Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Mr.. S. C. Shurtleif has purchased the
A. T. Keith residence on Main street, pay
ing $500.
And now the scheme is reviving of a
railroad from Marshfield through Cabot to
Hardwick. and survey is to be made
early next month.
\ hen with numerous family is one
owned by Peter Marcott. which Matched
twenty-one chickens from twenty. four
eggs a few days ago.
Chas. Keene has leased one of the stores
in Howe's block on State street where be
will remove his jewelry establishment
from the Walton block, which is soon to
be demolished.
Josiah Batchelder one of the capital s
lone time residents, an excellent mechanic
and good citizen, lately in the employ of
the carriage company at Cabot, has re-
moved TO Peacham.
CONCERT THIS EyENING.-Mr. A. j.
Phillips singing class gives Il concert this
evening in Village Hall. The programme
is Il good one, and the best of our Montpe-
licr singing talent will be well represented.
These be the days when the captain, not
Of tens or Of hundreds, but of thousands,
lists for the list of the gentle lister, and
whispers in his listening ear Of losses and
mislortunes dire. Perchance next month
he will swear.
A dispatch says that Hiram Weeks. of
St. Johnsbury, formerly director of the
Merchants National Bank, in that town,
is reported absconded, taking forty-lhree
thousand of rust and borrowed funds,
whereat the town is excited.
Our sporting men," are having fine
opportunity to show their skill. Mr..
Charles U. Estes having procured one of
Capt. Borrodus shooting traps or glass ball
throwers which he has on exhibition for
practice on the meadow Of W. E. Hubbard.
On Wednesday evening of last week the
members of the reform club gave an en-
terlainment in their room consisting of the
play entitled Down by the Sea-" The
pats were well sustained by the charac-
tiers. About one hundred were in attend
ancc.
Mr.. Dennison r. Ormsbee, aged about
forty five years, a well-to-do farmer OF
East Montpelier, on Saturday afternoon
last went to mill at the east village where
he was suddenly stricken down with apo
plexy, which resulted in his death in nine
teen hours after.
John Doucett has commenced the cree
ton of a dwelling house near the top OF
Seminary hill. 1t is to be a neat little
cottage house with the new style roof slop-
ing towards The center. to be covered with
tin. Mr.. j. Labelle has taken the contract
for its erection.
Friends of temperance in any part of
the state wishing to organize for temper.
ance work are invited to correspond with
j. W, Kendall, G. w. r., Montpelier, VT,
who will cheerlully furnish all necessary
information relative to the Temple of
Honor and the preliminary steps prior to
institution.
VIII those of our subscribers who are
owing US fer heir paper remit immediate
ly? We have sent ont "A large number of
bills from some Of which we have receiv-
ed immediate response AID all who have
received ills and paid no attention to
them need not be surprised at any new
turn matters may take.
The rooms on the second floor in the
west part of Langdon's postoilice block are
being fitted for elegant offices. Those
over the rear nj the post office will be &C.
cupied by Pi,kin G. Company's insurance
agency, while the front Office will be &C.
cupied by Clarence II. Pitkin, Esq, upon
the coming dissolution of the law firm OF
Fifield, Pitkin e. Porter.
Ring slreaked and speckled cattle have
been known since patriarchal days, but
whatever possessed the publishers of Rob
erts' Vermont Digest to print it on two or
three different kinds of paper is a mystery
Mr.. Roberts made good book and it is a
shame that its appearance should be mar
red by this blunder, or worse, about the
paper on which it is printed.
Mrs. Mary A Lvermore delivered her
lecture, /" The Coming Man, to fair
sized audience in Village Hall Saturday
evening. She described man rs first
created and his subsequent progress
through ages TO the present time, and also
mapped out sphere for the Coming
Man" The lecture was listened tc
throughout with the closest attention anG
was one Of the finest ever delivered in
Montpelier Mrs. Livermore preached in
the Church of the Messiah Sunday fore
noon and delivered a temperance lecture
in Trinity vestry in the evening
TIE ROCHESTER PLow-Our reader,
may have noticed the advertisement in an
other column Of Worcester & Kezer of
their plow. We have used this pillow three
years, and for breaking up, for which it is
especially designed, it is the best we eve,
used. 1t is very easy of draft. strong and
durable without being too heavy, and in
construction Is simplicity itself.
1t seems to be the fashion now to load
plows with patent devices of various
kinds; most of which we believe to be o.
no value, and some of positive damage
and we are glad to commend good
plain, sensible pillow.