Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-04

| VIII hummer nail as many.
Harvard sends out one hundred and
thirty graduates this year. but confers no
honorary degrees.
a monument thirteen feet in height has
lately been erected to the memory of the
Rev. Pliny II. White, in the old cemetery
at Westminster.
A member Of the signal party at Mount
Washington fell off the trestle-work of the
railway Saturday, and was dangerously in
jured.
A physician advises persons afraid of the
cholera to stand on their heads for minute
three times day. lie argues that this ar
rests abdominal depression and would be
healthful gymnastic exercise at any time.
HEAVY FAILURE IN MoNTRKA1.-We learn
of the suspension of Richie, Gregg & Co..
wholesale commission merchants of Mon
treal. Their liabilities are estimated at two
millions of dollars
MoRRIsvILLE. - The real estate, water
power. machinery, etc, of the Morrisville
Manufacturing Company was sold at auc-
ton on Wednesday last to Edwards, Stevens
u Co. of Winooski, for about IS 900.
The foundation walls of the two new
wings to the Vermont Insane Asylum, at
Brattleboro, are already laid, and the ma
sons are now engaged in raising the brick
walls. The addition Will be a mucl-needed
improvement.
\ party of six persons, ladies and gentle
men, were capsized in small boat near
Fourteen Mile Island, Lake George, on
Saturday afternoon last, and came near be-
ing drowned. After a severe struggle all
were saved.
DRowNED.-Daniel Fuller, Of Cambridge,
was drowned in the Iamoile river, near his
residence, while in bathing on the Goth
inst. lie was a worthy and ambitious
young farmer, about y years Of age, and
leaves a wife and two children.
L. B. Spaulding, of the Junction House,
Essex Junction, had a rich days sport
Wednesday, at Chazy Lake. He returned
with two fine saddles of frog in his carpet
sack" He thinks his Is the most success
ful haul Of the season.
Oliver Gorton, of Huntington, has hen
Of moderate size which has since the mid
die of April laid an egg every other day
until the 18th inst, said eggs averaging =
inches around and 81 inches from tip to tip.
Is not this 81 fowl proceeding hard to
beat?
The case of Grenyille C. Meader, for an
assault in resisting an officer who was col
lecting his tax, came up at St. Johnsbury
Tuesday last Meader plead guilty, and
was fined SO and costs. Moral, pay your
taxes without fuss.
EGcs-Acr1r.-H. Spaaord. of johnson.
has an ordinary sized hen-a cross of the
Brahma and Bolton Gray-that left in her
nest the other day an egg, the diameter Of
which was one inch nIone-eigth byeleyen-
twelfths Of an inch.
The Monitor says that last week was tho
fayorite time in Barton for interviewing
buzz saws. \ Frenchman in the chair
factory by the name of Hitchcock, sawed
two fingers most off. Lon Flanders split
open one. and two other fellows who didn'
want We should tell, felt for the ''buzz'
with their thumbs. and found it.
IN incendiary fire in the Plqnil build
ing. at Providence, K. L., Saturday even
ing, caused damage to the amount ofahou
500, 600. Concord, y. Il, also experience
ed a $4,000 fire on Sunday morning
Griffin : carriage factory, the North Church
with large organ, and the residence o
Hon. Sylvester Dana being consumed.
REUSED TO BoND.--The town Of Aibau,
at its last town meeting. on the 2I-t. re
fused to bond in aid Of the Montpelier
Hardwick and Black River railroad, by
vote Of log TO IL. The meeting was ad
iourned until last Saturday, when the mat
ter was to he tried over.
Coventry voted on this subject on Friday
with the same result. the vote standing :
TO log. The meeting was adjourned. and
viii be tried over.
The Orange County Court now in se-
sion at Chelsea has been engaged in tn
trial of John Carlton for the murder of Al
ONO Davis at Vershire last year. Juds
Redfeld presides States Attorney Gam
bell and John W. Rowell of Randolph wer
counsel for the State. Hon. Dudley c. Den
ison Of Royalton, Hon. Charles II. Heath q
Z Montpelier, and Hon Roswell farnhafn ,
Bradford, were counsel for the prisoner.
The Jury on Thursdayoflas last week brougl
IN verdict Of guilty of manslaughter. TIL
ca. was tried year ago, but the jur
cou. d not agree.
The ExroRr or SPRUCE GrN-An enter
prising Yam kee is making the spruce guI
Of this State an article of export II
located among the Sratton and Peru gun
groves. as the Be- lows Falls Tunes cal
them. where he has labored since the 9l'
of March last. He h. Is since that tim
shipped to Portland. Ma inc, ! $50 pounC
Of spruce gum and paid out Tor assistant
in gathering, etc, about S26; ana receive
from so cts. to $50 per poun 4 tor IT.
it averaged him Sl.OO per poul'd he h'
earned over $500 in less thar lir'
months.
P1ATrsEuRcH.- The town clock on tn
new edifce of the first Presbyterian Chure
in Plattsburgh is up and running, an
,, promises to be first-rate time-keeper.
has faces for the east, the south, the west
and the characters upon them are 50 plai
that they can be read in the far off distance
Bat should any fail from dimness of vision
to read these characters Alright, let theI
but wait until the striking time comes and
if they have ears to hear, they cannot IA
to get the time correctly. Everything /
> and about this eGifce is approaching con
pleteness that must be very gratifying
those who have been paying the bills. II
house is to be dedicated on Tuesday, Il
sth Of July at 2.30 p. IN. An intereStlr
,, time is expected. The sermon will
preached by Rev. DIR. Epson of Alban
Ny.
p STATE NORMAL School At RANDOLPH.
The semi-annual term of this school clos
on Friday. The number of different sch
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