Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-12

Harvey G. Smith has removed from the
Ebcn Scribner house on upper Main street
to Frel Scribner's h, use on Berlin street.
Town Clerk T. r. Merrill, who has
been quite sick for some weeks. is now
able to sit up and get about the house
some.
The Household which is offered in
another column as wedding present, is
one of the most valuable household maya
zines.
The people who have settled it in their
own minds that 1881 is going to be a
terrible year will probably extract a GER
tain gloomy satisfaction from the news
that famine is now destroying Russia.
Frozen TO DEATH-William II. Rice,
aged %, was found in the highway, one
mile below Springfield Sunday. frozen to
Heath, with II bottle of liquor in his pocket.
He leaves no family The thermometer
was Is degrees below zero
The scarcity of hay in New England is
shown by the fact that 1853 car loads of it
were ,hpped over the Canadian border by
the Vermont Central railroad during the
last four months of 1880, against 1872 Car
loads during the same period in 1879.
The vacant store in the wooden building
on Main street belonging to the Timothy
Hubbard estate, long occupied by John
Lease, has been leased bv Orrin Daley
who is remodeling it preparatory to re
moving into it from the basement of the
Union block.
The annual meeting of Mad River Valley
Agricultural Society for the election of
officers, and the transaction of any other
business that may properly come before
the meeting, is adjourned to the Hotel hall
in Waisied, on Saturday the 22d inst,
at one O'Clock in the afternoon. All are
cordially invited to attend.
Last Wednesday, as Hiram S. Smith,
who was moving A. G. Stones jewelry
store, was standing on an upright show
case reaching for piece of statuary on its
top, the case tipped forword, causing "H'
to fall face downward through large
4 show case on the counter. the upright case
falling on top and closing him in until
removed by" Nell Cross " Hi" thought
his time had come but escaped with only
one cut on his hand, although every glass
in the case VnS brnEpn
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS OF ISS1.-There
will be four eclipses this year-two of the
sun and two of moon, and transit of the
planet Mercury across the suns disc. l. A
partial eclipse of the sun, May 9th, invisi
Bile in this vicinity 2. total eclipse of the
moon. June II 18th, visible throughout he
u United States; 8, an annular eclipse of the
sun, November 2lst, invisible in North
u America; 4, a partial eclipse of the moon,
u December 9th, invisible in the United
Il States; 5, a transit of the planet Mercury
over the suns disc. November 9TH, in.
Il visible here, Ash Wednesday fall on
j March ID, and Easter on April 18th.
j At the thirty first annual meeting of the
Il National Life Insurance Company the old
board of directors were reelected as fol-
i lows: Paul Dillingham;, Charles Dewey,
George W Reed, Frederick Billings. James
G. Houghton, Jun, Perley P Pitkin. TIP.
Redtield, w. H. II. Bingham, Dudley G.
y Dcnnison, Edward Dewey, Fred E Smith,
q Charles T, Sabn and James T. Phelps.
Al the meeting of the directors the follow
ing officers were unanimously re- elected
Charles Dewey, president; Edward Dewey
vice president; George w Reed, secretary;
John B. Thurston, actuary; Sumner Put
4 nam, NJ d., medical examiner.
q At a regular meeting of Thomas Wildly
q encampment, No. IL, l. o. o. F., held
January 9TH, the following officers were
instaled by D. D. G. M, c. T. Summers:
"a c, w Guernsey, c. p D. w. Dudley,
n I'll, P; A. I, Keith S. w; G. t. Sum
mers, j W George f. Spear, Scribe !;
il f. w Morse, Treasurer; II. II. Scrihner,
j Guide; H. w. Sowles, LIST w; A. S.
u Sparrow, I'd w. A. Johonnott. Sd W I;
IL G. l.. Lane, 4th W.. A. W. Ferrin, Ri. G..
aof T.; f. II. Stevens, l.. g. of T.; A. G.
Dewey, j. s.; A. d. Lane, o. S.
The order is in better condition to-day
than it has been for the last three years.
Tic work has Just been revised and will
be ready for delivery by the first of Feb.
ruary, if not sooner; meetings first and
third Fridays.
An alarm of fire was given at half past
1--WE O'Clock Saturday morning. 1t was
found that'a fire had started in the cellar
of Mrs. G. w. Wizards house and the
Building was filed with suffocaing smoke
mo got water at the tank of the Watch
7n1n office and a stream from the Pavilion
pump was running soon after the alarm.
No. 4 was also on hand. The trouble
was not in lack of water but in finding
v inst where the fire was. 1t was located
finally in the southwest room of the
cellar in wood near the furnace. The
under side of the. flooring and beams were
charred so that it was unsafe walking on
Ihe floor of the room above.
Water was put on in quantities and
VIII the steam generated it soon extin-
guished the fire. The carpets on the first
Apor and the floor itself were thoroughly
fuined but beyond this the damage was
confined to that done by smoke on tn,
finshng
Joel Foster who had been hunting in
thesssmoke for the fire stepped into a hol.
ihat had been cut in the hallway and bur
his side quite badly. The loss is some
even or eight hundred dollars and is in.
aured.
SEMINARY IITLL.--The discussion OF
fariff, which was intended should occu
IS Friday evening was postponed and a
anestion on foreign missions substituted
The first named question will be discus sec
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