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

| BILE deposits ef lead ore on his farm on the
east shore of Isle La Mott. He findsit near
the surface and has no doubt that large
quantities will be foLnd by digging.
LAMonLE COUNTY.
A man named Garland, employed in
Bucks saw-mill at johnson, was struck in
the bowels by piece of board, thrown out
by the saw, on the 23d ult., and so badly IN
jured that he died the next day.
The officers Of the Lamoille County Teach
ers' Association for the ensuing year, are as
follows President, FC Hathaway Vice
Presidents. Mrs. Helen Story and II. B. Chit
tenden Executive Committee; Miss Ellen
Hyde, Miss Helen Slayton and II. NJ.
Mcfarland.
Walter n Bedell and Ira p Rathbun, of
Hyde Park, have been held in 5000, to APP
pear for trial at the Coanty Court, for set
ting fire to load of hay left in the road by
Eli Jewett.
J.P. West of Morrisyllle, died on the Sd
inst, after n short illness. lie has long
been well known through the county and
highly esteemed in his own town.
ORANGE COUNTY.
There are now residing in Thetiord two
men who have enjoyed a long time of I'M
interrupted lriendship-Jasper Lord and
Jasper Jackman. They were both born in
the same neighborhood in which they now
reside They are maSons by trade, and have
always worked ut their trade together
We're married and bought their farms about
the same time. They are nearly seventy
years old, and neither of them have any
children Both are well to do. and strictly
temperate and moral men.
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Jamestown this winter and the mumps have
been making a raid for a few weeks past.
Seizng old and young, to the number of
about one hundred. handling some rather
severely.
NJ ). Davis of West Randolph. threw
kerosene into the stove and regards it as
explosive. His face and hands are wit
neSSeS.
The Orange County Temperance Society
holds its annual meeting ut Chelsea on
Tuesday next \ County Commissioner :
To be nominated.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
At Derby in hut made Of poles. brush
and 4 few boards. : by 10 feet in size, lives
an Indian and his >quaw with five or six
pappooses, two dogs, five puppies, cat,
hen and three doves The children are
mostly bare-footed and bare-headed. The
furniture Is Of the simplest kind. consisting
Of stove. and 4 board in one corner, used
asa shelf and table, and few dishes.
WhneC G.. NJ Cowle, OF Albany, was chop
ping wood near his house, a piece Of the
wood flew, hitting him on the right eye and
cheek bone, making him blind in that eye
Rev. L. II. Stone Of Castleton. preached
in Barton. Jan. 26th, and in the afternoon
to a united congregation of the Congrega-
tonal and Methodist churches, and spread
out the subject OF Temperance and temper
aucc work in an impressive light. His two
years of experience seem To have furnished !
him with both matter and feeling in refer
ence TO this enterprise Mr.. Stone spoke !
in Glover Sabbath evening, at Barton's |
Landing Monday evening. and at Newport. |
County meeting, on the Goth.
Only three deaths occurred in Greensboro |
last year.
The measles are making an almost uniyer- /
sal sweep through Crattshury.
The National Bank of Derby Line Is 20
ing to build a 900 banking house.
\ stirring Coventry man. 50 years ufage. !
who has lived within three miles Of the sta
ton, never saw the cars until the other day.
when he took hi, first ride.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
At the annual meeting of the corporation
Of Castleton Seminary and the State Normal
School, held January 2sth. Pitt W HYDE
was elected President. in place of Rev.
Lewis Francis, resigned jerome Il. Brom-
ley was chosen Secretary, to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the removal of C. NJ. Willard,
and Samuel Williams and John Langdon
were elected members Of the board to fill
vacancies.
Miner billiard, of Rutland, recommends
new industry for NermonterS. Il IS that of
raising bears, and he has had experience.
He says that it is much more profitable
than raising hogs. dogs or sheep The
meat of one he sold in New York ior $50.
For the hide he was offered $50, and he re-
eeWed bounty of SIS each for those he
raised-thiS, with the bears grease. will
amount to the sum of one hundred dollars
Five bears were captured in North Chit
tenden during the year 1872.
\ train of cars came in contact with the
sleigh of +. NJ. Sherman. at Ca-tleton. last
week, throwing him between twenty and
thirty feet, and smashing the sleigh into
kindling wood. lie was in the village
again before night. suffering but slightly
from the injuries received. Mr. Sherman is
4 little deat.and the ears not being on time,
accounts Tor his not noticing the approach
ing train.
Col. Joyce delivered his lecture on /" The
History of the Old Vermont Brigade" at
Wallingford. last week At the close. he
called for any one in the room who once be- +
onged to the Old Brigade Seven came
onward, and As they did 80 there were /
,ousing peal, of applause from the au- {
Hence
\ ear of charcoal taken on the morning t
reight on the Harlem Extension railroad, q
N Wednesday morning, at Dandy station, ?
vas discovered to be on fire The car was t
ct out Of the train, it being impossible to e
'ut out the fire. Ii Is supposed the char .
oal was on fire when loaded The ear was
ntirely consumed. h
c. E. Hewitt, of sudbury. recently took s.
rom spring, near his house, one hundred
rogs. While in the spring they were
iyey and - in good jumping order, but
n being removed and placed on the snow,
hey appeared 80 torpid that - frogs for
upper were given up.
Fitch Clark. venerable citizen of Paw Il
It, died ON the Both ult. lie was one of d
ne early anti-slayery men in the State, and ri
'bored for the cause for thirty years before d,
: final triumph. o.
There i remarkable activity al present
mOng the owners and workers of slate W
uarrics in P0ultney. The last years pro f
net has all, or nearly all. been sold. and nj
rders are coming in constantly. d
\ dozen slate quarries have been dis :
'yered and opened in West Pawlct AZ
Prof. Iligley, of Middleburv College, l.
etured at PittSiord, Wednesday evening. dc
a " The True Balance" til
WASHINGTON COUNTY. Sc
Plainfeld has fatted and sold six thou A
nd turkeys; the average weight was ten IN
,unds each, and they sold for twenty iu
nts per pound the whole amounting to lie
7elye thousand dollars. DO
Joseph Prevoncheau of Piainfeld. sawed fe
> logs with a croSs-cut saw. working in hi
e woods alone. & Pretty good for boy NJ
no has no one to interview him from the m,
her end of the saw. in
George Pierce of Fayston, built a fire. n,
INT visiting, and on his return found his hi
I'VE on its way down cellar through the ov
rning floor. wa
Some person or persons, during the night ;n
the Sd inst. called at the premises of u, ~
I'm Long in Middlesex, and stole good ~
fialo robe. at Jacob c. Steele's and took III On
buffalo robe and nice horse blanket, and gu gu
the premises of Portus j. Miles. and ny
* a pair of buffalo robes belonging to -,
yron W Miles. y trace has yet been Wv ",
md or either the thieves or robes S ~,
Lyman Martin of Plainfeld, of the firm a {
Lynde K Martin, while running planer an
their mill in Harris Gore. had the mis- ba,
tune to have his left hand caught in the tn
lner and 80 mangled that amputation Tn
owe the wrist joint was necessary. He bir
d previously lost two fingers and por- mo
n OF the thumb on the same hand, besides fen