Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01
Poet LongfeIiow left property valued at
! S350000.

Poet LongfeIiow left property valued at
IS350,O00.
RnGIMENTAL BAND.-The Brattleboro
band has received its appointment rs the
Vermrnt' regimental band.
1t is pointed out az a startling fact that
England, from her own resources, is
never in possession OF more than one
months supply of food for her people.
1t Is estimaset' that 100000 acres OF
swamp land VIM be redeemed and made
| fit for cultivation within a few years in
| consequence of the recent large purchases
of the southern land by capitalists.
Henry, son of George Wilder of Eas,
Walingford, aged about Ia, took fatal
dose of Paris green Monday afternoon
from the effects of which fyh died the same
evening.
At South Wallingford, the other day
Jay Stafford fifteen years old, was har.
Messing horse when the animal kicked,
striking him in the bowels and causing his
| death in few hours.
All the summer resorts yet heard from
claim sumptnous allowance of pretty
girls and corresponding scarcity of
Young men. This neat style of adveftis-
ing catches n great many masculines of
monopolistic tendencies Citizen.
FRANKLIN COUNTY CoURT.-The Sep.
TENDER term of the Franklin county court
begins September 1lth. and the last day
of service is August 30th. The coSrt
calendar numbers 1872 cases. and the
chancery docket 81. There are 81 lawyers
in the county.
j. Chapman was arrested in Ru land
for being drunk, and fined. A charge of
attempting to kill his wife and others has
been made against him. When arrested
he had loaded revolver and very
sharp dirk knife, which he had thr eatened
and attempted to use.
A fast passenger train ran into freight
near Colchester Sunday morning, smash
ing up two freight cars and irjuring
Moses Pratt, well known Vermons
engineer. The freight was running on
| the passengers time.
The editors in Springfield, Illinois, are
getting into q terrible rage. The State
| Reqister calls the contemporary editor
1.-The blear.cyed dam phool who edits the
vile and venal hand me round" He has
probably begun TO practice shooting at the
barn door with his little gun.
A thunder bolt exploded on the summit
of Mount Washington about o'clock
Saturday night, part of which went down
the stove pipe into the office of the Among
The Clouds newspaper. Its editor, Henry
NJ. Burt, was seriously injured, the light
ming striking him in the back and passing
down the left leg and out through the sole
of his boot. His lower limbs were para
lived by the shock, and he did not recover
the use of them for several hours.
While Great Britain is deporting the
inhabitants of Ireland to this country, the
bends of that island are relapsing into
barbarism. The area under cultivation
in the last year shows decrease of about
10000 acres, and $4,000 acres, once
arabic, have gone back to bog. The
potato crop was 100000 tons short. The
crumbling walls of deserted cottages mark
the failure of British domination and of
Irish thrift
The San Francisco Chronicle counts up
80 Californi4ns who have died in 10
wears, each of whom was worth over a
million and some of them many millions.
The only ones of the 80 who left anything
TO public purposes were James Lick, r.
B. Woodward Louis Strauss and William
Sahlein. The two last were dry goods
dealers and contributed to charitable
institutions, Woodward left $4,000 for
the poor, and Lick n large educational
. fund. This is pretty poor showing.