Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-11-28

Will DE sofa LOT Sl.Z0,-WOrtn 81. Z;
Also, n lot of striped satins at so cents thi
cost S1.00 and over, to reduce stock q
Webster's.
The question is not the watering {
stock, but the getting of water to tn
village, and TO reduce stock, not b
watering, but by selling. There will b
sold, colored silk velvets at $l.25, chill
dren's cloaking, Is cents to $l.25. G.
and see the bargains at Webster's,
Monday night heavy rains visited thi
village.
Six of Kimballs stone cutters were dis
charged las. week.
Mr.. james B. Scoville of Berlin is yer,
low with pneumonia.
The annual meeting of engine compan,
No. will be held this evening.
Rev. j. II, Hincks is to preach a
Wrightsville next Sunday at 2P.M
The Grand Army has gained IL post
and 1000 members in the state during the
year.
G. II. Smile, boot and shoe dealer
intends going into business at Burlington
soon.
There is to be the usual monthly tenn
perance meeting at Trinity vestry next
Sunday evening.
The Thanksgiving service of the church
of the Messiah will be held in their vestry
on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock.
When completed, the store on the north
side of the arch, now fitted up for A. d.
Farwel, will be one of the best lighted
and handiest arranged in town.
Leonard P. Lawrence, living on Berlin
street, has bought two or three large
springs of the estate of Andrew Cum
mings and now has q force of about fifteen
men ditching to bring it to his house.
George Shepard, a teamster, and Gus
tave Gould had fight one day last week
Mt Wrightsville in which Shepard was
worsled and has since had Gould arrested
for an assault, the trial to come off to-day
About twelve o'clock last Saturday
night the residence of Mrs. Polly Snow,
an old lady of ninety in "Snowsvile" West
Randolph, was entirely consumed by fire
and Mrs. Snow who was unable to escape
was burned with it.
A new lamp post was put up last Satur-
day on the corner OF Franklin and Cross
streets. Another lamp post is greatly
needed on Franklin street, about in front
of No. 4 engine house. to light up the
gloom of the old tan yard.
The argus of last week asserts that an
editorial upon prospective governors in
the Watchn1an of the week before, which
has been taken by number of state papers
as favoring Frederick Billings for COVER
nor next year, was in reality too heavily
loaded gun for Secretary of State Nichols.
We thought it was clear case of "taffy
for the crowd"
+ r. Meader who is the general agent
in Vermont and New Hampshire for the
New American sewing machine will hero
after make Montpelier his starting place
with headquarters in A. A. Mead's jewel
ry store. When Meader was here before
nobody went without a sewing machine
because they had no opportunity to buy
one, and we do not think he has lost any
of his old-time push" See his adyer-
tisement in another column.
The adoption of the new time standard
has become almost universal with the
United States railroads and in most places
the cities and villages have changed their
time to agree with 1t, but in some instances
they have stubbornly refused to "come to
time" and great inconvenience has been
the result 1t is now discovered that while
the new standard time is the most sensible
arrangement for the transaction of railroad
business it has absolutely spoiled the last
remaining claim of reliability of large
crop of almanacs which have already gone
10 seed for the year 1884 and whose astron-
omcal calculations were all made on the
old plan.
T. j. Deavitt, Esq, Of this village has
lately obtained pensions for the following
persons: benjamin Smith, Marshield, a
dependent father, So Il month, $1,000
arrears; Orson c. Turner, Waterbury, So
A month, 1886 arrears; Edwin Bowman,
Waterford, 50 month, $500 arrears
Isaac C. Vaughn, Hyde Park, So month,
800 arrears; l.. D. Hadlock, Berlin, SIS a
month, $3.50 arrears; w. G. Rollins,
Woodbury., 50 month. $40 arrears; L.
F. Mclean, Cabot, 81 a month, $50
arrears; Lewis Lapien, Plainfield, 81 a
month, 1910 arrears; Henry d. Maynard.
Sc a month, $1,000 arrears
Charles a. Sanders, Montpelier, an
increase of So per month; Francis Clark,
North Du&bury, an increase from SS TO-
Sl2 month.
A sad accident occurred at GAINESVILLE, n
village (sometimes called West Berlin) in
Berlin between Montpelier Junction and
Gouldsville last Friday evening, The
Chicago express going north struck a
team, killing Mrs. William Mcintosh and
fatally wounding Mr.. Mcintosh and Miss
Mary r. House. Mr.. and Mrs. Mcintosh
had started from their home to 60 to a
meeting that was to be held at the
Congregational church, which is to the
west of the railroad track. On reaching
the village they oallediat the dwelling OF
Rev, Joseph House and got Miss House to
90 with them. On driving through the
bridge before coming to the railroad track