Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-22
VERMONT NEWS,

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ficrcely in Rutiand
Brattleboro is complaining Of fractures
oil the liquor law, as is also Middlebury.
Ryegate quarried seyen-ton block of
granite, the other day.
South Londonderry rejoices in twenty.
five lumber hills. The voice of the bnz1.
saw is heard in the land.
A notable temperance revival is in nro
eress at Derby Line. temperance unio5
has been formed, with $50 members
b Starks of st. Johnsbury. has n
matched pair of Devon steer calves that
weigh LILO pounds with lgh: yoke on.
1t is said that more Cousins have inter
married in the town Of Dandy, than any
other IN the State. All the families in the
town are now related in one degree or an
other
Putney has temperance society of three
years standing, with a membership of 600
in population of 100. During the en-
tire year literary and musical entertain
ments are given under its auspices every
fortnight.
That irrepressible Nimrod E. K. Green.
so long and fayorably known as conductor
on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad
killed from September l to January /, the
following game; partidges, l5i rs bbts,
5; grey squirrels. s; ands hedgehog
weighing thirty pounds.
The following touching card appears in
an Orange county exchange: The Society
for the free discussion of fruit in New
combville will please accept my apology
Tor appropriating to my own use two bush
els of apples from fifty grown in my orch
ard. also one bushel of butter8uts from
twenty on my lands, and receive with graft
tude the apples which were gathered in
piles for them" Citizen.
Gay & Orcutt. the bankrupt St. John
bury lumbermeD, owe ever SIS 900. with
assets Of less than 5000 The firm owes
the First National Bank of ST. Johnsbury,
about Sll 900 for which they have a
mortgage on the mill in Paddock's village
worth, at present, less than $4,000.
One hundred and fifty persons. male and
female. are employed at the cotton mills of
Jones. LamsOn Il Co., IN Windsor. They
are now running one hundred and eighty
looms un she, ting ard ducking. besides
spinning large quantities OF yarn for the
market, using nearly two hundr,d bales of
cotton, per month In addition to the cot
ton mills, twenty-five men are employed in
the machine shop.
Sheriff Preston, cf CaleGoais county, has
recently arrested five notorious thieves
one Eastman and bis two sons from Charles
ton, and Henry GOoche and Frank Bean
from Monroe, n Ii. These men belong to
a gang who have been stealing buffalo robes.
harnesses, or other plunder they could lay
their hands on, and running it Gtf iutO Or
leans county and the border of Canada, and
smuggling whiskey back. This wholesale
arrest, it is believed, will not only put
check upon theft, but sadly interfere with
the DeiarlOus practice 0l peddling liquor
about villages, nights, in pint bottles, as
has been done in CALEDONIA county quite
extensively.
A Bennine ton correspondent says: Con-
siderable anxiety Is ielt nereahUut among
law abiding citizens concerning the pr0Sa-
bic action at the approaching town meeting
on the town bond questions One confer
eDce OF town cthcers, already held, ADJOURN
ed with revolutionary resolves, as they ex-
press it. Unanimously feeling that the tax
payers should be respected and their rights
defended despite the recent decision Of the
State Supreme Court, which means that
the towns of Bennington, SALISBURY, Ar
lington. Dorset. Wallingturd and Mount Ia
bUr will resist pay ment OF the principal and
accrued interest on the TOW n bonds issued
in aid Of the Lebanon Springs railroad in
1877 and 1878 There is respectable num-
Der OF citizens anti-hJndtolders. enough to
make the situation grave.
At DaHvllle. recently, while Mr. o. n.
