Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-03-31
Vermont Items.

Lloyd Kimball tell into the Connection
on the 2lst, while helping 70 repair tn
bridge at Mclndoes Falls, and was carried
over the falls below. Every effort was mad:
to save him but to no avail. He was sbout
f 60 years Of age and leaves family.
At Windsor, after the river broke up, q
child stepped on e cake of ice attached tc
the shore, and was swept of b7 the water
and drowned
TIE Vermont Valley Railroad was washed
out in two places during the late freshet,
below Westminster Station, and train was
caught between the two breaks. The pas
sengers had to be taken of 10 boats.
The Rutland and Washington Railroad
was sold on the 18th inst, by B. F. Bancroft
referee, to Wm. T. Hart. Esq., Of Boston,
Mass, for the sum of S365,O0O.
Hon. Il. Il. Reynolds has been elected
County Commissioner for Grand Isle county.
The Woodstock Tost Office ba= been desig-
mated a money order oiHee.
The Bank of Black River, at Proctorsville,
the Woodstock Bank and the Lamoills Coun-
ty Bank, have voted 70 change from STATE to
National.
Casuncey snow, Of St. JohnsbuTy, had
reo horses drowned by their slipping from
bridge over Mix Brook. on the 18th.
Daring the late freshet ,he dam of Bar
-.u- pin box Factory, at Bristol, was so
injured as to render It's rebuilding necessary.
The Factory will have to be stopped for three
0r Jour months.
Dc required -be ezart.ons OF more than 100
men. ou Thursday and Friday ,tbe 10Th and
l7ta in-tJ. 90 prevent Wright's woolen
uHi a1 lioosiek River in Pownal, from being
swept away by thefaod The damage TO the /
building. machinery and cloth /. considerable. T.
= E.euehman named Blanchard was found |
DEAD Friday morning IA s. railroad culyert, |
about mile south Of =. Albans. It is sup /
posed that in walking home on the track, he /
fel through. receiving a fatal injury about .
bis -.fl
a .ar chat bad b-en missing fr. rr..ss, |
was found by IT, owner IN Bennington. a
,-v t.g- ago, se-erI feet under the hay in
h.s l.rn. The hen had no, had a drop Of .
earsr ua- 81 particle of lood all that time.
When taken OUT it was emaciatei to skin
and bone. but under proper treatment revived
lni IS GIite @ hen.
s brakeman was stunned on Tuesday NOR
nin., By hi- heads hitting the railroad
bridge over East Greek, near Rutland
Michael Gleason, switchman at the depot
n Rutland was killed Tuesday morning. He
--l 5s,n stackliug car, and getting his foot
,-asbt 10 some way was unable TO spring
7o-a the track IN zine 70 avoid = passing
.ngi0e
A landslide occurred on the night Of the
10Th 90 J. : Petitioners farm 10 Msnehes-
er covering an acre Of meadow with Eve or
z feet ~ earth. s ravine between the
meadow and the hili wa- filed With small
tones. The hill-side vas denuded to the depth
If twenty tee, and showed the evident former
presence OF stream Of water running under
,round.
The Regiser says little maple sugar has
-et been made in Addison County and many
armer- have determined not Il tap their
rees.-an unwise CONCLUSION, a. three days
# good ron Of sap viii pay well for the
rau5.e oil -u-arin-
TIE Niidlebury Register SAYS Geo. Whit
emorc, lad OF iour years, on Tuesday Of
a=t week, fell INTO the river about forty rods
5ovc sine iails .a -A-, g.lhs-, and foated
.1wn nearly to tire alls,-all Of the way
Iajes che iee,-and was taken out alive by
'ha,. Buyer, who ohanoea to sc sim fall
Nlai. Walker Of the llth Nt. has brought
lone the ta,tered battle flag Of that re- i lelt,
ui viii present it 10 GOV. Smith.
THE -. Alt4ns Foundry Co. had to -Gs-
.sud work last week, the shaft of the main
IRVING wheel having broken, till a new one
uuid Re put in.