Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-25

Vermont and Canada Railroad stock
selling for 20 in Boston.
f Vermont contains 10, 2l2 square miles o
land.
MoSsrRosIrY. A child was born il
Mendon. last week, without legs'or arms
A man with the suggestive name Of Lash
away. was arrested at Keene, n. H., las
week. for cruelty beating horse.
Woodford, Bennington county, had snow
on the 18th, and will have a centennial
celebration on the Goth.
The hay crop is turning out some better
than was expected. The prospect for g
good yield of autumn fruits is quite iatter
ing.
And now the fashion again changes and
young ladies will wear their hair loose down
their backs, and uncrimped. One might
almost say unkempt as well as uncrimped
The water works at St. Adams are com
pleted and the water was turned on for the
first time on Wednesday Their cost is es-
timated at Sl5O,OO0.
The Danbury Nclrs says: - The market
is very well supplied with berries. The
new worm that comes with them this year
Is rather acid in flavor and not altogether
unpleasant
\ Montreal despatch to the n. Y. Herald
says the forthcoming revelations concern
ing the Canadian Pacific railroad job will
cause many prominent men to run away,
after the manner of Fields and Connolly.
The VERMONT VALLEY RAILROAD. - The
validity of the recent annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Vermont Valley Rail
road will undoubtedly be contested in the
courts.
PArENrs.-The following patents have
been issued TO Vermonters lothian Cum
mings. West Charleston, for mill pick II.
c. Cole and f. D. Sabin, Wallingford, for
sap protector.
\ Montreal letter states that Sir Francis
Hincks alleges that he never asked or OBJ
tanned any sum of money from Sir Hugh
Allan or any other person in connection
with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
RAscALLY OUTRAGE-A most raseally out
rage was perpetrated recently in st. Johns
bury Cemetery. Some person or persons
applied muriatic acid to nine granite monu-
ments. The effect of this acid on granite
Is to turn it red-about the color of rusty
sheet iron.
PoIsoNED.-On the night of the Sth inst.
the wife of Dea. Julius Hazen of Hartford
took through mistake a quantity of bed
bug poison, which was saturated solution
of corrosive sublimate in alcohol She
died from its effects Friday morning, after
severe suffering of ffty-seven hours.
q was 50 delighted, D." said young lady
at Saratoga, with Thomas's Central Parl
concerts in New York, that | sit up ever!
night here to hear the cats on the roof.
why ," asked Mr. Chapman, the genia
Fifth Avenue Hotel bachelor. " Becaus
it's Thomas's music"
Judge Wheeler, Saturday, dissolved til,
injunction restraining the stockholders o
the Vermont Valley Railroad Company from
holding a meeting for the election Of direct
ors, Monday. The Chancellor, in dissolyin:
the injunction, expressly RETAINED from ex
pressing an opinion in reference to the val
idity Of any such meeting or election.
New HAVEN MARKET. - The following
were the prices that ruled at New Have
last week Butter 25 to 27c; cheese u t
l3c; eggs, 20 ta pie per doz beans, =.
per bush hay, Sl2 to Sl3 per ton; pota
toes, none in market. The shipments wer
4.s66 lbs of butter; 1903 lbs ofcheese an
, bbls of eggs.
The LAST OF THE SNow.-On the 18th inst
a party of % persons collected in honor O
the day we celebrate. " and had regula
old-iashioned sugaring off at the house q
Charles Day, in STAFFORD, near which wa
drift Of snow which had been exposed t
the weather the whole season.
TnE STATE BOARD OF EDUcATIoN.-Tw
vacancies have recently ta ken place in tn
State Board of Education, one by tn
resignation of the late Judge b. II. Steele
the Other by the decease of Prof. +. {
Hathaway. The Board will undoubtedl
fill these vacancies at an early day, as we d
not understand the Governor hasany powe
under the statute to fill them.
THE HALIFAX MURDER.-A citizen
Halifax, Vermont, the scene of the murd'