Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-04-19

maze AT TINS time IN former wears.
The sugar party in the vcstry of the
congregational church last Thursday even
ing was a pleasant affair, although the
weather was SO Unf;,vorabe that the attcn-
dance was not large.
Messrs Cramer & Thayer, who have
been exhibiting the Eureka churn in this
vicinity, the past few weeks, have sold the
right to sell the same in the towns of
Waitslield, Warren and Northfieil to II.
O. Skinner Of this place
w ILIIAMSTowN.- Mlrtin died
Of heart disease April 1ith. He was Il
prominent Good Tcmplar. and WAS Coun-
ty Commissioner the past year.
Mr.. Bailey, an old gentleman living
with his son-in-law, IIolton Dillingham;
died very suddenly one day last week. His
health had been poor for some years. but
he appeared us we'll rs usual on the morn
ing Of his death.
/ The roads are quilted the worst they
have been for a long time, on account of
the bitches being filled with ice, which
formed during the winter.
People are prophesying Il small sugar
crop, though several men have made one
thousand pounds each.
EAST WAH;EN.-The snow of this place
IS fast leaving, and the going is neither
slcighing or way ming, and the farmers
find it difficult to get their spring butter
across the mountain. as the stage goes
across the mountain on runners, and the
rest of the way on wheels. This makes
our new stage driver think it is not all fair
weather.
f.. \. Eldrigr of Warren has Il pair of
nicely mltchcd Durham steers, and the
day they were two years old they weighed
22S0 HIS. These steers are hard to be
beat
IIANOVEE, y. H.-La>t Wednesday
night both Freshmen Societies were fas-
tened in their rooms. And later, there
was Il rush with the Sophomorcs. in which
cane, were brought in. The rush was a
large one, lasting over three hours, and
ending one lalf mile from where it becan.
Thursday WAS Fast Day in New lamp
shire. Many of the students went down
to Lebanon Center Sunday. The New
Hampshire Methodist Conference WAS in
session there. Bishop Simpson preached
in the Town Hall in the morning, and in
the afternoon DR.. j. ii Vincent, the cd
tor of the $. 5. J0u14uI, preached in the
Methodist Church. and J. W. Lindsay OF
Boston University, in the Baptist Church,
Last Thursday night John Sweeney.
who was tried in the Chitcndcn County
Court for burglary on "Wednesday and ac-
quilted, with an accomplice broke into :.
freight car loaded with good, at Water
bury. Both were arrested after Il sever,
struggle with the officers. hand-cufled and
taken to Montpelier jeil.
The st. Adams Mss uJr chronicles
with Obvious delight, the announcement
that a Pennsylvania man propose, to ex-
hIhit ut the Centennial ."Smth roller and
! Cru>hcr. -FrCr Press.
On = certain occasion, before the poet
SAKE had migrated from Ncrmonta rcntle-
man was quoting IN opinion of the govern
or of that State on some political question
As if it We're conclusive. "P>haw. who
cares for the goycrnor3' said the tall poet
A governor is no great af1lir-I once
came within one of being a governor my
y ! |
knew that SaNo WAS defeated by an i'm
mems majority. - What do you mean by
one" The ctndidtte of the other party, :"
was the Brookly4 .4ry,s.
Tile VIRGINIA DELEGATION w II
II. Stowrll. who received the highest vot,
for delegate ut large to the Cincinnati Con.
veutiun. and J Is. >cncr, permanent Pres
ident of the I.ynchburr Republican Con
vention, arrived in Washington Saturday
They say that while there WAS quite {:
stormy time during the tenn orarv sion
there was perfcct harmony after the per
mancnt organizption \ resolution O
preference for Blaine wl~ adopted bv :
yea and nav vote of IS to -. The dele
CATION stands eighteen for Blaine. an,
tour divIde! between Conhlinr and Nor
ton.
DEATH OF BKpWN~uN-Or Al,
gus,u, Brownson, editor of Brown>on'.
New Quarterly Htritr. died at his son
residence, in Detroit. Monday, arcd soy
cntv-tWo. BE has been an invalid fo!
several months He wa, Il native of Stock
bridge. VI. where he was born SeItcmhc
16. 1903 Before he became of arc Il
Joined tie Presbyterian denomination, an,
received a large potion of his early educ,
ton under the influence of that body. II
ls2J he became Il nivcrsaIi>t minister an,
preached in various villages in Vernon
and New York. He vas, during hi, min
istrv.a frequent contributor to several rplj
gious periodicals. and his advanced though
attracted Il good deal of notice In ISIS
he Joined the social rcformer> under Rob
crt Owen. and labored for the Formation
of Il workin@mcn' party in New York
He next became Il 'nitari,n under the in
iiuencc of DIR. Channing'> preaching. an,
in 1886 he organized in Boston the So
cicty for Christian Union and Progress,
. of which he was pastor until 1918. whcI
NJ I'll lllt IlitIIh tItO1tllltl. III sos IL
established the Boston Qu,rtcr.v Heri,tr
, Of which he held control for five years. |
was af crward> merged into the Democrat
ic Rerier Of New York. In 1874 he becam,
: u Roman Catholic, and this WAS the onl
| belief that he ever adhered to with any de
. grrc of con>tancy. His Quarterly Re
tcjw, which appeared soon after his con
, version, rs an exponent of his new
1 So =
most alone. It was suspended from ISG
to 1875. DIR. BrownSon WAS deep think
Ell and an industrious writer His work
are stamped with the evidences of philo
= sophie research. and are almost too al
strusc for the ordinary reader.
Nh a. T. Stewart, popularity suppose
to be one of the three Wc:.lthicSt men i
the Western Hemisphere, and the wealt
lest merchant in the 'ntcl States, if nc