Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-03

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4th last.
Mr.. d. L. Moody, the Evangelist, will
spend the month of October in Burlington,
November in New Hampshire, December
in Maine, january in Hartford, c., and
February in Springfield, Mass,
According to the ST. Adams Messengers
figures the defalcatien of II. II. Bailey,
late collector of taxes foots up some
$4,000 The town has brought suits upon
the bonds and attached all the visible
property of the sureties, and it is believed
that enough has been secured to cover the
probable losses.
Mr., John Manning, of North Hydepark,
committed suicide, the other day, by hang
ing himself to tree in the woods, near
his dwelling. He had been gloomy and
respondent for some time in consequence
of a neighborhood quarrel in which he had
become involved. Mr.. Manning was a
good soldier in the late war; was about
forty years of age, and leaves wife and
seven children.
On Saturday last, as party of four
Louis Liberty, William Price, and two
Wise brothers-wcre rowing from Ver-
gennes to Thompson's Point, the boat cap
| ri1nl ~, t1plynaYvn al all
board were drowned. The boat was found
near Thompson's Point, wrong side up.
Large numbers of men are now searching
for the bodies. AS might be expected,
great excitement prevails in Vergennes.
The General Convention of the Episco-
pal Church which meets in Boston, to-day.
and continues its session three weeks, is
the second which has been held in New
England, the previous one being held in
1911, at New Haven, Conn. The House of
delegates contains about four hundred
members. The House of Bishops, which
sits with closed doors, numbers sixty
Judge T. p. Redfcld and Rev. A. Hull,
D. D., of Montpelier are two of the dele
gates from Vermont.
We find some queer personal items in
our State exchanges occasionally. Here
is one: ." Miss Jennie Carbentor has given
up peeking through the key-holes and gone
to Syracuse.
AT Richmond Monday. butter sold ut
Is to 20 cents for fair to good; and 26 to
q for fine. Cheese. farm make, sold at
10 to IL cents. EARLY rose potatoes, sc
cents.
New Rutland is the name of flourish.
ing colony of Vermont emigrants, mostly
from Windham and Rutland counties, who
have settled tract of land forty miles
above Brownsville, Texas, on the Ric
Grande.
Owing to failing health F. w. Bacor
has sold out his interest in the Ludlow
Tribune and is now in Brandon quite sick
The new editor, w. IL. Macarthur, prom
ises to keep his undertaking newsy anC
spicy.
Mr.. w. p. Hill, known under the non
de pInnlC of b." Squibbs," and for the pas
year assistant editor of this paper, resigned
his position last Tuesday, and has retnrne,
to Concord where his family reside. Mr.
Hill is u thorough and efficient newspaper
man, and us the Free Press puts it, has hat
forty wears experience in the harness.
We wish him success wherever he may
go.-St, Adams AdrertiSer, Sept 2SM.
The Vermont Baptist State Convention
will hold its fifty-second anniversary Il
Fairhaven. Wednesday and Thursday, DC
tober Sd and 4th. The Central Vernon
Railroad will return free over its lines
from Rutland those who pay full fare tt
) that point Persons wishing entertain
, ment should send their names to Deacon
! John Smith, Farhaven, Vt. The Vernon
Baptist Historical Society will hold its frs
anniversary at Fairhaven, October Sd o
5 4th-time to be announced when the Con
) vention meets.
= Henry l.. Lamb, the superintendent O
{ the bank department of New York state
is native of Montpelier, was for som
time associate editor of the Burlingto
Times and afterwards of the Troy Time,
= Speaking of his closing the Clairmor
bank, the Journal of Commerce, though {
., opposite politics, pays him this handsom
Il compliment" Here was an institutio
n certified TO as sound by previous examir
l. ers, enjoying the full confidence OF tn
. public, and yet rotten through and through
At last really able man, in whom tn
people have every reason to coniide,
n master of the bank department of tn
= state. From Mr.. Lambs administration
~ Judging from the energy with which
Il" sets out, we may expect the banks to
e. held to a strict accountability to the Ia
and to receive no official favor or courte'
ir beyond their due. While such man pr
70 tects their interests the depostors will fe
~ far less anxiety than if they had Il
III strongest of laws without the proper pc
sons to execute them"