Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-24
Merry Christmas to all.

the sick list.
Mr.. Joseph Fisher is erecting a house
on Liberty street extension, for his son
William Ii. Fisher.
On Saturday last Mrs. Deter slipped on
one of the glass plates in the side walk in
front of the Union block, and falling
broke her knee-pan.
Granite lodge of Barre will have a
masonic reunion Saturday evening next.
There will be Il public installation. an
address, music and refreshments at the
Town Hall.
Charles B. Fisk, of Waterbury, has
caught q foxes and 70 skunks, and gath
cred $40 worth of spruce gum in two
months, for which he has got $40.
On Friday afternoon, roughs broke the
windows in the front door in E. S. Whit
combs saloon, which was closed at the
time, Mr.. Whitcomb being on tho sick
list.
We understand that Mr.. Harry Lowe
has sod his bay geldng, Bonnie Tansie. to
parties in Brooklyn for one thousand dol
lars. He proved very fast, trotting better
than 235.
The religious anniversaries of the COM
ing week are as follows: Sunday, St.
Thomas day; Thursday, Christmas Fri
day, St. Stephens; Saturday, ST. Johns
Sunday the Holy Innocents.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Sibley's daughter
Mabel died at Saratoga, Friday evening, Ct
membranous cnoup, and was buried at
North Montpelier, Sunday. Little Mabel
was nearly seven years old and was an
only child.
Look out for stove pipes where they pass
through floors or partitions, and for the
furnace flueS. in these days of hot fires.
1t does not conduce TO comfort in the
family to burn the house down in this
kind of weather.
\ fire which recently caught in the par
Tor closet OF the house of William H.
Malloy, who lives in East Montpelier.
destroyed about two hundred dollars
worth of clothing, the loss including nearly
the entire wardrobe of Mrs. Malloy.
Col. J. B. Mead, superintendent of agri-
culture, and Prof. A. Atwater will speak
Tuesday afternoon and evening, December
30.h, at West Berlin, at the meeting
e i,o E,ptr,1 Vorn,opt Don,ono orao ue
The public are generally invited to attend.
While scraping the snow from the ice
near the red arch bridge Tuesday morning
horse of Chas. Lawrence broke in and
went entirely under. After much trouble
it was got out and did good days
work, seeming none the worse for its cold
bath.
Upon the subject of clipping horses. a
practice pretty generally INDUCED in al
this season of the year, the best informed
horscmen say that only horses capable oil
high rate OF speed should be deprived OF
their coats during the winter. The clip
ping Of draught horses that are obliged to
stand out in all kinds of weather is char
acterized us inhuman, and should not be
tolerated.
Brooks Post No IS, G. A. II. wa:
never in better running order than a
present-out of debt with cash on hanC
and have secured their hall for another
year. They are to have Il special meeting
on the last Tuesday in December, 1879
and on the first Tuesday of 1880. January
9Th, they have public installation o
officers to which all their friends ar
invited,-at Z: so clock,
The Burlington Free Press is for thi
section Of the state the only Vermont dali.
paper that reaches us with news ahead @
the CITY papers. 1t is carefully conducted
gives Vermont news with fullness and i
candid and generally correct in its cditori
al views. The next year will be one il
which folks will want to get state rs we
rs national news eorly and the Free Pres
gives the earliest chance.
The second meeting Of the Central Yer
mont Poultry Association was held a
Montpelier at the Pavilion last Saturday
when the constitution was adopted an
several new members voted in. 1t wa
decided to hold the first annual exhibilio
in Village Hall, Montpelier, Jan. 81. 2e
% and 30. The prospects for a good eS
hibition are very favorable, and it onl.
needs the hearty corporation of the bus
ness men of the place to make the exh
biiion US good. if not better, than the stat
exhibition held here last winter.
The Springfield Republican for 1880 wi
be paper worth taking. It's New Eng
llnl news is full and it is, take it altogetf
e., the best daily for Vermont family
The RepublicnR has the news and tell
what it thinks about il. Frequently
don't think as we do and about som
things it thinks steadily what is opposite
our thought in the mltter. But 1t is witt
Horace Greeley used to call mighty il
lerestin' reading whether one agre,
with ii or not; and anybody who takes
will get the full worth of his money.