Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21
Ei.HsIONT NEWS.


li:4HONT NEWS.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The town of Lincoln the past year sent t,
market four millions Of slaves, two million
of machine clapboards. and two millions o
coarse lumber.
The superintendent of the town of Han
cock last year. reported a want of knowl
edge of photography among the teachers Al
well as scholars of that town.
VIM. H. H. Dix. of the firm Of Dix .
Ellis. saloon keeper, in Middlebury. wa
fined 81 30 and costs for selling intoxicating
liquor contrary to law. lie appealed
Mc,~i~. Newton x Thompson have recent
ly purchased of Frank Chandler, in the east
part of Leicester, eight thousand dollars
worth of wood. and have erected a steam
mill. consequently giving employment to
twenty men and number of teams. to saw
and otherwise prepare the timber for their
box factory at ForreStdale.
Mr. samuel Eyarts Of Cornwall, Will,
riding out on the Sth inst, was thrown
from his cater. and came near being hurt,
while his horse was killed. The bride bit
broke, the horse ran, throwing Mr.. Eyart>
from the cutter, and the horse Jumped into
a deep snow drift with 50 much violence As
to cause him to turn complete somersault,
and doubling his head under his body,
breaking his neck and causing instant death.
The hor>r was valued at two hundred dol
lars
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The West Rupert Educational Institute,
which was chartered by the last legislature,
has been organized and IS in fiourishing
condition. j. Wilder is President, and DR..
J. II. Guild, vice-preSident Of the institu-
ton.
Dr. Truman H. Rose. formerly of Ben
nington, was one Of the Grant presidential
electors for California.
The editor Of the Banner has been sam
plins bologna sauSageS, and thus relates
his experience We INDUCED lightly but
sufficiently, and joined in the opinion that
they were good goods. In the hand-tO-
hand contest with nineteen cannibal savageS
which occurred during the night, We lost
both Of our arms. and enjoyed the unusual
pleasure of seeing them dey0ured BY a
couple Of lazy monsters that sat all the
while cross-legged on our chest In the
morning We were as much astoni>hed at
finding that our scalp had returned, and
that our hair was still anchored, as the
rng-noSed Indian princess knight-mare-ire
was when she tomahawked our pericranium
during the conflict expecting to find some
BRAINS there.
The Bennington Banner says We
have ut our editorial Office a steel shaving.
over thirty feet in length, cut in an un-
broken coil from a steel rod or bar. in
lathe at the Double Pointed Tank Com
pany : shop in this village We doubt ifSo
long a steel shave was ever cut in a lathe in
this country, before The chord makes
spiral spring, light and elastic, over thirty
feet long
Johnny Garrett. of Bennington, who
lately died informed Phietus Knapp, to
whose house he was removed after the fatal
accident that ended his days, of the time
when he should die johnny prediction.
made several days before his death. he veri-
led almost exactly by dying within an hour
lr two of the time mentioned. This was
me of johnny eccentricities, we suppose
Hartwellville, 4 village in the town of
3eadsboro, claims to ship more lumber
han any other village of its size in the /
state. over 27,OO0, 600 feet were sawed |
asst year.
The powder mills ut Bennington are to be |
ebailt on the old privilege occupied for
eyeral Yea $.
Ola Sco;t OF Bennington, has accepted |
he per:Hrcndency of the powder manu-
acturing company of Latin, Rand 4 Co.,
lear Paitr:~,a, y J.. At salary Of -
100 and exl.eas..-.
Street lamps are hring pat up ON trial in
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The North Star says: At the Clngre-
ational festival held in Danyille. Mrs.
Walter Davis exhibited dozen coffee cups
yer one hundred years old, and two silver
poonS three hundred years old. The cups
re remarkably well preserved. and the
p00nS are good for several centuries to
ONE These articles are some that have
cen handed down from generation to
eneration, and Mrs Davis considers them
part OF her most precious earthly jewels
Susan Heath, an old lady 80 years old
YES with +. ID. Morrill, of South Danville.
nd surprises him daily with her youth
he threads her needle and reads without
lasses. She stands straight, and does
0usewOrk as lively as woman half a
injury younger. In one day last week she
,un three skeinS of yarn. and wove nine
,rds of webbing For light work she oc-
Ipies her time piecing bedquilts.
The Passumpsic railroad consumes about
900 cords of wood year, which costs.
ady for the engine, not far from 800 900.
II. +. Durgan has sued the town of Dan
lie for injury to his wife She was thrown
ON sleigh at the railroad crossing near ;
e West Danville hotel. about one wear ago. ;
ID has never fully recovered from the in |
ries then inflicted.
Five divorces were granted at the last
rm of court.
The Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers {
ilroad declared a semi-annual dividend of !
rec per cent. February LIST, payable TO |
lders Of preferred stock.
The spring term of the ST. Johnsbury
ademy opened with about 100 pupils. !
le principal is H. T. Fuller 1t is school !
der excellent management and the school
ildings are said TO be second to none in
e State.
ESSEX COUNTY. .
The fact that three hundred cars have b
en- at one time in waiting for Inspection
the officers Of the Customs at Island Pond, q
lords something of an idea of the business +
that point {
Horace W Cuttlngo Concord, lost three b
en- recently, by breaking through the ice, I
the Connecticut. He had passed over C
E place several times with heavy loads of il
IS. and was returning with the empty b
d sghen his team of four oxen suddenly
Mt through the ice. The forward yoke q
re Immediately drawn under the ice by =
; force of the current of the river, and =
attn, down the stream some fifty rods, =
lged against rock, where they were h
ind by cutting holes through the ice.
FRANKLIN COUNTY. L
A reading circle has been organized in S
osburgh Falls, and village hall is in
ocess of erection. n
Montgo merry has champion ''growist'' V
a young man of sixteen summers who is
feet four inches in his stockings and
airs No, twelve boot. t