Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-09-20

il tie STAT
Ire Black River Valley Fair At Pe1kinsyiIle
lsst week, wss attended with 81 unusual number
Of casualties woman was run over by q race
horse and kliei, and child YRS hurt 50 that it
Is not expected to live while severrl others wsre
badly injured 3 son Of Joseph Whitoom6,
tobaecoaist, Of Springfield Mess, vas riding the
horse, which is in the habit Of boiling from
,he track.
Tue Eorror,' RErsloS-It has aaol found
impossible, among all orr county fsira and
political meetings this f2ll, TO FIX time when
fall gathering Of the members Of the Vermont
Elitors' Association could Re secured. The an
nnal reunion has accordingly been postponed TO
mex. spring. when it will take place ia this
city We understand tia; business meeting Of
the Association viii be called ct Montpelier dur
ing the coming session Of the Legislature.
We should no; thiak Of Undertaking to rival
the scholars of the Messenger IN claf,ical lore
still less would We desire to de;rast j5t from
the efea. Of ths bzals5ma paragraph 10 which
the .Uess5agc connects cur friend Coz Franklin
Fairbanks With the rpcsksr's chsir, the aasient
Romans. the iless Q. Justice AID tie "3ouo
ofthe forum. But We have IN impression, left
over somehow rom our soboo.boy Days, that the
Romsn Forum vss not building with
''lome, but ~ open t7aoe n the city Prob
ably we -5a wrong about f.
We call attention to ,be advertisement Of the
Merchants National Bank Of Burlington &c
gaIdinz Deposit Receipts bearing interest which
are Issued by tLis Bank This System Of D.
potts is 81 old sad popular enc, though come
what new IN this country, having been first in
uoducel here few yosrs since b the First
National Bsuk Of New York and the Merchants
Nstiors, Bank Of this city. It is the usual
meth5I Of keeping Deposits ia Europe and in the
Canadian Danks, ana combines 81 the aivan-
tager of ordinary Savings Banks wi,h the sd-
ditionsl oze tAst the d>positor caa always con-
troll and oonmaai his funds without loss Ct in
te.est
A sal ease Of suicide occurred 90 S6efb-ooke,
Friday night Wbea Thomas Shay, sa engineer
on the Tasslmpsic River railroad, hung him
self 1. soems that shout fortnight sgo his
trsin ran over and killed yo12z child Of G. r.
Beat.ie 81 Ryezl.e which was playing on the
track. and. although the railroai authorities
solui. Shay fan b,sa. IN the premises the &C
c.Isnt occurring jas, sf,er the train rounded
corner, and while It VAC going down gr.ie--.h
child'l father AMI gone other psrtes held him
responsible for it's death, and their uujusdfsbc
remarks finally drove hin 20 Dependency and
suicide
RuLBoAD scuExs.- LIsr FROM Nav YosK
TO CANADA The directors Of the Lie railway
have insde c1rt--,. with the New York, Bos-
ton SID Montreal railroad company, by which
the fl7me- road viii bs able 10 sysil Itself Of the
la'tar's facilities for doing tusineas in the last.
aud TO c3mp-.- with the New York Central rsil-
road IA The haAgy transportation busuess done
with that session Of The country. The New
York, Boston znl Montreal railroad is composed
Of = number Of email roads between New York
aul Rutland a road from Ano7sn to Chatham
Four Corners viii have to be built before = con-
ne-tcn can he made With the Hsrlem extension
and the Bennington sal Rutland roaia From
Rutland to Montreal the projected line is over
the Rutland aal Darlington rosi, now leased
by the Vermont Genital company Commo-
dore Vanderbilt is said to own lsrgely Of the
frat mortgage bonds Of the bennington and
Rutland roads, and tae.e is some talk OF fore
closure. By this sshama the Erie company
proposes TO resch Neg York by = bridge over
the Hudson 81 Flshki.l, or tunnel under the
river. To complete The dilsreat links Of road
between New York city sal Ca. ban Four Cor
ners will require ai is4st one gear The Erie
proposes to reach Boston by the way q the
Boston, Hartford and Erie rosl, nov il an un-
finished condition. Tbis ues scheme j, said to
be in direct opposition TO Commodore Wander
tilt, with the New York Central and Hudson,
Harlem And New York underground rosis It
Is said that the Neg York Central company in
tends to lay additional ttsaks from New York to
Buffalo for freight tr.ius which nov interfere
with the passenger trains.