Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-17

A number of sanguine persons have
left North Troy for II neighboring town
in quest of gold.
Emira has two blind men who make
brooms for u living. They are said, too,
to do their work right up to the handle
Randolph Herald.
They probably chose that business be-
cause it was light work.
Hon. George II. Bigelow. special agent
of the Post-office Department, is in the
State looking after Postmasters who arc
defrauding the department by forced sale
of stamps
The United States engineers in charge
of river and harbor improvements report
that fifty thousand dollars is needed for
the improvement of the harbor at Burl-
ington, Vt.
The meeting Of the reunion society of
Vermont officers, which was appointed to
be held at st. Johnsbury, October 2jth,
has been postponed to December 18th, at
the same place.
Silver is being found on w. Scots farm,
in Newport, at the rate of $500 to ton of
quartz. A shaft one hundred feet deep
will be sunk Immediately.
A Ilardwick farmer says that he found
potatoes in which whole colonies of Col
orado beetles had made themselves COM
Portable homes, by eating out the inside of
the potatoes and stopping up the holes by
which they entered.
Deacon Ezra Smith and Mrs. Mary
Champlain Of Vergennes were arrested at
Burlington Monday night charged with
the murder of Mrs. Cordelia Smith, wife
Of the former. Scion Burroughs of the
same place was also arrested rs an ac-
cessory after the fact. Mrs. Smith was
lately exhumed and poison was found in
her stomach.
STATE WORKHoUSE.-The Commission
ers appointed by Governor Fairbanks,
agreeable to the act of the Legislature of
1876, to locate and build workhouse,
have awarded the entire bull ling contract
to Edward P Libby, of Fairlee, for the
sum of 1900, to be completed prior to
Oct. lst., 1873. The workhouse is to be
erected in Rutland, that county having
complied with the provisions of the act by
raising and depositing with the State Trea-
surer the sum of $4,000, said county to
have the use OF the buildings for Jail pur-
poses.
The semi-annual meeting of the New
England Association Of School Superin-
tendents will be held at the rooms of the
School Committee on Mason street, Bos-
ton, at IL a. NJ, Friday, Oct. 26. Pa
pers will be presented by the Hon. W.
Dickinson, Secretary of the Massachusetts
Stats Board of Education, on the method
of Professional Training in our Normal
and Training Schools, and by Edward
Conant, of Vermont, on How to Consti-
tute Teaching u Profession" These sub
ects, the half time system, school statis-
tics, and industrial education in the COM
mon schools will be topics for discussion.
There seems to be Il great diversity of
opinion in relation TO the Vergennes scan
dial, and it is quite evident that somebody
is lying like the evil one. The Vergennes
Vermonter says that although it is true
Mrs. Smith died under mysterious cir
cumstances, it does not yet appear that
she was poisoned, and cites that the state
meme made by the Globe reporter "that
DIR, Kidder assured him that the lady in
question was poisoned" Dr. Kidder says
the statement is false, rs he expressed no
such opinion. Again the correspondent
atirms that Prof Collier of Burlington.
after u careful analysis of portions of the
remains, has notified DR.. Kidder that Mrs.
Smith was undoubtedly poisoned. Dr..
Kidder says there is not word of truth
in this statement.
That Canadian weather prophet Mr..
Vennor, has re-appeared with new intall-
ment of weather predictions, which may
he summarized MS follows: Autumn
marked by fine warm Indian summer
after rather early cold term, and ending
wet. Winter short warm, wet and open,
with one or two severe terms of short du-
acknowledgement gloomy and not healthy.
Spring very wet up to the middle of June.
Summer intensely hot and oppressive.
The winter CS7S-9) will be favorable TO
also cattle diseases. Mr.. Vennor says:
81 agree with Prof Mansil in antcpat-
ing the approach of Asiastic cholera to-
wards northern attitudes" Rather an I'M
favorable prospect, Mr.. Vennor But, any
how, give us little mora Of that Indian
summer.