Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-05-23

hI At West Rutland, Saturday, Thomas
Kennedy fell over fifty feet into marble
a quarry and received DANCE, Gus injuries.
Calvin II. Chapman of Rutland has
got into trouble through beating his
father, who is 70 years old and a cripple.
, Brandon has an assessed valuation of
g. 100.055. against $2,0l7 900 last year.
The doubling process was applied to six
Q persons.
The listers of Woodstock have complet-
D cd their work and the result is crafty
s ing increase of the grand list, which is
, $l9,7O692, in 1924 gain of $l,1l1.7O.
. Nelson Babcock, druggist at North
Bennington, dlsappe lred on Wednesday.
, He has been indicted for selling liquor,
and beng unable to furnish bail deemed
1t advisable to leave North Bennington for
short time.
The Portland newspapers have story.
not in the funny columns either, of a wo-
man who eloped from that city with a
young man. Her husband took it calmly
and did not try to find her. On Monday
he received letter from her, in which she
said, $50 far God has blessed us with
health. but John has 70 regular work
yet"
Frank Newton, a farmer living in the
west part of the town of Bethel, died a
painful death from poisoning recently.
Having colt with some kind of a sore
upon him, he made wash of poke root
to apply to it, and in making tbs applica
ton the poison was inocuated into Mr..
Newtons blood. producing erysipeas,
from which he died in a few days.
Senator ingalls, sees no sign of new
political party. He correctly says that
new parties must be founded on princi pie,
not on factional fights over patronage.
He regards the republican party as the
party Of protection. and the democratic
party as the party of free trade, and the
tariff as the great question Of the present,
whatever the platforms may say.
Brattleboro's new grand list is 1886, 474
being $2372 larger than last year. The
first GLASS real estate amounts to $3.50,
652, or $65,497 more than last year. The
second class real estate is $3S6,s00, or
1888 865 more than in 1882. The addition
to the real estate amounts to $25 $50
total 81 9622S2; total personal 81 ,445, l20
or $l49 463 more than last year; aggre-
gate amount of real and personal property
So 407 402, which is an increase of 1922,
355 over last year The number of polls
is l413 against 1915 last year.
A BENNINGTON INVENTOR We had the
pleasure to examine some of the inventions
Of Henry V. Smith of Bennington, Vt. a
skllful mechanic, TO whom have been
issued many patents. Among the work
ing models we saw were two bit stocks,
the patents OF which covered the improved
jaws for holding the bit, the TVS opening
automatically. Two pairs of cutting
nippers are of very ingenious but simple
mechanism. giving great power at small
expense The other inventions examined
were drill for boring iron, with enclosed
gearing, calipers OF great range on the
| ''csm'' principle, fue stops ornamental
and to be used AS ventllators, ratchet
made by three blows of a drop; scissors
blades and handles waged by one blow
OF drop; sheet iron cutter and
very remarkable lawn force pump. These
inventions by Mr.. Smith are valuable and
will undoubtedly be profitable to him. -
1fO9 IytSS correspondence.
The stockholders of De Lesseps's Pana
ma canal are anything but cheerful over
notification from the Columbian treasury
department that the company must pay
the cost of maintaining 1000 or 3O0Ol
Columbian troops TO keep peace on the
isthmus The order, nominally at least,
is brought about by the fierce fights con
s,antly being waged by the Jamaican and
Carthaginian aburers. in which some 20 |
of the former have already been killed |
There are about 5000 workmcn along the
line of the canal-the riff. raft of all
nations, and as they go armed and have
ready access to liquor, they are of course
hard to manage. But tho necessity for
supporting the Columbia troops for the
next dozen or IA years cannot be thought
of by the Stockholders without Il grimace.
The cost, says the Columbian minister of
the treasury, will be half million a
year, or seven millions for the IA Years
granted for completing the canal though
he is not certain that the cost will no,
reach 10 OF IL millions.
The attempted poisoning of family at
Franklin, Mass, by servant girl, is in
some respects remarkable case. About
two months ago. Rev. DR.. Fletcher took
from an intelligence office, colored girl
named Hattie Wesley, aged 20 years,
without any recommendations whatever.
For few weeks the girl performed her
duties well enough; then she began to
lay her murderous plans. At various
times members of the family have been
made sick by ealing some of the food
prepared by this girl. The other dav she
suddenly left The house and has not since
been seen. After her departure abundant
evidence was found OF her malicious
disposition and murderous character.
Cloaks. sacques, dresses, coats and hats
have been ruined, large holes and rents
showing the work of scissors and knife
Valuable books purchased in Europe and
which cannot be replaced are torn and
besmeared with filth. This wanton de-
OF property was supposed to be
the extent of her work, but on Monday it
was discovered that before leaving, She
had made preparations to poison the
whole family. Paris green had been
pentlfully mixed with the spices, the
chocolate and the havoring extracts.
Pieces of pork in the cellar had been
"doctored' enough to kill q dozen families
A large quantity of white powder was
found in the sugar. This has not been
analysed but it Is supposed to be arsenic
The moral of this story is that it is not
always cafe to employ domestic help who
are unable to furnish satisfactory recon-
menGatons.