Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-27

being able to do the work for the family of
three persons and has the care of a little
motherless grandson. She is step. grand
mother of Hon. L. G. IIinckley of Chelsea.
The man who predicted severe winter
is out now with his illustrated map of An
unhealthy summer.
The Newport "Buttcrnut" of the SPRING
field Republican would like to see Judge
Poland back us representative from the
second district but fears that he would not
accept.
The principle reason why Col. Bob In
ffersol didn't lecture in Burlington was
| that his lecture fee is fixed at three hun
dred dollars, which is more than his en-.
thusiastic but impecunious admirers could
raise.
Farm wages are so low in most parts of
the state that there is no excuse for any
half cultivation of farms. The best hands
can be had for SlS 10 800 per month; fair
hands for SIS, and poor hands at almost
any price.
The debt of the New England States
amounts to $50, 1881, 1l9, divided as follows:
Massachusetts,, $50, 567, 536; Maine, So
400; New Hampshire, S3,6l3, 1872;
Rhode Island, S2,543 500; Connecticut,
$5,0l4, 500. Vermont is practically out of
debt.
President Hayes writes to his Vermont
relatives that he will visit them this sum.
mer, if possible, but is extremely anxious
to make southern trip. Per contra, the
Ogdensburgh Journa! announces that he
will positively visit that city, the coming
season.
The late storm extended all over this
part of the country, and rs general thing
was us severe as any during the winter
In Bennington the thermometer fell seven
ty degrees in twenty-four hours. Up north
the storm was one of unusual severity, the
roads being blocked by snow and railroad
trains greatly delayed.
A state exchange reports the failure of
Calvin Morrill,, George S. Shaw and Judge
Jonathan Ross, of the supreme court, all
of St. Johnsbury. They were in the lum-
Der business at Victory, and the panic
caught them with 10000 feet of lumber
on hand, with mill and timber lands they
valued at $4,000 to 10000, all of which
has shrunk so per cent.
Among the three score American artists
whose paintings have been selected to
represent this country at the Paris EXPOSE
ton, is our famous Vermont artist, T.
w. Wood, who is honored by the choice
of three of his works" The Contraband,"
The Recruit" and 1.-The Veteran"
Among the other paintings we note one
by j. B. Bristol. Lake Champlain from
Ferrisburgh."
Manchester rejoices in three miles of |
marble sidewalks, and consequently turns
up its nose at Montpelier's ten miles Of
plebian plank.
Only $4,000 is needed to make IL GER
tainty of the Brattleboro and Whitehall
narrow gauge railroad, $lS9,000 of the
ncedful, 100000 having been subscribed |
Only $27 900 remains to be raised to
insure the beginning Of the Bratteboro
and Londonderry narrow guage railroad, |
Nd II &c thnrpht chat
on the line will contribute $4,000 of this |
amount, leaving the balance to be obtained |
by subscription.
A man-of-war, sunk over Il century ago
in Arnod's bay on Lake Champlain, about
seven miles from Vergennes, is still visit
ed by relic. hunters. who extract cannon
and musket balls from the timbers and |
carry off pieces of the hull for canes and
while II heavy cannon is said
10 be in sight ut low water
PROPOSITION ACCEPTED. The PROPOSE
ton Of John F. Henry, Clrren IL Co., to
pay 81 IL cents on the dolar. in INSTALL
ments within two years, has b@en accepted
BY m lioritv of the creditors The pay
ments will be secured by assignment to an
assignee, in trust of the trademarks, pre-
and receipts. The liabilities of
he firm are about $4,000, those signing
he release representing over S600,OOO
A dozen cows. in different herds, at
and New Haven have died
'ecently of some new and mysterious dis
,ase. In most cases the animal die in
tantly, or are found dead in the morning
where they seemed all right the previous
night The examination of one victim
howed Il dark red streak running parallel
o the backbone from the neck to the
Jump, and when the hide was removed
he flesh came with it, leaving the bones
,are. The matter is to be investigated i
THAT RICnFoRD WELL.-Prof Joseph
1eidy of Philadelphia to whom samples
# water from the SO called poisoned well G
It Richford were submitted for analysis,
ound in them nothing that he could sus- 2
'ect to be the cause of disease. There [
we're some entomotraca of the genus cy-
mis-, II few cliated infusoria and very G
eetle bacteria, you know, but nothing Z
1orth mentioning. This, with the testi- K
lony of the Boston Globe man (he looked
lto the well after it had been pumped u,
ry, and didn't sec anything), ought to
ettle the poison theory.