Colby was telling trees in the woods.
large spruce tree f,ll in a contrary direc-
tiOn from what he intended, and when it
came down it caught his !eg betHecn the
butt and log that lay near. dislGcatiDg his
ankle joint and breaking the bones 80 that
they protruded through the flesh. In this
condition he was held fast, ard no help
near. Although his cries Tor help were
heard great distance. none recognized
them as of person in distress Finding
that he was not likely TO receive a>si~tarce
be t0Uk his axr, chopped the end of the log
off, which was about twenty inches
and thus freed hlms, II. and then
crawled on his haud- sEt knees toward
home, but had gone but short distance
before he gave up in despair. In this con-
dition be was found by man happening
along, who took him 10 his home 1t will
be some time before he will be able to be
out.
j. W 4 +. q. Pettigrew. of Ludlow. have
lars, II large proportion OF which is due per-
sons in Ludlow and immediate vicinity and
assets var.ously estimated from five TO eight
dollars. Their creditors have filed
a petition in bankruptcy against them.
Samuel Woods, Of Pitisford, who entered
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, in lNoG.
S supposed to he the Oldest living pupil of
that institution.
age, a brakeman on the Harlem Extension
railway, was killed by the cars near Berlin
recently He had been tending a
switch, and in endeavoring to get back upon
the train his foo, became wedged into a frog
Just ahead of the engine, and the entire
traip passed over Inn, cutting hun III two
lengthwise. Guiltenan had been III the en-
ploy of the Troy x Boston road some ten
years. and during that time had met with
over twenty accidents, so that at his death he
was almost cripple.
W. 5. Bennett. Of Broukline. has u lot of
l6 good coarse wool ewes. whose united
weight is 2,226 pounds. the heaviest one
weighing l79 pounds and the lightest one
lis pounds He also has six eve lambs. the
united weight of which is 592 A rooster
md II pullets half-blood corh!ns, owned hy
Mr.. Bennett, weigh altogether lie pounds,
and the pullets average six pounds apiece.
There are IL persons in the town of Rye
gate who are upward of 81 years of age, of
whom six were born in Ryeeate. four IN
Scotland and one in New Hampshire All
nave been married ten have been parents,
hree are widows. four are widuwers and
hree are now married. The population of
Ryegnte in 1870 was 9lj. The oldest native
If Ryegate is Mrs Nathaniel Anuis. now liv-
ng ut McIndoes Falls, Mt the az Of :? years.
She was born October IL. l1SS
Angus McCaskcl of Barton fell from IL
,caflold in his barn the Other morning,
breaking his lantern and setting the building
IN fire. which was burned with It's contents.
The Orleans county court. in session ut
Barton last week. ordered John Jerome to
,ay $685. and costs for Il murdrgou, assault
IN l.. A. Chase i'll October, 1874,
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGEN,E.
Since our last report. meetings have been
leld at West Hill, Chelsea, with over score
IF conversions) Green River. Stockbridge,
Newport Centre, East Dorset, Conducted 10y
Gospel workers and resulting very, y,,encourac-
ngly), Cornwall and Puultuey (by Mis- !
Townsley and Miss Euck, the rcyINalists,
Dne hundred conversions being made at the |
ormer place.. and Castletun. The result OF
he l,bors of the Rev. +. 4. Whittier, at liut- |
and, were from - to lOO CONVERSIONS. 1lr. |
Whittier is now lahoring at Castleton.
Rev. J. ID. Wickham. d. D.. of Mauchcs- |
er, who has attained his Snth year. stands |
econd as the oldest ordained minister in this |
state.
Rev. L. II. Pitkin. late of BROOKLYN. :. Y. |
ms accepted call from the Cuugr,ia ,ia'tional /
hurch III Marsht,ld and has begun LIS Ia
,ors. Rev. NJ. Fisher. OF Nutick, Mass.
los commenced his lnbJrs as Rector ct St
'aul's church, Ncrgennrs.
CENTRAL ;suTEs.
Old Mrs. Ursula Wilson. of Fletcher. threw
pme blasting powder into her stove, the
thor day, with disastrous results
Newport feels biS ovcra spruce tree 81
'et in length. > feet in diameter at the butt.
> inches nt the smaller end and as straight
r an arrow.
Half IA dozen miners are working the lead
nd silver mines near Newport, which are
aid To pan out big.
The failure is reported of L. Y. Porter,