Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-05-09

L. b. Huntington is sick with the rheu'
matte fever.
Wilder P. Huntington of St. Adams is
in town on short visit.
II. NJ. Sullivan of Boston is stopping in
town for couple of weeks.
Timothy J. Murphy has removed from
the Ergus block to one of I. NJ. Woods
tenement houses on the Mortified road
on the Berlin side.
julius p. Knapp has purchased OF c. Fl
Cross building lot on First Avenue and
will commence Immediately the erection
of a house to sell.
Mrs. Reynolds has removed from the
Sprague tenement house on Barre street
into her house recently purchased of D.
Taft on Mechanic street.
County commissioner, Erastus B. Dwi-
nell, has appointed Orrin Daley liquor
agent at Montpelier. The appointment
was made on the recommendation of the
selectmen and town committee.
The suit of the Bradley fertilizer COM
pany against DR.. II. A. Cutting, the
secretary of the Vermont board of agri'
cultural is set for trial at the May term Of
the U. S. circuit court which opens next
Tuesday at Windsor.
Eugene Town, n Waterbury farmer
came to Montpelier Saturday, got drunk
and while riding home with fifteen veal
cd girl that he had hired committed ar
Indecent assault upon her. The Waterbury
officers did not find him Monday morning
but arrested him that night.
The directors of the Windsor County
mutual fire insurance company have
voted an assessment of ten and one hall
per cent to cover expenses of winding up.
The proportion of advance premium to be
repaid on unexpired policies reduces this
assessment more than one and one-hali
per cent on the average.
The negotiation which Mr.. Joe G. Tay.
lor of Bratteboro has been conducting
for the purchase of the Pavilion has
fallen through, and the hotel has been
transferred TO the possession of the
heirs of the Charles w. Bailey es-
tate, which holds a mortgage upon it,
equal, or more than equal. to its valve.
The hotel is still for sale, and meanwhile
will remain under tke management Of
Mr.. A. j. Sibley.
Joshua Whitcomb" was played TO a
crowded house at Capital Hall last Mon
day evening. The large audience was
more than pleased with the life like
portrayal of genuine Yankee farmer
who had started for Boston with the
intention of working up pumpkin pie
boom and thus create a demand for his
crop of pumpkins but who felt equal to the
the task of regulating the whole city, and
gave frequent evidence of their approval
by hearty applause.
Hon. Harvey Tilden, Judge of probate
for Washington district, yesterday sem
Gov. Barstow his resignation to take
effect June list. He has been in pool
health for year and his resignation i.
rendered for this reason. Judge Tilder
was Judge of probate from 1856 to 1865
and has continuously held the Office from
1870 TO the present time. His RECORD
7,
retires from the office with the respect o.
all who have done business in his court
whether as parties or attorneys, and with
their best wishes for his return to goot
health.
SEMINARY ITEMS. e. X. Dexter left us
at mid.tcrm to work as map agent.
f. I. Peao visited tho hill last week
He has Just como from North Carolina
bnt no does not sing "O, Give me Home
in the South"
Some half dozen of our students
attended conference last week and all fee
well paid for going.
We are glad to see improvements begin.
A large number of maple and other shade
trees are now being transplanted, and il
looks as if the campus was to be nicely
shaded.
We are visited nearly every week b,
General Agents" for books and map
and some returned map agents from fields
west and south report good success
several Of our boys will try their success
at canvassiDg.
Mid tenn has passed very quietly will
no special exercises. A good number
took u short vacation to visit friends
while Others are rather tediously taking q
vacation by having the measles. We ar,
glad to see several, who have been a
homo with the measles, back again.