Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-13
sEi.rIONT NEWS.


The singing school at Orwell under the
competent instruction of Prof. L. H. IJhey.
of thi- city, closed IT, term on the evening
of the 18th with concert in the C0nErcEa-
tional Church. which. IL Is sad. reelected
great credit alike upon teacher and pupils.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Hiram Barton. Esd. has seryei the town
Of SALISBURY - years a. town clerk, and
on Tuesiay last received his ffticth cleo
ton.
The Bennington Lectaro Association was
organized in $3.50, and has received u7-
wards Of SIS, 900 from all sources, and
paid out upwards Of 5000 fJT lectures.
Eleven hundred dollars have been sunk On
lectures. During only three seasons (l-59-
20. l-70-7l. and l-72-13) have the receipts
from lectures e4ualiet the expenses from
them. The largest sum was received 1T
Anna Dickinson lecture in ls70-7l. but
more money was made out of Olive logan
lecture. since the gentle Anna charged $50.
and Olive the pittance Of So. One hun
drei and sixty-siZ dollars was taken at
Olives lecture. The largest amounts were
lost on the lecture Of Charles Sumner and
Henry Ward Beecher. who were paid 500
each, but drew comparatively small audi
ences. There has been loss on all the lee
lures this season. except Du Chaillu and
that Of Prof. MOr-e. Of Salem, Mas At
Bret Harte'S lecture only SO was taken nj
the door. Three hundred ard thirty-ciEht
dollars worth Of season tickets were Old
this season. SI25 not for the course. Dur
inc the nine years the library has been in
creased from l, 500 TO 300 yo.umcs-
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Augustus Sanborn of St. Johushury has
sold apatent onla swivel plough oil his inyen-
tion 10 a Massachusetts, company. Of which
+. L. HOlbr0Ok Is 2 partner. retaining
royalty on all ploughs sold. The mauuiae-
ture Of the il0lbr0ok plough Will cease, the
Sanboru taking its place
\ freshet in the PaS-gmpSic River. re-
Gently. damaged or carried of bridges Al y.
Johnsbury. 80 a. TO cut of all commuulc3-
ton. by teams. with 4 large population on
the est side of the river. as well o. with
East St. Johnsbury and West Concord.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The late Sally Bailey, Of Fletcher, who
died recently between eighty and ninety.
had q propensity for boarding. Upward
Of hundred silver half dollars were found
in one place and other specie in another.
Among her Investments was CONT
mental scrip, one-third Of a dollar. issued
February l., l776-bcfore the Declaration
Of Independence. But It was 4 declaration
Of itself, for it bore 4 cut Of dial with the
sun shining on it; in the border vas the
rather pusnacious Latin word 'fuciO, and
underneath a remark evidently addressed
to George Ill, mind your own business.
This sort Of scrip was current for a time.
Geo. d. Field, Esq, Of Cambridge. has
formed law partnership with y ;. Ladd
at Enosburgh Falls.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
4. V. Wiswall. station agent at Hyde
Park, has resigned his position, and Mr. Eli
Town, of Cady's Falls, has been appointed
in his place.
ORANGE COUNTY
The smallpox has broken out in West
Fairlee.
\ young man named Eugene Cooley who
has been stopping in Montreal, came home
lately to Thetford and on sunday evening
died at the house of Mr.. Weltons in Pos.
Mills. The doctor pronounced the case one
Of smallpox, and there Is great excitement
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The subscriptions to the stock of the new
company for the manufacture Of emery
wheels, at West Charleston. Is very salts
factory, already the greater part being sub
scribed. The capital Is to be $4,000, and
the prospect is that the works will soon be
in operation.
An Irasburg lover took a ride with hi>
lady, the other day. but she was thrown
from the sleigh and her hip was broken.
The gallant and afectionate Young man
gave the crippled beauty to somebody else
TO carry home. while he pursued hi
travels.
Newport boasts a young married woman
who recently split a cord and a half Of wood
in one day, besides doing a lar &c amount Of
washing, ironing, etc.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Norman Henry, of Rutland, has for some
years been occasionally troubled BY bunch
or swelling Ofhis leg, the cause Of which he
had always been unable to discover \ few
days ago he opened his leg below the knee,
and extracted piece of glass. an inch and /
a half in length and half an inch wide, I
which had worked from his hip down. since /
fifteen years ago. when he crawled through /
a window and received several pieces in his 4
hip, all of which, he supposed, had been /
extracted.
There were nine hundred guests at the
Washington birthday ball at the Bom0seen
House, CastletOn.
Hon. Samuel H. Kellogg. OF Pittslord,
received his forty-eighth election a town
clerk last Tuesday.
Henry Priest, Of East Wallingford, Is
lne of the editors of the IislloRiaH, a peri
)dicai published by the students Of Tufts
College.
Zmri Howard, OF HubbardtOn, while at
work in the woods recently, accidentally
slipped and fell over ice and rock down an
seventy feet high. lie Was
erribly bruised and had his lower Jaw bro
Ken in three places:
wISDHAs COUNTY.
Rev. Willard Brigham, a native Of MARI
)oro' and who was settled in Wardsboro',
welye years, died suddenly at Winchendon,
Mass, on the ID inst, aged 81.
The Spaulding bell-ringers played dirge
,ver the grave Of Col. jim Fisk during q
eeent visit to Brattleboro.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Chester refused to exempt the polls of
he members of its fire company by a vote
f SO to GO, which is rather a mean pro-
eeding.
Maj. John j. Salisbury, of Rutland. car
led the town of Tnmouth for county COM
missioner, receiving 81 votes.