Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-10-20

hANlut>N anu Llobis
The liabilities Of the dttdnct insurance
firm Ct Bowman 4 HOPKINS, OF ST.
bloomsbury. will not exceed $1,000 or
81 900. The delalcation Of Hopkins,
however. Is said to be about $50
600 Ii Is said he has fed to Canada.
Woodbury. a Russell. Charles Wheaton,
William Gould. Mark Russell and ;. 5
Gould, all Of West Concord, have failed, be
cause of endorsing Hopklns's paper, and
other failures are expected. West Con
cord correspondent says: " The disaster
which Rev. T.. ID. Hopkins has brought
upon Us reaches almost every family and
household The crippled condition Of our
village traders. with whom all the farmers
had large dealings and large accounts, will
seriously affect the farming class, and, II
few more fail, none Of US see where the end
will be. la addition to this, our town Is
divided on the railroad question, with a
fair prospect of being devourod IN litigation.
Between Hopkins and the lawyers, We ieel
much a though We were between the upper
and neither milestone.
LYMAN Ellis, Of Bellows Falls, has been
adjudged bankrupt upon the petition oil
creditors.
Ii. |. Spoor. of Ripton Is building mill.
1880 feet. with Is horsepower Brownell
engine and suitable machinery, for turning
fork and broom handles.
Business i coed at Ludlow. The w0ollen
mill runs till O'Clock at night, and the
toy manufacturing company have more or
ders than ever before at this season Of the
wear and are working full force and extra
hours.
EN-. Campbell, of Lyndon Centre. gro
Ger. has failed.
The factories in Windsor are running fdi |
time with a full number OF hands but have
made a iOriy-eight per cent. reduction OF
wages Business IN general Is duller than
it has been at any previous time
Persons who are aCq TAINTED with the coal
fields of Pennsylvania believe the recent al
legged discovery OF anthracite coal in Rut-
land to be genuine. The shalt Is now be-
ing sunk about a mile from the Rutland de-
Dot. ON the farm of 4 Mr.. Stewart
The gold mine on Minister Brook, near
MuYtpelitr, which had occasionally Tor
vear- Welded quantities of god. and has
been Systematically worked for year. IS
turning out unusually rich. The course OF
the brook has been changed for about two
miles. fall OF about 500 feet secured,
| sluice-ways have been built, 'and the wash
ipgs average IS per day for each oil the
men employed
The Sutherland Falls Marble Company
have begun blasting preparatory to erecting
new marble mill. which is to be 95xlO0
feet. large enough TO accommodate twelve
! gangs, and two stories high.
There were in this State according to the
Quarterly statement OF the commercial
agency OF Dun. Barlow & Co.. during the
last three months, - failures, with liabili-
Ties aggregatlng S33l $50. The correspond
| ing figures for the first quarter of 1876, were
| ~ nOn caaond ouarter Il SofD OH :.
and the totals for the first nine months are
| 81 q go $50. For the first nine months
| in 1875, the figures were 40. SAP 500,
which would apparently show that the
/ smaller business houses failed last year,
while the larger ones hung on" for anoth-
err twelve month. Throughout the coun-
try. however. the figures are reversed,
and while here in Vermont. accepting the
mercantile agency's statement as critic
rion. business interests have suffered vastly
more this year than last, they have greatly
Improved. in the aggregate, throughout the
| Union. Thus, for the last three months the
total liabilities of insolvents was S4I ,S57, :
600. against Si3 II 900 for the previous
three months S6i 6ii 900 for the first
quarter, and S54 .32s 600 for the same three
months, last year While the failures we're
greater. then, than in the previous quarter,
they we're about one-tiIth less than tor the
same period last year. The last six months
of 1875 accumulated failures TO the amount
OF Sl25 900 900; the first six months Of
1876. to the amount or sos 600 900, max
ng for the twelve months 1898 ,O00, 900.
The coming quarter. even though /: shows
more failures than the one Just closeI. can
hardly equal the $50, SIS 900 Of failure
which characterized the last quarter OF last
year.