Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

JOsoPu SuLlOJ SaWou AOuE COTuS OF WOO
twice in two in ten hours one day las
week.
Post Brooks, G. A. r.. holds specia
meeting next Tuesday evening. All com
rades and friends are invited.
Mrs. Lucy A. Cooke sleeping Lucy) i,
to be at her residence for few DAYS, al
will be seen by her advertisement.
The attention of temperance people il
called to the card of o. D. Edgerton oul
newly elected county commissioner.
The last assembly of the season was
we'll attended at the Pavilion last evening
Notwithstanding the bad weather.
The majority for Orsamus Cole. republi.
eau candidate for judge of the supreme
court in Wisconsin, is about 10000.
Fast day and good Friday coming to.
gether there was general observance OF
the day in the churches as we'll as else
where.
Walter, son of Fred E. Smith, who has
been very sick at the Hopkins Institute,
Burlington, was brought home last week
very much improved.
Captain A. A. Sweet, the veteran news
dealer. was as active as any of our young
est newsboys on his eighty-frst birthday,
which was last Friday, April 18th.
Montpelier is soon to have another fish
murket. Mr.. N. H. Stratton is fitting up
the old market at the corner of Elm and
Court streets, formerly kept by John r.
Seaver.
In our court report for April Q, we er-
roneously had it that E. N. Spaulding of
Roxbury was fined $1,000 and costs for
petty larceny. 1t is due to Mr.. Spaulding
to say that he is decidedly not that kind
of man. 1t was another Mr.. Spauldlng
The young people of the Church of the
Messiah give the play Mrs. Walthrop's
Bachelors" in the vestry of that church
tomorrow, Thursday, evening. Admis-
sion 10 cents. All who have heard them
heretofore will need no second invitation.
Fred r. Stevens, at his restaurant in
Frenchs block, Main street, has the most
attractive show window in town. He has
fitted it up into an immense cage and now
has three gray squirrels, whose pranks
keep Il crowd before the window the entire
day.
That greenback paper with which South
Royalton was to be blessed got into trouble
before parturition. some bloated bondhold-
ers Cor moon eyed lepcrs,as Denis Kearney
would say) to whom the proprietor was
indebted having attached the press and
fixtures.
John @. Adams did not move into the
Sherburne house. as we stated last week,
but moved this week into the Graves house
on Court street. Mr.. f. w. Whitcomb
has moved from French's house in the
rear of the arch into the Freeman house
on Barre street.
Frank P. Brown, son of Col. E. M.
Brown, formerly of this town, but now of
Bismarck, Dakota Territory, has been
appointed deputy collector of the United
States internal revenue district of northern
Dakota. 1t covers three hundred and fifty
miles square.
Kimballs granite works received orders
for five monuments last week, three being
from Dubuque, Iowa. Mr.. Kimball has
now three monuments nearly completed
to be placed in Green Mount cemetery
one to the memory of the late Charles
w. Bailey, one TO the late James G..
French, and the other by Mrs. Houghton,
sister of Widow J. f. Wright.
One of the first 10 receive pension under
the act of congress approved January %,
1879, was Mr.. Isaiah Frost of Groton, Vt.
Although the rate of his pension was only
50 per month, yet the whole sum received
by him at the first payment, covering Pc
riod of fourteen years, amounted to 1886.
The claim was presented by T. J. Deavitt
of Montpelier.
We have received from Ii. Cobb, of the
Montpelier Marble Works. n very hand
some paper weight turned from the silver
gray marble from the Columbian Marble
Co.'S quarries at Rutland. The marble
from these quarries is of several desirable
shades and parties wishing work for CEN.
etery Or other purposes should call on Mr..
Cobb and examine his large assortment of
work and material.
Charles P. Hayden's stock of plants for
the season of 1879 will be ready for deiv-
cry when the proper time comes to set
them out. His stock will consist of the
best varieties of tomato. cabbage, peppers,
caulihower, celery and other plants. His
prices for plants will be lower this season
than last, and his plants will be the best
that can be raised. Prices and varieties
will be given hereafter.
Several -Montpelierites are now stop
ping in town, Mr.. John ID. Phelps, of
Colfax, California, brother of Mrs.
Whittier, being on visit after an absence
of fourteen years. We understand he is
to stop some time. Mr.. Parmenas Camp,
of Wisconsin, is visiting his aged father.
Mr.. Lyman G. Camp, who has been quite
sick for some time, and Mr.. V. w. Bull
lock, Of Burlington, Iowa, is also on his
annual visit here.
Thursday evening the Pavilion was
crowded to witness the entertainment
given by the ladies of Bethany church.
Stonewall Jackson's brigade paraded while
j. w. Saut told what they did and what
she said" Hiawatha was there with
his deer, and both were in charge OF
Sheriff futile. Costumes which were ex.
pected from Boston failed to come but
home talent invented others that were
voted as good as could be had. j. V.
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