Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-31

The president Monday nominated Justin
w. Moody postmaster Of Waterbury.
The Free Press says the broad lake was
apparently frozen completely over Friday.
The sun now rises 10 minutes earlier
and sets 80 minutes later, making the day
4S minutes longer.
Sixty-three couples were in attendance
Mt the Grand Army dance at the American
house on Tuesday evening.
Whooping cough is quite prevalent in
St. Adams, and the mumps are raging in
the south part of Swanton.
John l.. Philbrick of Burlington, Mimi,
formerly of this town, has recently had
the misfortune to lose by death his two
youngest sons.
A set of paper wheels under truck Of
an engine of the Central Vermont railroad
have been in use II years and apparently
are still sound.
The old favoritos, Whitmore and Clark's
Ministries will be at Capitol Hall next
Monday evening and will of course have
their usual crowded house.
William Ruskert, in the employ of L.
w. Welch, has rented the Kinsman house
on Barre street, and will soon remove
his family here from Holyoke, Mass.
The Rutland Herald warns the public
az ainst believing the stories of one Collins,
who claims TO be a porter Of the Pavilion
hotel, Montpelier, but who turns out to be
fraud.
Bro. Samuel Dixie, secretary of the New
England divorce reform league, gave an
address upon divorce and the family"
in the Church of the Messiah, last Sunday
evening.
Good medical authority says the habit
of eating snow and ice induces catarrh, by
chilling the thin partition forming the roof
of the mouth and the floor of the nostrils,
illus Cauoiuts SoHeCStioh'
Richardson Brothers, Davenport, Iowa
former Vermonters, state that their sale:
of Jersey cattle during the past veal
amounted to over $50 1000, and that thei
herd is one of the largest and best in the
west.
+. j. French has given to the Congre
gational church at East HardwicB, 6
pulpit set of sixteen pieces, black walnut
and maroon plush. Miss Elizabeth Jewet
of Boston, has given fine chapel organ
for Jewett chapel
Vennor rises to remark: THE polar
wave in with us. All prophets predicted
warm wave for the last week of January
but your humble servant. The break is t.
come in February to fulfil the law of aver
age and compensation. and cold wintry
March to follow
Two much "fre water" caused the
arrest of two Calais men, on Friday even
ing last, by officer Bagley. who fount
them near the Lane manufacturing com
pany's building in condition that nigh
have resulted in their being frozen te
death before reaching their destination.
Septmus Clark, overseer of Peck
Cummins' tannery, on Saturday morning
of last week received what has proved t.
be quite serious injury. A heavy stick
about five feet in length, fell from one 0
the overlays in the shop, striking him OF
the foot which, with his leg, has becom,
badly swollen and Tuesday it was feare,
that erysipelas had set it.
REUNION OF COMPANY &. 10TH YER
MONT VoLUNrEERs.-The reunion of thi
old veteran companywas held as announc
ed The first effort of the kind we believe il
the state. The reunion was decided sue
cess, nineteen Q9) of the members bein!
present. Waterbury portion of the com
pany was best represented. A permanen
organization was made and it was decide
that reunion with matured programme
should be had once a year-sometime il
the month of October. The followin,
officers were elected: President, DR.. E.
Foster; vice presidents, H. M. Pierce ant
Jerome Ayers; secretary, William Clark
commissary, II. S. Smith.
WATERBURY FGRE.-Last Friday night
about l | o'clock, our citizens were startle
by the alarm of fire and on turning GU
discovered that Alpha Atherlon's furntur
and cabinet shop was in flames. Til
fremen and citizens worked well, bu
with the thermometer 10 degrees beloy
zero and an insufficient water supply wer
unable to prevent it spreading to tn
Davis block ON the east and Baisell'
furniture and shoe shop on the west, whic
with Atherton's store were completed
consumed. The tenement house of job
King was badly scorched but was save
without serious damage. The fire
supposed to have been the smouldern
remains of small fire in Atherton's sho
Friday forenoon, Atherton's loss wa
aDoul pEouoi lHSuIanCe plZUU. LOSS o
the Davis block $500; insurance $4,000
d. b. Cole'sl loss about $780, fully covere
by insurance. DR.. Wheclock, dentist,
total loss; insured. Mrs. Stebbins, mill
merry, loss $1,000; insurance $500.
The total insurance figures up $3.50, {
which the Vermont Mutual held som
$1,000. the balance being divided between
several foreign companies.