Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-17
Vermont News.

= Vermont News.
S ADDISON COUNTY.
D The Middlebury journal understands that mock
marriages between silly girls and vertlant youth.
are INDUCED in for the amusement OF some of the
nigh toned young people of this place, whose
2 Time hangs heavily on their hands.
\ wild cats proving about MdIlebury, visit
e ing hen houses, creating disturbances among the
dogs, and scaling The people.
George Wheeler, of South Line DIN, measures six
feet and four inches without his boots
V. Rich, of Shore ham, has a ram that SHARED
last year, twenty five pounds unwashed wool
which, alter being thoroughly cleansed, weighed
elght pounds six land one.half ounces. The ram
weighed alter shearing last year 102 lbs. and is
heece thlrty-one pounds. As the fleece this year
Is to be sent entire to the Paris exhibition it will
not be cleansed at present, but there is little doubt
It would yield oveT nine pounds of cleansed wool.
Bristol woman, thus early, has tomato plants
lG inches high and in blossom.
James L. Cram, of Iirdport, has us swarms of
Italian bees.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nc
Lenithan, of Woodford, has five grandmothers and
greatgrandmothers living, two of them over
century old.
The late II. E. Bradford of Bennington had
twenty-eight thousand dollars Insurance upon his
life.
Henry h. Bradford, prominent citizen and ex.
tensive manufacturer of Bennington, died Tuesday
| h'ght' aged o.. lie was a prominent member of
the republican party and had held several offices
oil honor trust. lie was formerly extensively
engaged in manufactures in Amherst, Mass.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Granite in considerable quantities is being
shipped from lIardwick and Woodbury. to Bur.
| iington and other places.
A peg mill in Barnet employs "a hands, and turns
out 100 bushels of pegs a day.
In the river near Passumpsic, the other day, was
found the body of a fully developed female child,
which mad not been in the water long, and had ap-
parently been thrown in Immediately after birth.
NJ. V. b. Sargent of DanVille has % sheen that
nave had 43 lambs, and AZ of the lambs are now
| alive. All of the sheep have twins but one. In
Holland, Orleans County, an eve presented her.
owner with four lambs, all living.
| Isaac Bowman, of McIndoe's Falls, has contracts
TO drive 40 100000 feet OF lumber down the Con.
necticut river this spring, some of it going as far
as Hartford Conn.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY
The oil lest ease on the docket of the Chittenden
county court is that sempiternal one of Isaac Nve
the Rutland and Burlington Railroad COMPANY
which was entered at the Spring term of 1851
Another aged case is that of Mason Jones, which
dates back to 1859
About 100 students are in attendance at the
medical department Of the University of Vermont
Mr. w. Z. Smock, of Yale semi nary, accepts a
call to the Congregational church at Hinesburgh.
A couple of young fellows named George Green
and Walter Davis became involved in quarrel in
Burlington Friday evening, and Green, getting the
worst of the fight, drew bowie knife and aimed a
blow at Davis's head Fortunately. the knife
glanced, and, missing vital pot, inflicted deep
cash in Davis's cheek, making a severe but not
serious wound.
The greeoback party at Winooski, of which Jon.
Il, Forests the head light, numbers one hundred
members and holds nightly meetings.
Sanford Small, from Iowa, is now in Huntington
VIVA h'hS he"'S Piiio vi lOT SdleSs HE is
native of Huntington, and is large farmer in
Iowa.
orVIlle Sinclair died in Burlington, Sunday aged
c2yearS. lie was for many years proprietor of a
sawmill at Winooski Falls. lie was a member of
the Burlington board ofaldcrmen four years.
Rev, Eben IIolley, who preached in Richmond,
sometime while a student IN the Seminary and who
declined call to the pastorate of the Congrega.
tional church in Rutland, has just closed PASTOR
ate OF nine years in Cincinnati, aud will begin at
once his duties as pastor Of of the churches in
Binghampton, n. Y. !
ESSEX COUNTY.
sad case was that of the brothers Hill, Moses |
and Chauncey, of WesqConcord.s Arer long life of
frugal industry, the competency they had wrung |
from the soil was impaired by an unfortunate bust |
ness venture, and finally swept entirely away by |
the failure OF Friends" for whom they had en- |
doised. The disaster was too severe for Moses |
ana nc TOOK up arms against his sea of troubles |
and by opposing, ended them. After his brothers. |
suicide, Chauncey fingered on, for a while, and |
one day last week, at the age of ~, died of hrok
en- heart
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Swanton Courier calls the members of the |
franklin County Bar" imps of the law"
Henry d. Wright of Swanton, has lust had ex |
tracted from his side bullet (which was inserted
there By rebel, in SG2.
1t is not true that the water of the poisoned we'll
in Richford is now used 1t may be perfectly good |
again, but the inhabitants do not care to test il. |
The survivors of all who were made sick are recoy-
cred or coIvalescent.
ORANGE CnITNTy
Rev. g. F. Morse has resigned the pastorate of
the Congregational church at ThetforI.
at Braintree, the other day, was found nest
containing forty young mice.
Holland has a quadrupex sheep which recently
gave birth to four living lambs.
James NJ Furman OF Bethel on Friday lost his
well known stallion Rillington " from eating
poisonous weed in his hay. The animal was ID
years old and valued at $1,000.
RurL MD COUNTY.
+. Rend1ed Kendall of Rutland will deliver the
address in that place on Decoration bay.
According to the Herald, Rutland is in a rather
bad way. The beer saloons keep open Sundays
and the hose companies have corrupting ndu-
ence on their members.
dedicated Thursday, April 1ith, Bishop Simpson
officiating.
At a recent Albany funeral four generations OF
relatives followed the body 10 the grave.
The Brandon Methodists have had considerable
dissension over the reported over payment of
Stafford Phelps, by j s. Stafford, member of
the firm and also the society's treasurer, for ma
terials used in building their new church and
number have Withdrawn from member ship.
George Bromley has been bound over in $4,000,
and Merritt Clark in 81 O0O for their recent murder
Gus assault upon John Callahan, near WaIlnglord
WINDHAM COUNTY.
The body of'R. e. Jordtn of West Roxbury
Mass who has been missing about three months
and for whom a reward offered at the time, i
has just been found in Woods Brook, about mile t
north of Bellows Fails, VT, badly dccomposed, &
but still recognizable. His wallet, watch, letters
and papers were all found on his person intact II
was probably suicide, and there is considerable ex
element regarding It, He has sister living there,
and was at the time traced to her. when all track
was lost.