Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-03
STATE NEWS.
Castleton has an elm tree nineteen feet in
circumference.
William Maxuol tba tomnaron oa mia

Castleton has an elm tree nineteen feet in
circumference.
William Maxwell, the temperance agita-
tor. is laboring in st. Adams.
Rutland has an athletic club, which has
lifted up gymnasium and walking rink.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dexter Whiting, of John
son, celebrated their golden wedding, the
other day.
School district No. ., in North Cam
bridge, made this season Al 900 pounds of
maple sugar.
Horace Holmes, of Marshfield, sixty years
old and having no family, drowned himself
IN the WinOoski, Saturday.
g. c. Frost, in one weeks time, secured
between five hundred and six hundred
signers to the pledge in Fairhaven.
The pOstofice at Castleton has been in the
same family for the last forty-fve years,
Samuel Moulton having held it thirty years
aud his sons, Cullen and William, ten and
fifteen years, respectively.
The selectmen of Bennington, offer $500
reward for the arrest and conviction of the
masked burglars who recently gagged and
robbed the Harmon family, or $3.50 for the
arrest of any one of the party.
The people of Fletcher, North Cam
bridge and South Bakersfield, are building
depot on the Portland and Ogdensburg
road, at East Fletcher, which is expected
to surpass anything between Swanton and
johnson.
Miss Helen Thompson. daughter of Chas.
+. Thompson. Esq. president OF the Brat
tleboro and Whitehall railroad company,
and Miss Mary W. Clarke, daughter of Cap
tain X. W. Clarke, late postmaster of Brat
tleboro, who are now completing a four
years course at Vsssar, will terminate their
collegiate career with fattering distinction
Miss Thompson has been appointed by the
Faculty to deliver the Sslutatory in Latin
at Commencement, and Miss Clarke has
been elected by her classmates Sibyl for
Class-Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus Daniels. of Mid
dlesex. celebrated the 25th anniversary of
their marriage, the other day.
The ladies of Chelsea have presented to
Waterson Post, G.. A. r., a nice new flag
At West Burke the other day, as Dexter
Johnson. was adjusting the saw guide of the
board machine in his mill, he was caught by
the machinery, and thrown on to the saw.
His right leg was split and mangled nearly to
the knee, and his right arm severed, the saw
cutting away the bones of the shoulder. He
utu INT LHOIHluR. MI. johnson WAS
about 40 years old, and leaves o wife and six
children.
Albert H. Bailey, who while since re-
signed as Mail Route Agent over the Montpe-
lier and Wells River railroad has been rein
stated, rice f. P. Wood. of Middlebury, re-
moved
The MoHitOr accuses a Charleston goose of
laying three eggs in one day, and Coventry
hen nj LAYING all M fIma IN
ing Gt by inches.
Horace Holmes, farmer, aged 20. of
Marshfield, on Saturday, April 81, drowned
himself in the Winooski river. His vest and
hat were laid on the bridge near by The
body was lying in shallow water, partly out
of it. In his hat was a note beginning Take
this old body to Plainfield and bury it with
as little ceremony as possible. have thought
of this for six months. l could not help it.
Life is burden to me-" There were few
other words, exonerating one person, COM
forting one other, asking pardon, hoping for
forgiveness, and n Farewell.
On all the upper Winooski grass is said to
be better than it was ever known on the first
of May. Some farmers turned cows out to
pasture as early as the goth of April The
last week in April all stock excepting work
ing oxen and horses were out. The leaves of
uhplts, tlilS, ETC., are opening, as also plunls
and cherry blossoms.
A Bethel firm have Just shipped to Bos-
ton fifteen hundred naples. for shade trees.
Brattleboro has raised 81, 200 for a new
library building. and expects to build it in
the course of two or three years.
Correspondent should not write so obscure
a. not to be understood by the general
reader Gem from the Woodstock Age.
At the annual meeting of the town of
Hartland. held March 18th, 1863, they voted
g to raise forty dollars in grain and meat to
defray town charges" That paid the ex-
penses of the town for one year. and it was
when Hartford and Hartland were one town
under the name of Hartford.
In this State. the past Winter. there have
been several instances reported OF finding
the nests of some small bird with eggs and
young. A month since nest with eggs
was found in a small evergreen tree in the
Pomfret cemetery, and the other day pair
of birds with brood of young Just able to
fly were seen in Woodstock. They appar-
emily answered the description OF the tree
sparrow, which goes north at about this
time.
+. A. Wardner and W. F. Jones and q
woman claiming to be his wife stole a span
of horses at Ludlow. the other day, were ar
rested and bound over in $500 for each of
the meu and $500 for the woman. They
confessed to numerous thetts and robberies.
Nine of those Rutland deer were turned
into the woods, Saturday. One Of them
went back to the village. Sunday. and al
lowed some school children to feed it from
their hands but it will doubtless soon be-
come accustomed to the woods and remain
in them.