Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-05
Bclllgerent Editors,
AFFRAY ON MAIN SHAREHOLDERS OF PUB
Lie oPNIoN IN FRATERNAL EMBRACE
BOTH PARTIES STILL LIVE.

ARRAY ON MAIN sTREET-MoULDERs OF PUB
Lie 0PGNIoN IN FRATERNAL EMBRACE
BOTH PARTIES STILL LIVE.
While Sitting Bull and his braves are COM
pelling the pale faces to doif the top Of their
heads as token of respect to Indian civil
ization, and the Russians and Turks are cut
ting each others threats at Shipka Pass.
Burlington had Bulgarian atrocity right
in its midst, last evening. The news spread
like lightning, from the classic region oil
North street and parts thereto adjacent
to where rolls the distant Potash brook
and at first there were in circulation
sanguinary reports that the scene
of the encounter was running in gore
that the ground was ploughed up fol
rods and was covered with hair, noses,
ears, teeth, and other useful organs and ap-
pendages of the human body. But care
ful investigation by corps Of reporters,
assisted by numerous body Of volunteer
detectives, disclosed the following facts AT
about five O'Clock. Friday afternoon, as
Mr.. c. S. kinsley. editor Of the Clipper
was standing on the Main street sidewalk
of the Allen House. he was violently assail'
ed from behind by Mr.. A. N. Merchant,
editor of the Democrat. who introduced his
boot to several sensitive portions OF the
former body, and then struck and grapplec
him. Both parties came to the ground
and rolled in the mud to their hearts con-
tent, vigorously pummelling and kicking
all the time. and were finally separated BY
known citizens. An adjournment was then
had. Neither party was so injured as to
require a physicians care, though DR..
Colberth was at once summoned, in case
anything should happen.
The assault, We are informed, grew out Of
an item il recent issue of the Clipper refer
ring to member of Mr.. Merchants family.
These, We believe, are the main facts. and
the public will draw their own conclusions.
THAT ATHLETIC RUTLAND ScANDAL-HEsrER
PRYNNE AND ARTHUR DINMEsDALE, WITH
VARIATIoNs.-The Cheney scandal at Rut-
land, in which the young wife of an old man
confesses to staying with another man at an
out-oi-tOwn hotel, has suddenly increased
in importance. and other and prominent
persons have been implicated. 1t seems
that, in accordance with Mrs. Cheney :
desire, the deacons of tho Baptist church
called on her, and she was very anxious
that, on account of daughter. she should
not be expelled from the church. She
thought she had repented, and. as her hus-
band had forgiven her, she did not see why
being put on probation would not answer
all the requirements of church discipline.
Finding that the deacons did not take this
view, she threatened to make other expos
urcs, even telling the pastor, Mr.. Richard
son, that one of his deacons was as deep in
the mud as she was In the mire. This
seemed to 90 against her in the minds of The
deacOns present, and at the church meeting
Monday night they reported that she should
be expelled on account of gross immortality.
On the report having been made one of the
deacons, man past the prime of life, who
was present with his wife. passed a letter
to the pastor. If a lighted bomb had
fallen amid the assembly, the commo-
ton which followed the reading could
not have been greater. The substance
was, that the deacon had himself fallen a
victim to the wiles of this woman, and for
the past year had repeatedly been criminal
ly intimate with her, the intimacy having
begun while the deacon was watching at
the bed side OF Mrs. Cheney's husband, then
supposed to be on his death-bed. The dea-
con requested to be expelled, considering
that he was as guilty as the woman, and
that be had been mistaken as to his CONVEX
sion. Both parties were Immediately eI-
PEELED from the church. The deacon has
heretofore borne the best of regulations,
and not a whisper had ever been heard in
the community against him. Hiram l..
Cheney. the husband of the woman, We'd
nesday morning, advertised his wife, warn
ing people neither to trust nor harbor her on
his account. Her friends, it is now report
ed, will take legal steps to compel him to
refund the money which she brought him at
her marriage. Other important disclosures
are expected. Thus correspondent. But
the Herald, etc. (Which felt so sad over our
suggestion that Moody visit Rutland hasn't
yet heard of the affair.