Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-22

BARRE.--The citizens of Barre are
building n new band stand in the park fol
the use of Barre cornet band. Under the
training of Charles Andross, their accom-.
pished leader, they discourse music thai
is very satisfactory to the people.
Hon. Horace Fifeld met with a sad &C.
ci,lent few days since, by which he re
ceived a severe cut on his arm, which is
still causing severe pain and restlessness
Mr.. Ambrose Penniman whose death
| occurred last week, was a we'll to do farm
err, whose comparatively long life, sixty.
six years, has been spent on the old farm
on which he was born. For several years
his health has been poor. and although Il
man weighing well on to three hundred
pounds was far from being stranger to
pain and suffering.
Mr.. Alvan Wood whose funeral was
held on Tuesday this week, was the oldest
member of the Masonic Fraternity, being
eighty-six years old. He was buried un.
der the auspices and ceremonies of the
order.
The new school house is up and well
under way, and is progressing with COM
mendable energy.
l., j. Bolster has raised seventy foot
barn on his lot near the depot, and intends
before many years pass to build a COM
modious hotel on the same lot.
CABoT.-Cabot held caucus on the
18th instant to appoint three delegates to
the state convention, to be held at Bur-
lington on the 23d of May, and elected T.
H. Lance, chairman, and T. A. Town. sec
rotary; delegates Nathaniel Perry, John
H. Damon and j. M. Fisher; substitutes.
John Brown. Ira F. Haines and C. NJ.
Seabury. Cavendish, Brandon and Rut-
land have their candidates. and if Cabot
is entitled to candidate we will present
the name of E. p Walton of Montpelier
CHELsEA-It is reported that l.. II.
Ward has failed. The officer visited him
"a few days ago and took charge of his es-
tate. He is a farmer residing in the south
east part of the town. His failure is
another surprise of the same sort.
Col Ordway's drum and fife corps met
at his home on Saturday last to select their
uniform, preparatory for use on Decoration
day. In the afternoon they entertained
the citizens with martial music in front of
the stores, and by marching through the
principal streets.
The cold wave has passed by. but the
the severe frosts last week made the leaves
on many of the trees look as if they had
been scorched.
Rev. Jacob Spear, a Baptist clergyman
from Detroit, Michigan, supplied tine
pit at the Methodist church, on q recent
Sunday, in the absence of the pastor
Willie H. Howard, well known as our
job printer, is very low with consumption
There is little or no hope of his recovery.
The community can lily afford to lose
him.
There are four men in this town who
have each lost one leg and are obliged to
use crutches or artificial legs and canes
1t is said that there are sixty persons in
this village and its outskirts who are seven
ty or more years old. Only one of the
number was born in the town and has al
ways lived in town.
The grass is remarkably forward for the
season of the year. The "oldest inhabi-
tant cannot remember the time when it
WAS rs good at this time of the year.
There were some fine pictures and some
close shots in the sermon that was preach
ed by the pastor of the Methodist church
last Sabbath afternoon. The subject was
" Fast Young Men," 1t is only to be re-
GREETED that there were not more of that
class present to hear the sermon
Potato bugs were not affected by the
late frost. An Investigator warns the ag-
riculturalsts that now is the time to hunt.
He says: Just take sharp stick and
poke around each hill under the surface,
near the plant, you will find pair of
healthy Colorado beetles, which in ten
days will come out and lay from fifty to
one hundred eggs on the under side Of the
leaf. Kill them now"