Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-07


bradford was held at the house on Friday,
at l O'Clock Pm. The Rev. L. Tenney
conducted the services.
Our census taker gives the number of
inhabitants in Barre as POGO, a gain of LIS,
and ii the schools had been taken, as in
1870. the gain would have been nearly
300
span of horses attached to a lumber
wagon. and owned by Chauncey Cutler.
made a lively run from the depot up Main
street. and brought up in the sheds near
the Methodist church. No essential dam
age was done.
The basin around the fountain in the
cemetery has been made deeper and very
much enlarged. The fountain plays beau
tifully, and well pays the trouble to 90 and
see it. The work WI done under the su-
pervision of A. T. Wood.
Allen E. Cults commenced to celebrate
on Friday by getting so badly tangled that
he could not be walked for an hour or two.
He was taken before Justice Reed, who
bound him up to appear on Monday and
disclose, but on Monday he did not appear.
The glorious fourth was celebrated on
Saturday by the boys making all the noise
possible during the day, and in the even
ing by beer drinkers and those loving the
"ardent having a lively knock down.
Professor p tells of having picked up
one or two jaw bones and any amount of
teeth on Sunday morning.
CHELSEA The railroad time has been
so changed that the stages for Barre and
South Royalton now leave Chelsea at 7:45.
1t is said that there are thousand BUSH
els of grasshoppers on the West Hill in
this town, without abating a single one.
The longest and the most drcnching
rain of the season came on Friday night
and Saturday, which greatly interfered
with hay making, picnics and other cec
brations of the Fourth. A multitude of
boys and the inevitable iire-crackers were
about the only demonstrations in this place
on Saturday.
Some farmers in this town are discard
ing the moving machine and are going to
the hand scythe power, believing that the
machines damage their hay fields by injur-
ing the roots of the grass.
John Coburn died July 1st, aged about
20 years. He was the first person whose
name was taken in this town by the census
enumerator and the first one that died
aferward, being one day after the enumer-
alton closed.
j. B. Cosgrove raised the boss calf this
year. 1t came of o-year-old heifer
1t had but one-half of the milk for the first
half of the time. When it was Just four
weeks old he sold it to the butcher and its
live weight was one hundred and eighty
one pounds.
The census taker reports that there are
1884 inhabitants in this town, there being
a loss of % during the ten years past.
The ladies of the Congregational church
held an ice cream and cake festival at their
church parlors on the evening of the 9Th
instant.
The celebration of the Fourth closed on
Monday evening with n display of fire
works.
NoRTuFIELD.-Col.C has. M Joyce is
to speak to the people of Mortified on the
evening of Friday next on national issues.
The ladies are specially invited to attend.
WoRCEsTER.-As Horace Hovey and
wife, two aged people, were returning
from Middcsex, whittier they had been to
visit their daughter, Mrs. Dudley Jones,
the whillletree iron broke, letting the
wagon back and pulling the reins out of
Mr.. IIovey's hands. 1t frightened the
horse. which ran up the hill, drawing the
wagon by the hold-back straps. The
horse was stopped near l., M. Hutchin
sons, by Andrew LaFountain and Arthur
johnson. Fortunately no damage was
done.
Dodge Hail. who lives in the edge of
Elmore, committed suicide last Friday.
The facts, as near as we have been able to
learn them, are these: Mr.. Hall, before
going to his work, kissed his wife, and
went out, as she supposed, to hoeing in
the field; but instead, he went to the barn,
took halter, and going to the edge of
the wood, in sight of the house, climbed a
small elm tree. fastened the halter around
the trunk Of the tree, near the top, then
around lis own neck, and jumped off.
His weight bent the tree so that when
found Sunday his knees touched the
ground. His dog barked good deal of
the time Saturday and Sunday where his
body was found, which attracted the at
tenlion of those searching for him.