Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-08-24
The income of Mr.. Bennett of the New
York Hera::d is estimated at eight hundred
thousand dollars year.

thousand dollars year.
SOLDIERS REUNIoN.-The soldiers re-
union will tasa-.-lasss--.%-s- ..''s-.-''-''' e.
twenty-ninth, thirtieth aud thirty first.
A son of II. B. Scoville of Cornwall,
eleven years old and weighing fifty eighI
pounds, has raked the hay crop from one
acres of land this teason and
raked after the load, too.
The state treasurer has issued to the
town tax.collectors his warrant for the
collection of the state tax. The tax is II
cents on the dollar, and those paying
before February 1, 1882, are allowed II
discount of per cent. The tax is due
June l, 1882.
The supreme court for Lamoille county
held its annual term at Hyde Park last
week, Hon. Homer E. Royce presi ling,
assisted by Judges Ross, Veazey and Taft.
Five hearings were had. one judgment
rendered without hearing and several
cases continued to Montpelier in October.
No opinions were announced. In the case
of Albert McCelland vs.. d. e. Linsley,
Judgment was rendered for plaintiff.
MURDER IN BENNINGTON COUNTY -
Lucus Whitman, n middle aged man liv
ing with the Widow older in the town o.
Readsboro, was fatally shot by an un.
known party when about to retire ant
while setting on the edge of his bed Mon
day night. The shot was fired through
the window from the outside. and is sup
posed to have been the act of neighbor
with whom he had qutrre!ed, and who had
threatened the latter's life.
Captain Rufus Thompson and his wife
the parents of Henry Denman Thompson
better known as Denman Thompson. the
creator of the character of Joshuu Whit
COMB, celebrated the fiftleth anniversary u
heir marriage at West Swanzey, n. II.
on Tuesday.
The will of the late Gov. Bagley O
Michigan commits the education of his
children to his wife with this proviso
That they one and all be educated in thi,
country and not abroad, as it is my SINGER,
desire that they may grow up to be true
Americans and lovers of their native land
and her institutions.
George F. Skiff of Monkton recently hat
a narrow escape from death through the
mistake of a Hinesburgh apothecary in pre-
pairing physicians prescription, by mix
ing deadly solution of poison, which the
patient. who had taken the same prescrip
ton several times before, thought bore an
unnatural appearance, and took the pre-
caution to have it examined before using
DRUGGIST IN TROUBLE suits hav,
been instituted against E Brush, Hard
wick druggist. by I. V. Edwards for $500,
damages on account ofpoison administers
to his wife through mistake at the dru.
store. Brush gave her tartar emetic o
tartarized anthony instead of Rochelle
salts. 1t is reported that Brush. anticipat
| ing trouble from the affair, had previousl /,
made an assignment in some form of hi
visible property.
Those whose mouths have been waterin,
with the pleasure of anticipation over tn
advent of "a month with an in it," will
he grieved to learn that oysters will b,
high this year. The severe winter O
lSo0-Sl, as we learn from the EUeni0,
Post, covered the oyster beds with thici
ice and ''smothered" the oysters, and
short crop is looked for in consequence
1t is said the bore worm has also affected
them.
Quite sensation was caused in Salisbury
the other night, by the disappearance q
Touring Ellis little girl. She was MISE,
between 5 and 6 O'Clock PM. Her parent
with few others gave search until dark
without success. They then gave tn
alarm, and some forty or fifty men from
he village aided Mr.. Ellis in the search
She was found about l O'Clock, in quit,
dense swamp. about one mile east or tn
house; she had been asleep, but awok
Just before the men reached her.
Gambetta is having struggle to be re
elected TOT the French assembly from
Belleville. his former constituency. Hi
opponents are two extremists, NJ. Ton,
Revillon and M. Sigismond Lacroix, VIII,
have united in an ingenious programm,
copied bodily from NJ. Gambetta's ow,
programme in the canvass of 1869. The,
assume to advocate the principles which
he has abandoned. A canvass in which
the Gambelta of the past is pitted agains
the Gambetta of the present is a curiou
one, and it has been an excl ing one. |
Belleville rejects, in each division, il
former champion, it will deal him stag
gering blow.
Mr.. William II. Bigelow, special agen
for the United States post office depart
ment with headquarters in Maine, ha
reported to Postmasier-G G neral James IN,
results of an investigation made by hin
into the use of mail bags belonging to III,
United States by the Canadian govnrn
ment. Mr.. Bigelow says that his lnvesti
cations have convinced him that one tbir,
of all sacks and four-ffths of all m,
pouches used by the Canadian postal an
thorilies belong to the government. RI,
pouches have been used in many cases IN,
over five years, and besides the loca
service, are sent to England, ireland
British Columbia and other places A de
mand has been made upon the Canadian
authorities Tor the return of these sack
and pouches. The superintendent of post.
for Nova Scotia has packed all the Ameri
can sacks and pouches in his possession for
immediate shipment to this country, bu
in the Dominion proper the authorities
show very little disposition to return tn,
stolen goods.