Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-01

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he was moving, when suddenly he stopped,
pla ID his hand on his breast and said. my
hea +" lie Immediately fell to the ground
| dead before he could be reached. Disease Of
the heart was the cause, though he was not
known to be affected previously.
Harlow Merrill, a former resident of Fair
fax, was killed by lightning at Earlville,
Ohio, July 18th.
The Messenger says that wrestling match
will come off in Bakersfield, August 9th for
S25, between Soule of Fairfield and Willie
Downing of st. Adams.
The Sentinel says that Mrs. Swaziland
will continue to keep the American House
at Richford, and as the high reputation Of
this hotel has been largely due to her in her
capacity as landlady, the public need not
fear that the hotel will not be keptup under
her management. 1t will hereafter be
strictly temperance house.
Fishing is reported very good at llighgatc
Springs. The Franklin House, kept by the
Messrs. Scott, has about 50 boarders.
\ New Hampshire lady caught musea-
longe in Georgia Bay, last Saturday, that
weighed thirteen pounds.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
The ensuing term of the County Court
commences on the last Tuesday in August.
The calendar contains twenty-four cases.
The medicinal character of the water of
the Iodine Spring, South Hero. is highly
commended by physicians The boarding
house is kept by Captain Corbin (of the \.
Williams), and his excellent wife, Mrs. Cor
bin, is well adapted to her position. All
that appertains to the place and the house
as place of quiet resort for families or in
valids for few days or weeks Is all that
| could be desired. The opportunities for
1 fishing and the pleasant roads for riding
and the beautiful scenery render the Iodine
| Spring very attractive.
The hay crop in North Hero is about
/ three-fourths as much as last year. but of a
better quality. All the other cereal crops
in the town are good.
Superintendent c. B. Russell, of North
Hero, was recently presented by his wife
with two fine boys.
| The apple crop in the county will be al
most an entire failure. The orchards bios
sJmed very full but a light frost, or some
thing equally injurious, caused the young
/ fruit to fall prematurely. The prospect for
/ plums and pears is much better.
H. L. Hurlbut Of Grand Isle, has been APP
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/ the American Pathological Association, TO
/ be held in Boston, September 10.
LAMouLE COUNTY.
/ Mrs. c. d. Gates, of Cambridge, has a
| sycamore tree on her meadow that measures
sixteen feet in diameter two feet from the
roots.
DR.. Jackman, Of Morrisville, tells a good
/ story of a horse which has been shod at his
father shop in lrasburgh, for five or six
/ years. Being too old TO be Of any use the
/ horse was turned into the road, and few
/ days ago, losing a shoe. the horse went TO
| the door of The blacksmith shop, and quiet
| ly waited until other customers had been
| served. Then he walked in and held up
/ his shoeleSs foot. The blacksmith shod him
when he Immediately turned and walked
away.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Frank Ordway and three more Chelsea
/ fellows tried to thrash Geo. Cleveland,
/ livery stable keeper The next day the four
/ were able between them to exhibit all the
/ c1lors Of the solar spectrum on their figure
1 heads. George went through with the Oper-
alton without a change of countenance.
! George L. W illiams, Of W illiamstown, has
| an apple tree that has three times in the
| last eight years blossomed when there was
/ fruit on the tree one-f0urth grown.
The Spring Hotel at Newbury has recent
1 ~ been refitted and furnished in a tasteful
manner. II Is kept By X. ". Chamberlin,
/ who will be remembered by some of cur
soldier readers as the first lieutenant in the
/ Bradford company Of the Twelfth regiment.
4. J. Sibley. long the gentlemanly and
| courteous chief clerk of the Pavilion, Mont
/ peler. Is clerk at the Spring Hotel, which is
a guarantee of good attention and excellent
/ fare.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
All this at Barton Landing in one day
Daniel O. Brow had his ankle badly sprain-
| ed-John Kelly clipped two Of his finger
severely on a plane-Mrs. II. c. Rogers
I fell down stairs and was BADLY hurt-tieo.
! Bush who had just missed being thrown
from the plate Of the same buiidinc, icil
from the staging, distance OF eighteen
feet, and was picked up for dead. lie re
manned insen>ible for some time. but was
finally restored to Consciousness. Fortuna
tely no bones were broken, and he Is about
again, though sore and lame.
Milo Leach, of the Mil village, Crafts
bury, while at work on two story build
ing, fell from a staging and broke the right
knee pan into three pieces. lie was obliged
to ride twelve miles before he could have
anything done to it.
Horace Dexter, while removing a manure
pile in Newport Centre dug up small box.
containing the remains of full grown child
which had never been dressed.
A subscriber of the St. Adams Messenger
in Orleans county writes that he has discov-
cred sure cure for consumption in strong
mullen leaf tea sweetened and drank freely
every day for from three to six months The
MULLEN leaves, unless from young plants,
must gathered before July 25th, and dried
in the shade.
For the large purse in the races at Barton
on the Fourth Of July there was a sharp
contest between ''tien. Grant, owned at
Richmond, and the well-known - Snow
flake" Each took two heats, Snowflake
barely winning the 9Th heat and the race.
1t was said to be a close match. There was
a good attendance at the races and a good
deal of drunkenness and fighting.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Harvey IIowes, of West Haven. has been
attending a seance of the Eddy family Of
Chittenden and beheld such a variety Of
spiritual manifestations that he has written
a long letter about the wonders. Mr..
HOwes will be remembered as the one mem
Der of the Constitutional Convention of 1870
who favored the woman suffrage amend
ment.
The dignity of the law was indicated in
a suit at CastletOn, the other day, involving
% cents. Two lawyers, one justice of the
peace, six jurymen, SIX witnesses, and a
cloud of spectators were required, and the
suit ended in the plaintiff paying $50.
Dandy ships $4,000 bushels of charcoal
per week.
There are over eighty guests at the Mont
vert House in Middletown
A rattlesnake was killed the other day in
West Castleton. lie had eleven Tattles,
was four feet ten inches in length and was
thicker and larger than a man S wrist.
The case ofthe State against Hiram and
George Farnsworth, charged with ass ult-
inr the house of Daniel Jennie, near Hyde
vile. has resulted in the respondents being
fined twenty dollars and costs. The case
was appealed.
The Brandon Manufacturing Company
: have raised the frame for an addition to tn,
scale shop, and wOrkmen are busily en-
gagged in putting on the covering.
= The Poultney Bulletin says: THE scar,
in regard to a light hay crop, was to
great extent premature. We were informed
; by an observing farmer, few days since
that the crop would average as heavy a
last wear. In his own case his barns helC
his crops last year, whereas, this year hi
has already had to stack some, and ha
much to cut yet"