Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-04
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a mllc lr two. IIr carriage Vas smashed.
Che meu thrown olt, and Mr.. jeHctt fcr1
seriously injured
The Baaa,- in it. last issue thus puts
new face ON the Bennington TRADED school
rumpus There was u0 getting " sp1uncS
by boys and girls In Mr.. 0ould's depart
ment Of our graded school. one b0Y per-
sisted in throwing written billets around
the school room, and was stopped by the
teacher: the b0y resisted and could have
been easily and Soundly thrashed by the
teacher CHATS the - good old way they
did things when we went To schOOD. The
trustees thought expulsion the better rene
dy, and the principal Obeyed orders There
was no row, no striking, no eyes blackened,
no ten-page billet-dOuX, no teacher in
trouble, nobody nose was injured, no de-
lay of the school exercises. no committee
looking for fighting teacher, no breaking
up OF the schools, no nothing about the
whole affair except the sensational Stiffness
Of Troy reporter. That Is surely and
truly all the foundation there is for the un-
Just 50 lbs and statements that are now GO
ing the rounds in the papers of our State,
relating to our graded school.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Thaddeus Fairbanks and family, of St
! JohnSbury, were the first party who as
cended Mount Washington this summer.
\ Canada liquor smuggler recently ap-
piled at certain house in Stevens Village,
Barnet, and paid for it like man. Before
leaving, he bargained with his host to let
him have three bottles of highwines at 81
bottle. lie left for Canada, and in three
days afterwards reappeared and left the
| bottles. In half hour afterwards the
bottles were opened, and found to contain
! brook water. Upon Investigation, 10 was
learned that he purchased the bottles at
Clement store, filled them at the brook.
and after corking up delivered them and
took his money, when he skedaddled to
/ New Hampshire. as fast aS possible
About a hundred teachers were in attend
snce at the Institute held at AlclndoeS Falls
Besides the instructions of Prof. Stet~0n
and Miss Potter, and an address by oecre-
| tary French, the Institute was favored with
n lecture by Rev. Mr. Brastow of St. Johns
bury on " What shall We read.
ESsgX COUNTY.
Hiram Josl lyn and wife Of Concord have
been arrested on charge Of purl0inlng
$3.50 note from the papers of DIR. Calvin
Lewis, who boarded with them previous to
his death.
lEANALlN COUNTY
Franklin County jail contains bat four in
mates, VIZ Two for drunkenness. for
killing horse, for attempted murder.
The town of Fletcher, which formerly
supported five saw mills, one gri~i mill, two
tannerles, one starch factory and two dis
ulleue~, has now one saw mill.
The body Of an unknown infant child was
recently washed ashore at St. Adams Bay.
LANGuLE COUNTY.
The axe factory, in Natcryilie. under the
auspices Of the Mann Brothers. j. doing
I quite business They are also engaged
m the manufacture of doors. sash and
blinds, which business has. until this
spring, been conducted by ). F. Wilson,
. who j. engaged in a similar business in
/ Enosburgh.
ORANGE COUNTY.
\ school teacher in Brooklicld named
Edison. recently administered eiehty-nine
l heavy blows with a strap on the person of
|.r. ..fI ]. % q
/ pellcr lad thirteen years old. The teacher
/ Will probably be made to suffer for the bar
baron, act.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Rutland farmers are troubled a the raw
/ ages OF potato bug, very similar in its
look 10 the famous Colorado destroyer.
One of the coal kilns Of George p. IIol-
/ comb of Dandy was blown up recently and
completely demolished. Forty cords of
wood were burned up, and the total loss
vii, amount TO about 81 200.
Charles p Harris. Of Rutland. received
the degree of " Civil Engineer at the COM
meucement of the Troy Polytechnic School,
last week. lie goes to Europe to complete
I his studies
From ten to fifteen ear loads Of slate per
day are now shipped at Poultney.
\ tender stripping elopei with an expert
enced grass willow from Castlcton. re-
Gently and getting short of funds Mt Alba
/ ny, the couple were taken into service ly
generous rear admiral Of a canal boat. the
boy as driver and the bride in the capacity
of cook The former was speedily dis
charged for incompetency, and the woman
had permission TO accompany him if she 50
desired. hut she elected to remain and the
saddened youth returned 10 his parents
without her.
Miss Mary Gilmore. daughter of j. l..
Gilmore, of West Rutland, is gaining q
high reputation asa vocalist
r. NJ. Allen, of Pittsl9rd, has obtained a
patent for a railway ear axle.
Henry Chaplin, nephew Of George W.
Chaplin, of Rutland, native and formerly
a resident of Clarendon. was brutally mur-
dered, at his homestead on Prairie Dog
creek, four miles below Nortonyille, Kan
sas, on the night of May 2d. His body was
found by his nelghbors ON the day following,
pierced with bullets. stabbed with knife.
and the head pounded with rocks He had
recently returned from a two years s0iourn
in California. and had with him about
$4,000, one-half of which. in gold coin. he
had incautiously displayed in the vicinity.
and it is supposed he was murdered for his
money. No clue to the perpetrators of the
atrocious deed has yet been obtained.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Three Northfcld lads. thirteen to fifteen
years of age, have started for tour %
Camel's Hump, Mansfield Mountain, and
other points of interest, taking their tent
and team with them. and intending to
camp and be gone several weeks
b. II. Campbell, moderator in school
meeting, in Warren, was brought before
Justice Lytord recently, and fined SO and
costs, for using proiane language and other
wise disturbing the meeting.
The old Methodist meeting house in Mont
peler has been transformed into large
family hotel or first-class boarding house,
which is kept by Gilman b. Dodge former
ly sergeant-at-arms.
The liquor holders and drinkers have
come to great grief in Mortified Sheriff
Avery recently seized b bbls of liquor. 1t
is reported that thirteen barrels were found
in the freight depot, portion of it con-
signed to Montpelier.
wINDHAH COUNTY.
An improvement in the manufacture of
gas has recently been on trial in Brattle-
boro, which it is said promises to be highly
successful \ light coal gas is first made
by the ordinary process, and this is i'm
proved by a mixture of air charged with
the yapor of naphtha, in the proportion of
three parts of coal gas to two OF naphtha
gas. The light it produces is wonderfully
soft and diiusiye, and in it all delicate
shades of color are as easily distinguished
as by the sunlight. Its lighting power is
extraordinary.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Woodstock has about nine hundred youth
who can 90 to Sabbath school. of whom