Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-11
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.


Austin Dean, of Leicester, has lost four children
in nine days of spotted fever.
The hunters of Lin 'on have il the last two
months, with one dog owned by Alidl Hawkins,
killed seventy rabbits
Out of $50 tramps that have been " entertained "
by the Brandon authorities only two have shown
any disposition to work
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The town of Win lht!l votel to all the Brattlc
boro and Whitehall rahoad to the amonnt of $40,
&C.,
Miss Emma Steen of Bennington has just gradu-
ted at tho Boston MEDICAL institute
Bennington is excited. She has Just had a rcgu-
lar prizehght, at which the authorities didn't in.
terelere and ofwhch the local paper prints full
particulars; and lnds Mrs Julia OBren, aged
lO2, who must be kept at all hazards for the July
centennial
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Business at the Fairbanks scale works shows a
marked Improvement since the first Of March.
Orders for large scales are increl sing monthly.
large order has just been completed for Russian
scales, to go to Moscow, and among them several
railroad scales.
Petty thieving continues IN East IIardwick, not
wlthstandins the vigilance exercised by the Cti.
zens to detect the guilty parties.
| lialdwick boy drank a quantity of kerosene
oil, and it brought him within about an inch OF
deaths door, lie must be disagrecaby lastidiOus
| in his tastes.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY,
The new class in the burlington Medical College
is unusually large, there being already 70 students
with prospect of reaching hundred.
Mr. j r. Forrest and Others are holding green
back meetings ut Winooski. Well, we suppose
they need some kind of amusement down there
They advocate mrrc paper money as n cure for all
financial evils
RICHMOND MARKET, April 9-Buiter sold to-
day at Is to 2Oc for fair; q to 2lc for CHOICE and
% to 26c for gilt edge.
Hon. a. Il. IIalbert of Essex is quite collecto
of coins In his collection is an interesting ant
valuable series Of the silver coins of England
extending back over $50 years, TO the Time of KIM
Henry Ill, an nearly complete for all of tina
period
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The seeCtmen of st. Adams have appointed Mr.
Joseph S. Weeks town clerk, to 1 tho vacancy
caused by Mr. JEWELS retirement.
Franklin County Court opened Saturday.
F o. S. Bliss Esq, of Georgia, has a nnc BERKSHIRE
pig, week old, with live perfect Ieet, and sixl
nearly so. Pig doing well, and we recommend Mr.
Bliss to go into the picked pigs feet business.
A correspondent of The ST. Adams Advertise
learns that the wife OF Mr.. James Royce, of Ricf
Abercorn, 20, on the 9th inst. She was alive q
, las accounts.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
} Fred Putnam of Hyde Park has hen wcighln
only X pounds, that laid an egg measuring by
inches, Eggs ceent fowl.
Some good men in Waterville lately presented tw
widows with twenty cords of wood each, and the
prepared the same for use.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
, Mr.. &c. Goff of Addison has gone to Washingto
\ Territory, with $50 sheep selected from the be
0ocks in Addison county.
G A. IL. DanfOrth suddenly left Rutland on Satu
Y day, leaving plenty of unpaid bills The Rutlan
= Herald says letter from him, dated at TrOy,N.
t April l. 1871, says he is on his way to Chicago tina
he shall pay all his honest debts as soon as he ca
n earn money enough, but he could not earn it
: Rutland and feed the children of the deputy she
IFS.
Over $4,000 worth of Howe scales have been o
dered at Brandon by a San Francisco man f
his Pacific coast business
!. The Herald announces the death of A. A. Nicht
son, Esq, prominent member of the Rullan
County Bar which occurred yesterday, His a
|, was 81. lie was formerly printer, and worke
in Offices in Castleton, st. Albans and In Mich igi
, and was for time editor Of whig newspapt
y He subsequently studied law, and came to the
81 in 1913.