Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

ID. L. Fuller & Son advertise sure cure
for potato bugs. 1t makes them sick
every time.
II. NJ. Bryant who has lectured a good
deal on temperance in Vermont, died in
Lewiston, Maine. May Goth.
mo fishing here is common sign in
Vermont. The law against catching
whales in the streams of the Green
Mountain state is vigorously enforced
Boston Journal.
Travellers would do we'll to consult the
time table on our fourth page before start
ing off. A decided change in the time of
starting has been made in many of the
trains.
Last week natural phenomenon occur
ed at Weybridge in the shape of Il land
slide. About three-fourths OF an acre of
land started from its place and plunged
into the river, leaving huge gap.
The man injured at the Sutherland Falls
marble company, the 18th, whose name
we have failed to learn, says the Rutland
Herald, died of his injuries and was taken
for burial to Wallingford. His wife and
children reside there.
Captain Sumner II. Lincoln, of the 22d
Infantry Formerly colonel of the 9th Yer.
mont) who killed mutinous soldier in
Texas April Goth, was tried for murder in
that state May 10Th, and the jury brought
in n verdict of not guilty.
a temperance pledge, written and sign
ed in 1910, to which is appended 80:
names, has lately come to the front in
Castleton, after being in obscurity for &c
years. Only about so of the individuals
whose names follow this pledge are living
On the 18th, Mrs. Alice Batchelder died
in Cabot, aged 95 years. The deceased
was II remarkably intelligent woman ant
was the mother of George Batchelder, o
Maine, prominent lawyer, and also o
John X. Batchelder, who died some year,
ago at Denver, Col.
OMIssIoN.-In last weeks FREEMAN
the list of Vermont boys who have part
at the coming commencement in Dart
mouth college should have contained the
following: Ethical Discussion: AR,
good bargains consistent with goot
morals?-Frank G.. Wheatlev, Brook
field, Vt"
Arrangements have already been com
pleted for grand temperance mass meet
ing ut Lyndonville on the coming nationa
anniversary. The RAILROAD fare will b
placed at excursion rates. Eminent speak
ers are to be present and all Temperance
organizations arc to participate.
The time for the meeting of the Orang
county convention of text book committee
has been changed from Saturday next t
) Friday, so rs to allow of two days SEES
sion, if thought best. Let all the tex
book committees in each town of the coun
ty take notice and be at Chelsea Friday
, June 9th, promptly at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
In Stanstead, Canada, a man sold ten
, cent packages, warranted sure death t
5 potato bugs; no risk of poisoning animal
: as with Paris green" The packages wer
7 not opened until time to use them. On
l victim having three, opened one an
1 found two square blocks of wood, on on
, of which was written: Place the bug 0
this block, and press firmly with tn
, other"
: Great excitement prevailed in the mort
S part of Chester, known rs Smokeshir
> over missing child of Charles Robbins
t Monday. The child, a little girl thre
It and onchalf years old, was last see
e about o'clock Sunday. Some fifty pc
sons have been in constant search, but u
S to / o'clock Monday she had not bee
: discovered. 1t is the general opinion
C those in search that she has been stole
n but this is hardly probable.
The doctors decide that the recent teri
J BILE mortality among the twenty-sevt
Il children that drank from brook in New
y ark, this state, polluted by carcasses
animals, was due to diphtheria, aggravatt
of by the poisoned water. A mild case
II the disease that existed before the gre
a. fatality leads to the belief that the brot
Ii water was not the prime cause of the C
st lamity. Eleven children have now die
y but all the other sick ones are recoverin
Tent Book CoNvENTIoN.-Since o
- last paper conventions Of text book col
mittees have been held in Addison, Ri
% land, Windham and Lamoille countit
The franklin readers received MAORI
&c in Rutland and Windham and II plurali
III in Addison while Appleton's had n plura
y ty in Lamoille. Guyot's biographies h
H. majority in all the above counties exec
Windham where it and Harper were
~ competitors receiving the most volt
nj Greenleafs arithmetics were unanimous
IT, chosen in Windham and Lamoille and
~ in Addison and Rutland, Fish being
leading competitor. Reed and kellogg
grammars were the favorites in all
conventions.
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Ia CHELsEA.-Mrs. Kate QIatch) Heb
,,ot,rnoJ f,op, hor homo in tho far w
b. returned iro'n hoi ''o'ii0 III 'no i''
:. last week. She intends, us we learn,