Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-19
NEW ENGLAND ITEMS.
MASSACHUSETTS.

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There is a great deal of sickness in Newbury-
port. Thirty seats were vacant in one public
school on a single day.
Three Boston philosophers werelately observed
bathing in the Charles river.
The Boston Traveller speaks dolefully of the
spread of infdelity in the large towns and cities
of the State.
The influenza is prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent in Topsfeld, Scholars in all the schools are
greatly affected with it, and one of the schools is
entirely suspended.
Anthony Garvin Of Worcester tried to kill his
wife with heavy hammer Tuesday, but she got
away from him before he completed the work
Last fall the same man attacked police officer
with an axe and fatiron.
Hiram Smith of Chester, wealthy and eccen-
trio bachelor, is having his tomb hewn in
boulder of gray granite, which will average
eighteen feet in diameter, and rests its solitary
/ bulk on high ledge on his farm. The tomb is
| to be completed with a solid rock door
/ A Boston firm has received an order from
[ China for 600 cases Of boots and shoes of cheap
kind, intended to be used by the natives general
/ ly. 1t is said to be the first consignment of the
kind ever sent there
farmer and his wife, III Webster, have kept
house twenty-eight years, and have never used
cooking stove, or any other kind of stove.
They have adhered to the noble old open fire
place.
A Shelburne gallant was cheated the other
night into wasting his kisses on the withered
cheek Of his sweetheart's good grandmother, be-
cause she came to the door to receive him with
out light, as his sweetheart's custom was.
The assessors of Ashland, after deciding to
tax incomes, found only two persons in town
that were liable to such a taxa man and wo-
man. The womsn's tax they afterwards abated,
and the mans they are now trying unsuccess-
fully to collect.
Some beautiful Z" spiritual manifestations at
Greenield-weird music on piano at the dead
of night-created great tremor and sensation
in the family, which were spoiled when 1t was
discovered next morning that a cat had been IN
nocently walking over the keys.
The latest form Of imposition in Boston Is after
this sort A well-dresse1 and well-spoken
vounc woman-and if good-lcoking it is all the
better-steps into a store, in great haste, to
borrow a dollar or two, to advertise lost wal
LET. She says her pocket has Just been picked,
and that she lives at the South End Or out Of
town.
The Young bear recently sent TO '' Oliver OPP
tic. from Bangor, Maine, got his blood up on
being transferred from Boston to Mr.. Adams's
place in Dorchester, aud " tore round" so reck-
iessly and miscellaneously that Ratchet had to
be buried in his brain TO quiet him and so his
/ brief career reached a sudden and tragic end.
The Boston chief of police lately resorted to
neat ruse 10 discover the snObs who make prsc-
tice of insulting ladies' on the streets He at
tired two or three trusty officers in woman's ap-
parel who walked through the streets. In the
morning one officer alone reported y men, many
Of whom move in the best society.
MAINE
Eighty thousand tons Of ice have been stored
at Gardiner, for shipment
The Bangor City Council has forbidden the
erection Of wooden buildings within certain
limits.
1t is now definitely known that Coohrane,
found dead in Wateryille last week, was
murdered. The criminal has not yet been ar
rested
Gymnastics have been introduced, as a regu-
lar exercise, into all the public schools in Ban
gor, except the primary.
The committee Of the school board Of Portland
has under consideration the question Of increas
/ ing the salaries of the school teachers.
/ Peaks Island wishes to secede from Portland,
/ and has petitioned to that effect. The main
reason is that Portland has not furnished it with
/ a decent schoolhouse
Two boys, aged respectively eight and thir-
teen years, set fire to the Catholic Church in
/ Brunswick, few days since The priest de-
clined to prosecute them, and they were dis
charged.
4 trout was taken out of Moosehead Lake last
/ week, which was two feet nine inches in length
his longest girth about eighteen inches, and his
weight Il - pounds. 1t is said to be the larg-
est taken from that lake.
Maria Carr, a domestic in the house Of gen
tleman living in Belfast, administered croton oil
in the food she prepared for the family. She
has been sentenced to nine months imprison-
ment.
On Monday last Mr.. Thomas Hill of Stetson
was taken with apoplexy while Embarrassing his
horse in his stable, and died in about three
hours
The W7hig says there was not a single case be-
fore the police court in Penobsc0t last week and
the police would have been skunked, had they
not been 50 fortunate as to pick up two drunken
men Saturday evening.
There was recently a remarkable ebb and flow
in the tide Of Belfast harbor, and rocks never
seen before showed their heads above water. The
opportunity was improved to blast a trouble
some one out Of the way.
\ Maine paper relates that country member
of the legislature, seeing a quantity Of boxes in
the rotunda Of the state House at Augusta, to
be used in sending away documents, asked an
old stager what they were. " Shoe boxes,
presume. " What said the member from
Cranberry Centre. - We don't draw shoes, do
we,''
bill Is pending in the Legislature which
Furnishes by Imprisonment for at least one and
not more than three years, any manufacturer or
seller Of spirituOus liquors which contain strych-
nine, corrosive sublimate other poisonous
substance The fact Of the presence Of poison in
such cases Is declared to be proof sufficient TO
convict the seller unless he is able to prove that
the adulteration was made after the liquors pas
sed out Of his hands.
The reciprocity question is vigorously agitated
in Maine lust now The old reciprocity treaty Is
not asked for, but an adjustment OF the states
relations with the Canadas on a mutual basis.
Judge Goddard, Of Portland, while on the
train for Auburn, was assaulted by ticket col
lector name Jackson. The Judge sued for dam
ages, and the jury gave him 1850. costly
game for Jackson.
Governor Chamberlain has given Harris, the
negro murderer, a reprieve till March 18th, the
House Of Representatives having recommended
him to stay the execution. The Portland -frgus
makes the rather improbable statement, that the
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did not reprive Harris.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Littleton is making preparations to build an
! Episcopalian, Baptist and a Catholic church.
An Exeter man was lately sentenced to five
DAYS in Jail for lifting his children by the hair
of their heads, and tearing his wife's scalp off,
He ought to be sent there for life.
Joseph H. Buckingham of Lancaster has pur-
chased the entire township Of Dixyile, partly
for the sake Of its abundant timber, and partly
for the purpose Of erecting hotel to acccmmo-
= date those who wish to visit the superb natural
} scenery Of that region.
Two ladies Of Greenfield went out sleighing
the other day. They went without gentleman
to escort them, and this was especially imprudent
at their age One is ninety years Of age and the
other is two years her senior. They returned
without accident
= A fugitive from the Manchester Jail, named
l Samuel Taylor, found a tramp's life so unendu-
rable that few days ago he tried to get COM
planned Of in Boston and sent to Deer Island to
labor for the county. Failing in that modest
= request he revealed his recent escape, demanded
arrest, and is now happily enjoying his rashly
left prison comforts,
, A Young man named Charles A. Barker, a
native Of St Johnsbury, Vt, but residing in
Portsmouth, n. H, complained about being un-
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