Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-09-28

slams?
John Whitney of Marlboro recently shot
a blue heron that measured seven feet
from tip to tip.
Mrs. Garvin. wife of Thomas Garvin of
St. Adams, who recently died, will be
much missed.
Siguor H. DeUriate consul general Of
Spain at New York recently registered 1t
/ the Weldon House.
Another Geographic line is in constrn,'
ton through Pawlet, Dorset and Wells,
connecting at Granville, n. Y.
The Dooley f,mily of Burlington have
been poisoned through eating rev
species OF squash, but are recovering.
Two hundred relatives and friends re-
Gently assembled to celebrate the golden
wedding of Des. Lewis A. Warren Of
Jacksonville.
The Burlington philharmoni' society
will hold four days musical festival 1t
the Howard opera house, with Carl z T.
RAIN rs director.
Diphtheris has been prevailing at B r
ton. at Ripton and E Is, Middleburv .al
other places in the state. Several f,-al
cases are reported.
Rutland has a stone crusher to puver'ze
stone for the bed of its streets. This VAS
procured under the supervision of a. ..
futile of the Heruld
The county fairs have mostly been b t.
ter attended than usual aud the display of
stock and farming implements, as well Is
the work of the ladies' has been unusua ly
fine.
Gov. Farnham, by special Invitation of
Secretary Blaine, attended the funeral of
the late president at Cleveland, Mrniay.
All the governors received telegraphic
invitations.
Frank White OF Fairfield mas been de.
tected in swindling operations, returning
paste diamond in place of real one
which had been intrusted to him 10 reset.
He is now in Jail.
A majority of the pupils in the johnson
normal school are Old telchers having
taught on an average of thirty-seven
weeks each. Evidently Principal Conant
is already drawing students.
The temperance people are waking up
Seizures have been made and prosecutions
commenced in St. Johns bury, in St
Adams, in Bellows Falls, in Burlington.
in Montpelier, at Rutland and elsewhere
The widow of Edwin D. Davis, a loco.
motive fireman who was killed by rail-
road accident near Bellows Falls in 1878,
has recovered $1,000 of the Central Yer.
mont railroad in the Rutland county court,
so says the Reformer.
Dea. E. Wing Packer. who died at Brat
tleboro a short time since had several
times been a member of the Massachusetts
Legislature, and since his removal 10 Brat
tleboro, thirteen years ago, he had filled
several importantilocal offices.
Cadet G. r. Miner of Lewis college,
Northield has gone to Burlington to act
as military instructor at the Episcopal 10
stitute. The Vermont academy at Saxton's
River and the ST. Johnsbury academy
have also military instructors.
Editor Swain of the Bellows Falls Times
is attending the Windham county court AS
juror. Eiitor Stillson of the Bennington
Banner has recently been attending
another. kind of court, if we may judge
from the report of his marriage.
Chauncy S.owell, one of the oldest in.
habitants of Middlebury, remembers the
whipping post at which offenders used to
be logged in that town. In addition to
r being logged their foreheads were some
, times branded and their ears clipped.
The Lincoln iron works of Rutland run
thirteen hours a day and even at that can
not keep up with their orders. During the
showers of Friday the lightning struck the
smoke stack of these works, making :
deafening explosion but doing no practica
damage.
Rev. (?) E. D. Hopkins has written 8
long letter to the Union in regard to the
: affairs of the late firm of Bowman & Hop
> kins 1t seems to have been an attemp,
to gain public sentiment before the coming
trial. The less the public see and hear o.
Mr. Hopkins the better they will BE-
i pleased.
l. H. Hall of Lyndon Center is building
II large silo, 4Ox50 and 10 feet in depth
His neighbors call it the bottomless
. pit" Elk Gov. Smith is also building q
large silo on bis hill farm. In one OF hi,
addresses at county fairs Col. Meat
II thought that silos would revolutionize tn,
i farm work of the future.
s QUILL PENs-An advertisement in ,
# morning paper for an experienced quill
pen cutter called out an interview with th,