Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-06


UNDEEuuL.-L. NJ. Dixon. proprietor of
the Bostwick House, is making arrange
ment- for a considera BE increase to his
hotel accommodations for the summer of
Is7i.
The right ofWay and means Tor the build
ing Of carriage road to the summit Of the
old South Hill have been obtained. The
view from Bald Rock, which is the highest
point, excepting the mountai orange, will be
made accessible to all, from this point.
Cnley lIill and other elevations look like a
plain from it.
The inhahitant, of the Church Street
school District SO long ridiculed by the pub
lie FOR their old and shabby school house,
have wakened from their Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep and contracted Tor the erection of a
commodious and elegant school building
near the covered bridge We well remember
how years ago j 5 Adams. ESD, the See
rotary Of the Vermont State Board of Edu-
cation, alluded to their pig stye. situated in
the only waste place there was in the dis
triet
Many Of the school committee in this
town and jericho have earned for them
selves another term of Office by the pur-
chase of well mounted and finished globes
Alfred Bicknell. Of Burlington. owner o
the Bieknell Mills in this town, met Will
a severe los during the recent thaw in til,
new dam he was Just completing, being
washed ont lie says he viii hereafter lool
well to the foundation on which he builds
The people seem determined to aid him in it
rebuilding and a considerable sum had beer
subscribed for that purpose.
The people Of this community were re
joiced on Wednesday morning by the in
telligence that C. W Reynolds, Esq, wa
in lair way to recover from his severe i'll
ness. Though having been dangerously Il
he Is steadily improving under the medica
care of Or \. +. Burdick.
An effort viii be made at the " Marcl
court" to obtain the excwp tion from taxa
4 tion for ten years of all money invested il
town for manufacturing purposes, and thu
4 we hope to see many Of our unimprove
water powers made use full. 1t seems falls
economy to send our lumber to Massachu
sets, paying for its being manufacture
: there, ordering the shipment of manuiaC
, tured articles back to Vermont. freightin
it both ways, when by taxing the powers
our numerous rivers all this expense can b
p saved and home business established.
Essen Another rousing temperance NEE
ing at the Town Hall in Essex on Tuesda
- evening Of last week. The Hail was filled t
hear the eloquent, earnest temperance lie,
turer. Richard Grogan. This time he spob
upon the prohibition phase Of the tempe
- ance reformation. and advanced some strun
arguments id favor of the formation of
) prohibition party, independent of all Il
political parties of the day. He pressed
- a. necessity, since neither of the gre
&c parties would or dared to adopt prohbitic
\ as one the planks in their platform. TIL
1t was to be the paramount issue in all comm
10 elections The traffic in liquor must
stopped, and the parties that refuse to nal
If that the issue, will surely be put down
At the strong force Of public sentiment, Whit
: Is now accumulating in favor of prohif
=, ton His address did not touch quite
er strongly a responsive chord in the minds
. his audience as did his former one
4 On Tuesday last the people had I
p pleasure of listening to Mr. Charles
at Robinson. of Portland. Maine, in his pr
he gramme of readings from various autho
ss The entertainment was given at the ii
at of the Essex Classical Institute, and he I
q proceeds are to be appropriated for tn ber
A. fit of the Institute, a the nucleus for
M reading room or a library.