Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-01
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY.
Mrs. Jimeo, of Bristol, took Paris green, the
Their day,aud also gave some to her youngest child
Both are living yet however.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Judge Dunton granted John V. Halls divorce
etition on charge oradultery,at Benuiug on, the
Their day. This probably ends the Bennington
candll.
John Hanley died at Manchester, the other day,
be result OF an injury received at South Dorset
lore than year ago. lie was there with some
ompanlons and all had been drinking heavily.
'hen they got into quarrel and Hanley was hit
N the head by stone. post.mortem examina-
ion showed that the skull was cracked and that
&C Of matter had formed in the brain beneath,
which by its pressure had causeda soflening of the
rain, resulting in his death. John Bohan was ar
ested for assault with intent to XII, and bound up
u the sum of one thousand dollars.
The Franklin" readers are now being introduce
ID in the common schools of Bennington an 4 vicin-
ty.
Nelson Holly, OF Pownal went home, the other
lay after three weeks spree, TO find his wife alb
cnt. lie went 10 where she was stopping, and
to get her to return home, but without
success, after which he went home AMI cut his |
hroat, completing the business by hanging him.
self
CALEDONIA COUNTY
Orange CLARK, who died at St. Johnsbury, the
other day, was a member of volunteer company
from WillIanstown that fought at the battle OF
Hon. T. J. Cree has sung in the Whcelock choir
for 40 years, not having been absent more than
n in,a 1ur in no tyh
leader of the choir Is years. He is now % years
old and has never sat in pew with his family but
twice, the first Sunday after he was married and
another time on funeral occasion when he was
mourner.
Warren Miller of Ryegate, aged twenty -one, was
instantly killed at Wells River saturday. He was
drawing logs when his horses became unmanagea-
BILE and tipped the load over upon him.
st. Johnsbury sent number Of good fowls to the
recent state poultry show which took the first and
second premiums ia their classes.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Miss Louise Howard of Burlington generously
provided a sumptuous Christmas dinner for the
inmates of the city alm3house. The following was
the bill of fare: tea and coffee oyster SOUP, roast
turkey with cranberry sauce, scaoped oysters,
turnips, squash, potatoes and onions, apple lie,
rice pudding.
Charles Mayo, the man who jumped into the La
noble river in fit Of temporary insanity, has re-
covered his and returned to the home of his
parents in Essex.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A Flencbmon named Coata died recently at
Montgomery, aged 100 years and 8 months.
A new snow pillow, weighing $1,000 pounds and
having all the late improvements, has just been
tnrned out of the Central Vermont shops at ST.
Adams.
While Dwight McGregor Of lIighgae Springs
was feeding" threshing machine "a few days ago,
his arm was drawn into the cylinder and so badly
mutilated that it was found necessary to amputate
it just below the elbow
Jeannctt IIendrick died insane at Montgomery,
the other day, aged AZ. For Il years before her
death she had not spoken.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
The recent murderous and probably fatal as sault
on Abbie O'Connor's l2-years-old daughter at AL
burgh by Claris saA. Bennett quick.tempered young
woman of22, who is now in jail, grew out of feuC
between the Two families. Last summer several o
the Eennetts were arrested forputtng filth in thu
OConnors' well, and short time ago, when Miss
Bennett met the little O'Connor girl, she accused
her of telling lies denial resulted in the child
receiving a heavy blow on its side with pain
pail, while it was seized and nearly choked t.
death, and it has been splitting blood ever since.
Mr.. NJ. r. Mott, the station agent at Alburgh, ha
for some time missed small sums of money fror
the drawer of his ticket Office On the 2Sd inst. h
concealed man in the Office and went to dinner
Shortly after the depot became vacated and Samuc
| Hudson came in, he went out and looked into tn
window of the office, and seeing no Que there, h
went back into the depot, raised the slide door {
the Office pulled out the money drawer, and whe
in the act of taking the money out, he was caugt
by the man lie confessed to having been Their
before. He was arraigucd the 25th, before JustiC
Lyman, plead guilty, and was sentenced to the re
form school during minority.
LiMOlLLE COUNTY.
Miss Mary Knowles an evangelist from Canad;
who labored last year at lIinesburgh, Monkton an
other places, and who has been aboring this winte
at Swanton, is conducting series of meetings {
the Methodist chapel at johnson.
The last case at the December term of tn C Ii
noble county court was that of Fred Meeker, VIII
was held for trial for breaking into the Hyde Par
depot and robbng the cash drawer of from Sl2
Sl1. The case awakened much intesest and wa
largely attended. The defense set up an alibi an
explained the possession of money found on III
respondents person by his having won considers
Ule money at the game of poker. He was acqui
ted.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Wells River is to have local paper the Rive
side,
A young man named Peter Howe had an al
cut OF by a circular saw at Post Mills one day la
week.
Paul Jerry, of Bradford, fell from hay NOV L
Gently and was SO seriously injured internally tn
very little hope is entertained ofhis recovery.
Bradford, too, puts in a bid for the next sta
fair
Rev. Thomas II. Dunstone!works in the CORN,
copper mines duilng the week and breaches at
| school house in the district on Sundays.
Since January 1878, Charles II. Flint of Brookhe
has killed with a shotgun IS woodchucks, II gre
squirrels, "a red squirrels, partridSes, rabl
and skunk, making total of ia.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
: II, c. " ilsou OF North Troy, sowcd about tween
acres of oats last spring; AMI after threshns in'
that he has nearly 1000 bushels of good oats, ma
: ing yield OF Gny bushels to the acre.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Eally the other morning, Major Ross, who rur
: the New York express to Burlington, discovere
near Pitts ford that man was stealing ride on
COW catcher, but thought he wouldn't stop
train to disturb the man but let him enjoy the rio
to Brandon When the train arrived at that sta tic
The man tumuled of so sti with cold that he cou
q not walk. lie had dog, holding it W it'll cha
. lie replied when INTERCEPTED by the major as
the temperature OF the morning air, that the sto
70 was on the wrong side of the kitchen.-Rutla
ID Herald.
Rutland has Just completed new water works
i a cost of $4,000.
}. ". Parker has accepted the situation of ass
ant superintendent ofthe state house ofcorrcctio
Ne and assumed his duties there this week.
Herbert Ketchum of Fair Haven, aged p, ant
:. railroad brakeman were run over and killed by
cars recently.
, Wa,cr-pipcs have been laid from Hitchcock pc
to Brandon, a distance of about eight miles, and
- village now has plenty of water.
IL A Castleton man recently killed his pig beca
Is he suspected that it had swallowed his knife,w
he thought had fallen into the feeding-trough,
a post, mortem examination failed tot discover
property, aud it was afterwards found outside