Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-15

She dropped her first calf last September
when she was but fourteen months old
During the first week of setting her milk
she made six pounds of butter. At The
present time she makes more than one
pound of butter per day.
jesse Flanders has sold his farm to Ed
son Allen of Manchester. N. IL. Mr..
Eison was formerly resident OF this
town.
The directors of Chelsea National Bank
declared semi-annual dividend of four
per cent at their meeting on Tuesday, the
9TH instant.
The week of prayer was observed by
union services at the two churches, which
were we'll attended and highly interesting.
Rev. MIR. Nichols, of Boston, spent the
week with the churches.
Amos S. Hatch has sold the widow
Smith place, so called, situated on Main
street, TO jesse II. Hobbs.
A call has been issued for the annual
meeting of Orange County Temperance
Society, to be holden at Chelsea, January
22d, 1879.
Tho series of meetings at the Methodist
church are being continued this week.
The pastor is assisted by Rev. Mr.. Mich
OILS.
Mr.. M. IL. Volk is about to remove to
Claremont, N. II.
Dudley Cabot has removed from the
West Hill to the village, into the house
that he bought of circuit Bixby, and Mr..
Bixby has moved into the house he bought
of Mr.. Volk.
CoRlNTH.-Robert Cornely received \
severe cut on the back of his hand while
loading car with ore few days ago.
Elson Sanborn, while hitching his oxen
with chain, had his hand terribly torn by
the hook. tearing open the palm and mid
die finger and breaking one cord.
CONSPIRACY IN SOUTH DUXBURY.-A
party of about sixty persons gathered a
the house of Charles w. Kellogg on Sat
urday evening, January 18th. during thu
Temporary absence of Mrs. Kellogg, wh'
had been stopping few days with he
daughter in Waitsfeld. and who for som
lunaccountable reason, was just then ter
ribly in want of help. About dark Mrs
lKellogg's son came and took his mothe
home. She arrived there to find loni
table loaded with the good things of life
standing in the dining room, while tn
sitting room and parlor were occupied b
very pleasant looking company of cor
spirators. The jubilant countenance c
her husband, the beaming face of he
f mother, the irrepressible smiles and jes
of her brothers and sisters, the glad we
| come from nephews and nieces, childre
, and grandchildren, neighbors and friend
, told her, too plainly to be mistaken, thu
r she had been beguiled, and that thirty-fiv
years of happy life had flown since Mar
Wheeler, a country school-maam, ha
f been wooed, won and brought, a blushin
c bride, to this place by Charles kellogg
, and which, with the exception of OF
/, short interval. has been their residen
Y until to. day. The table in the sittr
:. room glittered with shining and warmth
s tokens of love and good will.
n Gems of glass, and gems of silver;
Flannel warm, and linen fair,
Gloves and mittcns for the fingers;
3 Greenbacks and coins were shining there.
The bride of thirty-five years got tt
: mittens; and the greenback town repr
d sentative presented silver-seemingly pa
r adoxical; but it only shows that Il
v greenbacker, now that resumption is
o fixed fact, accepts the situation. Supp
: time came and with it the oysters, and
q 10. Wheeler did sit at the lower end
Of the table where the oysters seemed
m settle, and if two or three platefuls theret
with as many plates of crackers, did sett
into his stomach, he can readily be p;
doned by any partakers who apprecla
-, y. good oysters, well cooked. Remar
NJ were made and prayer offered by Re
,. Mr.. Smith, of Moretown, reminiscent
- by D. s. Stoddard, good wishes by a
y, welcome and thanks by Mr. Kellogg, a
all event merry as marriage bel
"a until the frightening hours reminded
happy conspirators that Sunday was dra
- ing near, when they made a precipitate
u" treat. leaving their astonished and delig
~ fully surprised hostess to wonder how s
could have wedding and not know
Ids beforehand. +
" EAST ELMoRE.-Our school super
-. tendent. w. f. Morse, Esq, is at no
in visiting his schools. He is teaching
on. Craftsbury, Vt.
lat Nearly every body in this vicinit
"; sick with severe cold or distemper
md is prevailing here. Those that are
in sick now are waiting for a chance.
no Mrs. F. B. Morse is very sick with Il
sor fever. DR.. Ward of South llardwicl
attending her.
;nu 1t is good Shedding and the people
-, rs improving it. Messrs. Gale are stocl
en- up their mills with logs for the year
-" makes business begin to look lively.
'' Mr.. & Mrs. G. A. Morse, with a
~ select friends, celebrated their woo
~ wedding on January LIST, when Mrs. M
49, made her husband present of n 10 pc
" boy baby. Well done George for
first one.
''' A four days meeting commenced
"'o Tuesday of the present week, ending
~, Friday.
'eh' Christmas passed off pleasantly, the
''"S ercises consisting of singing and SPEAK
The tree was we'll ladened with n
'r'e pretty and useful presents. which 5
'lls' Clause distributed among the people
MI liberal hand. Among the most u
my was an easy chair for Capt. A. T. Sla.
VI from his children.
NopTtI FERRISBIIRGH--Stca