Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-04-13
STATE NEWS,

Rev. /. C. Birge, CongregationaliSt, has
closed his pastorate at Londonderry.
Rev. r. Hicks of Bakersfield has accepted
a call to the Alburgh Congregational church.
A malignant type of canker-rash is raging
in Glover and several children have died of it
John Matten, of Newport Centre, made
p pounds of sugar from 20 trees in two
days.
W. d. Porter, on Troy East hill, has
raised e. fine lambs from 81 sheep, this
Spring.
+. Al Turner, retail grocer Of Bellows
Falls. has failed. Liabilities IS ,000 assets
$4,000.
The gospel meetings at North Troy con-
tinue, and Il large number Of conversions
are reported.
Leandcr Thomas, Of Brattlcboro. lately
dug needle out Of his knee that he swal-
lowed 40 wears ago.
Over $40 900 worth of Howe scales havo
been ordered at Brandon by San Francisco
nan for his Pacific coast business
\. j. Durham, of East Montpelier, has
three ewes which brought him seven lambs,
and all are alive and likely to do well.
The headquarter of the Connecticut
River and Cheshire Railroads are to he
removed from Brattlcboro to Bellows Falls.
Mr.. +. Golf, of Addison. has gone to
Washington Territory with $50 sheep Sc
lectcd from the best flOcks i'll Addison
county.
Mr.. Albert q Hatch. who has acceptably
~. ~. ,T NJ ind
for fifteen or sixteen years, has been reap
pointed.
The barns of Martin Murphy, of Benning-
| ton Centre. vi it'll their contents were burned
by an incendiary fire, Monday afternoon.
Loss, 5000; insured for S22j.
The wife of Geo. L. Miles, :he Barre bank
rohhcr, who is now confined in the States
| prison, has been in Windsor for the past
week and has had several interviews with
| him.
Joseph II. Castle, one of the Oldest men
in Jamaica, died last week Monday at the
age OF 81 years. His wife, with whom he
had lived Ct years, died only short time
ago.
J. Gould ~ Son of Gouldsvlle have recent
| " made in two weeks. from 81 looms, 90 $50
|
ever done in the State with that number Of
looms.
A fire on Sunday night destroyed the
large barns and sheds on the Gen. Martin
Roberts place, near Factory Point. now
owned by Edwin Roberts. Twelve head of
valuable cattle and several horses were
burned to death
The will of Commodore Vanderbilt was
admitted to the Probate Court for Benning-
ton County on Monday. He held a $500 900
mortgage on the Harlem Extension Railroad,
which runs through that county.
Rev. Mr.. Russell, pastor Of the Putney
| Congregational church, in addition to his
ministerial duties, supplied the lack OF a fall
school last autumn by keeping school Of ten
weeks free of charge, to all who would
come.
The veteran Judge Asa Reyes, Register
of Probate for Marlboro District, 10 years
old and long in the service, threatens To re
sign. The local papers hope he won't as
his great age does not lessen his efficiency.
l.uciuI Robinson has bought of the Pas
sumJ-ic railroad the Memphrcmagog house nj
| Newport, with the stable, land adiOining
furniture md fixtures Tor 50, 900. Mr..
Robinson is one Of the owners of the nltcd
States hotel, Boston.
Bennington is excited. She has had rcgu-
lar prllc-iisht, at which the authorities
didn t Interfere, and of which the local papers
print iull particulars ,rand finds Mrs julia
O'Bricn, a-cd 100, who must he kept at all
hazards for the July Centennial
Judge John W ildcr, of Weston, an old