Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-22

to recover 10000, claiming that he was in
lured by reason OF defect in the couplings
on one of their freight cars. Avery was dis
charged a short time since by the company
for getting drunk. IA
Franklin has n musical prodigy IA class, by
the way, that is attaining unsuspe cted pro-
portions in Vermonp in little twelve-year-old
Mary Shattuck. When three years old, if
seated at the piano she would always strike
chords and she can tell by sound what notes
are struck on the piano, although in an ad-
joining room.
The census of Essex, as recently taken by
the Clerks of the several school districts.
shows the whole number of families to be
455 number having children under 20 years
of age 800 number of children under 8
years 223 of school age. 574 inhabitants in
town, 1912 There are 70 persons who are
between the ages of 20 and 80 thirteen who
are between so and 80, and two who are over
80
A question whether Wallingford or Ply
mouth shall support a certain pauper. has
been tried in the Rutland county court three
times and has resulted in three disagreements
of the jury, and it will have to be tried over
again. For four generations n family of
Aludges have lived in the town of Plymouth,
the first two generations being holders OF
ConslIeTuDIe lduu, tue luSt TWO tOWu phupcfs,
and the trouble is over member of the last
generation.
A dozen scows, In different herds, at Fer
risburgh and New Haven have died lately, of
new and mysterious disease. In most
cases the animals die instantly, or are found
dead in the morning where they seemed all
right the previous night. The examination
of one victim showed dark red streak run
ming parallel to the backbone from the neck
to the rump, and when the hide was removed
the flesh came with it. leaving the bone bare.
While ". H Scott and wife were walking
near West Rutland, on the railroad track
Tuesday evening, Mrs Scott was struck by
locomotive aud received a dangerous and
probably fatal wound in the back of her
head. Mrs. Scott was released from jail
Tuesday, where she had been confined some
time for drunkenness, and it is supposed that
both she and her husband were intoxicated
at the time of the accident.
The Brandon Farmers Club will erect,
this season, a bulliing for their use, to
cost, completed and furnished, about S.,
900, half of which Is presented the club by
Hon. N. L. Sprague. In the basement
there will be rooms to let, in the first story
store, and in the upper story the Farmers
and Mechanics club hall, and library room.
NJ NOTtH DtuniuRtOD, EtCeutlyy y u6leRH-
ito n OF the Wonan's Christian temperance
union visited each saloon in the place and
requested the keeper to stop selling liquor.
At two places where they found the proprie-
tors in they were met and kindly received,
but at the other three places visited the
prOprietors either locked their doors or ran
away.
Anaged litigant appeared in the Windham
County Court lately. She was very old. Al
most a. old as the war stories In the Rutr
land Herald. and almost as dry. She was
SO, and she was trying to collect note for
S245. But she didn't succeed. Hannah
Holland was her name aud 1ownshend her
residence. She is a spinster. so that it's
evident that neither the Dutch cor any body
else ever took her.
James Pollard Eaton, of Manchester, N.
Ii. who died the other day. was Cor long
time a stage driver between Montpelier and
St. Adams. Upon the completion of the
Vermont Central Railroad he became one of
its Conductors, after which he removed to
Manchester in 1853. He was q representa-
tive to the State legislature in 1858 and
1869
George Marcy, of Hartland (whose wife
is descendant Of the Massachusetts, Brad
street family has an ancient armchair in
Bradstreet, son oil Gov. Bradstreet, Of Salem,
and tradition has it that this is the chair in
which he sat while trying the famous witch
Cases, in the early history Of the old Bay
State.
Mr. and Mrs Tyler Stickney, of Shore
ham, celebrated their golden wedding, the
other day Their ten children, seven with
their wives, husbands and children, twenty
FIVE in all, were present. Mr.. and Mrs
Stickney were both BORN not q half mile
from where they now live, and all their
children, eleven of them, grew up to be men
and women. eight sons and three daug hters,
and only one death has occurred.
The Vermont Valley Railroad bad a mar
row escape from a serious accident, the
other day. A large rock had rolled down a
high bank to the track on a short curve
below DummerstOn station. and although
it could only been seen about one hun
dred feet from the engine, Ira L. Earl,
the engineer, instantly detected the Obstruc-
tion and as quickly applied both steam and
breaks, and brought the train to halt just
as they reached the rock.
The death recently of little boy of Mrs
E. g. Pope, of Hardwick, needs - thorough
examination by some one. The boy was
three years old, and the night before his death
for Dr. ]. NJ Sanborn, who gave the boy some
medicine and poured something into his ear.
Inc child Immediately went to sleep and
when his mother got up in the morning she
noticed he WAS uneasy but still sleeping ; at
nine o'clock went to his bed and found him
dead, never having awoke from the sleep the
doctor put him in-Norh Troy Palladium.
In the almost interminable small-beer
chronicle of our rural exchanges, the weary
soul of the reader sometimes Though all too |
seldom is rejoiced with q bit of literature
that is as a water-spring in desert. For in |
stance, this, from the Hydepark Ners J.:
The charge insinuatingly preferred against |
Mrs. ;. c. Poor, of Stowe, Is. that she pol |
soned some apples and placed them at the |
disposal of two young men, Christopher |
Brown and Nelson Gibbs, who were render |
ed sick thereby. Now to pluck the beam |
from our own eye rather than to espy mote |
within that of our neighbor should be our |
primal purpose lest we merit the just rebuke |
of all good minded people and not, under |
the 'garb of mistaken Christianity, however |
earnest may be our profession, nourish the |
destroying serpent in our own bosom lest we |
too might fall by his deadly sting" All of
which, and much more of the same sort. is |
predatory to an affidavit from the pomologi- |
cal Gibbs, in which, after plaintively acknowl- |
edging predisposition to epigastric troubles, |
he says But EHolo it was not the apple |
that made me sick. and that Mrs. Poor is
stingy with, or should poison her fruit is ut
terly false, for she always furnished them |
freely for table and other uses" After this,
it would be a brute whom twere gross fat
terry to call liar. who would insinuatingly
prefer such charges against Mrs Poor