Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-16
Hon. Trenor W. Park goes to Panama
with Gen, II. II. Baxter. this week

Hon. Trenor w. Park goes to Panama
with Gen, II. II. Baxter, this week.
Mr.. Preston Powers, son of the late
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, is succeeding
admirably in his fathers profession. He
is now in Florence, Italy, engaged upon a
statue of the late Hon. Jacob Collamer.
Congressman Hendee has introduced in
the House OF Representatives a bill amend
ing the revenue law, increasing the tax
upon fermentnd and distilled liquors, and
repeating the tax on matches and bank
checks.
JUVENILE SUICIDAL the age of four-
teen years, with the aid of leather strap
and towel rack, Willie Roberts, of New
ark, Caledonia county, put an end to his
Juvenile troubles, last week, and by force
:" went over to the majority"
Meetings of the State Board of Agri-
culture are announced as follows: Albany
Jan. 1928; West Concord Jan. 24-25;
Felchvllle Jan. $3.50; N. Tunbridge Jan
81, Feb. | Bakersfield Feb. sc; East
Hardwick Feb. rs; johnson Feb. 1918;
Marshield Feb. l4-l5; Middletown Feb.
1920; Manchester Feb. 2l-22
A common drunk" was brought before
the Burlington city court last week, and
the "court reporter of the Free Press
soliloquized thusly There was man,
a Roman soldier, foa some daring deed
that trespassed on the laws. in dungeon
low chained down. He was hailed before
the City Court, and it appeared that his
name was Theophius Champeau, and hi,
offence drunkenness.
The sale of the effects of Deacon E. p
Smith realized seven hundred dollars
This does not include the farm in Addison
or the house in Vergennes, these being
offered at private sale Several hundred
dollars worth of the movable property
is alleged to have been secreted from the
creditors, and the assignee has been di
rected by them to recover the same. Some
of it has been found in possession of the
deacon's son.
PROBABLE FATAL ACCIDENT.-As Julius
Wimmettee was coming down the mount
ain near East Middebury, Sunday morn
ing, with heavy load his sled sleweC
against the railing on the lower side of tho
road, which gave way, and the team ant
driver were precipitated two hundred feet
killing one horse, severely injuring tho
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other, and probably fatally injuring Vim
mette.
KILLED BY THE CARs.-A young mar
named Carroll, section hand on the Mis-
sisquoi railroad, was run over by the trar
somewhere above Enosburgh Falls, Sat
urday evening, and instantly killed his
body being shockingly mangled. lie wa,
lying across the track. Two bottles 0
highwines and pail that had contained
liquor were found lying near him, SO there
was no question but that "rum did it,
Carroll was to have been married Sunday
The New York Star says George F
Edmunds is as chilly specimen of New
England statesman us the bleak highland,
of Vermont can produce. His oral deliv
cries are examples Of frozen speech, anC
his written sentences read as if they hat
been set in Il refrigerator over night tC
cool. When President Hayes got through
Edmundss epistle to him, he must have
felt like putting on thicker under-clo thes
and ordering the White House stoker tC
shovel more coal into the furnace.
The late George R. Chapman left an in
surance on his life of four thousand dollars
in the Connecticut Mutual, payable to hi.
wife; AMI one thousand dollars in the
Vermont Life Of Burlington, and two
thousand dollars in the New York Mutual
payable to his mother In IL recent SER
mon in Vergennes, Rev. II, N. Munger
of the NJ. E. Church reviewed Mr.. Chap.
mans high character and generous quail.
ties, and his trustworthiness in official
positions.
VERMONTERs IN CHICAGo,-The grand
banquet of the Chicago "Sons of Yer.
mont " comes off on Thursday evening
January 18th. 1t is expected that rcspons
es to toasts will be made by James Skin
ner, Judge Lawrence, Judge Beckwith
Judge Jameson, the Rev. DR.. Boardman,
the Hon. Edward Isham, w. w. Chand.
Ter, Alderman d. X. Parsons, Eldridge G
Keith, Otto S. A Sprague, and the other
well-known Vermonters; and Gov. Cul
lom, Lieutenant-Gov. Shuman, Mayor
Heath, and other state and city officials
will participate. Every Vermonter il
Chicago has been invited.
John F. Henry Curran. & Co., the
heaviest drug and patent medicine houst
in the United States, suspended paymen
last week in consequence of the failure o
their broker, Dunning. Mr.. Henry wen
from Waterbury about ten years ago, ant
has since become prominent in business
circles in New York and in the politics o
Brooklyn where he resides. A member 0
the firm says the liabilities Of the concern
will net exceed $5OO,00O and that, i
allowed to 90 on, they can pay every
dollar of it.
THE BENNINGTON MONUMENT. Til,
Bennington Battle Monument Association
held its annual meeting January OH. Tw,
vacancies were filled by the election o
Governors Prescott of New Hampshire
and Rice, of Massachusetts. Governor
Fairbanks was reelected president am
ex-governor Hall, of Bennington, vice
pr esident. The office of secretary wa,
abolished, and those of recording and cor
responding secretaries were created. Olir
Scott was elected to the former, ant
Charles NJ. Bliss to the latter. Milo G
Huling was reelected treasurer. A not;l.
BILE change was made in the board of di
rectors. 1t was increased from, five tt
seven, and the following gentlemen were
elected. Governor Horace Fairbanks
Hon. Benjamin Prescott, governor of New
Hampshire, Hon. Alexander II. Rice, gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Hon. Edward j
Phelps of Burlington, Hon. Abram B. Gard
ner, Hon. Henry G. Root, Rev. Isaac Jen
nings of Bennington This must make AZ
excellent board of management
The question of corporal punishment i.
being quite strongly agitated in Germany
where the teachers who do not believe thai
obedience can be enforced if the rod i.
spared are circulating petitions against tn.
recently -enacted laws prescribing fines fol
those instructors and professors who resor
to it.