Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-14

Zero and below has been weather.
George f. Woods has the largest assert
ment of Easter cards in this village and Al
very low prices.
Our wide awake merchants, j, G. Day
e. Co., are this week making sptcla
announcements. Ladies, give them a call
Rev. W. R. Davenport gave his lecture
, "Other women" last Wednesday. the third
in the course of the young peoples society
of the NJ. Z. church.
Mrs. Shippy, who has long been suffer.
ing from dropsy, had two more quarts of
water drawn from her last week, making
forty-nine quarts taken from her within
the last four months.
Last Sunday Mr.. j. X. Osgood of Maine
well known in this state as an earnest
temperance worker, spoke to an over
crowded house in the NJ. z. church. Mr..
Osgood needs no Introduction to the people
OF this place. Many know him, and
children love him because of tho good
done their fathers in the past, and we bid
MIN Zoo speed IN his work.
Last Friday morning at 80 our village
was awakened by the loud blast Of the
fire gong, and the whistle of the steam
mill, and one of the most disastrous fires
that has visited us for a long while. it
being the large four-story brick building
occupied by the Velm Farm Machine
Co., and the lower story by Osgood Bar
ker, machinery. The room where the fire
caught being filled with very dry finished
goods, and goods being finished by the
Vermont Farm Machine Co., also rs
paint shop and office. There being some
delay on account of the extreme cold
weather in the fire department getting to
work, the fire spreading rapidly, the three
top stories were soon in flames, nothing
being saved from them. Osgood g. Bar.
ker succeeded in getting their Office furni-
ture out, and the men in saving their own
tools, all the rest going down with the
building, and is in worthless condition,
only for old iron. The loss to Mr.. Osgood
is about $35 900, and comes hard, it being
the third time in sixteen months that he
has been burned out, the other times being
his foundry; yet with the business charac.
teristics of the man he is not discouraged,
and will start afresh as soon as he can get
tools here. He was insured for S12,5OO.
The Vermont farm machine company
loose about $40 900; insured for $4,000;
loss on building, $4,000, by Canal Co.
The weather was extremity cold, and some
of the tiremen froze their feet, some their
hands and others their ears: thermometer
120 below zero.
BARTON LANDING.-The Congregational
society in this place have no settled
minister. They have had some on trial,
but have not settled upon any one yet.
They have preaching by different pastors
supplying the desk.
The "Chautauqua Literary Circle" in
this village are progressing finely They
meet weekly for recitations, and are very
much interested in the different works
they are studying. May excelsior be their
motto.
CHELsEA.-Two persons joined the
Congregational church March 4th
Joseph French has sold his c. c. Scales
farm to John Sanborn. Price $3.50.
George M, Scales of Manchester. N.
H., was in town last week.
The supreme court for Orange county
was opened at the court house on Tuesday,
March 9th, and adjourned sine die.
Thursday the 8th.
Mrs. .B. Martin oilers her place on
Maple street Tor sale.
An oyster supper for the benefit of
John G CLARK was served at the hotel
hall on Friday evening, March 9th.
A remarkable degree of canine knowl-
edge and grief were manifested by j. B.
Racon's large Newfoundland dog on the
occasion Of the death of Mr.. Bacon
daughter. The day before she died be
began most piteoas and mournful whn
ing and bowling and continued 10 do SO
for more than three weeks after her death.
He must evidently have had an instructive
knowledge of what had happened in the
family.
A. J. Foster met with an accident
recently that might have been very
severe. He was on his way TO West
Randolph in the night time with load of
hay. He had got off of his load and was
walking in front of his horses, when he
tripped and fell in the road. His horses
passed over him and he was caught by
the front beam of his sled and dragged
some distance on the road, when he
fortunately succeeded in getting hold of
some of the gearing and was enabled to
stop his team by speaking to them. and
thus escaped a fearful death, but he was
considerably injured as it was.
Jesse Smith of Rhode Island was in
town recently and bought and took off
lot of nice horses.
A. j. Foster and j. G. Clark intend to
remove this week; the former TO West
Randolph and the latter to st. Johnsbury.
The ladies of the Congregational church
furnished social entertainment ut w. F.
Hoods on the evening of March 9TH.
Arthur, son of Mrs. l.. Marcy and aged
about ten years, met with bad accident,
March 9th. He was being drawn on a
hand sled by another boy at a rapid gait.
A stick, that he held in his hand, caught
against the frozen snow, which forced the
other end against his hip and entering the
flesh, passed upward and broke of,
leaving six inches of the stick in his body.
DR.. Corwin removed the stick and dressed
the wound.
Arthur V. Goss, teacher in the
McCollom institute, Mount Vernon, N.
H., is at home on n short vacation.