Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-11-10

Professor E. H. Hyde of Hydeville, who
had gone TO Florida to teach, died there
Friday morning. He had been at the
head of schools in Casteton and Walling-
| ford.
A plan is on foot, under the auspices of
the Rutland county historical society, to
mark with II monument, similar 10 that
erected at Pittsford, the site of the old rev.
oluionary fort near the residence of S. H.
Langdon, Esq, in Castleton.
Dan Riley of Bellows Falls is having
skin grated upon the inside of his hand,
hch was recently severely injured. So
far $50 gratis have been made, of which II
have lived. They are generally contribut,
ed by young men or taken from Riley's
arm
The OLD VorERs.-The veteran voters
are coming to the front in goodly num-
bers Uncle Isaac" Farwell of Dorset
(Vt), now in his 1924 year. voted Tuesday
for Garfield. The crowd gave him three
cheers, and he sang a patriotic song. He
aiterward went in TO visit the mini ster's
| ltlulllr CIttl1 Gllh anu IllbU
climbed into II carriage and rode to his
house. Ills first vote was for John Adams
! in lS00-the last presidential election in
| the eighteenth century. This is there fore
the twenty-tirst presidential term with
him.
The chapel built by the Hon. Fred. Bill
lings. in memory of his parents, has been
completed and presented to the Congrega-
tional church at Woodstock. The cost of
the structure was about $4,000. This
building is 65x3S and contains beautiful
hall seating It's, parlor and kitchen
with every convenience for cooking. 1t is
heated by furnace, lit by gas and furnished
throughout in an elegant manner. Wood
stock is indeed fortunate in having so
public spirited a citizen as Mr. Billings.
1t is, and promises to be, one of the
prettiest and liveliest villages in the state.
A recent visitor to the gold regions of
Plymouth says: g While we were looking
at the miners at Five Corners, they picked
ont of their washing apparatus two peices
| of gold. On inquiring their value we
were told that one piece by estimate was
worth seventy five cents and the other
twenty-five cents. The miner said that
he had dug gold in California and South
America, ETC., and stated that the mines
at Plymouth were richer than those he
was acquainted with elsewhere He also
stated that he saved $40 from or cubic
! feet of earth, being 4 or 5 feet from the
surface of the earth.
|
The Bellows Falls Times says: Charles
Eddy of Chester, 80 years of age, father
of Hon. Charles B. Eddy, has been on u
visit to his son at Bellows FALL for some
weeks, and voted there Tuesday, which,
with his son and grandson, Charles F.
Eddy, made three generations-all for
Garfield. A great grand. SON, Charles S.
Eddy, would have bean glad to extend the
line had his age permitted. Among
others who attended the polls in Bellows
Falls, on Tuesday, was Elisha Lvermore,
doubtless the oldest voter present, who
has Just entered his 93d year. and Deacon
Sammel Cragin, in his S7th year. An
other was Col. Asa Wentworth in his SD
wear who has formerly been a member of
both branches of the legislature; and the
venerable and Rev. Horace Allbee. in his
S5th year, was also at the polls, Tuesday,
and in conversation spoke with much
feeling that he coudn' vote to trust the
party, the controlling element in which
had starved his son to death at Anderson
vile.