Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-09
The Baptist church is being slated.

Tuesday we had some very welcom
rain.
Ed. Wood has gone to Saratoga on
visit of few weeks.
Joel T. Clark has beon appointed post
master for Topsham.
The state equalizing board meets a
Montpelier on Tuesday, August Is.
The August term of Washington coun'
ty supreme court is now in session.
Alexander Warden has moved into E. r
SINNERS tenement house on Berlin street
Twenty to twenty-one cents per pount
was tho ruling price for butter last Satur
day.
Michael Canning and Miles Cooper are
at work in machine shop in Lowell,
Mass.
Marble Russell left last week for Mass
achusetts where he is visiting friends in
and around Boston.
The annual school meeting of Mont
pelier Union district is held at Capital
Hall this evening.
Rev. J. ii. Hincks may be expected to
preach in Wrightsvile next Sunday after
noon at two o'clock.
A very fine display of the northern
lights was witnessed last Friday evening;
one of the finest seen for years.
John d. Bartlett of Allston, Mass, for
merly of Montpelier, has been stopping
in town for n few days.
Edwin N Wright. who has charge OF
the state arsenal. has received pension
of 81 month, with arrears of 5000.
Richard S. Dodge is again unfortunate,
having had his pension stopped by the
pension department at Washington, D. c.;
reason not known.
Geo. M. Felt and Frank w. Felt have
removed from f. r, SINNERS block on
Berlin side into the tenament in tho Bacon
block on Main street.
Men from Randall's steam heating
works Concord. N. H.. are putting in
the steam heating apparatus in J A
Wings new house.
Prof G. Chatelain, teacher of the
French language, has rooms at the Pavil,
ion where he can be found by any one
who desires % enter upon that study.
Mr.. Arthur Wheaock the Citizen. prin-
cipal of Barre Academy, has resigned the
position which he has 50 admirably filed
since the death Of DR.. j. S. Spaulding.
Harry Churchill of Grinnell, Iowa, who
left Montpelier for the west thirteen years
ago, paid relatives and friends in town a
visit last week, returning on Monday last.
A check list is to be used ut the free
mans meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 9th, at
Montpelier, and it is the duty of every
voter to SEQ that his name is upon the list.
Last Saturday forenoon the aged father
of S. G. Shurtleff Esq, of this town was
run over by the cars at Barton and
received injuries which proved fatal that
evening. He was 80 years old,
On Thursday Peter Carr was brought
before Justice Fl. A. Huse on complaint
for drunkenness and beating his wife on
Wednesday evening. He was placed I'M
der 5000 bonds to keep the peace.
Jumbo and the rest will be here to NOR
row. We haven't any rolling mills for
the elephant " Emperor to sport with
hot iron in, but all the rest OF tho usual
entertainment will be given.
The real estate equalization board of
listers for Washington county. which
completed its work last week, re.consid-
cred its vote adopting the Waterbury list
as n standard and substituted that of
Middlesex.
The selectmen have posted the prelimi-
nary check list. 1t contains the names
only of those who were voters two years
ago. Notice of the meeting at which the
names of new voters may be added will
be given in due time.
The business men of Barre have formed
an agreement to close stores aud shops,
commencing Thursday, 10th instant.
Thursday Of each week during August, at
7 clock p. NJ, All of the business firms
signing the agreement with one exception.
Dangerous counterfeit greenbacks of
the follwng denominations and issues are
said to be ahoat: Elves on tho national
bank of Williamsburg, N. Y, letter G.
issue of 1865; twos on the North Ward
National bank of Newark, N. j., letter D,
issue of 1864.
The excessive accumulation of through
freight at Montpelier on Saturday COM
PEELED the Montpelier & Wells River rail-
road to run an extra freight train over the
road on Sunday last. The engine with
car attached ran into four horses pelong-
ing to Geooge w. Richardson at Groton
Pond killing two of them.
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In the name of the donors of the fine
cabinet organ recently presented to the
seminary and mentioned in our last issue.
Pelouhet & Co of New York, well and
favorably known rs manufacturers of very
superior Instruments, were the makers
and the donors Of the organ referred to
AT the close of the school taught by Miss
Mary Perrin in district No. l, Berlin, the
record shows that Georgia. Crandall,
Lulu Slocum and May Crandall have no
marks against their names; and Jessie
Crandall, IndasPerrin, Jessie Whore and
George Williams have no tardy marks.
Lulu Slocum and Georgia Crandall missed
no words in spelling during the term.
The list of Berlin was raised 5 per cent,
Cabot, East Montpelier, Roxbury and
Waterbury 10 per cent and Mortified IS