Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-04-18

Cheyenne, Wyoming territory.
Henry Washburn has leased the paint
shop owned by the estate of the late John
B. Witt on Elm street.
Mr.. Wright is to preach in tho Morse
school house, next Sunday afternoon,
April god, instead ofApril 29th.
Rev. j. Edward Wright is expected to
preace in tie church in Middlesex village
on Sunday afternoon, April Goth, at half
past one.
One million feet of logs, q greater part
of it hard wood, is in the mill yard of the
Lime manufacturing company. The saw
inc was commenced last week.
BERLIN PoND.-There will be quar-
terly meeting service at Berlin Pond next
Sunday at IL p. NJ. Presiding Elder
Snencer will be present and preach on the
occasion.
One Lenox, Scotchman living in the
west part of Berlin, was arrested upon the
street by the police Saturday for intoxlca,
on the town agent and d. c. Sloan.
The frantic efforts of Il large rat to
desert its apparently sinking ship as it
was on the point of going over the dam
attracted good deal Of attention at the
time of the break up of the ice in the
Winooski river last Friday.
Lv,uan G.. Boutwell, has removed from
the A. L. Paige house on Elm street into
Mrs, Luther Newcomb's house. The Paige
house is being made into double tene-
ment house. Albert w. Severance, living
in the @. d. Scribner block, is to occupy
one of them when finished.
SEMINARY ITEMs-R. w. Bundy of 81
made us short call this week, we are
always glad to see him.
Miss Zila Styles of 'Sl is here now
making elocution specially.
The students have had one sugar party,
but they report good time.
The instrumental class in music num-
bers IS. One more piano has been added
this term, five pianos and two organs are
in almost constant use.
Our lyceum decided last Friday even
ing, that the press has more influence over
the masses than the platform, with Messrs
Rowland and Eaton affirmative Messrs.
Leazer and Dexter on negative
NJ b, ,,,,bl 3chn yI,p
supplied all the "Tunison" maps and
charts which FF Peav, &C. Barnes, e.
Thayer, C. V. Roberts and many others
did so well with last season, will be in
town for few days with an entirely new
map which contains five times the selling
points of any other map published for
which he wants agents and would be
pleased to have those who are interested
call on him at Mrs. Hibbard's, opposite
the Court House, or write him at Eliza
beth, N, J. p. j. Page is no longer in Mr..
Murray's employ, but is selling an old
and inferior map on which agents who
have tried both say they can not make
half as much money Please investigate.
BENNETT & MoULToN's comic opera
company gave season of three perform
ances at Capitol Hall, Friday evening and
Saturday afternoon and evening, giving
"Olivette" Friday evening, "Pinafore" at
Saturdays matinee, and "Chimes of
Normandy" Saturday evening.
The company is fairly strong one, and
its members 90 at their work with vigor
and enthusiasm. They are young both in
years and experience, and more practice
together will better some of their scenes
If some CT their voices are unframed,
they are fresh and unworn.
In "Oivette" the Misses Liebsch, and
Miss Bruce as Olivette, Bathilde and
Veloutn were well received, and the
duet mo Tongue Can Tell'' was especially
well given and received an encore.
Messrs Smith and Billiard as capt. De
Merrimac" and "Valentine," were sue
cesses, while Mr.. Frank Deshon as
"Coquelicot' we thought too grotesque
for good taste even in comic opera though
the audience evidently did not agree with
us as he got the first encore Of the evening
in "Bob up Sereneiy." AS a composition,
'Olivette' is greatly inferior to "Pinafore."
which affords better scope for good effects.
The melting snow had so raised the
water in our rivers that last Friday noon
the ice went out of "the branch" in very
good order, but that in the main river,
which seemed to have been made of sterner
stuff held the fort till later In the day. The
ice in the upper portion of the river had
already broken up and taken with it, the
trestles on the Barre branch railroad at
both the Sabin and Bacon crossings and
was with inevitable force, making slow
jnroads upon the half mile of ice Just
above the dam, spreading out over the
highway and meadow in such shape as to
confirm a person in the opinion that he
could form some idea of an arctic land |
s,ape, when the strip at the bridge sudden
ly gave way and the great cakes of ice
went plunging over the dam, many of
them not forgetting to give the bridge
sharp raps as gentle eminders of the fact
that but few inches lay between it and
safety. As it was the braces at each end
of the bridge bear indelible traces of the
power of the raging mass. On the going
down of the river it was found that the
damage to the highway and other property
was not as great as might reasonably have
been expected and few hours work, by
highway surveyor Crossct, whose maxim
does not seem TO be to not do that to-day
which can be put OFF till 10 morrow, and a
gang of willing workers rendered the
road again passable. The ice overlooked
the highway on Berlin side the worst it
has any year since 1870 when ice was
piled so high on the sides of the passage