Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-27

Mr. SWEET, who has charge of Governor
Smiths farm, has made up his mind, after
considerable investigation, to build silos,
and will put in this year two, about fifty
feet long, twelve wide and fourteen deep.
70 fill them he will devote from fifteen to
twenty acres to fodder corn He proposes
to see ust how valuable the silo is, and
the results will be awaited with interest by
the farmers in this vicinity.
A little grand daughter of Hustin De-
vino, of Winooski. about six years of age,
was accidentally shot Friday. while
playing with Il loaded revolver of W hich
she had got possession unknown to the
family. The ball entered the right side
of the head, near the temple. At last
accounts she was still alive. though uncon-
scious, but it is considered impossible that
she can live.
The Connecticut river lumber COM
pany's gang of river men commenced
operations on their lumber on the fifteen
mile falls recently. They will drive
80, 100000 feet of lumber down the Con-
necticut river this season, which is greatly
in excess of the quantity heretofore driven
down the river. The company employs
1000 men, and at present prices the ex-
penses of driving will exceed $4,000 per
day.
little daughter of Mr.. Fl. NJ. Page
principal of the Hinesburg academy, was
terribly bitten by large mastiff. Several
gashes on the spine and back, and cruel
wounds on the limbs, some nearly three
inches in length, attest the ferocity of the
brute. Physicians sewed up and dressed
the wounds, and she now lies in a critical
condition. The dog is said to be unlcens
ed, and, was not licensed the year previous,
as the law requires it should be. The
owner is negro without any property.
and it is probably question as to the
towns liability for what damages may
result.
The WINoosKI FAILURE.-Som inter
esting complications have grown out of
lhe Winooski failure. An attempt is to be
made to prove Joseph Sawyer a member
of the firm of II. w. Mason & Co., in
which case, as he is amply responsible, all
claims will of course be paid in full The
merchants national bank, as before stated,
has a claim against the bankrupt firm of
about S25, 500. OF this amount Sl7, 900 is
paper bearing the forged endorsement of
John L. Mason, with which was taken up
former notes bearing the genuine endorse.
ment of f. G. Kennedy. The bank now
puts in the original notes. claiming that
the later ones did not constitute a payment
of them. The claim as well as one of
1920 put in by Joseph. Sawyer were OBJ.
ieced to and allowance was suspended
until June LIST, when IL hearing will take
place before Judge Wales,
A gigantic industry in this country is
that of iron and steel production. A re.
cent special report of the Census Bureau
shows that during the last ten years the in.
crease in the capital invested has been
nearly ninety per cent, and that the total
now reaches $3.50 100000. OF this, near.
ly one-half is in Pennsylvania, which still
keeps its place as the chief center of the
industry. which it has held tor over hun.
bred years. Of the fifteen counties which
produce more than hundred thousand
tons of iron, ten are in Pennsylvania. In
quantity the increase is from AL, 1929 to
1858, 24S tons of iron of various grades,
and the value of the iron and the steel pro.
duced-not including manufactures of iron
and steel is 1896, 577, 6S5. The industry
is growing rapidly i'll the West and in the
South. which have produced, respectively,
during the year, $50, 1890 aud $29, 49,
$50 worth of iron and steel.