Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-12-22
VERMONT NEWS.

The community OF North Pawlet, Is deep
~ interested In the projected railroad from
" hitehall to BrattleborO. Ii Is understood
that surveyors, who have looked over the
proposed route. ind 10 insuperabie obstacle.
The Route will lie in the valley of the Paw
let River from Whitehall u Dorset, and, -
far. is entirely feasible. On the east side
OF the mountain, 1t will follow. mainly. the
valley of the West River from Brattleblro
to Winhall, and Is likewise feasible The
connecting Ink, crossing the Green Noun
talns, 1t Is said, has no grade Of over 100
feet 20 the mile.
Hon. Roswell Bottum, Of Orwell. has
served as justice Of the peecs iOr fifty con-
secutive years.
At an auction in Chelsea. recently. cows
sold at S25 per head, and haY at SO 80
Der ton.
There are now seventeen prisoners in the
Addison County Jail at Mlddlebury, one Of
whom Is a woman. The Sheriff of the
county now lives IN the prison building,
and employs 4 turnkey to look after the
inmates of the jail
A boy in Tunbridge died Of excessive
bleeding from the nose. before medical aid
could he obtained.
The Ladies Circulating Library of Mid
dlebury has been in existence lust ten years
and now contains over 400 volumes IN al
the various classes 81 literature The rc-
ceipts during the past year have footed up
$40. and the expenditures have been $50.
TIE Putney temperance society now
numbers 500 members.
There was match at AIidilebury. tue
other day. between two teams from the Mid
dlebury Rifle Club: :. Holtou, George
Hammond, II. L. Sheldon .and A. $ Tracy
challenged Frank Hawley T. P Holton. g.
A. Cutting and Asa Hemenway- The range
was 1000 Yards The side headed by Frank
Hawley won, making GO out q possible
l4O. while the other team made only A. The
losers paid for an oyster supper
St. Johnsbury is mourning over Use ia
the price of potatoes. Good ones now ouus
70 cents a bushel.
John Buemond, a had OF seventeen. Of
Rockingham, was very severely injured by
by an accident, recently. During the day
they had been butchering in barn, aud that
work over, they were getting = sleigh down
from IA scaaold, from which young kuenond
slipped and fell, and WAS caught by the hook
of a chain, which was suspended from a
beam, in his thigh above the knee and tore
the flesh to the body and it was feared into
the abdomen, making most figntiLi
wound lie viii recover
II. W. Nye, of Rutland. general agent OF
the Etna Life Insurance Company LAS been
relieved of his agency for failing TO account
for some of the companys funds. The bust
ness has been turned over to his bondsmen-
Ben X. Chase, b. W. Marshall and T. C.
Lewis. Chase Is recently bankrupt, and the
other bondsmen are also on his notes
The dwelling of Erastus Jewett. a farmer
residing in Pownal, was entered the other
night and money and securities stolen
amounting to $1,000.
In the Windsor county court. recently. a
Mr.. Rounds recovered sos damages and
costs against one Colburn for improper init
macy with the formers wife.
Danvils and Passumpsic have each cass
Of smallpox.
The paper mill of the Robertsons at Put
ney has shut down for want of water The
Robertsons do thrifty business at the home
mills, and their whole paper making enter
prise includes a branch OF that at Holyoke
and another at Bellows Falls. Some OF their
workmen have been in their employ Tor Il
years.
H. S. walbridge, of North Bennington,
about putting an engine into his shop, which
run by nothing but crude petroleum OIL, a.
an expense of about eighty cents day ior
ten-horse power engine. Mr. N"ioiose
and II. C. White, both manufactures Oh
lenses, are doing soou pusi
ness, ON account of the Increase u WHICH
Mr.. waIbridge has had to add to his motive
power. Mr.. White, who MAJ SIC Nno :.'
scope, is selling all be can inahuuie'ure' Win
macninery of his own invention
and Is men
They are trying to start public library
in North Troy They have u aourishing
lyceum-
Samuel Jacobs, who has kept fancy goods
store in Bennington for number OF years
has absconded, leaving large number Of
bills unpaid.
Hardwick farmer had his buildings in
,ured but failed to make returns in his ap-
plication of the fact that it was covered with
. mortgage. The build ngs were consumed,
md he sud to recover his insurance. and
allied.