Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-29


East Hardwick has had swallows all Win
ter.
johnson has had SIX fatal cases Of diph-
liberia, this season.
Lamoille county has potato bugs thus
early in the season
Wilmington expects to make 1870 tons of
maple sugar and syrup this season.
The scholarly Bennington Banner talks
about "unfortuitOus circumstances.
Over in Lamoille county, the clergymen
are preaching from the text. The execu-
tion Of La Page"
A. b. Haines. who broke into the dwell
ing house of John Cass, in Calais, last week,
and stole $3.50, has been sentenced to one
year in the State Prison.
The Leicester "ghost" hasn't been seen
since an old white bed-quilt was taken out
OF broken pane in a window of the
'baunted house.
Mrs. Lucy Loveland Manson, widow of
| Cyrus MunsOn, and mother Of Loyeland
Munson. of Manchester, died in that village,
last Sunday, after a long illness.
The W. K. j. r. O5se,uer says of the
town Of Springfield -Four churches, all
more or less in debt, and four beer shops DO
ing thriving business, while Legitimate
| pursuits Idnguisn
Z. b. Frost, OF Rutland, for twenty
seven years in the employ OF the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, has lust been
superseded by Mr.. Kealer. late master
mechanic Of the d. & Ii. repair shops at
Salem, N. Y.
Upon the monument to Captain John
Smith and wife at West Newbury, it is re-
corded that they lived together in the
married state seuenty-trCo years. he dying
in his pinety-fourth und she in her ninety
| third year, within a few months OF each
other.
The farm buildings of Leonard X. Will
llams, in Bethel, were burnt Sunday morn
ing, the oath inst. about five O'Clock The
fire is supposed to have originated from
ashes taken up and put in barrel on Sat
urday morning. The loss is from sir to
eight hundred dollars, No insurance
Eishty-six- year-oli Mrs. Ham5lin, OF
Cornwall. had a narrow escape from being
burned to death. last Sunday. Her cloth
ing was all burned off from her lett side.
the flesh in some parts beng burned nearly
to crisp and her back and hands were
also severely burned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Billings, of Wood
stock, have started on q trip to the South,
intending to go first to Savannah, and per-
haps to visit New Orleans and other places
later. returning probably in May. Mrs.
Billings is in delicate health and it was
thought best for her to avoid the wea Their Of
Vermont April.
Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock.
has in his extensive greenhouse thousand
varieties of plants. In the grapery the
first crop OF the season. which is large
and fine one, is well advanced and will
ripen about the middle Of May 10 it there
is also lettuce fully grown, and other gar
den vegetables, and in the cellar are some
mushrooms-a new crop in this part OF the
country.
Some time ago a Wells River man pur-
chased ten lottery tickets of New York
concern at SIS each, and while ago b, re-
ceived notice that he had drawn a gold
watch valued at $3.50, which he could have
by sending them $50. lie sent the money
and received a watch, the estimated value
of which is about SO. All Of which shows
that enough OF the class interested will sur
vive to render the usual celebration, next
Monday, success.
The slate industry in the southern part OF
the State is looking up, and producers are
preparing for a greatly increased business,
this season. The principal factor in this
renewal of prosperity is the foreign demand
for slate, which Is constantly growing
larger. At POultney, recently, 80 carloads
of slate were shipped in ten days, forty
loads being fer the European market; and
the outlook throughout the slate region Is
very encouraging.
The surviving members of the Sixteenth
Vermont regiment are to hold reunion on
July 30, next, being the anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg, and the following
committee have been appointed to arrange
for the same Maj. William Rounds Lieut..
Daniel NJ. Clough, Co. A /; Capt. Robert B.
Arms. Co. B; Capt. Asa l.. Foster, Co. G;
Capt David Ball Co. d; Lieut.. Warren
E. Williams, Co. E; Lieut.. Henry D. Gil
lett, Co. F; Capt. Harvey N. Bruce, Co. G:
Capt. Elmer D. Reyes, Co. Ii; Capt. Ly-
man E. Knapp, Co. | Sergeant Charles D.
Brink. Co. X.
Things have come to a pretty pass at the
Brattleboro high school, according to a
barbaric correspondent who says the follow
ing "eventusted' there, the other day A
little boy was reported to Principal Bing-
ham by female teacher. and was ordered
to apologies to her on his knees. By the
command of his father he refused where
upon Bingham beat him so severely that he
hasn't yet got Strengthened out" Bing-
ham is, it is said, not only brutal but in
temperate, and has previously got into
trouble for both causes.
Twenty year-old Miss Esty, who had
beeh brought up in the family of A Peach,
of Newbury, committed suicide the other
day. by taking s;rychnine, because Mr..
Peach rebuked her for unbecoming condu net.
Some time after bolting the poison she told
what she had done and expressed the great
est sorrow. and anxiouSly desired to live;
but after suffering the most intense pain she
died before the physician could reach the
house.
| Christopher Rice, the Rutland walkist, is
a " elshman, born at Swansea, enlisted at
10 in the lnniskillen dragons, in 1877, was
afterwards transferred to the 23i Welsh
Fusiliers, and after several tyears' service
came with his regiment to Canada, where
his discharge was purchased for him. The
iron breastplits. which be fortunately wore
at tho battle of Locust Grove. where it
stopped the bullet that would have slain
him, was found on Meadc'S retreat from
| Culpepper, il is SAID, having been thrown
away by some nine months man.
| Tunbridge man Is seriously ill from the
| effects of a cat bite.
Franklin has had six or seven fatal cases of
| diphtheria, this season.
| At Woodford, the other day, three half
grown birds were found i'll nest. in the
vicinity of which the snow was three feet
deep.
A year-old child of Harry Fogg, OF Will
| Jamestown, was choked to death, the other
day. while eating butternuts.
Among the curiosities of Nergennes is
| bucket belonging to Ii. J. Tabor, which was
| used on the old lake steamer Franklin when
| Captain Richard Sherman commanded her
The mother of John 2. l.....ir. the murder
Ell, is living i'll Nergennes, in broken health.
r., 4 4 =
| spected for her Christian character.
Woodford is puzzling over me masses of
meteorc ore found on top of the snow where
no tracks of man were visible ; and the SIM
Pile Woodford mind attributes their presence
| TO fall from the moon.
Deacon Asa Dean, of Bakersfield, celebra-
ted his ninetieth birthday. recently Dea-
con Dean has quite remarkable faculty in
| mathematics. and on any persons stating
| his own age the old gentleman can almost
instantly tell the day OF the week on which
he was born.
julius Wimmette, who was injured last win
| ter. by falling down Il preclplce over three
hundred feet nigh. asks of the town OF Mid
| dlebury $3.50 damages. dollar a foot for
q tumble of that size is certainly very reason
able We doubt If any one else would do it
| as cheap.
The Good Templars throughout the State
seem moved to renewed activity, these days.
| We note the following memoranda in refer
| ence to the order: A lodge was organized ut
| Moretown last week. with twenty eight CHAR
| ter members and every prospect of rapid in
crease. This lodge is part OF the fruit OF an
| effort inaugurated for mission work for the
order through the State. Mt the last session OF
the Grand Lodge, and has been worked up
| mainly by the State Deputy, l.. l.. Durant
| Orange County Good Templars' Union, the
first for nearly two years. was held with Ar
cadla Lodge. West Randolph, the DIST in
| slant. The invitation was extended to the
lodges OF Washington and Windsor coun-
ties III response over fifty Good lemplars
& Il .ral I..a.l