Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

The fifth assembly was held at the
Pavilion Monday evening with fair at
tendance.
The Fullerton stock of boots and shoes
sold at sheriffs sale on Monday-will be
left in the store and closed out at cost.
The ball of the Capitol Guards at the
Pavilion Friday evening was in every
sense success; there were sixty-five
couples present.
1t is with unusual sorrow that we an
nounce the death, on Tuesday morning at
o'clock, of Mrs. Church Tabor, wife of
the presiding elder of the Montpel Ter dis
trict.
The directors ofthc WashingtonAgricul
tural Society will meet at the Court House,
in Montpelier, on Saturday, the 22d of
February, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, to make
arrangements for the annual fair.
j. Alonzo Phlbrick. formerly of this
place met with severe accident about
two weeks ago at Prayer city, Burling-
ton, Minnesota. lie was loading logs
when large one rolled off and over him
breaking his collar bone in two places.
A small stick Of timber broke the fall or
he must have been killed.
The harmless, necessary cat" honored
by Shakespeare, is likely to receive share
of the need of praise so often awarded to
dogs for fidelity and sagacity. For at the
burning of the house of widow Marcia
Robinson, at Hydepark recently the house,
hold cat awakened the lady by jumping
upon her face,just in time for her to escape
from the flames.
Any pensioner of the late war who will
send L. r. Gordon of Montpelier his
name, number of pension certificate, post
Office address, and one dollar to pay for
blank, postage and stationery, will receive
by return mail properly prepared appli-
cation for arrears of pension, as required
by the commissioner of pensions under
the new pension bill granting arrears of
pension from date of death or discharge
from service to the time the pension COM
menced, with full directions for complet
ing and making application.
Sunday was Candemas day. According
to the old proverb, on Candlemas day, you
should have half your straw and half your
Il hoo
to wake from their long nap on Condemns
day and come out of their holes, when, if
they find the SIM bright enough to enable
chem to see their shadows they calculate
that winter is so nearly over that it is time
for them to be up, and about their years
business; but if their sh ldows are not
visible they yawn and creep buck to bed,
sleepily mutterng: You have woke me
too soon, must slumber again"
The comedy of Clouds rs presented, at
the Vestry of the Church of the Messiah,
by the Help and Hope Society of Barre,
could hardly have been improved. The
play in itself was very interesting, being
pointed and full of humor. The moral of
the play was one only too often found
lacking not alone in mimic, but also in
real life. The strong points of the piece
We're effectively given as also its lighter
parts. The audience fully appreciated the
difficulties under which the actors labored
in presenting their play before an unfa-
mliar assembly, but even with these dis
advantages there was no lack of interest
from beginning to end. Where all did
well it is hard indeed to single out for
especial mention any whose names appear
on the programme, and it is but justice to
all to say that the parts were we'll selected
and well played.
RUNAwAY.-Llst Wednesday when the
New Orleans minstrels started cut To play
in the street the horse Of Judge N. A.
Chase had Just been driven up by "A boy
in front of the Court House and becoming
frightened escaped from the boy. ran up
State street and into Main breaking the
attached sleigh and another on the latter
street. The horse then ran home and back
down Elm to State street where it broke n
leg turning the post office corner and had
to be killed. Mr. Baird, the leader of the
minstrels, having had losses lately was
unable to "pay down" for the loss but
gave his note for fifty dollars to the Judge,
and some of our citizens being satisfied by
Sheriff Tuttle that Baird was man who
meant to do the square thing went securi-
ty for the payment of n second fifty to the
Judge, Mr.. Baird promising to pay them
as he doubtless will, as he seems to be an
honest man, ard an honest man is liable
to be " short y now and then.
Charles +. Bancroft, who died ut the
residence of his son, in this village, Febru-
airy LIST, was Il native of this place. He
was born June 18th, 1880, and Montpelier
has been his residence since, with the ex-
,pton of few years ut Waterbury and
St. .Johnsbury. Mr.. Bancroft possessed
mechanical ingenuity Of Il high order and
hld several patents on useful inventions of
his own. He was for a long time foreman
of Dewey's tin shop and afterwards in
business for himself for several years. He
was first lieutenant Of Company |, 18th
VT. Volunteers. Mr.. Bancroft was mar
ried three times AMI leaves two children
son, G. d. F., Of this place, and daugh-
ter, Alice d.. of st. Johnsbury. The G.
A. r. post, of which he had been mem
Der, attended his funeral in body.
Sally Willis Slayton, daughter of Ed
mund Willis and widow of Bucklin Stay
ton, was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts,,
August 18th, 1888, and died January 3lst
1879. Her father and her husbands
father, Jesse Slayton of Brooklield, Massa
chusetts, were among the first settlers o.
Calais, and helped in the organization Of