Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-23

The Bennington Banner says Hon. Dan
iel Roberts has been elected us Vermont's
orator for the Centennial, next August.
A memorial service of Miss Mary E.
Burchard who lost her life in the fearful
Ashtabula disaster, will be held at Fay
ettcvlle some time in July. All the rela-
tives, including President Hayes and fam
lily, are expected to be present.
The Caled0nian learns that the publica-
ton of the Vermont Farmer is to be dis
continued, on account of financial Difficult
ty; and that $4,000 has been sunk in that
enterprise since it was started. The Lyn-
don Uhi0n says: THE subscription list
has been sold to the Boston CUtirat0r for
81 200, and after the next issue the sub
scribers of the Farmer will see it no more
forever, but in its place will come the Cul-
ticator. Mr.. Cummings, the proprietor
has been engaged by the CuItivator to ac-
company the list and travel in the interest
of the Boston paper"
Thaddcus Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury
knighted by the emperor of Austria four
years ago, was Monday invested with the
insignia Of the order of commander By the
hey of 'Tunis, in consideration of his invcn.
tion of the Fairbanks scales.
A beautiful clock, one of the largest and
most perfectly constructed in Americn
manufactured by Howard & Co., and cost.
ing with its attachments. $4,000, has lust
been placed in the tower of the Pilgrim
Church, ST. Louis, by Mrs. Goodel, the
wife OF the pastor, us II memorial of he,
father the late Gov. Erastus Fairbanks OF
Vermont.
The stage drivers over the Bennington
Jamaica and Jacksonville routes are natu.
rally unhappy because j. w. Parker OF
Kansas and f. w. Stoddard of Camden
N. Y. who bid off the lines, are disposed
TO sub-let them for about half what the
government allows them. The jamaica
route was bid off for Sl0G2, Bennington
Sl542, and the Jacksonville for $2I42' II
Is probable that the contractors will b,
Obliged to run Them themselves or "come
down " TO the subs offers.
Solomon Montague, over whom the IA
pers are having SO much to say, was The
fourth child born in Cambridge. At thai
time Cambridge was in Rutland county
SIX months after it was in Addison county
two years after it was in Chittenden conn.
y ana from 1892 to 1885 it belonged tc
frankIin county; since 1885 it has been
anchored in Lamoille. SO Mr.. Montague
has lived in five counties, and still all tbol
time he has lived in town, and twenty.
two years of the time within 100 rods n
his MISREPRESENTATION
Fourteen years ago, Joseph Page walk
ed from st. Johnsbury Centre to the honSl
where a. A. Pierce resides, having in hi,
hand balmof-gilead stick. lie stncl
the stick up in the yard, and from its hot
TOM sprang out roots, branches grew abov,
inc ground and it became a tree. One day
last week Mr.. Pierce fellcd that tree on5
FOUND 1t Is inches through at the butt RI,
the most singular part of the story remain,
TO be told. When the tree was cut nm onG
sPllt that identical cane precisely the sam,
SIZE and shape, with the original knira ont,
, upon 1t came out of the bottom loo and !,
now on exhibition at this office, On tb,
small end of the stick can also be sean wy .
place an inch long where the bark wo,
showed up from the bottom, from stickinr
1 II into the ground while walking.~Jf