Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-03-15
Vermont News.


CALEDONIA COUNrY.
Tie tanners of Pcacham, have organized a Farm
cr's Cllb, and their meetings, every Friday eve
nIng very interesting and profitable.
John \. Moore, clothing dealer in ST. John sbury, |
and $4,000, and has $1,000 worth of goods, and
about the same amount of accounts good and bad
The first papers were served by his father, who, 1t
Is said, had at different times supplied him with
Sl2 900 TO SD 600.
CIIITrENDtN COUNTY
The committee of the Chtenden County agti-
cultural society after long e!iberation located the
next county far at Essex junction.
THE " GOULD STEAM FIRE ENGISE.-The new |
Gould steam fire engine just completed at the es
Enlistment of B. 5. Nichols 4 Co was tre, sat.
urday afternoon at the steam boat landing and for
the purpose for which the trja made ga We good
satisfaction The fire being lighted, steam
formed and the whistle blow IN three minutes and
lorty-tve seconds. The engine was turned over
in five minutes, and WAS finally started up, throw
ing water at the end OF one hundred feet of hose !
IN Sin minutes and live seconds. This was consid- |
cred good time. with the the boiler so cold
the boiler being filled directly from the hydrant
The engine wasworked about an hour and q half |
playing through various nozzies from Ia to ,.
inch, but was not " it'll its throw
lns qualities, for the reason that the coal used
common gas coal, not suitable for rapid steamlns.
1t was also the first time the boiler had been used
and tie ipamlng would not admit OF - le thing her
out The wind also wa, nnftvorabIe; but not
Standing these uniavofabc cond ltions. the lii
tie telmer showed herself in comm endabe
manner. The machinery worked with remarkable
ease an stca iIne~s and fully lstle all that has
been ella mel tor the Could steaner,.-Free Press
Essen COUNTY.
William Wright, prominent merchant at East
Concord. has been forced into btnkiuptsy by his
creditors.
one day last week, NJ Lane wcodchoppcr in
East Haven. was telling spruce tree which
lodging in birch tree. he ran up the trunk OF the
spruce Tree and chohpcI away the birch branche,
that held II. Tne spruce fell and McLane was
thrown forty-onc feet to the ground. HIS WAS
broken, III, head and stomach badly lajur,c i, and
his whole DO II brui>ei /.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
We learn tlat the covered highway bridge over
| tie Lamolile, at East Georgia, has been carried
away b,ty by the ice recently, and now lies upon
the large island just below the railroad bridge
LAMOILLE COUNTY
The town of Johnson has sold all its railroad
bonds tx 'eptlns 81 100. for e cents. This town
~ 'N'''N'A
list of 81 II5io
ORANGE COUNTY.
Johnson CHampclIn of south New bury whose
house WAS Jurnoj last week, nj paralytlc shock
or sunday an died on Monday.
Isaac En- ~ OF Bethel has 4 pair of Oxen coming
i've years oil this spring, OF which weighs just
-o9l pounds, the other lEp, $500 pound, for the
u.r, winch are tI5u-htt, BE pretty heavy for Yer
l4ontcAttie
Capt. : n. EcUv, Tie genial sheriff of North
rhcel,r /. hts been elected Director for the Union
Mutua! l+lre Ins. Co. IN place of Charlie. Jones
Ed, e .::ador.
The winttl tenn If The Academy at Bradford
VIII finish, hi .ay, March I'm There will be an
examination iurla. the entire :tay. of the studcs
p.r=utd y vacation OF two week. Is to follow.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Henry Ca-semcr of EIIgh.atc, died suddenly Il
few day since. He and al his connections were
Catlol but being engaged in the foundry. be ll
stop Tor all the least and fast days that happen
ed, and The Roman Catholic priest refused at
tend h- buIlal in the conSccraiel ground The
Protc> ttht~ of the village then took ch4 sc the
funeral. Win il VA, attended by large asscmblase
: and con ll,tcd with more ceremony than is com
mon FOR persons IN his position in the community.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The Central Vermont railroad company " i'll con
test the claims of Mrs. Bissell for damage on &C
of the death OF her hu5 band and son can ed
10y the accIdcnt at south W alns tord the ground
/ that the father came 10 his death while trying to
save his son, and not As result OF the accident
and that the son was riding on a free pass, by ac
ccp ing which he had discharged the COMPANY
! from liability. But the courts have dec ided repeat
edy that the fact that passenger is riding W it'll s
i free pass does not protect road IN such a case.
y young man named James Morrissey, of Yves
p Rutland, sixteen years old. son OF David Morrlsse,
u an employee of Sheldons 4 slason, was Instant,
+, killed by the cars Saturday afternoon. The &C
a chcnt occurred about five O'Clock at the covered
bridge East creek just west of the Linco +,
: Iron Wo ks He was riding on the top of what i.
L. known as the schenectady freight ;" which leave
Rutland about five O'Clock, and was struck by The
bridge. prccipltatcd to the tack and run over by
Z. portion OF the train.
=, There is a lady in Rutland who, each Sabbath 70
six years, has attended the Consre gational church
=" and wEs considers the privilege an lnestible one
! but says sic has not heard word the pastor ha.
) SAID
t. Henry Frost, a livery stable keeper, h ID team
= stolen, last fall, and, last week. he received wore
that 1t was lett at place in York state. Mr.. Eros
started Tor 1t last week with deputy sheriff,
II arrived there just IN time find that the team wa
] being harnessed for the thief to go away with
;; Both team and thief were started for Bellows Fall
e. but the latter escaped at Rutland.
y WINDIIAM COUNTY
e. On the evening of the 2lst ut while party O
IT youths OF both sexes were out coastns at Yves
Wardsboro, Miss Jessie Ward a young lady abou
Z twenty years of age, was thrown violently asains
" tree, and received Injuries of which She del fy
l. day aller.
i: a fire in OF the Fal Mountain pap.r CON
IT, pany's mills the other night, did about Is o wort
R of damage.
rs Thomas Connors, who was so badly hurt in II,
% Fall Mountain paper companys NH, a few day
If ago, has since died. He leaves seven children
WINDSOR COUNTY,
ID During the past year thirty SIN deaths have oc
p CURED IN Ludlow, twenty four of these beng {
K persons over eighty years of age. Very lew death
j. have been among the children or youth
: The town school system was adopted by Sprin:
ID field provided District No votes to mite vii
j. the other districts. The following Commission
n were elected: r. p. Ban and J. C. Pierce &
to three years; r. o. Field ant G. Horace HuIb lrt
III for two years; and {. \. foIbush and Janes !
N Walker for one year. The tax raised is sixty ct
l. on dollar, SUBJECT to discount Of ten per cent
h. paid before Feb. lst, l>1 Inlebttdness of tow
IS, $4,000
Va The Republicans of Springfield are to meet
Or caucus at the Town Han, on Saturday March 1871
at three O'Clock Pm for the purpose of cboosln
VI five delegates to the Republican Convention to L
K. held at Burlington, March 29th