Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-11-30
Washington county court is again in


reduced after December 1st.
Sples are being driven for the abut-
ments Of the railroad bridge near Sabin's
The Grayson opera company had fair
house Wednesday evening to hear the
Mascot.
The annual village meeting occurs on
Monday evening, December 9TH. at Capt.
tai Hall.
An immense stock of millinery, fresh
and desirable styles, closing out at E R.
Meader's.
The election of officers of Capitol en-
CINE company, No. 5, takes place at their
meeting tonight.
The highway near the Bacon house in
Berlin has been relaid so as to avoid
crossing the railroad track.
Rev. Mr.. Wright is to preach in the
meet ing hpuse at Midi SIX Center next
Sunday afternoon at 2 u clock.
Last Wednesday Aaron B ,ncroft set up
a fine bronze monument for Geo. b.
Nichols in the East Montpelier cemetery.
The camp fire held by Brooks Post lasl
week, Tuesday evening. was well attended
and all had good time, speeches and
oysters.
The next term of the Vermont confer
ence seminary opens Monday, December
9Th, with the old full board of teachers and
large list of new students.
The ladies society of the Church Of the
Messiah will give a sociable ut the Pavil-
ion on Friday evening, at I: 80 O'Clock
tickets, thirty five cents.
Go to fl. F. Slayton's for your Christmas
presents. He has some very handsome
ones, including box paper, toys and
chldren's picture books.
The sermon at the union services at the
Methods st church last Thursday, was by
Rev. Mr. Rogers. who discussed the pres
ent condition of Christianity in this coun-
try.
James Campbell, while oiling the ma.
chinery in the tannery of Mr.. Johonnott,
on Berlin side, last Wednesday, had his
hand badly hurt by being caught in the
gearing.
The governor has pardoned Oscar f
Dodge who was sentenced to five years
imprisonment two years ago. Dodge was
in for breaking into Joseph Gray's house
in East Montpelier.
Mr.. Morton Marvin, who purchased the
+. G. Gilman house on Seminary hill last
fall, is soon to commence to remodel it,
putting on Mtnsard roof, and Franklin
Hoyt and Wallace Noyes are to do the
work.
The amount of customs collected last
year in the Vermont district amounted to
Sl,l0O, 500, at an expense of S72 1903
There are only FIVE ports All ad of this
while in the country are % ports of entry
that did not co lect a dollar of duties and
80 other ports that did not collect enough
TO pay expenses.
At the annual election of the Hook and
Ladder company on Monday evening,
November 2Sth, Capt. Henry c Lull was
elected foreman, Mr. joseph B. Nurse
declining a re election The remaining old
officers were rec octed: William W Go ID
win, first assistant and Mahlon G. Kinson
clerk and treasurer.
The Colonel given Monday evening by
Eric Btyley's company, certainly pleased
all W no heard The play is so new and
the craze it burlesques so little known IN
America that Mr.. Bryley's excellent CONF
panv is sure to get better houses at
second performance than at a first II is
very likely they will visit Mon pslier
again in the spring.
A baltimore astronomer has found still
another comet, and this one, unlike recent
disc ,veries is visible to the naked eye. Its
position at 9: 40 P. NJ, was 80 degrees
above the horizon aud due west The tail
appeared to be long AMI rather luminous,
In position it was vertical, or perpendicu-
lar to the horiz m. This is the eighth
comet caught sight of this year.
Capital Hall was filed Tuesday evening
to hear the famous play of Hazel Kirke,
which was well given by the Madison
Square theatre company. Hazel Kirke
has had the biggest run on record, one
thousand nights, and there are now three
companies haling from Madison Square
theatre, travelling in the United States with
this play which always draws full houses.
Winter is closing in On Thanksgiv-
lug day there was frost at New Orleans,
Mobile, Pensacola and Jacksonville; at
Win ngton. N. c., ice formed in exposed
positions half an inch thick; along the
Hudson the thermometer fell to ten de.
gress above zero and in places 10 this state
and northern New York several degrees
lower; in Saratoga county. N Y, four
inches of snow fell, and at Whitehall ice
formed an inch and half thick on the
Champlain canal.
Rev. A. P. Mtson, d. D.. of Boston.
Mass, secretary for New England of the
American Baptist home mission society,
will preach in the Baptist church at 10: 80
O'Clock Sunday morning, and in the even
ing at O'Clock. The object of these
dscourses will be to give information con-
corning the great work of the denomina-
ton in planting churches and building
meeting houses in the western states and
territories, the work among the freedmen
and among the foreign populations of our
country,