Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-02-11
Vennor'S rain and slush did not come to
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Vennor's rain and slush did not come to
time this week.
Pneumonia is quite prevalent in town
now, several severe cases being reported.
Flagg and Dufur had another wrestling
mach at West Randolph last week. Flagg
won.
The board of civil authority meets
again at Mr. Hinkley's office tomorrow
to abate taxes.
Are you owing for your paper9 If you
are please remember we need the money
and remit at once.
Erastus Camp has opened grocery
store in his block ut the corner Of Elm
and Court streets.
At St Augustine church last Sunday
S99S8 was raised for the benefit of the
sufferers in Ireland
Any of cur subscribers wishing TO pay
in wood can do SO by making immediate
Arrangements III lnlS OlllCe.
9Wnl our subscribers in renting
fractional parts of dollar by mail send us
one cent stamps instead of the threes?
Water works with all the conveniences
pertaining thereto are now being put into
the interior of Washington county Jail.
Mr.. Rufus w. Warren, who has been
very sick the past week with pneumonia,
is reported. as being on the gain this
Wednesday, morning.
We understand that Mr.. f. G. Gilman,
carriage manufacturer, has assigned all
his property over to Joel Foster Jr.. for
the benefit of his creditors.
Albert Sparrow, the long time popular
clerk of the Union House, has male a
change of base, he now filling the same
position at the Bishop lIo ell
VIM. Yalter has gone to Worcester,
Mass, where he has obtained position
as insurance fire patrol, and not TO Man
chester, N. H., as we stated last week.
The country ball given at the Pavilion
on Thursday evening of last week was
attended b. seventy five couples, mostly
from East Montpelier Calais and Plain
field.
Dr. Richard H. Newton, who went TO
New York city to reside some months
ago, has returned to the capital, country
life being more in accordance with his
taste.
The nickel five cent piece is exactly two
centimetres in diameter, and weighs five
grammes. This coin, then, furnishes n
key to the entire metric system of weights
and measures.
St. Mary's church, Burlington, has raised
eight hundued dollars for Ireland's relief.
St. Joseph's church, of the same place,
gave sixty dollars, and the Catholic church
at Wnooski, eighty-four dollars.
On Monday last Mr.. Aonzo l.. Meader,
of East Montpelier, met with severe
accident while engaged in loading logs.
A lever which he was using slipped from
its hold and flew up, striking him in the
face and breaking both bones of his nose.
Dr. Urann, who made so many wonder
full cures when in town few weeks since,
will revisit Montpelier by urgent request,
and may be found at his old quarters at
the American House, Thursday, February
12th where he will remain for week or
two.
COLLAR AND ELBow.-The third collar
and elbow wrestling contest between II.
NJ Dufur, of Marlboro, Mass. and G. W.
Flagg, Of Braintree, VT, came off at West
Randolph, Thursday. Dufur won the
first fall, with hip lock. and the fourth
with grapevine lock. Flagg won the
second, third and fifth falls and the match
Ancient records show that the winter
Just century ago, was as remarkable for
its severity as the present one has been fol
its mildness. Chesapeake Bay was frozer
hard enough for carriages at Annapolis
where it is five and one-quarter miles
wide, to pass over. Long Island Sound
has entirely frozen over for weeks, and
sleds drawn by horses and cattle, heavily
loaded. crossed and recrossed from Con-
necticut to Long Island. An English
frigite lost six men off Sandy Hook, who
were frozen to death in attempting to
adjust the rigging when about TO enter
the harbor of New York. The year wa:
also remarkable in having no rain from
May 10 to August 7,