Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-13


ven. recently presented to him son weigh
inr fifteen pounds.
At Salisbury IL year old boy named
Hines cmployed in llolt's spool factory,
lost three fingers by careless contact with
some of the machinery of the establls hment.
Twoof the fingers were entirely severed
and thr u.lc- 50 nearly 50 that 1t Will be
imp,-- hl, o. save 1t for him.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Abaut - o0O have been raised IN Ben
ninrton 5- the sufferer. 10y the recent IRE
and explosion.
4 body ol water said u cover an area ol
two acr,.- ur more has just been discovered
on the tin top of one OF the mountains IN
Gla-teuhury some of the Oldest lnhabl-
tants sly that many years ago 1t was known
ra be there and was called the Lost Pond.
and tina; one day Stephen Pratt, Esd. then
OF Bennington. in company with two other
gentlemen were roaming about in the then
seemingly inierminable forests trapping
Happening u have hooks and hnes in their
pocke1- they determined to see II there
wasn't some trout in the small brook which
they came across. After getting everything
in readiness they threw their hooks INTO the
little brook. and 10 their Amusement "a
they afterward expressed it themselves 1t
was filed with trout 80 They hshed along
Ed the stream a few rods. and 10 their utter
astoni>hment, came 10 the pond above men
toned There, they said the trout % TOOK
hold too last for sport They caught
more than they could bring home through
the woods. and were consequently Obliged
/ to leave some. but with a determination
that they would visit the pond the ne3i
dav. After a long travel they finally reach
. .
their team. hut greatly iatIgued. heY
Z travelled all the next day but could not hnd
/ the pond. and il has not been discover :
until now
There has not been a school m session IN
/ the town of Woodforl this winter.
Ladies take part IN the public debates at
/ North bennington.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
Willow Moses Gage. of East Burke, who
is now = years old, gives the following
amount uf work she mas accomplished dur
inc the mast wear Move I40 yards of car
pctinr.I 10 wards of woollen cloth. spun 30l
skeins Of yarn. knit Is pairs mittcns and ID
pairs Of stockings.
4 grange has been organized at st. johns
bury Centre. with fifty members Georse
I Ranuey j. master and Ephraim some. Sec
retary
Their, is not much romance but good
Z deal of hcneyOlence IN work undertaken
BY twu accomplished Young ladies from Rye
| ratc. who are lnow on the second winter oil
labor IN teaching col0rei people, young anc
old. in Alexandria, Va Leaving theil
beautiful home TO live IN an obscure part %
that not brilliant old city, unable to 1nl
board except among the sui - CespISed
cla-- lnr whom they came, they have tolleI
on. cheercd 10y the music OF their own piano
and the swecter melody OF the voices they
have trained u speak the name and sing
the praise of Him whose love c0nstraln-
them They have more than q hundred
,unil~. and have organized several hundre,
into q Band of Hope for temperance. on
now got-~ &c % the front 10 aid tn cir broth
err In nadsuratinE % similar work az Beau
fort, y. &.
They lave been gong for the rumSeller-
IN y Jolu,bury. Harry Jone~' cigar stor
pa- broken up and Eugene Burr (somewha
known in Hurlingtonl and Cyrus lladley
having been convicted of the third ofenc
were likely to 20 to jail hut He'd
=. II. Peek. who make Lyndon Centr
his hcadguartcr-. was recently arrested fo
Scllin. lnlor lis manner Of doing busi
nese was To carry his whiskey IN bottles an,
dispense it to customers in that way ii
wa fined 500 and costs. amounting IN Al
To SD.
A correspondent OF the Springfield r.
uu5sorr denies that there Is any unusua
anxiety among business men at II. Johns
bury. or that any failures have occurred
The only class of business men who are un
easy az. zine rum-~eller-, he says. The Fair
bank >ralc work. are doing an unusua
amount ut business The collector of taxes
who has nearly $4,000 on his books. find
less trlui.r collecting this winter than last
I G,,r-c Bartlett. of Lyndon. wa serious
~ injured u the head on the 36th ult. by
-lidius as.in-, team. lie was nnconsclou
ill the urN, d1y. and now lies in a critica
e. nliioi.