Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-09

HOW Ill oOooAOh'
rhe summer arrangement on the Ver-
nnnt Central will 60 into effect in about n
aslnight.
Nompetition has reduced the price OF
sIik TO four cents u quart, the old dealers
sating made the reduction.
rbe concert last week announced for the
6lh will be given instead on Tuesday eve
4int of next week-the 18th.
We would call the attention of all who
h TO procure furniture at Il bargain, to
ihoadvertisemenL in another column.
Aaron Bancroft has been improving the
.oands about his residence on the Berlin
ae. He is also remodeling his house.
fhe next lecture of the Reading Room
6srse will be given in Village Hall Fri
das evening of this week by Rev. DR..
null.
some farmers are predicting good hay
Aad grain crops this year, and an early
hNrgest. The fruit indications are good,
ahibss npped by an untimely frost.
ia learn that another Rialto is to be
.aseeted across the Branch, the foundation
II The same is now being put in on the
sotth side of the Union House bridge.
va regret to hear of the death of Mrs
o,tha Mead, wife of Col. John B. Mead,
II Randolph. She died of typhoid pneu-
mona last Sunday, after a sickness of
aboht week.
No. A and Engine Companies came
ont with their machines for practice on
Monday night. Both were found to be in
excellent working order although they
had.not been wet since October
III II. Winters monument, which was
plssoed in the cemetery last week, is re-
nlarkable for its beauty of design and its
ehbstantial appearance. 1t was cut at the
frantic works of Kimball & Carter.
Itnow seems likely that Mr.. Beecher's
lecture, instead of being on the evening of
lie p3d MS first determined on, will be
bostboned to the next week. The time
willb be definitely announced in next weeks
papers.
ALL interesting dramatic entertainment
Xas given ut the vestry of the Church of
tho Messiah last evening. The two plays,
Tine Tries All" and A Quiet Family"
were well put, and received with favor by
n i0ll audience.
charles Keeno's horse made lively run
1aSf Friday afternoon up State Street In
tWnlnr the corner at the head of the
sifaat Mr. Keeno was thrown out, and
8Iis Stone, who was in the wagon with
h|m, not liking that style of alighting
,A.abed out. The horse made II circuit
a&g0ss Union House bridge, stopping on
ltIm Street, after doing much damage to
iae buggy.
The two sons of John NJ. Gilman, Esq,
81 81 Paul, Minnesota, aged IS and 16
years, were drowned Saturday, the 2Sth
nlt. Mr.. Gilman is brother of NJ. D..
Gilman, Esq, of Montpelier, and was
here last summer visiting with his family.
His children were these two sons and two
dstehters The boys went duck-shooting
Ia bond and not returning when sent
ior III nirht,were searched for but no trace
loNna till the next morning when Mr.
Gilman found man who saw their boat
eansize and themselves drowned after
Aiming to ii for time.
ND shall commence in two weeks the
publication of Il series of interesting ar
teles from the pen of DR.. II. A. Cutting
lhe Mate Geologist, on "Insects Injurious
nsaolical value TO our readers as descrip
to of the habits, the different form
hfongh which they pass, and the hes
nlaelical methods of Kidding ourselves o
to- nests. Our next paper will contain {
few Interesting remarks upon the study o
insants and their general classification
witch will prove doubly interesting in tn
Iieht of more to come, and as giving n lu
oid 1efnition Of some of the Technical
terms in general use.
The complimentary supper given MI
glafk of the American, Monday evening
sT the temperance people OF Montpelier
Wasa We y pleasant affair. The table
were tastefully arranged, and, the mail
point in a supper after all, the supper wa
K eood one. Mr.. Clark has for years KEEP
lhe american on the doctrine, repudiate
bp Tic majority of landlords, that a mil
cnu Keep hotel and not keep liquor fc
sis NESTS. Most hotel keepers say the
n|ast keep it because if they don't guest
who eall for liquor and can't get it wi
nol BONE near them afterwards. If
Mallord has the courage to work on
rtI1biple which drives away guests of on
o|as4 those who believe in his way of dc
in4 8hings would do we'll to see that
iss nothing by it, But we should thin
isai n supper with the low rate fc
Ats established for this one would
FA|her more complimentary than benefC
Dc lecture, in the Reading Roo
0odfse delivered by Rev. Mr.. Fulton, Ia
f|aay evening, was one of great int
sl
no subject Nova Scotia" was Oh
~'ih which the lecturer was very hmilia
9st of his life having been spent in tbs
native country. lie was therefore We
aalpted to present the topic in Il We
I1hrough manner. Mr.. Fulton related 4
aa| in regard to the discovery and settl
N6at of this country, about which so lit
hown among us; he described, al;
history of the Arcadians, that peol
Ibse sad story, as usually related, has
61h excited our sympathy. As told
Fulton, however, the story is shorn
N'by of lis most affecting details, and &
nfs more as an act of justice, crue
euted. One could hardly credit
ements regarding the agricultural a