Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-03

ing. The programme for the first four days
will be as follows:
Tuesday. At half-past nine examinations
OF candidates IN the various classes; at 7:3O
p. IN. preaching by Rev. l.. o. Sherburne
of Perkinsville.
Wednesday. Prayer meeting at so'clock
and also each day at the same hour. At 9
communion. 10 o'clock, Conference bust
ness, to be continued iorenoons of each day
following. Afternoon, statistical session
beginning at 2:30. Evening, Conference
sermon, by Rev. j W. Guernsey.
Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Temperance
Anniversary, Evening, Missionary sermon
by Rev. A. b. Truax.
Friday afternoon, an address to Sunday
school workers, by Rev. j. NJ. Freeman, ID.
D., of New York. Evening, anniversary Of
the New England Education Society.
Rev. R. NJ. Minard will occupy the pulpit
of the Baptist church. at Lincoln, this
Summer-Rcv Mr. Henderson has accept
cd the pastoratc of the Free Baptist church
at Sheffield, for the coming year, and Rev.
F. E. Pierce of that at West Wardsboro.--
Rev. Ephraim Hapgood has closed a three
years pastorate over the Baptist church al
South Windham
The Presbytesy of Boston will meet at
South Ryegate, June 5:h, to install Rev. j.
E. Lloyd over the Presbyterian church.
General Notes.
Ripton has a twenty-year-oldc cat.
Charles X. Field. Ed. of Brattleboro,
celebrated his 18th birthday, recently.
Fayetteville (Newiane) has four rum
shops and two distilleries-so local cor
respondent reports.
The Brattleboro listers report three-quar-
tiers of all the live stock in town exempt
from taxation on account OF debt.
1t is notable coincidence that the pill
box factory. at Bristol. is running night
and day and the Bristol Manufacturing
Company employ seventeen men making
collins
The Brattleboro and Whitehall narrow
gauge railroad still hangs fire. Three or
four towns have voted against il, and it now
appears that the cash subscription il not 50
large as was announced.
John Moreau. of Victory, advertised his
wife, the other day. and short time after
wards she sold the family COW, the sheep
and all the household effects and lit out.
clothes on his person.
At Lyndon Centre, the other day, a four
year old son of H. K. Rucgles had his arm
caught in shaft and wound around it up
to the elbow. putting the elbow out of joint
and breaking the arm in three places.
East Hubbardton boasts of geranium
with l64 blossoms and $50 buds, and q
horse radish root four fee. and ten inches in
length.
In Wheelock, recently. 80-year-old Mr..
Loan got lost in the woods, and wandered
about them Ill night.
U. W. Goodale, 81 years old, an employee
of the ssw-mill at Middlesex, was killed, the
other day. by being struck in the forehead
by piece of lumber.
W. G. Stevens, of Cambridge. claims the
champion sheep. 1t is thoroughbred Cots
void, and when one year old gave birth to
two lambs, and sheared nino pounds of
wool twelve inches in length. This spring
she gave birth to four lambs, and her wool
is seventeen inches in length.
At Sharon. the other day, n threc-year-
old boy of Daniel Robinson's turned up
missing. and after considerable search was
found some fifty or sixty rOds from the
house, stuck in bed Of thick mud. and SO
firmly imbedded that he had to be dug
out
Alfred Jones, Of North IIydepark. was at
tempting to shoot cats, the other day, but
made a mistake and shot his better
through the right arm.
Edmund Pettengill, of Ddnville. reports
the extraordinary sugar Weld of 5000
pounds from 600 trees.
Henry Fairbanks. of St. Johnsbury, has
recently had something like fifteen thou
sand young lsnd-locked salmon put in the
ponds in that vicinity.
Patrick O'Bren's l0-year-old daughter
set her clothes on fire at West Rutland
recently. while playing in the woods. and
was fatally burned.
Gen. s. F. Atwood, oil M1nkton, and his
son, Douglas Atwood, start Tor Chicago and
the Far West, this week, TO settle perma-
nently in some part Of the rather extensive
territory mentioned.
The slate quarries OF North Pawlet are
doing land-ofhce business. these days,
shipments being made to England, Russia
and Australia.
There have been shipped By freight this
season, A 500 pounds of maple sugar from
Fletcher, and % 500 pounds from Cam
bridge Boro; besides q considerable guam
tity sent by express.
A fellow has been humbugging some of
the people in Grand Isle county, pretend
ing to do slectro-platng. The wash did
not last longer than 81 hours.
At one of our Lake Champaign ferries.
this sign greets the travellers eye: Bloc
the Horn for the FAIRY man"
General George 7 Foster, u. 5 Marshal.
has attached the real estate of the Bank of
Fairhaven. at the instance of Allen Broth
ers, of Fairhaven. who have brought suit
in the United States District Court against
the bank for usury, seeking to recover
50 900. The bank had previously sued the
Allen Brothers for the payment of 81 900,
the amount of their paper hitherto carried
by the bank.
As Benz. o. Morgan was getting Lumber
from Edgar Balch's saw-mill, at johnson,
the other day. he was hit by a small piece
of wood throw by the large circular saw.
Ii struck him behind his ear, tearing up a
shaped piece OF skin hall as large
as a mans hand, and exposing the veins
and cords of the neck. lie WAS rendered
insensible by the blow. and was delrOuS
Tor an hour or two alter arOusing. lie -
now doing well.
Among the persons confirmed by Bishop
Bissell, at his recent visitation to ST. Paul 3
Windsor. was a Rev. Mr.. Merrill,
who has lately been a Methodist preacher.
Andrew Van Tuyl Leavitt, who died at
Wallingford, recently, aged 81, was a
brother of David Leavitt, the New York
entered Yale during the last
war with England to escape being drafted,
ard graduatedsfrom Mddlebury College in
1915 Once, when urged to live with his
brother at Great Darlington, Mass he de
,lined and made his home in Wallingtnrd |
sugar shanty. lie was very fond of long |
walks. and, till his wieided. in 1872, the |
ICED couple were often seen toiling over the |
hills together.