Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY.
Among the improvements at Mildlebury college
are new gymnasium more commolious quarters
Tor the museum, and new library building with
lone and winding alcoves
There are u ION the docket Of the June term of the
Addison county court ls2 court cases and p chan.
Gerry cases.
Starksboro had personal property list last year
ot sl3,lO3; this year 1t IS S7S,s}s-an increase of
sG5 49,, or nearly 600 per cent.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Public spirited and patriotic citizens ofNew York
city Of New England origin are subscribing for the
Bennington monument, over $1,000 having been
raised there in the last few days.
Rev. NJ. d. Jump will deliver the Decoration Day
address in Bennington.
NJ. q. Selden, express agent at Bennington, has
retired alter service of2S years.
CHITrENDEN COUNTY.
The grand list ligures OF Burlington will not be
attainable ull June Is.
George F. Moody has been appointed orgauist in
the College street church. Burlington.
Kenney, the man who drove that Burlington horse
to death, settled the matter by paying $lO6.
CALLED )NIA COUNTY.
Two of Peachan's listers not agreeing on the
price ofa COW "chllked," the result being $50 and
SlOO-quite a variation on one COW.
Or Bullard has sold his house and 10 acres in St
Johnsbury, to j. e. Iovey for $1,000.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Rev. LOUIS A, Arthur, of the Episcopal church at
Island Pond, has been spending a few weeks at
Havana, Cuba, where he has greatly improved in
health.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Rev Isaac Hosford, one of the oldest Congrega.
ional ministers in Vermont is very i'll at his home
in Ihetford, aud Is not expected to survive.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Rev. Henry Bedlnger of Brooklyn, n. Y, has
been secured to take charge of st. Thomas Epis.
copal parish in Brandon
The house and barn OF Sarah Parkhurst, at Bran.
don was burned Friday; loss $500, insured in the
Vermont Mutual for 1000.
There is considerable snow in some parts of
Vermont Around rlnmouth the drifts are deep
and the roads, which were plowed out last week
are yet In a bad condition.
Michael Maher, who was injured by an accidep [
at the Evergreen slate quarry, Far Haven. died
Monday.
David McLn ha been arrested for destroying 50
hives OF bees valued at : 1900, the property of Dr.
e. ii. Barber of Rutland.
Numerous forest fires have broken out in Rutland
and vicinity during the week.
Rev. VI. NJ. Mills, pastor OF the PiusisId B lptls
church, has resigned, the resignation to take effect
July /.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Jamaica boasts OF 1850 inhabitants and six Unite d
states ohicers-three postma .ters, one judge, and
one deputy marshal.
Editor swain Of the Bellows Falls Times ha
been sick with dphlhena
WGNDSOR }DUNrY
The new liquor agent of Bratteboro reports al
unusual amount of illness about town.
Col. W. G. Velzey will deliver the Decoration
Day address at LUDLOW and Rev. I'D. Hough vii
read an oris inal poem.
A ferry boat at Elgin, Ill.,, capsized last
week drowning about Il dozen presons.
The floods in the west have been the
worst ever known there.
a man digging in the face of the bat
terry AT Burlington, found cannon ball
probably one thrown there by the British
in the war of 1912.
SALE OF A VALUABLE HORSE. Henry
w Davis of Alburgh Spring, has sold his
trotting horse Broker. sired by Woodburl
Pilot, to New York parties for $500. Tn
colt is five years old and can show mill
in less than 2:40.
The prison commissioners have decided
10 build An addition of forty feet, to the
workshop of the house of correction
This has been found necessary on accoun
Of the increase of the business of the con
tractors, NJ. X Brown e Co.
Another Mogul, of the same pattern a
the three last built, is now being set up il
the machine shops at St. Adams. 1t wi
be ready for the road in about three weeks
making the eighth of these monster loco
motives owned by the Central road.
DEATH OF ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED
The Rev. John G. Edgar, pastor of tn
Congregational church at Hubbardtor
VT, died Friday of heart disease. Mr.
Edgar was one of the six hundred VIII
rode Unto the jaws of DEATH at Balaklava
In Oregon no man is allowed to take {
drink at IL public bar without taking GU
So license, and the newspapers publish in
teresting lists from time ito time of tn
men who have obtained licenses. 1t is
penal offence for saloon keeper to sell t
a man unprovided with license.
HOTEL KEEPER BARRON INsANE.-As
T. Barron, surviving partner of the lat
firm of A. r. & o. F. Barron, pro
prietors of the Twin Mountain, Fabya
and Craw ford (NVhite Mountain) hotels
was on Thursday taken to privat
retreat for the insane at Winchendon
Mass. for treatment for mental derange
ment.
This summer the lurch basket system
will be inaugurated on the White Mountai
trains between Springfield and Whit
River Junction. Baskets will be sent u
one day and back the next and vjce verSa
The price of luncheons thus put up wi
vary from % cents to 81. This conven
fence will be appreciated by travellers an
ought to pay on all roads having muc
ummer travel.
The fish and game laws prohibit tn
catching of trout, land locked salmon, sal
mon trout or longe from September t
May list; of black bass from May 9Th t.
July LIST; of whitetish or shad from No
vember 1st TO November 18th; of wall
eyed pike or pike-perch from April goth t
May 2Oth-except in Lake Champlain an
tributaries thereof for ten miles from tn
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