Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-19
Vermont News
ADDISON COUNTY

vermont News
ADDISON COUNTY.
They hal game Of base ball In Bristol on Fast
DAY.
Tue htlle steamer " Water Lilly" OF vcrgeunes
has commenced Its regular trips.
A child in Ferrisbursh caught one of its fingers
In the cogs of clothos-wrinyer. and It was cut OF
atthe fret ioint.
Mrs. Josephine Merritt of East Miidlcoury lost
three children In nine days of diphthsra, aud the
mother and two remaining children are sick with
the same disease.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The destruction ofthcicaptured liquor took place
In North bennington. last week, with the usual
ceremonies, and attended by an unusual number
ormourners. Although the quality was so inferior
that the town. authorities condemned II as entirely
unft for use, there were q few lockers on who
could not keep back the "bitter tears"
CuITTENDEN COUNTY.
An economical tourists recently arrived at Eur.
liugton. who had Travelled all tho way from Detroit
In freIshtcar securely locked and loaded with
lumber. He had let in air through a h0le cut in
the end of the car. and cheese and cracker crumbs
deRoted that his journey had lacked, apart from Its
monotony, only the occasional and CHEEKY punch
| of the conductor.
Jane Champagne was sentenced Friday at Bur
liAgton to two years In tho statcprIson for kee ping
a house of ill.iamc.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Lyndonvllle Congre alto nalIsts held jub i
Ice last week over the lifting of their $500 debt.
| 70. lao lot, n ~.
church edllce, the Congregational people of Lyn-
donvllc, held thanksgiving festival the 18Th. The
attendance was large and the music, furnished by
the st. Johnsbury orchestra, very excellent The
debt has been provided for by lisoral gins from
Rev C. H. Hubert. u. n. simplifying temporarily
the pulpit, has been instrumental In securing the
removal of this burden OF debt.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
| Three young men, on drinking spree at Rock
Island. near Derby Line got into a row, the other
night, with one Pelow, employed in n shoe-shop
in that vicinity and one of them struck him with
knife, cutting him In several places. The would
| he murderer was arrested.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
April l.: sleighing parties are all the rage in
some parts OF Lamoie county.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
some young fellows from North Troy attended Q
dance In Newport lately, and being somewhat the
worse for liquor. tore one OF the hotel beds &c
pieces. and pulled OF the railing of the stairs. II
is presumabe that they considered the railing an
implication upon their condition, which they were
bouad in honor to remove-which is probably the
reason why thejuiy found them not guilty.
ORANGE COUNTY.
While boiling sap, last Friday Freeman Wake
OF STAFFORD had shock OF paralysis, and diet in
half an hour.
| RUTLAND COUNTY,
a young man in North Castleton went out or
Fast day, to set traps forImuskrats VIII lie cutln,
away some rubbish, hjsihatchet was turned by {
slippery ROOT, aad istruck. bisI left thumb nearly
severing 1t from ,hehand. That young man wishes
he had stald at home and tasted on oatmeal and
water
Thomas Busscno. brakeman. was Injured while
coupling cars at Castleton on Wedne sday, the latl
inst. Tho buutcrs oftwo freight cars slipped pas
leach other, reducing the space between them &c
about five inches. Busseno was caught in tn,
chest. His physician, however, expresses hope.
ofhis recovery.
Rev. Thomas Teller has resigned the pas'orat'
oftho baptist church at East Poultncy.
School meetings in Brandon seem to possess al
absorbing interest Mr.. Olin Williams became &c
excited at one efthcm that he dropped dead.
Rutland is tohavo telephone communication will
Whitehall, Saratoga and Albany.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
George Brooks Of Townsend Is another victim O
rapid aerial transit. Ho was recently run ava,
with on load OF hay--lown hill, too Ills team
turning a corner, delivered him in tho front yart
off. w. Rhodes. Ono of his legs were broken in
two places, and ho received severe gash on III,
head.
Grafton is an ctcd with the humps.
Ernest Spencer Of Cambridgeport, will atten,
tho state reform school the coming term.
April 20 is the lo3d birthday of Aunt Sally Stock
well of Beattleboro and will be 1ttingly observed
by her relatives and friends.
DR.. j. NJ Clark, late assistant superintendent al
the Brattle0oro asylum, has bought place a
/ Burlington, where ho will open private asylum.
The remains of Prof i. r. Ward, who died il
, Jacksonville, Fla, April sth. arrived Friday nisl
at his late home In Westminster, from which tow
bis funeral took place Saturday. lie was widely
| known in educational circles.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Hartford has assedcntary population. Botwce
10000 and 900 chairs were made therelluring tn
month OF March.
: The attendance at the NJ. E. church, In Barnard
last Sunday, was very slim. as it happened to b
good sugaring weather.
Grasshoppers have commenced having in Bal
, nard.
Woodstock Hosea Doton recently had a ito
now clothes. The c'vrespou lent thinks it's WORT
, mentioning.
| The derrick at llo lens soAp.sLonc quarry i
Chester, gave way. last Thursday, letting FIVE To
block Of stone ia II down INFO the pit. Luckily III
workmen had jast lett
Mr.. John d. Hilton OF Norwich fell rom u loa,
3 ofhsy, aud received injuries which caused hi
death within lorGy-esht hours.
, A Publishing ;hou3e has ,prcseutei thirty new
volumes 10 the public library in Springfield.
, Philo Hatch, prominent citizen of Woodstock
died, on the morning of April IL. At the time
his death he was president OF the of the Windso
county Ere insurance company, and director of III
n Woodstock national bank. lie was loved an
res peced by all, and his death is public caamit,
There is one epidemic in Vernon