merinp sheep IN the
state and is under the charge Of A. l.. Bingham, OF
Cornwall
ore OF the amusing features of tn; recent Md
lleburv college hunt was that the lloes put Colo
,ado potato bugs on the list of game, and one Side,
seeing thus, went to work capturing ana hirlhs cap
| turc,l specimens OF tins species OF gam I'LL thef
| NJ. V numbered about :lloo. The other side dldn
| hear what was up mi late and consequence only
| captured go
| BE\N!NiTO\ COUNTY.
cote. one of the Bennington i'ccn ilaricS. at
temued to break AL Fri lay night. bat W as detect
ed IN inc to prevent his escape
Gleason ( rutnam's large Pine Valley steam
saw mill at oiford WAS burnc | the oth.' morn
! ,ng loss $1,000. insurance $3.50.
CllITTENDE> COUNTY.
7 William Maloney of Burlington, a.ed %, fell
,v.rb,orl f,o.na 30 IN Lax. Caln.'ltln, yes
tertlay and WAS drowned
Seth Greens experiment in introducing salmon
| into axe Champlaln is already beginning to sho"
, It's fruit. a large shoal of the fish, from SIX 10
% eipht inches long was in the lake, lev days
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The other day Frederick Houxhton ,.of iIishsatc
| while adjusting some gearing near the mouth OF
Ithreshng machine, made mlsstep ana III
foot was drawn into the teeth and torn from INT
ankle. The leg was amputated near the knee bu
II prospects of recovery are sllght.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The Vershue copper mines give employment t
| ,hout 400 work men and pro luce about 5OJo pound
y Of metal a day, the amount of copper to the OF
f. averaging t. per cent The ieai
tunnel is 900 ct long, cut through solid lels
md the shaft Il the bottom is 1,rm !1cct long an
10 | descends at an angle of about b deg'e s. In
mine has been worked forty years, twenty, unde
me nresent management and during that time onl
Two fatal accidents have occurred. Daring IN
X n,csent season tie company has eiially e'
~, larped the SINE Ting works and pat IN new engine
and Will soon add ten ew kilns
k ORLEANS COUNTY.
. As sheriff IIodridse, of lrasburSh, was takil
,,nt nrisouers to the State Prison, boy was Sc
's ing apples at the depot i'll Lyndonville, and one
mt be prisoners, after inquirin5 the price from III
var window, told the boy he would take a fe" ar
contested him to hand the basket into the wndo
is hat he might pick them out. The boy comrh'
a IA tho prisoner divided the confer oi the b ,k
tol with his companions "n'' ,e, AZ ',., .n1 :,
by r;soner showed his handouts and replied: Lo
nd mere. nv boy Pve STOLEN whole house full
tbiogs in my day, faint likely I'm going to pay