Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-16
Hon. Trenor w. Park goes to Panama
with Gen. II. Ii. Baxter, ibis week.

~ hA'o ANSaNNAe'
Hon. Trenor w. Park goes to Panama
with Gen. II. Ii. Baxter, this week.
Mr.. Preston Powers, son of the late
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, is succeeding
admirably in his fathers profession. He
is now in Florence, Italy, engaged upon a
statue of the late Hon. Jacob Col amer.
Congressman Hendee has Introduced in
the House of Representatives. a bill amend
ing the revenue law, increasing the tax
upon fermentnd and distilled liquors. and
repeating the tax ON matches and bank
checks.
JUVENILE SUICIDAL the age Of four-
teen years. with the aid of leather strap
and a towel rack, Willie Roberts, of New
ark, Caledonia county, put an end to his
juvenile troubles, last week, and by force
d" went over to the majority"
Meetings OF the State Board of Agri.
culture are announced as follows: Albany
Jan. 1928; West Concord Jan. 1926
Felchville Jan. $3.50; n. Tunbridgs Jan.
81, Feb. l; Bakersfield Feb. sc; East
Hardwick Feb. rs; johnson Feb. 1918;
Marshiield Feb l4-l5; Middleown Feb.
1920; Manchester Feb. 2l-22.
A common drunk" was brought before
the Burlington city court last week, and
the "court reporter of the Free Pres,
soliloquized thusly There was man
a Roman soldier foa some daring deed
that trespassed on the laws. in dungeon
low chained down. He was hailed before
the City Court, and it appeared thai hi,
name was Theophilus Champeau, and hi.
offence drunkenness.
The sale of the effects of Deacon Z. P
Smith realized seven hundred dollars
This does not include the farm in Addison
or the house in Vergennes, these being
offered at private sale. Several hundred
dollars worth of the movable property
is alleged to have been secreted from the
creditors, and the assignee has been di
rected by them to recover the same. Some
of it has been found in possession of the
deacon S son.
PROBABLE FATAL ACCIDENT.-As Juliu:
Wimmettee was coming down the mount
ain near East Middlebury, Sunday morn
ing, with q heavy load, his sled slewet
against the railing on the lower side of tho
road, which gave way, and the team an,
driver were preciptated two hundred feet
killing one horse, severely injuring the
other, and probably fatally injuring Win
mettc.
KILLED BY THE CARs.-A young mar
named Carroll, II section hand on the Mis-
sisquoi railroad, was run over by the trar
somewhere above Enosburgh Falls, Sat
urday evening, and instantly killed hi.
body being shocBingly mangled. lie wa.
highwines and II pail that had contained
liquor were found lying near him SO there
was no question but that ''rum did it,
Carroll was to have been married Sunday
The New York Star says George f
Edmunds is as chilly specimen of New
England statesman as the bleak highland.
of Vermont can produce. His oral deliv
cries are examples of frozen speech, anc
his written sentences read Us if they hal
been set in Il refrigerator over night tt
cool. When President Hayes got through
Edmunds's cpistle to him, he must hav,
felt like putting on thicker under-clothcs
and ordering the White House stokor tt
shovel more coal into the furnace.
The late George r. Chapman left an in
surance on his life of four thousand dollars
in the Connecticut Mutual, payable t. hi
wife; AMI one thousand dollars in The
Vermont Life Of Burlington, and two
thousand dollars in the New York Mutual
payable to his mother. In recent ser.
mon in Vergennes, Rev. H. n. Munger
of the NJ. Z. Church reviewed Mr.. Chap.
mans high character and generous quail.
ties, and his trustworthinesS in official
positions.
VERMoNTERs IN CHICAGo.-The CRANE
banquet of the Chicago "Sons of Yer
mont comes off on Thursday evening
January 18th. 1t is expected that respons
es to toasts will be made by James 81 in
n"r, Judge Lawrence, Judge Beckwith
Judge Jameson, the Rev. DIR. Boardman,
the Hon. Edward Isham, w. W. Chand-
Ter, Alderman d, X: Parsons, Eldridge G
Keith, Otto S. A. Sprague, and the other
wel-known VcrmonLers and Gov. Cul
lon, Lieutenant-Gov. Shuman, Mayor
Heath, and other state and city official.
will participate. Every Vermonter ii
Chicago has been invited.
John F. Henry, Curran & Co., The
heaviest drug and patent medicine house
in the United States, suspended paymen
last week in consequence of the failure o
their broker, Dunning. Mr.. Henry wen
from Waterbury about ten years ago, anc
has since become prominent in bushes.
circles in New York and in the politics o
Brooklyn where he resides. A member o
the firm says the liabilities of the concern
will not exceed 100000, and that, j
allowed to go on, they can pay every
dollar of it.
THE BENNINGTON MoNUMENr.-Tht
Bennington Battle Monument Association
held its annual meeting January OH. Two
vacancies were filled by the election o
Governors Prescott, of New Hampshire
and Rice, of Massachusetts. Governor
Fairbanks was reelected president ant
ex-governor Hall, of Bennington, vice.
| pr esident. The office of secretary wa.
abolished, and those of recording and cor.
responding secretaries were created. Olir
Scott was elected to the former, and
Charles M. Bliss to the latter Milo c.
Huling was reelected treasurer. A not;l-
BILE change was made in the board of di
rectors. 1t was increased from, five tc
seven. and the following gentlemen were
elected. Governor Horace Fairbanks
Hon. Benjamin Prescott. governor of New
Hampshire, Hon. Alexander Ii. Rice, gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Hon. Edward j
Phelps of Burlington, Hon. Abram B. Gard,
ner, Hon. Henry G. Root, Rev. Isaac Jen.
nings of Bennington. This must make M
excellent board of management.
The question of corporal punishment is
being quite strongly agitated in Germany
where the teachers who do not believe that
obedience can be enforced if the lod is
spared are circulating petitions against the
recently-enacted laws prescribing fines fol
those instructors and professors who resort
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