Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-01
Vermont News,
ADDISON COuNTY.

ADDlSON COGNE1. IL
Fred Fo-s, a member of the Vermont sha,le
roller manufacturing company of vergennes and
a brother of Henry Foss. who recently lost all his
children but one by dphtheris shortly after remo,-
ing from ta1cll, Me-, has die from the same dis-
ease.
1t is notable coincidence that the pil-box lac.
tory at Bristol, is running night and day and the
Bristol Manufacturing Company employ seventeen
men making cofiins.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Masked burglars entered George W. IIarmons
house at Bennington Tuesday night, bound and
gagged him. his wife and sister, stole gold watch
and 500 in money, AMI drove OF with Harmons
horse and buggy.
Benningon's selectmcn ole $500 reward for the
arrest and conviction of the masked burglars who
recently gagged and robbed Lawyer lIarman and
his family $3.50 for the Of any one of the
parties.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
Henry Fairbanks of ST, Johnsbury, has recently
had something like fifteen thousand young land.
locked salmon put in the ponds in that vicinity.
Edmunds Pettcngill, of Danvle. reported the
extraordinary sugar Yield ola 200 pounds from 600
trees.
son OF H. Il. l,usges had his caught in SHAH
and wound around it up to the elbow, putting the
elbow out of joint and breaking the arm in three
places.
Governor Fairbanks has presented a White
Mountain doc, from his park, to the Rutland ID, Ell
Association to he turned out with the of their
deer.
st. Andrews Episcopal Society, of ST. JOhnsbury,
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tue first services on Easter day. This is the eighth
church aud prosperous society IN that village of
| about five thousand inhabitants.
The Caledonian tells how an objectionable family
were " drowned out" as follows:-' Last Satur. |
day night the house occupied by Mrs. shepard and
her daughter at Paddock village was washed out.
Some unknowe parties got on the hose attached ii
to the hydrant and gave the house and occupants
most thorough drenchns. Upon the arrival of the
police one was to be seen hut Mrs. Shepard and
her daughter who, from description, We should
judge, looked much like the statue on the soldiers
| monument"
CUtTTENDEN COUNTY
| Williston has had an elegant suniciency of
tramps, the past spring AMI winter small house
was built for their accommodate ion, and stove put
IN and when the eleemosynary pedestrian put in
of the season in predatory bands of from four to a
dozen) he was escorted to the shanty, given -four,
meat, ETC., and allowed to make up his own bill of
fare and to remain over night the door being again
locked in the morn. This arrangement is said TO
have worked very satisfactorily.
Burlington has 49l lam lies without Bible.
The city of Burlington has settled with DR.. |
Thayer. BY the payment of 1900, the city PIE
vents all future suits and claims for damages on
account of the sewer nuisance from that quarter; |
and also secures possession of strip of land ex-
tending from Church to Elm street, enabling it to |
straighten out Maple street.
| fire which started in the tenements of Miss
Marion Wood at Milton Wednesday night, burned
David F. Quinns Tin shop and storehouse, the town
hall, Ii. q. Boardman's dwelling aud outbuildings
and Lyman Burgess's barn; loss $4,000, partially
insured.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Jonn Morcau, of Victory, aeve tise'l his wife, the
other day, and short time afterwards she sold the
family cow. the sheep, and all the household effects
and lit out, leaving Moreau with nothing save the
clothes on his person.
L>MOILLE COUNTY.
Alfred Jones of North Hydepark was altempt
ing to shoot cats, the other day, but made mis-
take and shot his better half through the right arm
F.P. Meeker oil Hydepalk is held on the charge
robbng the depot there, but the evidence is mainly
circumstanlial.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The man who escaped from the Brattlcboro asy-
um two weeks ago reached his home in Topsham
safely. His friends will try the experiment OF
keeping him at home for WHILE
Seventeen persons united with the NJ. L. church
at South runuridse on Sunday the 2lst inst, nine
OF whom were baptized by immersion.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Ithas cost $4,000 to run the village of Rutland
the past year; and the % fires have caused total
loss of about 1000
The annual ira lie sale of the Ratlaud marble
company, at which 2jO or 800 loads OF stock
usually sold at prices low as the cost of manu-
facturc, is now in progress
Patrick OBriens ten -year-old daughter set her
clothes fire at West Rutland recently, while |
playing in the woods, and was fatally burned.
The real estate of the Fairhaven national bank
has been attached suit of the Allen Brothers |
to recover $4,000 for usury. The latter had previ-
ously been sued by the bank for $1,000, the amount
OF their paper carried by the institution.
Nine of those Rutland deer were turned into the
village. Sunday, and allowed some of the school
children to feed it from their hands; but 1t will
doubtless soon become accustomed TO the woods
| and remain in them
Rutland wants $4,000 for more water work 5.
The village has already spent $G5,O00, and owes
$50, 900 get the water from watershed Of
two or three acres. This is insufficient, and it is
now proposed to tap East creek with Pinch pipe.
and carry the water three miles. a meeting gill
| be held May s.
| Andrew Van Tuyl Leavtt, u remarkable char
acter has just died at WalnyfIrd, aged 81. He
| was brother of DAVID LsyItt, the New York |
millionaire, entered Yale dur ing the last with
England TO escape being drafted, graduated from |
Midlebury College in ISIS, IN | WAS probably the |
Oldest living alumnus of the institution when he
died. Olce when urged to live IN his brothers. |
palatal residence at Great Darlington, Mass he |
decl ned and made his home in Wallrngtord sug
ar shluty III ~ very jll II pls walks, and |
until ms wife lie in 1872, tn, ag,i couple were
often seen toiling over the neighboring hills to-
gcther. Although an enemy OF begsars, he was
always performing som, strange bat KIN lily act of
bcnevoence among the poor.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Tho ev T. S. Hubbard closes his labors with
/
His pastora:e hIs extenlei over n period of nine
| years.
| Recently, the family of Daniel Robinson of shar-
on missed their! little boy, some two and n half
years ofage. After long search in which several
OF the neghbors jDncl he was fun soma h'vy or
sixty rods frem the house stuck in bel OF thick
mud, and 50 FIRMLY wore his feet enbell,l in it |
that he had to be dug out AS no amount of pulling |
seemed to accomplish his delivery.
| r. A. Wardncr and w. f. Jones AMI WON IN |
claiming to he his vile stole span Of horses ut
Ludlow the other day. were arrested AMI bound |
over in 5000 for each of the men anil 800 for the
woman. They confessed to numerous thefts and
robberes.
| A Bethel firm have just shipped to Boston fifteen
hundred naples. for shade trees
A young man in the employ of Frank Bailey, of
Bethel, met with quite a severe accinent on Mon |
day. lie wal out mending fence and in some way |