Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-14
VERMONT aENS.

The town Of Lincoln the pas; year sent o.
market four millions of slaves. two millions
/ of machine clapboardS. and two million, Of
4 coarse lumber.
The superintendent of the town of Ham
1 cock last year. reported q want of knoWl-
/ edge of photography among the teachers a~
| well as scholars of that town.
Wm. II. II. Dix. Of the firm OF Dix 81
/ Ellis, saloon keepers in Middlebury. was
| fined $40 and costs for selling intoxicating
liquor contrary to law. lie appealed
Mes-rs Newton a Thompson have recent
is 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. while.
riding out on the sth inst. was thrown
| from his cutter. and came near being hurt.
while his horse was killed The bride bit
/ broke, the horse ran, throwing Mr.. Evarts
/ from the cutter. and the horse jumped into
a deep snow drift with so mach violence as
/ 20 cause him to turn complete s0merSault,
and doubling his head under his body,
breaking his neck and causing instant death.
! The horse 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 n Furnishing
condition. j Wilder is President. and DR..
J. II. Guild, yice-president Of the insti,u-
ton.
DR.. Truman II. Rose, formerly of Ben
nington. was one Of the Grant presidential
electors for California
The editor Of the Banner has been sam
/ ping 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 sayages
| which occurred during the night. We lost
both of our arms. and enjoyed tho unusual
pleasure OF seeing them deyoured by a
couple of lazy monsters that sat all the
while croSS-legged ON our chest In the
morning we were as much astoniShed al
finding that our scalp had returned. and
that our hair was still anchored, a the
rlng-nosed Indian princess Knight-mare-irt
was when she tomahawked our pericranium
during the conflict expecting to find somt
brains there.
The Bennington Banner says w,
have at our editorial Office 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's shop in this village We doubt ifs
ong a steel shave was ever cut in lathe il
+, us country, before. The chord makes
81 iral spring, light and elastic, over THIRTY
feet long
10 hnny Garrett, of Bennington, VIII,
lately died, informed Philetus Knapp. t,
whose house he was removed after the fata
occidel 1t that ended his days, of the tim,
when h should die. Johnny's prediction
made Sc 7eral days before his death. he veri
/ fed aimo st exactly by dying within an hou
or two Of the time mentioned. This wa
one of job my eccentricities, we suppose
Uartwelh lille, village in the town o
Readsboro, claims to ship more lumbe
than any OF. ier village of its size in tn,
state over p ,O00,O00 feet were save,
last year.
The powder mills at Bennington are to b
rebuilt on the old privilege occupied fo
ssCeral yeas.
DIN Scott of bennington. has accepte,
the superIntendency of the powder manu-
featuring company of Latin, Rand * Co.
near Patterson, ~ d., Ut a salary Of 50,
600 and expenses.
! Street lamps are being put up on trial il
Bennington.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
At the annual meeting of the Caledoni
County Young Mems Temperance SOciet
reports were given from several towns i
regard 10 the temperance cause, most O
which tended to show that the cause sui
fered from the inactivity of temperance me
and their lack of willingness to help i
supporting the law, The county COMM,
sIoners gave very concise and spirite
report, stating that in the II towns in tn
county, there were but nine agenaes-an
vet that these nme had sold owe
50. 900 worth of liquor in the last year an
three months Rev. p b. Fisk of Lyndon wa
chosen President for the ensuing year, an
Res. p. n Granger Of Peacham, nominate
. , for comfy commissioner. Able addresst