Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

been very dry, and a rain is anxiousl
looked for.
All kinds of job printing done in tn
best shape and at the lowest prices at tn
FREEMAN job Office.
The Central Vermont railway authori
ties have instructed agents to refuse a
Canadian bank bills.
The indications this morning are for
fall attendance ON the Good Templars
county reunion today.
A general invitation is extended to al
to attend the lecture of President c. 3
Hubert of Aliddlebury college this even
ing in Trinity vestry.
The Good Templars' Lodges of Wash
ngton county hold convention here to
day ut the Trinity church. Addresses ar,
10 be made this evening.
Mr.. II. G, Holmes has purchased The
meat business of o. D. Scribner Mr.
Scribner, however, continues the Yves
Indil goods business at the old stand.
All "veterans in Montpelier, Eas
Montpelier or Berlin who may wish tt
enlist in the company for the reunion will
call on or address II. c. Lull, Montpelier.
Clark French, employed by Mrs. DAME
Taft at Barre, was seriously kicked by ;
col. which he was beating the other day
His nose was broken, one eye knocked on
and his forehead crushed in, SO that clever
pieces of bone have been removed.
Charles B. Goodrich, at present q law
student with Messrs. Heath e Carleton
but who has had considerable experience
as Il teacher, has been elected principal
and superintendent for the ensuing year Of
the fourteen public schools in Vineland,
New Jersey.
Get your job printing done at tho
FREEMAN Office. We have lately mad,
an addition to our job department of sew,
eral hundred dollars worth of type and
material and are better prepared thar
ever to do the best and finest printing a
the very lowest prices.
The Washington county bar docke
shows three hundred and fifly-six law
cases for September term and seventy.
five chancery cases. The term begins
September 9th nominally, but on account
of the state fair it will be adjourned to the
10th Of September. The August term of
the supreme court has been adjourned to
October Dist.
L. p Towncr, who has been in the boot
and shoe business in Montpelier for the
past eight years, has sold out his business
to Mr. c. II. Shipmau, formerly a trim
mer in the cab shops here. Mr.. Towner
has by strict integrity built up good
trade, and we are sorry to lose him from
our midst, but bespeak for Mr.. Shipman a
con mutation Of tho trade.
Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago,
will deliver Il temperance lecture at
Trinity vestry next Monday evening at
I IL o'clock. A committee of ladies
have the matter of subscription for ex-
penscs in hand 50 as TO make it a free
lecture to the public, and it is hoped and
expected that Miss Willard may have an
audience commensurate with her talent
and ability, she being considered by many
rs without exception then finest lady
speaker now before the public.
As Mr.. Geo. II. Bennett was driving
with his wife and her daughter down q
steep hill near S. p. Blacks in Berlin
the breeching of his harness and one line
broke letting the carriage on to the horse,
which kicked and ran, and all three OF
the inmates We're thrown out, Mrs. Ben
nett hal her wrist broken and her knee
buddy injured and was considerably
s1rache and bruised about the head. The
rest escaped comparatively uninjured
The horse WAS stopped in the dooryard OF
MI. Black after making complete wreck
Of the carriage
SKATE NORMAL SCHooL.-We have Just
received circular of the State Normal
School ut Randolph, A. w. Edison, prin.
cip9l. The same board of assistant teach
crs have been retained for another year.
Pupils needing aid and intending tc
teach can have their tuition paid by the
state Apply to your superintendent for
an appointment or recommendation.
Never before could board and rooms for
sclf-boariing be obtained at so reasonable
rates.
The Central Vermont rail road company
furnish, through the principal, return
checks to all students of the school. The
Connecticut " Passumpsic railroad com.
rany furnish mileage tickets, two hundred
miles for five dollars. Apply to the prin-
cipll for circular or for any information
in relation to the school.
POISONED SPRING Last Thursday Mrs
Martin l. Reed of Berlin found the water
for the house did not run freely and went
to the spring from which pipes supply the
houses of Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Julius S
Whcolook. This spring was on hillside
dozen rods or so from Mr.. Reeds. On
arriving there Mrs. Reed saw something
over the strainer and on putting in q
Iipper to see what it was found it TO be q
pI,teboarl box Of Paris green which on
Icing disturbed came to pieces depositing
It's contents in the spring. The box was
one put up by Ripley & Holton, Burling-
ion, AMI no one in this county is known
to sell the poison in that shape. Messrs.
Wheclock and Reed offer one hundred
dJ}llrs reward for the detection of the
person who poisoned the spring. The
whole community has an interest in stop
ping this sort of thing and as much inter-
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