Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-13


The Connecticut and Passumpsic rail-
road have sued the Southeastern railroad
for $4,000 damages in tearing up their
track last October.
There was frost every month of the
year 1916, and it was known AS The year
without summer The New England
farmers called it " eighteen hundred and
starved to death"
The selectmen of Barre were ordered ut
the last town meeting to prepare lookup
for tramps. and to furnish all who applied
with a liberal allowance Of crackers, cod
fish and cold water.
The Burlington gas company have just
reduced their rates to four dollars per thou
sand, with a discount Of ten per cent ION
all bills over two dollars if paid at the
company's office within five days from the
presentation of the bill, making the rate
practically three dollars and sixty cents
per thousand.
Losses BY FIRE.-An approximate esti-
mate of the losses by fire in this state, last
year, gives the total sum as S ,050,000, of
which about half was covered by insur-
ance. The losses by months are rs follows ::
January, $4,000; February, $3.50, 600;
March, $4,000; April, S144,OOO; May,
SIS, 1000; June, $4,000; July, $4,000;
August, $4,000; September, 500, 900; Oc-
tober, S97, 900; November, $4,000; De-
cember, $4,000,
Forty-two years ago n union colony OF
Vermonters was founded in Michigan,
stringent rules for the government of the
settlement in supporting the gospel and
against the use or sale of liquor, except
for medicinal purposes, being drawn up
and signed at Castleton March %, 1886.
Last week Vermontville, as the colony is
called celebrated the 40th anniversary at
the Congregational church established
there with appropriate exercises.
HEAVY FAILURE.-H. c. Hastings &Co.
lambert and Albert w. HastingS), of St.
Johnsbury, have failed for 100000. Oh
this, $4,000 is secured. The assets con-
sist mainly of three thousand acres of tim
Der lands in Concord, saw mills, houses
etc, and farm in Lunenburgh. The
largest credit ors are the banks in St
Johnsbury and vicinity, although Il few
firms and individuals are largely inter-
ested.
A great grandson of Capt. Remember
Baker, the patriot and pioneer of Vermont
is now living at Hudson, Wis. in the per
son of Henry c. Baker, Esq, who is {
fourishing lawyer of that city.
1t is said that the reform school at Yer.
gennes has one of the best conducted Sun
day schools in Vermont.
The town agent of Bolvidere with ;
population of three hundred and seventy
sold in five months one hundred anC
twenty eight gallons of intoxicating liquor
for medicinal purposes. Healthy peopl
should avoid lnat place.
The Boston Post remarks: Uncle Lux
Poland is going to the Paris exposition Il
a representative of Vermont. His biz
bright brass buttons will shed radian
lustre on our countrymen on the " bully
wards " which no calcium light in Europ
can eclipse.
Ernest Shedd, brakeman on the Rut
land division of the Central Vermont rail
road, fell off the saloon-car when goin
, over u bridge in Cavendish, and wen
down through, some twenty-five feet n
bones were broken, but he was considers
bly, bruised.
" Governor - w. II. II. Bingham {
Stowe has resigned his office of Generi
Superintendent of light houses and buoy!
on the eastern slope of Mansfield mour
tain" and the Rutland Hcrnid says, ha
; nominated Hon. Jasper Rand of St. A
bans, rs his successor in that responsible
f and lucrative position.
t The town of Hartford and its suburb
rejoice in the following poetical and c2
pressive appellations: White River june
5 ton, Hartford or White River Vilag
f West Hartford, Quechee, Dewey's Mill
Quechee Gulf, Pinewoods, Buck Scho'
House, Frog City, Bagdad, Supper Cit,
G Porchunk. Jericho, Goshen, Dothal
= Church Hill Ruas Town, Christian Stree
White River Point, Hurricane, Alcott
n Falls, Hartford Center, Quechee Springs.
Urp,,o>,r ~ ,N~rpC Tho row; ona,,
t meeting of the Vermont Tanners III
t Leather Manufacturer Association W;
4 held at the Van Ness House, Burlington
I Thursday forenoon, March Z, with Il
j president, Hon. NJ. S. Coburn, of Factor
4 Point, in the chair. Several reports we,
G made and the results of experiments give
d Mr.. A. y. Cummins, of Montpelier, mac
!. II very full report of a number Of expel
n ments conducted by him to ascertain tt
G weight of cord of bark, and on his m
q ton it was unanimously resolved that bal
4 hereafter be purchased by weight, allowir
e 2,240 pounds of we'll dried bark to Il
If cord. The association adopted the folio,
=, ing scale of prices:
: Beef hides, prime, five cents; veal ski
n under twelve pounds, trimmed, elev
. cents per pound, untrimmed, ten cent
D." over twelve and up to. fifteen pounds, sar
y price rs the twelve pound skins; from
ID teen to twenty pounds, seven to eight cer
tie per pound. Dairy skins, extra, fifty cent
: No. /, forty cents; No. 2, twenty-f
cents.
ut A St. Scholastique, Que, man, the
10 ther Of child with two heads, has relus
! S25, 900 from parties from New York W
~ came TO secure it for five years.
man named Paquet recently left
upper Ottawa shanties and started to We
I'd home. He was out seven days withC
IS, food, and on reaching a farm house gore
70 himself to such an extent that he died
~ short time afterward.
~ Nobody ever expected to see the CT
e. ohm murderers punished by the Mississi
10 courts, and there will be no surprise
it the announcement that their cases ha
+o been postponed and the criminals releaS
on $4,000 bail apiece.
te A party of disguised men took IL colo
~, woman, named Charlotte Harris, accut
~, of instigating boy to set fire TO barn