Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-25

Mr.. Martin, whose death we record q
where, represented Williamstown in {
last General Assembly.
The Boston Weekly and Semi.Wee
Traveller are offered for 1879 Mt redu
erlhs' Dee advertisement. F3v
James Bowers, who was so badly
jured on Prospect Park last fall, was {
OF the house for the first time on Mond.
Ex-Gov. Julius Converse is gaining
health and strength and is daily seen
the Woodstock streets. taking quite len gtI
walks.
When usefulness is considered, the m;
who smokes cigarettes dwindes into i
significance by the side of the indiyidu
who smokes hams.
Dennis O'Brien was fined for drunke,
ness Monday-the trouble growing out
matters and doings with Frank Butterf
Jealousy. rum, &c.
Saturday forenoon snow began to ia
and continued falling till into the evening
Between eight and ten inches fell. maxim
sleighing just two weeks earlier than Ia,
year.
The publisher of the Burlington sun da
Aerteac, has changed the name of tba
publication to the Burlington ISaturda
Ns9ht ReUies0, in order. as he says, t,
avoid the appearance of evil"
Six towns in the state are estimated t,
have population of over 5000, viz: Bur
lingtcn. 1860; Rutland, 12,2S7.; St. AL
bans. 1909; Bennington. STOP; Brattle
boro. 5000; St. Johnsbury, 5,4Sl.
The real estate, accounts and othe,
assets of the Montpelier Manufacturinp
Company have been sold to General P. P.
Pitkin for the amount of the Indebtedness
of the company, about S5S, 900, and a new
company is to be organized.
A division of Sons of Temperance. Or
ganized at Woodstock, over thirty years
ago, is YET in regular working order. Not
week in all that time has elapsed in
which the meetings have not been held,
and the record is an unbroken one.
Mr.. Charles Marsh, we'll known as a fine
gentleman as well us first-class must
clan, we are pleased to learn is now en-.
gagged in the " Weting Opera House " at
Syracuse, N. Y, as leader of the orches>
ira. Mr.. Marsh is thoroughly competen,
to fill the position he has assumed, and
the best wishes of host of friends are |
with him in his present home.
Hon. Tappan Stevens, formerly of New
bury, and for long time proprietor of
the Spring Hotel, at that place, died the
18th, at the age of eighty-three years.
Forty years ago he was Il prominent dem
'cra'' and repres ented Orange county in
he state senate; and was " side Justice ~
IF the county cou rts. We believe he was
relative of the famous Thad Stevens of
Washington co unity Jail has now four
boarders Char les A. Dodge, awaiting
sentence for burglary; Jackson j. Hough- ;
on, awaiting trial for passing counterfeit {
money; George II inkley, awaiting trial
or attempt to comm it rape; and Royal S. {
Carr, awaiting trial for the murder of {
Nm. w. Murcummoc k. Dodge was put
n Jail in Junei Hong hton and Huxley i
arly in November and Carr last week.
Vennor is heard from again. A few L
avs ago he said that in Canada there f
ave already been two distinct belts of j
7intry weather with snow and severe
'osts. He adds that third belt of wintry n
'cather with heavy snow falls will prob. d
bly, occur towards the letter part of This f.
lonth. He thinks the present winter will il
exceedingly eccentric. with great and
brnpt rises and falls of temperature. The |,
oring of 1879 is likely to be backward Il
nd wet, ushering in II cold and likewise
.iny summer. q,
The English sparrow has been so thor.
lghly naturalizcd here that it will not be d;
'sy to get rid of him. Hard things have d,
zen said of this CHEEKY, tough and pugna- W
Gus twtterer, The objection has been
Used that he drives away other birds by ev
s quarrelsome and valiant disposition. tn
r. Thomas M. Brewer, of Boston, who is T"
authority upon ornithological subjects, pc
VS. that while there were only five spe al
es of native birds on Boston common oh
ben the sparrow was introduced, there
now no fewer than seventeen. he
John Smith, Thomas Bradley, Henry WI
<aghn and Viro Small escaped from the
use of correction at Rutland last week IN
lElty. Superintendent Trip was off on INT
rip Mlddlebnry way and some of his SP
sistants had these fellows ut work on the AL
IN when they took leg bail There are sci
W about thirty inmates of the house of ou
ERECTION and the flight of the above
,ntoned four indicates one thing that is SUI
'asant, that the chaps who are sent to eV'
'rk out their fines don't like it and Del
vent the feeling that Il good many of "A
IN had about Il jlil--that it was quite DC
place to spend the winter in.
:, sch
NARROW EsCAPE.-iir Bickford. of -.
irfeld, attempted, Friday night. to walk a.
N Cambridge Junction to the Centre
lage, and in doing so tried to walk
'und the railroad bridge, with highly VIZ
results, being at once ,"1
nged into twenty feet Of water. After '1'
'longed and Vocterous cries he attracted run
attention of some railroad employees w.
| was. with some difficulty, rescued. ''''
c plan of avoiding bridge by walking SUE
und it has its merits, but will probably soli
-er be popular with the mass of the !
Yelling public. 10
2 o
)ur numismatists will be interested in fnl
he prices realized at recent auction wit
, of coins in New York. The highest co;l
,e received at the sale was 1856 for a inc
tied States halfdollar of 1896. The y
'es received for some of the other coins II