Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-15
expense, and limiting the costs of adver'
tisements to twenty thousand francs.
ALPHA.

: I'm the OIL Instant the mousse. DaIH anu
outbuildngs of Adna Newton, in South
t Londonderry, were burned, together with
their contents; mostly insured.
RAILROAD IN PALEsrlNE.-A prominent
/ engineer of this city has made n contract
with French capitalists to build railroad
from Jerusalem to Jaffl, in the Holy Land.
The road is to be a narrow gauge, forty
miles long, and work is to be begun ut an
early day.
The prevalence of influenza, so often
miscalled by the press epizootic (Which
means upon animals, and is, therefore,
not properly applied to human beings,) is
quite general in Vermont. In many neg
lected cases pneumonia results, and if the
air or methods of living are bad diphthe-
ria or scarlet fever ensue with children.
The formal opening of the Mary Fletcher
hospital at Burlin gton will take place on
Wednesday of next week, January ODD
1879. The hospital will be open to the
public on that day from 10 A. NJ. to . p. NJ.
The public exercises will be held in the
amphitheatre at p. NJ, with an address
by d. B. St. John Rosa, NJ. D., of New
York city.
UNIQUE ADVERTISEMENT. - The St.
Adams Messenger published the following
advertisement:
MOT ICE TO THE RUMsELLER! have this day, Jan.
~ l. 1879 signed the Temperance pledge, and Joined
been Que of your best customers and have in all pad
you large amount of money; now all ask of You is
way intoxicate and further warn You that il You do
| BENJAMIN DINsMoRE.
Benjamin evidently turned over the new
leaf with tremendous flop.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
\ Merinot Sheep Breeders Association was
d held in Middlebury, January Sth. N. T.
Y S>rague presided and delivered IN address.
, oil. Spraguc was chosen president for the
; esuing year, S. G. IIolyoke of St. Adams
nd L. S. Stowel of Cornwall vice presi-
, ents, Chapman of Middlebury secretary,
I. ID. Lane treasurer. V. Rich, II NJ.
lottum, w. Il. Remele, Chas. Sandford
: directors, and j. I. Stickney, j. j. Crane,
Blgar Sanford, committee on pedigrees.
WINDSOR COUNTY COURT. The follow
itg is a summary of the work done at the
recent term of the Windsor county court
Indictments found by grand jury, twenty
seven; criminal causes tried by the state s
attorney by jury, four and n verdict of
guilty in each case; thirteen persons in
di2ted and three informed against, plead
guilty; sentences to the state prison.
thirty-one years; sentence to the house of
correction, one year; fines imposed 5000.
o. this sum 1855 has been paid, and in
default of payment of the balance of the
fines with costs added, the several delin.
quents must serve in the aggregate three
and onethird years in the house of correc-
ton at Rutland.
The WOODSTOCK RAILRoAD.-At the
annual meeting of the Woodstock Railroad
Company, Wednesday, the old board of
officers were reelected unanimously. The
report of the directors for the year ending
Sept. 3Oth, 1873, shows the gross earnings
to be SlS,637.53, and the operating ex-
penses ll,3Sl40 The road is II miles
long, and during the year there were
transported 1907 passengers and 5,8l5
tons of freight; total number of miles run,
10000. The road has been operated three
years, and during that time has transport
ed $4,000 persons, as many as l,200 in one
day, without the slightest injury to any
one.
We understand that among the promi-
nent gentlemen whose attendance is ex-
pected at the meeting of the Dairymen's
Association this week are DR.. F. +. Engel-
hardt, chemist to the milk companies of
Syracuse, N. Y, f. B. Thurber, of H. X.
! " f. B. Thurber d Co., of New York,
Who will exhibit samples of cheese which
took prizes at the London and New York
dairy fairs; Edward Norton. manager
of the Pennington, Conn, creamery and
secretary of the Guernsey Cattle Assoca-
ton; Thomas Whitaker. of Needham,
Mass, practical milk and butter producer
and II writer of very wide reputation
Hon. James G. Adams, secretary of the
New Hampshire Board of Agriculture;
Col. Mead, superintendent of agricultural
affairs, Professor Perkins. of the U. V. NJ.
land S. A. G., Professor Cressey, and
others. There can be no doubt that the
meeting will be one of high interest and
value.
The BEAN CASE.-A well informed cor
respondent of the Free Press says the
Bean case is not " finally decided for the
defendants" A new trial is granted on
account of the exclusion by the circuit
court of certain dispositions offered by the
defendants in mitigation of damages. The
case will now be tried again in the circuit
court, and there is nothing in the present
decision that will be in the way of the
Plaintiffs recovery. On the former argu-
ment of the case in the United States
supreme court, the merits of the case were
decided in favor of the plaintiff, it being
held that the imprisonment complained of
was not justliable. An effort was made
IN the recent argument to influence the
court to review the decision, but they
declined to do so, and the law on that
subject remains as stated by Judge Field in
the dissenting opinions of himself and
Judge Clifford, those two Judges holding
that the dispositions in question were prop
crly excluded by the circuit court in view
OF the previous decision of the supreme
court.
MAsoNIC.-The annual reunion of the
Connecticut River Valley Association was
held at Concord, N. H.. Friday, and was
largely attended by members and others,
several hundred gentlemen and ladies
being present. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Scion A. Carter, of Keene; first vice pres.
ident j. Frank Webster, of Concord;
second vice president, w. A. Farnum, of
White River Junction; treasurer, Wilson
Britton, of Hartland, VT. corresponding
secretary, c. G. Danforth, of Concord;
recording secretary, S. Hayes, of Bellows
Falls, VT; executive committee, A. w.
Baker, of Lebanon, Ira w. Cunningham,
of Lyndonvile, Vt, George II. Babbitt, of
Bellows Falls, Vt, At the evenings exer.
cises in Whites opera house there was Il
large and brilliant gathering, the ladies
appearing in elegant toilets and many of
the gentlemen in Masonic regalia. An
address was delivered by Henry Clark, of
Rutland on the principles of free masonry.
Dancing followed and was kept up to u
late hour.
The Academy of Bake rsfeld, endowed
and built by legacy from the late Peter