Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-03

the locomotive shops of the Central YER
mont railroad at St. Adams last week
Saturday.
There are at present in the state Reform
School 1871 boys and Is girls; and the au-
thorities find themselves very much cramp-
ed for room.
PArENTs.-James S. Chamberlain, of
Burlington, has just received patent
for gymnastic apparatus; and Levi D..
Sweet, OF ST. Adams, for depot platform.
The steamer, a. Williams. made trip
from Burlington to Plattsburgh Monday,
which is the earliest passage for steam
vessels on Lake Champlain in thirty-five
years.
The Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders
Association have decided to make an exhi-
bition of Vermont wool at Paris-ten
feeces in cases, and thirty samples to be
exhibited in glass jars.
John Cooley of West Addison shot
himself through the heart Sunday. He
was 80 years old, and killed himself be-
cause he had had words with his wife on
account of which she had left him.
DEER. SToCKING.-The members of the
State Association for the protection and
preservation of fish and game, in Rutland
and vicinity are raising money to buy a
lot of fourteen deer, to be turned out on the
mountains. These deer can be obtained
for this purpose for fifteen dollars head
James II. Batchelder of Middlehury
was arrested in Boston the 2Sth, having
been surrendered by his bondsnen; and on
Friday was brought to Midtllebury and
lodged in Jail. He said to reporter that
he had no intention of slipping away from
his bondsmen, and that. while his arrest
is a matter of surprise to him, he had no
desire to censure any one. He said that in
settling his afftirs the bank and nearly ali
of his other creditors have signed off, and
that he went to Boston to see some of the
remaining creditors. He was about start
ing for Michigan. for the purpose of com
pletinp several contracts for lumber, so he
says.
The Vermont snath company's works
at Springfield are running to their full Ca
pacity, turning out snaths at the rate OF
ten thousand per month.
When a professional pedestrian entered
the ST. Adams Methodist church on Sun
day he was startled by the text; He de-
lighted not in the strength of II horse; He
taketh not pleasure in the legs of man. "
This was the address a mail agent on
the Portland and Ogdensburg road had to
wrestle with the other day: chill tonne
Mill Nouaime r;''-the Interpretation
of which is Milton Mills, New Hamp-
SHIRE"
Rutland boys have lost one of their
time honored "privileges, that of at
tending all the nasty trials that come up at
the court-house-Sheritf Field instituting
u much needed reform by having theui
excluded from recent rape case.
Brattleboro will be represented at the
Paris exposition by four Bickford knitting
machines and nine Esey organs. One OIL
the latter is monster-eleven feet high
five feet long and four feet deep, with four
foot swells, twenty stops and Il full sci
of pedals.
Mr.. G. S. Forbes has resigned his posi-
. ton as clerk of the Car department of the
railroad shops ut St. Adams, which he ha:
filed very acceptably for ten years. and
in about Il month he will sail for Europe
so as to be present at the opening of the
Paris expositson.
Kennedy and Pecor two young men
who a few weeks ago, in a drunken spree
waylaid, robbed and nearly killed JOIN
Cook, a merchant of Rutland while on hi
way hone from his store one evening
confessed their guilt few days ago, an
were sentenced on Saturday to the stat
prison by Judge w. G. Duuton.
, Mr.. Larkin G. Meade's design for
memorial monument to Senator Morto
presents shaft rising from base and sub
base and supporting ut the height ut II
feet figure of the dead senator in heroi
' size He is represented in the attitude O
e speaking. The cost of IL monument exc
n cuted after this plan is estimated at 800
=: 900.
I The Park house, Burlington, owned b
e Horace Wheeler and occupied by II. II
c Pike, took fire Saturday night in the uppe
; story and was nearly consumed. Wheeler
loss is about $1,000; fully insured. Pike
oI000. inc
ance. Stafford & Humphrey, johbers i
fancy goods, ETC., and G. Allen, furniture
i occupying Park block contiguous, wer
d considerably damaged by water; fully in
4 sured.
u VERMONT SHEEP FOR TEXAs.-I. {
: Mower and Lewis Rogers have just lei
Woodstock with q car load of one hur
y. bred thoroughbred Merino bucks. en- rot
for San Antonio. Texas. Tue sheep ar
: selected from the best hocks in Windso
county; and the venture is the latest c
e many similar ones undertaken by til
e sheep, breeders of Addison and Windso
counties.
THE DENTISTS AT the recent meetin
of<the State Dental Society the followin,
officers were elected for the following
: year: President. j. L. Perkins, St. Johns
bury; vice presidents, II. A. Baker. Wood
f slock S. d. Hodge, Burlington; w. II
}, Kingsley, Middlebury; secretary, e. L
Il Newell, st. Johnsbury; treasurer, L. I
= Lawton, Rutland; executive committee
t James Lewis. Burlington; S. l.. yelling
d ton, Mortified; E. E. McGovern, Vel
, gennes.
o You must pay me five milliards c
n francs" says Russia to Turkey. Mo-
e willingly" replies Turkey" only lend m
t ten francs now, and add it TO the amount.
Dr. Falb. GILLIAN meteorological. al
- nounced last December that great atmo
= pheric disturbances were to be expecte
y from the 18th to the 25th of March. IN
II IL from the IS to the 18th of April, or POI
e sibly two days previous to those dates. II
q predicted that in the mountains of Europ
Il and the Unired States there would be sno
n in April, and also between the 26th an