Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05
CHURCHES AND PASTORS

March 24-The work at Richford is in
creasing in interest and power. Twenty, or
more, have asked prayers, and the indica-
tons are very promising .-Qulte an extern
sive revival is in progress at Hardwick.-
Six Joined the First (Congregational)C Church
in Glover, March 18th, four by confession.
The new Methodist church at Fairhavcn
will be dedicated on Thursday, April 1ltb,
Bishop Simpson taking charge of the SER
vices. The church is 40x44; has lis feet
high steeple, and seats 800 people. IL will
be dedicated free from debt.
Rev. A C. Field. pastor of the ConRrega-
tional church at Wilmington, closes his la
bors there April lst.-Rey. j . ii. Babbitt is
compiling the history of the Congregational
churches of Washington county. - Rev.
Daniel Dorchester. Jr., for two years pas
tor of the Methodist church at Springfield.
has given up his charge there and Joined
the Massachusetts, conference.
The late Peter C. Atwood, of East Airing
Ton, served in the ofice of deacon over forty
years. He was ordained TO the office in
Londonderry, in q church which has now
become extinct; and for twenty-five years
he resided in East Arlington.
General Notes.
Middebury has reduced its school teach
ers' salaries twenty per cent.
Bristol coneratulltes itself on live and
growing Good Templ4rs' Lodge.
Sixteen large and lively grasshoppers
we're found in a Barnard pasture, the other
day.
Bellows Falls claims population of two
thousand souls-a gain since 1870 of some
six hundred.
The Union Mining Company, OF Corinth.
has nominal assets of S35 900, and liabilities
Of 100000
Simeon Farnssorth, a veteran of the war
Of 1912. died at Danville, recently, at the
age Of 81 years.
The Rutland Marble Co. will have its
third annual trade sale, some time towards
the last of April.
David Wishart, of Sutton, was thrown
from his horse, the other day, and danger
ously injured.
About $500 pounds of maple sugar have
passed through the express Office at Brsttle
boro, thus far, this season.
Ursula Rivers. OF MOnktOn. left home.
last week, saying she was going 10 call on
one of the neighbors, and hasn't yet re-
turned.
Lincoln had an intelligent unlicensed dog
which walked up to the town clerk with
two-dollar greenback in its mouth. The
dog had the bill. in Its mouth, We mean.
One day, recently, William Hoffman, of
Lyndon, was thrown from q sled. striking
his side on stake, and intlicting internal
injuries that will probably disable him for
life
The citizens of East POultnty and vicinity
have organized temperance reform club,
which promises TO be the means OF great
good. They will hold weekly meetings. and
will provide reading room.
A st. Adams despatch says Ii is report
ed, and from credible source, that Hiram
Skeels. Of Highgate. is to be reinststed as
United States Consul at Stanbridge, Que
bee, to succeed the Hon. A. G. Wheeler. the
present incumbent.
Brattleboro will be represented at the
Paris Exposition by four BickfOrd knitting
machines and nine Estey organs. One OF
tho latter is mOnster-eleven feet high,
five feet long and four feet deep, with four
foot-swells, twenty stops and full set OF
pedals.
Eighty-year- old William T. Wilson, of
Manchester, disappeared on the 10Th, and
has not since been seen. lie once had a
handsome property, but was swindled out
ot it in his old age by his son-in-!aw has
been for some time dependent on the chart
ty Of his friends, and is very nueh broken
down, both in mind and body.
MOrrsville il getting to be lively place.
The other day an old man and his two sons
had fight and conducted themselves 40
outrageously that the mill little Ciiisen il
constrained to say that should the thing
happen again 1t will ''eensure the parties
severely" Another MOrrisville man kicked
his wife out of the house because she went
IN nraver mating AGAINST his l1rdlv rnu-