Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-12-19
VERMONT NEWS.

! ADDISON COUNTY
The forge at East Midd!ebnry has sus-
pended for want of good ore
The temperance question is under eSpe.
e'ai agitation at Salisbury
X. ii. Marden, promising lswyer Of
Bristol, leclnred on temperance at Bristol.
Tuesday evening
The funeral OF a grandfather aud a grand.
child were attended at the same time AT
East Middlebary on Friday last
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
span OF horses were sold at Benning
ton, last week, for So and single animal
was transferred in consideration Of So
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Last ThanksgiI ing was the first time in
which the different denominations of the
town of Ryegate united in religious ser
vicespn such an occasion.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
+ W. H. II. McAllis.er, of st. Albaps lee
tured to 4 crowded house at llighgate on
temperance, last Sunday evening.
I. T. Pearson, of Franklin, raised 4 litter
of early spring pigs Of the Suffolk and
Chester White breeds, five of which were
iattened by different individuals, and their
combined weight when dressed amounted to
,525 pounds, 30j each. The range was
from $50, to 3Gi pounds.
On the 5th inst. : Harmon Warren aud
his son Orlando Warren. OF Fairfax. were
arraigned on a charge Of assault and bat
terry upon the person of Merritt Learned.
They were found guilty and fined. the faith
er $40 and costs and the son SEQ and costs.
/ On the Sth, John uillelam, of the same
town. was fined $40 and costs. amounting
to $40, for beating one Peter Jerry, and
on the 9Th Albert Jerry was fined Sc and
costs for beating John Gillelam and dis
trrbing the public peace.
The will Of Ira McAllistcr, Of Fnosburg,
who died in 1866, has just been before the
supreme court at Montpelier lie gave Il
thousand dollars for the education of the
freedmen, and the residue Of the property,
after certain bequest= to the relatives, to
the " Methodist Episcopal Mission at Bonn
bay. and a there was no such mission
there, his heirs contested the will The
probate court decided that the residue
named must be handed over to the general
missionary society for India, the court Of
chancery, on an appeal, reversed this decis
ion, but now the Supreme court has affirmed
Il, md the money Will he given to the mis-
sion.
letter EVm thlcaEJ directed Ia the
best-loosing girl in Fairfax" has been
given 10 a schnol girl, she being selected by
lot from half dozen claimants, and She
has pat on long dress,~ and become quite
wouanly
RUTLAND COUNTY
u. Lyman Craudail. for short time
editor and proprietor of the Fair Haven
journal, - now connected with the Barre
Goeafe, of Worcester county. Mas.
\ Young GIRL. aged seventeen years, in
|e,ni-intoxicated state, was sad sight. re
Gently, on Merchants Row, Rutland.
Andrew Gibbs, Of Benson. has taken a
81 goo contract On the New York and
Canada Railroad in Dresden of drawing
stone for =" -rapping' three miles OF
road.
4 factory IS o. be started IN Shrewsbury,
next spring, ior the manufacture Of hutter
from suet
F. W Alir.ch Of shrew bury, a proni-
nent citizen, who has represented the town
in the Legislature and filed other public
positions, died on Friday at The uge of-ixiy-
three year.
WINDsuE COUNTY
Daniel &. Clapp, twenty wears old. re~id-
ing in Weather-feld, fell from building a
few days since. and received fatal injuries