Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-02-02
Vermont News.
ADDISON COE\rY

ADDISON COUNTY
The students at MildIcbu,y College will soon
publish newspaper, TO be called the Undergrad
uatc.
The reform school at Ncrgenncs is reported as
hourishinS having almost daily additions, which
shows that the hard times does not njuriously af-
feet the growth Of that institution.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
ID. l.. Kent & Co. of East Dorset, VT, have re-
ported that they lost 81 800 in the mail in drafts,
between Bennington and Troy, time last
month.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
st. Johnsbury had another fire on Thursday |
morning. the 9Th inst. The upholstery shop Of
Switzer 4 Eastman, on Eastern avenue. was burn
ell. involving loss of about $4,000, which was fur
ly covered by Insurance.
The unknown man killed at the Z. & o. bridge in
st. Johnsbury, on the 10th, proves to have been
| IIOratio Bullock, from Canada. He was on his !
way to visit a cousin in IIardwlck.
II. X. Mack of Hartiwick, reports filing orders
for marble and granite work, the production of his
shop for the past year, to the amount of 5000
The village OF st. John 5b1ry has pOpu aton of
1862, of when 800 school children. There were
81 births and ~ deaths in the village last year
Moses and Charles 5. Somcrs, OF the late
| Robert Somcrs of Barnet, were on the steamer
Pacific that went down the Pacific coast the 2lst
of Nov. last, and were lost. Moses had been in
British Columbia some 10 or Is years and was for
| ty five years Old. Charles had been there two
years. and was y years old Moses left Barnet 20
years ago. and Oh lIles Is years ago. tharcs has
been in California and Idaho until two years ago
| tI,att hoA Of
soLl with them at the time of the shipwrcck
CIIITTENDEN COUNTY.
| The Burlington and I.amOlllc railroad company
has purchased large tract of woodland OF A. b.
IIalbert and ii. a. Castle, OF Essex, and has recent
| ly placed steam mil on the premises, Tor
the purpose of cutting lumber for ties. fence boards
etc, Tor the road. They have "a large gang OF men
al work.
Rev. j. l.. Ferguson has resigned the pastoratc
ofthe BAPTIST church at Essex Centre, to take effect
very Soon
1t said that the recent partridge hunt by two Of
| Bmlington's pest sportsnen Will not materially
affect the crop OF partrli-es i'll the vicinity of
Char lottc.
The two young men liom Burlington, Vt, who
were rcsted at Lowell short time ago for lar.
ceny of $40 a named Cushing, were
taken TO that city Tuesday.
Union meetings were held IN WcstforI by the
three donomin atoms every day and evening of last
week, and were continued all this week under the
management OF gentlemen belonging to thc Chris
| tIan association OF Essex
Truman Prescott and VIM. II. " hcelcr have gone
| TO California. The former is we'll known as the
| livery stable keeper at 81 Johnsbury; and the lat
| er was for a time connected with the Vermont
Farmer as local editor, e..
Chn,cndcn county jail nov has 80 prisoners in
| its dungeons.
The Burlington trottins association adveruscs
three days meeting on the ice in Burlington Bay.
commencing Wednesday, February 9Th Sin
| hnndIel dollars W Ill be offered in premiums.
LAMOIl.LE COUNTY.
seventy three new cases were entered AT the
last term the l.amoIllc county court.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
\ fire saturday afternoon destroyed the dwelling
house of Michael Wclch on Green street. Rutland
The contents mostly saved, loss 500; lnsur-
ancc, 5000.
Louisa IIoeford, OF Clarendon, died few weeks
ago after an Illness OF % Years caused by internal
injuries produced 10y fall when she was nine years
Old. During this time she suffered intensely by
spells, and could never d ecst food except by aid
of medicine.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Ncwbury and Thcuord hosts of FIX different
20 tollices, while Cambridge, " cathcr>liei, Rock
| lngham and Barnet each blessed with five.
>trafor,. la, an old lady, Mrs. Polly Griffin, who
| Will be 100 wears Old in April.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
James McGill Of p4nyille tapped maple
trees on TIC 18th of Tins month"; and made some new
| sugar.
| About three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the
boiler in W. II. >tory's peg factory, in Barnet.
burst. 1t WAS blown from the Foundation up
through the second story, and out of the gable end
of the building. No one seriously injured.
WINDliAM COUNTY.
Wilmington ID 10 have new national bank, the
stock OF which il nearly all taken
Tit Brattlcboro school district, which comprises
the village of BrAteboio, has population OF
4,ljl a gam ol .ol LuIrng the past year. 1t has
go school Chllicu.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
>prngncld proposes to have It's census taken by
its chool district clerks.
During The two years ending August /, -. the
e>rcn.cs which included :, $40 worth OF repairs
Mls Nellie j. Kenyon Will speak at South Read
Ing on sunday February 6th, nj Ia o'clock A NJ.
on the ulicct of Education and VIII he followed
bv A. +. Hubbard and others.
ScallAt ina OF a MALIGNANT tyre prevails at Wcs-
tor Within week MI. Merrill y. benson has
. lost three children, a4cd respectively 5,s and
years.
LYMAN Cone, of Weather, icII Centre reports
that on the afternoon of the first day of our Cen
s tennial year the fiogs IN PARTS pond near tlt
Center church, thawc,l and at once raised tho II
voices in happy unison praise OF the new veal
they were cnablol so early to welcome
+ some excitement has prevailed IN Eea llns OF
late about the removal OF the post ofhcc at Ham
montsvilc to Bailcy7 Mills At last accounts The
+ oucstion had not been settled. Tho project o
huil,l,n- churca At the Latter place is also AGAR
: agitattd.
. While visiting at his brother Williams in Chcste
It January 2-tn. Ezra Pierce OF Londonderry fe'
: from ,cailnld in the barn. and sustained ntcrna
} Injuries, so that his lie Is dcsraircd of.
= i'r0bat" Court.
!, HARVEY TILDEN. judge n CHASE. ReEiste
The following business was transacted
u in the Problte Court Of the District o
x Washington, during the week ending Jar
to uary 81.
N Jan. IS. f. l.. Frcnch's c>t,tc-Liccns
|! to sell real estate granted. VIM. Wood
AZ burv's es,atc-Will Of May 2, 1873, allow
:r ed. :.