Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-02-13

j. Ii, BatChelder mas Succeeuc" !" o.
ting his bail cut down to $4,000, but has
not found hackers to that amount yet.
Ex-mayor Blodgett of Burlington has
been appointed guardian of Levi Under-
wood, who is afflicted with sottenlng Oh
the brain.
Kimball and Brown Of West Jay are
preparing to saw about eighteen thousand
hard wood logs into scantling for the Eng
lish market
The Free Press says Only three times
since 1850 has the broad lake remained
open so late as this yeas-in 1898 (teo'
12), 1864 (Feb. ny, and 1870 (Feb. 10Y
In 1850 it did not close.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Feb. u.
Market dull, receipts light prices un-
changed. We quote winter made butter
18 to rs cents; fall ends 30 cents, with
very little offering.
Mrs. Z. j. Champlin, who was commit
ted to Middlebury Jail with Deacon Smith,
on the charge of poisoning Mrs. Smith,
was released on her own recognizance,
Saturday, there not being evidence enough
against her to hold her.
Mr.. and Mrs. George +. Morris of Brad
ford celebrated their silver wedding Mon
day evening and received large number
of gifts from numerous friends who were
present. Gen. Fitzpatrick lectures on Sher-
mans March to the Sea next Tuesday.
At Londonderry, at special town
meeting on Saturday, it was voted to bond
the town in aid of the proposed narrow
gauge railroad from Rrattleboro' in sum
eight times its grand list, the vote stand
ing 40 ayes TO 80 nays.
The mysterious illness of II large number
of persons, in Richford, from using water
from well, is decided to be typhoid fever.
The water of the we'll is thought TO have
become contaminated by its connection
with n sewer or drain, hence its deeteri-
Gus effects.
Ex-Mayor BlodGett of Burlington has
been appointed guardian of Levi Under
wood, who has been one of the ablest and
most brilliant lawyers OF Vermont. promi-
nent in politics, and in 1861 lieutenant
governor of the state. He is afflicted with
softening of the brain.
During the temporary absence of Itha-
mer Iadlock from his house near North
Troy, some unknown person entered the
house and distracted from desk in his
office over six thousand dollars in notes.
The thief has not yet been found. Pay
ment on the notes has been stopped.
The following patents have recently
been issued Vcrmonters Francis A. Bar
rows of Castleton, plows; Orville S. Bliss
of Georgia, steam culinary vessels, OrviIle
S. Bliss, milk coolers Henry NJ. Farnham
of St. Adams, ventilators Levi X. Fuller
of Bratteboro, reed organ actions; Rodney
G. Britton of Springfield, chillren's
carriages.
At a meeting of the New England Agri-
cultural Society, held in Boston, Tuesday,
the following gentlemen were elected di-
rcctors for Vermont:
a. L. Perkins, Pomfret; l.. S. Drew,
Buringlon; Lawrence Brainerd, St. AL
BANS G. Horace Hubbard, Springfield ;
Franklin Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury; f. d.
Douglas, Whiting; Henry Clark, Rutland ;
S. IL. Foster, Calais; Samuel Evarts,
Cornwall; H. II. Hoskins, Newport: f.
s. Stowell, Cornwall.
RUTLAND RAILROAD TAXEs.-The effect
of the recent decision of the supreme
court in regard to the payment of the taxes
on the Rutland railroad is that the Contra
Vermont managers pay the taxes lcgal}l
assessed upon the Addison, the Vernon
Valley and the Vermont and Massachu
sets branch railroads, and the RutlanC
railroad pays the taxes lCgdltY assessed
upon its own property. The taxes on the
Rutland railroad property amount to from
ten TO fifteen thousand dollars annually
and there are taxes for three years unpaid
The mystery of Richford's poisonous
well, which formerly supplied large
number of families, has not been solved
but its victims are daily increasing, till
they number twenty-eighl, II. j. Scarf, {
prominent citizen Of the town, has died
and the three remaining members Of hi,
family are in II dangerous condition. Nont
of the water has been used for some time
but the cases of gastric enterie fever con
tinuc notwithstanding the efforts of thu
physicians. Some Of the liquid was sen
to Burlington, but, US Prof Collier is r
Washington, no analysis was made.
The secretary of the treasury has de
cided adversely upon the application o
} Representative lIendee, of Vermont, t
f have the treasury regulations changed ST
that goods in sealed cars from Canada
destined to an American port for cxporta
ton, shall be entered at Island Pond, an,
duty paid there. The secretary decides
that the present order. permitting the en-
tries to be made at Portland, shall remain
in force. Uncle Sam is the only one tina
: suffers by this prolonged infringement o
t the rule, everywhere in force, which re
I quires the goods to be entered ut the frs
$ United States custom house at which they
, arrive.
The steady growth in power and in
= luenCe OF oendtOr EumunuS IS one OF the
few gratifying things that are noticeable
nowadays in congress. Whether or no
he be the abIost man in congress-as
; think him to bc-he is certainly the ables
legislator. and eXerts an influence whicl
makes him much greater man than TIN
,, country knows him to be. Whateve
i, power he has gained is his by the pures
of titles { he knows any Of the acts n
popularity, he does not cultivate them. !
newspaper puff of Edmunds, of Vermont
, never gets itself written by his conniv
, ance. | could pick out hundred men il
congress to-day whose collective wisdom
:, and usefulness does not equal that of th
= man from the Green Mountains. He is
a standing protest in the senate against can
and fraud and hypocrisy, and woe to tn,
! adventurous antagonist who attempts t,
bull-dozo him. Washington Correspond
, en, IN Boston HeraId,
= South Royalton WAS visited by the big
gest fire ever known in the place earl
, Wednesday morning, which destroyed w
+ j. Tarbells building, occupied in the base
t ment by Pigeon Brothers carriage shop
on the first floor by Winslow & Durkee'
: hardware store, second by w. L. Parson.
as Il dwelling, and third by Bixby post oil
the Grand Army and the South Royaltor
band; the building occupied as drygoods