Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-09-21

{ West Burke has trouble in receiving itsl
mail. Letters mailedthe 9Th at Lyndonville!
I io not reach West Burke until the 10th orr
later. The difficulty is said to be with the {
route agent.
] The old academy building at Cavendish. )
5while being raised for repairs, tumbled =
blown. Three or four men with oxen
working in the cellar were wonderfully
preserved.
Fruit has come in bountifully in Addison +
county. Especially is this true of pums,
apples and pears. This has made the (
prices lower than usual and scarcely
enough barrels can be obtained for the use
! of the sellers.
The Rutland graded schools have been
3 so full this term that new school has had
I 10 be opened in the high school building
! This new school will consist of two sec
ions and will be under the charge of Miss
EJuiia E. Roys.
Rev. II, II. Shaw, recently Of the North +
! field graded school, but now of the acade-
3 INV at West Brattleboro, is doing well
y His schoolopened with sixty eight students.
: with good prospect of that number being
flargely increased.
A soldiers reunion was held at Clifford .
agrove. Barnard. Col. Mead delivered an
1 address, toasts were given and responses
made, a drum corps and choir led by Hon
: Moses Cheney, II camp fire, hard tack and
coffee were among the enjoyable features
of the occasion.
Il Another man made happy. A Scotch /
Sman by the name of John French, who +
shas been living in destitute condition at
SPoultney for some time past, has just re-
sceived information from a lawyer inE
Edinburgh that he has fallen heir to sew,
4eral thousand dollars.
& Four hundred and fifty tickets were sold
lat St. Adams Tor the excursion to the ex-
Exhibition at Montreal And yet, "unikeI
Huntington, which is very quiet when
there are few hundreds absent on an ex-
Hcursion, St. Adams is quite animated to-
& iay," says the Messenger.
The Vermont accident association has
written Sl,06S,0 900 insurance and paid
three losses during the brief time it has
Hexisted. Local agencies are being estab-
zlished. Men like W. H. Dubois, Geo.
ENichols, Gov. Page and J. w. Hobart are
bat the head of it and the society promises
o be a success.
In the southern part of the state the
4grubs are doing great damage. In Weston
hey are running the meadows so that
hardly green thing is seen. In Grafton
they are eating off the roots of the corn sol
that it pulls up when the attempt is made
Ito cut it. The potatoes are also being
badly eaten.
During the encampment of the national
guard at Rutland IA Brandon man became
drunk and Col Greenleaf caused him 10
stand by the main entrance with large
Nplacard on his back, saying: This man
got drunk while on duty" This proved
to be ian effectual preventive of all such
81 cases in the future.
Bennington is having postotfice war.
Is The office was moved from the business
part of the village to a more commodious
broom outside, and now the discontinued
Ebusiness men have established, at their
sown expense a branch Office at the bust
ness CENTER This only tends to make the
sectional feeling all the more intense.
1t is proposed to put up telephone line
from jacksonville via Sadawga, Readsbo-
zro, Hartwellvile and Stamford. to North
adams. Manager Dwight of the Western
massachusetts telephone corporation eX-
Hamines the route this week In other
Eplaces also it is expected there will soon
4 be telephone or telegraph connection
with larger places.
a Persons afflicted with nausea and vomiting in the
Emoruing should take Wheat Bitters. WI
Inc raSSuinpsIc ta''' o''u ioui '''e'' Nv
earnings of the past year were S3ll'l )
T. gain OF So9'o2o'lo over last year. ohe
new engine two hrsJ-cIass passenger cars
-four hundred and forty-elght ite'gnt cars
land two thousand tons of steel rails have
Hbeen added to the road, President Ray
smond has been reelected and given vote
&c 11rItI
-soi thanNsi olo po'." Vi o''0' Wv"
exception of y. w. Pierce IN place oil "
EW. Brown, deceased,
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