Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-18
VERMONT NEWS.

During the absence Of H. G. Sessions of
East Aliddlebury from home ,recently.a little
girl some IL years Of age living with him,
took Sl3 in money and burned it. She
confessed the act. and As reason said she
was angry because she iancied Mr.. Sessions
manifested preference for his own child
about the same age.
Thomas Halo. a Frenchman. residing in
East Middlebury, gave two bills Of sale for
the same COW. one day last week, and for
that little delinquency was lodged in Jail,
where he still remains.
The Central New Haven Cheese Company
are running their factory TO its full capa-
city, and are refusing milk brought by the
farmers, for want Of presses. The compa-
ny turn out fifteen cheeses daily.
Cornwall proposes to celebrate it. centen-
nial in 1874.
Hon. John NJ. Dyer OF Salisbury. who
purchased the United States Arsenal AT
Nergennes. Is very much pleased with his
purchase, as he ought 10 be. There l. no
doubt that he secured it at less than half its
value. while it l. one Of the loyeliest spots
in the State.
The first settlers IN Middebury were
Gamaliel Painter and John Chapman of
Salisbury, Conn, who came there in l773,
Just one hundred years ago. \ centennial
celebration is called for.
Mrs. Eddy, of Lincoln, caught her better
half kissing the servant girl. The doctor
was sent for. lie says he can patch up Mr..
Eddy's face but he'll always be baid-head-
ed.
An old lady in Middebury crossed over a
bridge that was marked dangerous,
ed Of the fact on the tother side she instant
IL Il. turned in great alarm and F''ro-''d
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Bennington's largest knitting mill is
that of Henry f. Bradford & Co. The main
part is sixty feet square, with a wing on
the north side l25 feet deep and one on the
south side 100 feet deep, both of them being
fifty feet wide and all built of brick. The
total cost of the mill, including machinery g.
was $4,000. Ii is a full four-set mill, en-
ploys seventy-fve hands, keeps twenty sew
ing machines busy, and its average produc-
ton is seyenty-five dozen per day, ladies'
and gents white and colored wool knit
goods. Bradford Il Co. have lately been
manufacturing a grade of knit goods to
compete with an imported brand for A. T.
Stewart & Co., of New York. 1t is quite
gratifying to know that they have succeed
ed and are furnishing that celebrated house
with these goods at a less price than the
English.
George NJ. Wall of East Dorset was one
of the speakers at the annual prize rhetori-
cal exhibition at Union College, subject
:" National Character
The main excitements at Bennington last
week were public Gaming of one man by
another on Main street. Another, the beat
ing of a woman by her husband. which
| promised for time to create quite dis
| turbance. and the arrest of liquor seller
| for furnishing liquor to a gipsey, who, on
account of the noise he made, was commit
ted to jail, and the next morning after being
fined was allowed to depart.
A post Office has been established at Reads
boro Falls, with John j. Currier as post
master.
Stark Lodge |. Q. Of 0. F. at Bennington
| is in furnishing condition, having lately
rented and furnished new hail.
The Banner in mentioning the prepa ra-
ton of young man to enter college, at
| the graded school in that village, notes the
fact that the Rev. f. f. Chaplin, Hon. Hor-
ace F. Clark. C. 5. Robinson, ID, of
New York. and Hon. William l.. Yancey of
Alabama, were fitted for college at Ben
nington.
The New York Graphic says: Manches-
ter, Vermont is called one of the most sub
stantial and aristocratic summer resorts in
America.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Outsiders say they can always tell when
a certain lawyer at the Caledonia Bar is or
the wrong side of case, because he ther
sheds tears in his plea.
The Messrs. Fairbanks have Just manu-
featured five sixty-ton railroad track scales
for the Erie railway. They have thus fai
shipped 10 tons more scales this year thar
during the same months last year.
Three St. Johnsbury individuals, Alber
Howard, Jun Gleason's boy and Amos Bel
KNAPP, took short water excursion on re
cent Sabbath, which proved to be yes,
indecent and unlawful affair. Accordin.
to the Caledonidn, as these disreputable par
ties came down Sleeper's river between tn
scale shops and the mouth Of the river
Howard was standing up stark naked