Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-08-03

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Orders have been issued by the select,
ANN closing the saloons and billiard rooms
alGSor NJ.
Cal +. V. Randall is in town and is
-.n,iring and remodeling his tenement
house on Elm street.
Tine river wall of the storage building
hack of the Btncroft block on Main street
hll into the river last Monday night.
Remember the stale teachers associa-
nn to he held At Mortified three days,
onmencing the 10th.
The band gave an out door concert late
1 1 saturday evening. F.. S. Whitcomh
/ bad Geo NJ Scribner receiving serenade'
The annual muster of the First regiment
&. V, will be held in Rutland, begin
k,r September 9th and continuing four
Bays.
About two hundred and seventy-fve left
hhutpelier last Thursday, on the excur
N to Missisquoi Park, and had n splen-
fd time.
VIII Blanchard of the firm of Blanchard
Bros, has gone on a western trip for
4 few weeks accompanied by his wife
Ie GOES to Milwaukee, Wis.
Nine Host" Capt. R. j. Coffey of the
Motel at Richmond, is to "cater" for
|seyeral of the companies Of the LIST Regi-
|mpnt. y. g. ", at their muster at Rut-
Hand,
A party from Lebanon, N H., has rent
4 IA the store in the Rialto block, recently
occupied by Washburn & Co., and will
Open in a few days with five and ten cent
counters
. The matter as to the removal of the
Geo. NJ. Scribner block was finally ad
tu,ted to Georges satisfaction. and the
Ibudng is now located on the lot nearly
+ opposite.
Thunder and lightning seem to be loose
I his year, and from all sections of the
bate come reports of buildings, trees and
Nav stacks, etc being struck, with more
\ pr les, damage.
\ Thomas Moria"ty, Montpelier boy, has
purchased the right of peddling on the
+ r,d from Wells River to the Fabyan
house. He already enjoys monopoly of
a he Wells River road.
Hon. Daniel Baldwin died very sudden
Slyat the residence of his daughter, Mrs
ECmrlcs Reed, Wednesday, August Sd. He
& had been about the streets the day before
4 as well as usual apparently.
4 The stone is arriving for the abutments
Nor the new iron bridge to be erected by
Ethe Central Vermont railroad, across the
/mOuh of the branch. 1t is Isle La Motto
stone, and they are fine specimens of large
4 blocks of stone.
There are two maple trees on Geo. W.
PentiSs' farm at Plainfield. which fol
hirty-two feet grew separate, but at tina
point united and formed one perfect tree.
f A Photograph was recently taken for thu
New York Grphic.
We were visited by thunder storm
yesterday afternoon, during which light
& ning struck a large elm tree in front of E.
II Jewetl's house, and for while the rair
4 cane down right smart but did not dc
e that damage it did in other sections about
here.
Fl Chas Boswell has heen having tina
Steamboat which was on the pond las
summer remodeed and overhauled gener
ally and will probably have it placed OF
Berlin pond next week. We understand
+ that the Pratt bows will have the contro
Of
4 Lust Wednesday John Devine, wht
4 drives team for Francis Shambo, had /
narrow escape from the fall of derrick
As it was he was considerably bruise 4
One Of the horses he drives caught The
derrick aud comes out but a little tn
worse for wear.
The heavy rains on Tuesday afternoo
caused u wash-out on the Montpelier
s. Wells River railroad, about one-half mil,
above Etst Montpelier, it being forty fiv
Ieet in length and twenty five in deptf
nece'sitating the carrying by ofptssenger
ETC., until it ctn b. tresseled.
On Saturday evening Officers Ordwa,
Demert and Voodry arrested one Gilbe
Gtdway and his son Adolphus and cou
nFrank Gadway OF Middlesex, for intoz
cation and lodged them in Jail. On Mo
day they we're brought before Justice
IT, Huxley. Gilbert and Frank Wei
lned to the tune of $500 each, which tn
paid, AloIphus was discharged witho
fine Or costs They disclosed on Wr
Miller who had hearing and took
appeal to county court.
The astronomical summer did not beg
until June 2lst, nor will autumn hes
until September 22d, but practically
summer is now two thirds over, with 81
NV be it said. We have had little &C
unnou' heat, and the city has been almt
uniformly comfortable, the exception
Ing one or TWO hot snaps" and exec
VonaIly healthy for summer, the mortal
having been considerably less than for t
corresponding time last year. In t
country around the weather has been, a
whole, favorable for the growing Gro
and bountiluI harvcsts are the rule.
HE BANK RoBBER, MILES. The 81
'eOoro Ph~ajr says that Miles is the sa
distinguished citizen" who, as pl
ueorse White, formerly of Westminst
VITA Westmoreand, N. H., and mt
recently hotel-keeper at Stoneham, Ma
OOe winters night sawed off II grating
we hrene IN Ill., Jail, and dropped GU