Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-11-14

Sheriff Trip OF Mddlebury came down TO break
fast the other orning to find Eugene Carpenter
q noted young horse thief whom the sheriff had
been chasing for year, sitting by the kitchen five
to give himself up. Carpenter took to horse THEY.
ing Tor fun ahG kt pit it up for year, havnga "ine
time" for while, but for the last few months he
says he has Travelled through Maine New IIamp.
shire, Nermont, New York and Canada, expecting
every night to he caught before morning, and he
has lad enough fit.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The brick store of $. T. Barber & Co... in Pownal
was burned at A. NJ. Monday Loss $4,000.
VIM. B. Wright, prominent business man and
politician. died at North bennington, Monday
aged l3 years.
The store OF E. Walbrdge at Bennington Falls
was burglarzcd Saturday night and quite guam
tty of goods stolen, bag containing part of the
punder was found Monday morning by the road
side. one mile east of North bennington. There is
no clue to the perpetrators.
Benjamin Patterson, aged fifty years, while
walking on the track in the depot yard at Bennlng-
ton, Monday, was struck by an engine on the train
and almost instantly killed, both limbs being en-.
tirely severed from his body. and his skull Grac-
tured. His death was evidently accidental. He
leaves eight children.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Will Carleton lecturcd in Burlington saturday
evening, and recited some OF his famous ballads.
Delinus Melvin of Underh has lately had all
the fingers Of his right hand cut of in planning
machine. He lost his left hand while returning
from the war
Enllip, n IulhnrtOp hos nnishpI no ar nj
ysi5 ofthe remains OF Mrs. Corden Smith, wife of
Dea. Smith of Vergennes, and has found poison in
the body. The examination of the deacon and Miss
Mary E. Champlin, charged with administering the
poison, takes place next Tuesday at Mddlebury
before Justice Knapp.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The dwelling house of Lewis p. Cole in Guild
hall was burned Tuesday. Loss $1,000.
5. e. Webb, oGtiuildhlll, while crossing a toll
BRIDGE hal occasion to take out some money from
his pocket when "A new fifty dollar bill blew from
his hands into the water below and passed down
the stream.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Messenger says that trade in ST. Abans has
not been SO prosperous in five years as it is this
fall
Joel Bolton, section han ON the MIsssquoi
Railroad was badly injdre at EichG)ri, by beng
run over by Il hand car
ORANGE COUNTY.
Frank Smith young man lG years of age was So
badly cru,hed by "A mass OF falling rock IN the cop
peras mines at StIadJrl the ST, that he del IN a
few hous
Rev. j. ;. Goodall has accepted the invitation eX-
tended to him by the BAPTIST chuI ches of Branrre
an West Randolph to 5acDnG their pastor, and
has entered upon his abo,s,
ORLEANS COUNTY.
james Thomas Of Morgan shot himself dead
through the bowels while loading his revolver lC-
Gently.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Tue Rutanl rdnr ntt the rival Howe and
Fan banks acAlc companies are to consolidate Is
pronounced uuounded.
Mrs. InankIul IN iersen Cf Clareu lon lccen "
deceased, lell her property TO religious Objects, bu
her will has been successfully contested by her
heirs.
Two young men of Rutland, Of good moral char
acter, recently spent one night in jail, and paid
nine dollars apiece, for participating IN horn
sc, enade rendered young married couple.
A man in Cayendish has yoke of steers that
wci4h three thousand two hundred and thirty
pounds, and IL yoke OF oxen that weigh three thous.
and eght hundred and Unity pounds, and they are
not in extra condition.
In reference to the statement now going tie
rounds that Theodore TIlton's Lectures in the VI
entity of Rutland have been shmy attended, the
RUTLAND Herald says that Theodore rilton hasn't
neen near Rutland since he passed through in thai
sleeping car.