Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-17
According to the weather prophets win

According to the weather prophets win
rer will begin in earnest December 20.
Every member of the Knights of Honor
is wanted at their hall this Wednesday
evening. Business.
We understand that Ira Washburne has
traded with 7. o. Bailey for the J. T.
Sabin house on Middlesex street.
Captain Thomas, magician, will give
entertainments at Village Hall on Monday
and Tuesday evenings of next week.
Chas. Ward, who recently removed
from here to Florida, writes back that
they are now having ripe strawberries
from heir garden.
Mr.. S. N. Bliss has g one to Manchester,
N. H.. to take charge of bobbin factory.
Bert. his eldest son, leaves this week to 90
into the same employ.
Some six inches of snow came Sunday
evening and makes very good sleighing
which has been improved by large
number of our people.
A party of three Montpelier rowdies
raided about in several saloons Tuesday
afternoon, ending up with fight in which
thev pounded and were pounded
The Montpelier band will give prone
made concert at Village Hall next Saturday
evening and propose 10 keep them up dur
ing the winter. Admission only Is cents.
The Rev. S. S. Fletcher. formerly of
Portsmouth, and latterly of Exeter, N. H.,
has been engaged to preach for the Uni
versalsts of North and East Montpelier,
during the next five months.
Rev. n Fellows is to lecture in Trinity
vestry this Wednesday, evening on
Habits of Thought" All who can should
attend as rich feast may be expected.
Lecture at I: 80; tickets, % cents.
Bessie. a two-year- old daughter of Mer-
rill Pitkin, met with severe accident by
falling from high chair the other day on
to the stove, burning her face badly,
knocking cut two teeth and breaking her
jaw bone.
Instead Of the Union school that we
announced last week as being fitted up
with first.class steam heating apparatus,
it should have read the Union House. Mr..
Foster thinks that the change will be APP
preciated by his guests.
J. G. Smiths horse, while standing at
the Central depot this morning, was
frightened by an engine blowing off steam
and ran. The horse went over the bank
back of the American House and broke
his shoulder so that he had to be killed.
The Jury in the case Of National Bank
of Barre VS.. Montpelier came in this
morning with n defective verdict and
were sent out again. The indications by
what the jury tried to do is that there will
be verdict against the town of about
SAG.
In the presentation of holiday gifts to
their husbands, care should be taken by
wives not TO have things charged" as it
knocks the whole romance out of the
business when bill for the same is stuck
under the nose of the head Of the family
subsequently.
In looking for Christmas presents you
can by calling at j. G. Emerys find in bis
remarkably full stock just what you need
if you want to get that which is useful as
well AS ornamental His advertisement
in another column contains hint of some
of the fine things he has in his store.
I, is It little singular that for two years
past the bitter cold weather and heavy
snow storms which formerly characterized
our New England climate at this season
of the year have passed over to Europe,
and that we now enjoy the warm atmos'
phere that was formerly the exclusive
privilege of France and Italy.
Let our people console themselves. That
glib saying we all learned from our grand
mothers: "A warm Christmas makes II
fat graveyard" isn't true. The physicians
do not endorse the ancient saying, and
statistics show conclusively that the death
rate is less in the mild and open seasons
than in those that have a steady cold.
Thus the fallacy is exploded, and we may
enjoy in peace this English winter
CHRISTMAS. -The holiday trade in Mont
pelier we are sure has not been so good
for years as it is now. And our leading
dealers in articles that are peculiarly APP
propriate for Christmas time nave Judi
ciously seen this state of affairs. SO that
never before have their stocks been sojfull
and well selected as now. Our own towns
people 60 the rounds in their shopping
and sec for themselves what each has.
And people in the surrounding towns may
be assured that few hours spent here
some day in the next week will give them
opportunities for judicious buying that
will repay them if they want anything fol
the holidays.
Joseph Ward, son of William Ward
of Moretown, met with fatal accident
last Wednesday afternoon about 4 O'Clock
while saving in his fathers woods with q
drag saw. Dennis Hayes, one of the
workmcn, had started log from the TOT
of a pile and Ward, fearing it would strike
the saw which was in motion, stepped in
front of it with lever to stop the log but
was knocked backward by it; the end o
the saw as it came forward striking him
in the side just below the ribs. 1t was
not thought at the time he was seriously
mi Ircd and he walked to his fathers
house about quarter of mile distant
A doctor was called but was unable to re-
lieve him and he died. after suffering
a. of inIornoI in iuriac