Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-21

BENNlNGTON COUNTY.
detached stable belonging to Buel lockwood
Of the manufacturing firm of George lockwood &
Co., at Bennington, was partly destroyed by Dire,
Friday evening. A blOodcd colt, valued at s400
was burned. The total loss was 5000; no insur-
ance. This cause Of the Ore was accidental.
The Bonn ington Battle Monument Association
has voted to call the state Centennial Commission
together at Rutland, the time soon to be designat
ed, and the associations bylaws were so amend
ed as to make its secretary. Charles NJ. Bliss,
secretary ex -oiiciO of the commission.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The dwelling house OF Alfred Hayes, in Shelf
field, was burned the other day in consequence of
defective chimney.
Levi Heath of Passumpsic, got, last season. from
four in number. He kept what he wanted for his
own use and sold s. worth besides.
In all eighteen persons in st. Johnsbury, Dan.
vile, Lyndon, Sheffield and Burke, have had the
smallpox or varioloid, and eight cases out of the
eighteen have proved fatal.
St. Johnsbury academy started OF its spring
term with ECO students. Eight of The students at
the academy were publicly reprimanded by the
principal, lately, for hazng one of their fellow
students.
VIM. B. Bronson, OF East Harlwick, has four
teen Jersew cows, from which he has made the
past season, 1929 pounds of butter.
It is reported that party of any men, of Nc.
Indoes Falls, are intending to start Cor The Black
Hills in a short time.
CHIPTENDEN COUNTY.
The Chittenden county commissioner says that
besides the agencies recognized by law for the
legal sale Of liquors, there are from one to three
places in each town of the county and more than
one hundred places in the city of Burlington, where
liquors are sold contrary to law.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Joseph b. Sellers, who did some swindlins with
forged checks IN ST. Adams last fall, has been sen.
fenced by the court at Irasburgh to two years and
a half in the State prison.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Simeon Hunt, Of johnson, recently divorced
from his wife, has sued Samuel Stanton, road.mas
ter on the Portland and Ogdensburgh road, for be.
Ing instrumental in breaking up hiS family and
claims 5000 damages.
The widow of Willard Griswold, Of Cambridge,
hung herself with her shawl, Saturday, om grief
at the loss Of her husband. Her age was 70 years.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Herbert Eaton, boy Is years of age, Of Barton
Landing had a Iegibroken last week.
George wilson, lately arrested in sheldon for
horse stealing, has been sentenced by the court at
lnsnurgh to three years in the state prison.
Alfred Cotton, Of IrasburSh, has been released
from jail on The charge Of shooting William Jane
son. Jameson is IN California, and NO one ap-
peared against Cotton.
The other night, candidate for the internal re-
gous bored six two-nch auger holes a new
sleigh belonging to H. e. Bartlett, OF Newport
Centre.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The celebrated FarweIl oxen" so-called, len
East Randolph for market a snort time ago. Their
live weight was COS pounds Their weight when
dressed at the market was ,GGs pounds.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
| Or, Eddy, of Walliugford, recently tried The e Z
pertinent Of drying gun.cotton on the top of a
warm stove. HIS face needed particular attention
soon after.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Asa STATIONS house, farm buildings, crops and
stock at Wet Dummerston were burned by an
ncendiary. last week loss $4,000, insurance
5000.
A hog Killed in BrattIeboro, recently, weighec
eleven hundred and sixty pounds, il was raised
in Massachusetts, and was two years and a hal
Old.
Londonderry has voted to give $40 900 towards
building the BrattIeboro and Whitehall railroad.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Wilmington people are assured that Gov. Have,
IS gong to buy the Grandfather Birchard place
now owned by George {. Hubbard, uext summer
A curious horse distemper Is prevailing at Wind
scr and vicinity, the animals suddenly losing tn
use Of their hind legs, which IS followed by iniam
nation and swelling upon the back