Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY

shoreham has man who recently married hi'
aunt.
wcybridse has an oleander which measures
thirty months one way and thirty inches the other,
and has two hundred and nfty bulls and blossoms
at the present time.
Monkton has musical prodigy in little lO.years
Old daughter orJ. d. Rivers, who can play almost
any tune on piano after hearing it once or twice.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
ST. Johnsbury has a town debt of sisOOCO, bear.
ing six per cent interest, and wants to fund it at a
lower rate.
More than one.Gnh of the whole population of
Lyndon Center (I9l) are over sixty years of age.
Mrs. Charles Powers, of St. Johnsbury, lefl her
husband and five children, the other day. She
loved another.
Some boys in st. JOhnsbury academy, wishing to
hand their names down to posterity, carved them
in the befry Of that institute. Prof Fuller discov-
cred them and fined the boys ten cents apiece. The
consequence was three quarts of old coppers were
deposited in The office of The professor 5 pay ment.
The Fairbanks scale company are preparing a
very choice exhibit of scales for the coming worlds
exposition at Paris
Tom Daniels of Danville ate, on wager, two
quarts and half of raw oysters in half an honr,
and still lives.
Lucius Burt of Lyndon was killed last week,
while chopng in the woods, his skull being crush.
ed by a blow from falling limb. He was Al years
old and left wife and six children.
CHIrTENDEN COUNTY
RICHMOND MARKET, March 4.-On account OF
the Int liIt q Ian VIVA nj oVy
butter sold at 20 to IS cts winter made 20 to "a cts.
LAM0ILLE COUNTY.
poor family named Division in Jacksonville
Cambridge, who lack the ncc3ssaries of life, have
been suspected of stealing wood which is not very
expensive luxury in that vicinity. But some one
grudged to it them, and loaded stick with powder
and shot; the result being that the other night the
top of the stove was b'own If and the face and
the front part Of the bod cS of the mother and her
eight-year old daughter we've filled with shot.
Thomas Lowery Of Sowe has a Bible printed in
1898, which is in goo state of pres ervation.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The Randolph Normal School has opened with
40 students.
Mrs. f. P.Clay Of Tn etforl lost gold ring about
four years ago. and has ust found it in some tripe
of recently laughtered steer.
j. II. Peters of Bradford received an envelope
from Franklin, n. H., few days ago, containing q
$40 bill and blank half sheet of paper. The 80 was
probably conscience money"
Alfred Norris, Esq, who was representative from
Vershire in 1852 and 1863, was born and has lived
the 50 years of his life in the house he now occu
pies and has never been away from it for three
weeks at one time.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
There is considerable excitement in Orleans
county about the Beers Atlas. Many of those who
subscribed were on the subscription book, and
claimed that they never signed a contract to pay
Oil for the atlas. Several have banded together to
defend themselves in the courts.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The poor department of the town of Rutland cost
last year, s7,GSl.
man who has resided at C tstle ton 20 years has
never set eyes on Lake Bomoseen, only three miles
distant, neither has he been as far north as Sher
mans marble mill one mile from the village. He
has atrothcr, however, who has crossed The ocean
five times since 1860,