Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-09

CHELsEA.-Walter Barnes left town
with the intention of going to some of the
western states in pursuit of work but we
learn that he obtained place at Middle.
bury, Vt.
Eddie ID. Fuller has gone TO Lowell,
Mass in pursuit of employment. Charles
Russell has gone TO Kansas to work on
farm.
S. P. Durkee, while hewing a stick for
wedge. had The misfortune to cut his left
thumb nearly off.
Another of our aged people has passed
away. Mrs. Merrill, wife of John r.
Merrill, died April I'd. aged eighty-two
years.
Mrs.A.R.liovey was quite severely hurt,
recently. by being thrown from a sleiy b
while iding out with her husband.
While young man by the name OF
BeckwiIh was driving II young and spirit, d
horse across the bridge in the norh pal
of the town, the horse took fright, SHE'D,
and ran off the side Of the bridge. As
the horse went down the shafts were bro.
ken, leaving the body of the sleigh on III,
bridge, which prevented what might have
been serious accident to the driver. Tie
sleigh and harness were considerably
damaged.
A. Inal altr,.t ,gaor Ia a.
advance of the wool market and shipped
large quantity of wool to Boston las
week.
For the first time since sleighing COM
menced the stage on the route 10 Royalton
went on wheels April 9th.
Arthur Goss, q student at Dartmouth
college, has been spending Il short vaca
ton with his parents in this town.
w. j. Tarbell. having nearly completed
his large store building at South Royal
ton, has removed 10 Chelsea and taken
rooms with his father in-law, Emory Gale,
on Maple street.
Deacon Carlos Moore had surgical
operation performed. a few days ago, by
which the uvula or palate was removed in
con sequence of its elongation and conse
quent irritation of the throat.
CoRINTH.-W. Casey had one finger
crushed while helping to unload II boiler
at the Goddard mines few days ago.
NORTH FERRIsBURGH.-W Winter still re-
poses in the lap of spring.
Potato bugs have put in their appear
ance and demand our notice.
w. w. Dow has just returned from a
visit among friends at Canada.
Miss Anna C. Allen commences select
school on Wednesday Of this week at
Good Templars' hall. 1t prom SEES to be
very successful.
The ladies' aid sociable and life drama
at the NJ. E. vestry on list Wednesday
evening was q grand success The net
proceeds of the same were twenty dollars
Easter services at the NJ E. church on
next Sabbath evening.
N. j. Allen has titted up office rooms,
etc., in the upper p.rt of the store.
| J. P. Kenyon, of the firm, Webb &
Kenyon, is soon to start IL tnman 5 cart
upon the road.
II. G. Day has arranged for the pur-
chase of live poultry during the coming
season for market purposes. He proposes
to ply the highest o.sh prices for the
same, delivered ut his premises.
Lieut.. M.dad C. NJ rln, U. S. A., whose
post of duty HIS been ut Buff 10. N. Y,
las received orders to 60 to rex.s, on the
Mexican frontier. His wife will accom-
pany him.
Miss Hattie Fuller, who HIS been home
IN vacation, returns TO her school this
week.
1t was our fortune few days since tC
all at the home of John II. rhorp, III
Charlotte, where We were greatly enter
stined an | interested in behnlling th
following rare and curious articles. name
ly: A vial of Dead Sea water. II box IN .,l
# olive wool, II specimen of C.lrob fruit
leaves from Abrahlm's oak in Hebron
olives from the oll,st olive tree in the
garden of Geth'emlne. pebbles from til,
)ottom of the Dead Sm, II Turkish pias
re, n specimen of -originally abou
six inches thick II btlm Of Giead
crown in the town of Charlotte, two Bra
I'll nnts rs they grow upon the tree,
walrus' tush, RENDERS head and neck
solid silver spoon and beer tankarl
more than u hundred years old. Bes Idle
these Mr.. Thorp has very many othe
objects that will interest the lover {
nature and of the curious.
From the secretary and treas lrer S re
port of the Nj. f. Sunday school durin
the last quarter it appears that the avera :
+ attendance has been one hundred ant
: twenty-nine and one-thirteenth; and til
total penny collections ut the same, thir
teen dollars and tifty-scven cents.
n The attendance at the NJ Z. Sundl
school on last S ,bblth WAS one hundre
b and forty eight; penny collection ut tt
o same, one dollar and thirty cents.
n WEST FAIRLEE.-L b. Merrill an
!. William Eastman, of this town, recent
l caught fifty-eght pounds of pickerel in
;, pond in the town of Wentworth, N. IL.
GRANvILLE.--White River Vale
, Lodge, |. o. G. T., is in furnishing col
/ dition, having begun with seventee
members a little over four months ag,
/ and now numbers over forty.
d NoRrHFIELD. Mortified Juvenile Ter
Pile, No. l, held II public meeting Saturd;
o evening, April 9th, at half.past Z, at Il
y Good Templars' hall. The house w
D crowded and many went away for want
more room and seats. Mrs. Carrie Pc
sons, the superintendent, had charge
IS the exercises during the evening. II
al ,an, nla vyor nnenad and cnnduct,d in =,