Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-13


Adams churches, Sunday. The unfortunate
citizens of that place are busily engaged
in digging out old wells.
The chapel of the Congregational church
at Woodstock, built through the liberality
of Hon. Frederick Billings, is nearly COM
pleted aud very beautiful.
The horse, carriage and harness of II.
E. Wilson, salesman for Sayville, Somers
& Co., of Boston, were stolen from his
farm barn at McInooes, Thursday night.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Ezekiel johnson, of
Bradford, nearly eighty years old, while
at work in his field Saturday gathering
corn, was thrown from his wagon back
ward and instantly killed, his neck being
broken by the fall.
The farmers of Gaysville complain that
| apples do not pay for picking, as 8 cents
per bushel is the price offered at the cider
mill.
Trains over the Burlington aud Lamoille
railroad now make close connection with
those over the St. Johnsubry and Lake
Champlain road.
The Burlington and Lamolle railroad
has purchased site for station at Cam
bridge, and it is understood that the long
needed building will be erected this
season.
Two silos for keeping green corn fodder
have been construc ed upon Gen. VIM.
w. CIRCUITS farm at East St, Johnsbury,
this season, and they are being filled the
present week.
The late census of the town of Randolph
shows that there are four persons over 80
wears and less than 100: AZ persons over
80 and less than 90; l48 persons over 20
and less than 80, and 1874 exceeding the
common age of man.
The seniors in the university took their
annual geological tour with Professor Per
kins last week. They visited the Ausabe
chasm, went thence to Chazy, and did
some prospecting for fossils on Grand Isle,
returning home Saturday evening after a
+, very pleasant and successful tosr.
The inquiry has been made by macy in
Burlington, does the collector Of custom:
infringe upon the prohibitory laws of the
state when he advertises " for sale at auc
ton, four bottles of liquor, three jugs, one
2 gallon each, whisky; one tin can whisky
one case gin. eight bottles gin, ten gallons
ginger wine, ten tin cans, sixteen and 6
half gallons gimp"
In the United States circuit court at Rut
: land, Judge Wheeler presiding, the jury
returned verdict in the case of Blackmar
F. Brownell vs.. the Troy and Boston
railroad company of nineteen hundred dol
lars in favor of the plaintiff. The plaintiff {
D wagon was run into some time since by g
locomotive of the defendants at a rail
f road crossing in Pownal, and the suit wa
! to recover for damages arising therefrom
J The jury found that the engineer of the
locomotive failed to sound the usua
danger signal.
The wheat crop both here and abroad il
turning out less than was expected. In
stead of 4SO. OOO 900 to 500, 100000 bushel,
in this country, the returns now point to
about 5O,000,000 In England. while the
quality is better than was at first announc
ed and a cheap food year seems to b.
r certain. Wheat in Liverpool stands to- day
at price which makes it relatively cheap
er than in Chicago. France has croE
which is up to past productions and will
t afford nominal supply, 50 that imports
4 will probably be the same as in years
before the recent large French demand
for American grain. The Austrian
surplus is less than was anticipated ant
the Russian deficit greater. Shipments o.
I American grain to Russian ports on The
: Baltic steadily continue, but it is wortt
remembering that it is only 33 years since
cargoes of grain were imported to thi
b. country. fair demand for American
wheat, but not one that is likely to rais
its price, is now predicted. All talk af /
larger surplus here than can be marketed
abroad has disappeared.