Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-10
STATE NEWS,

A Marlboro man shot an eleven pound
loon, the other day.
A number of Caledonia county farmers
are planting sorghum, this year.
| Mr.. Charles Morgan, of Rochester, has a
butternut root In his yard eighty-one feet
in length.
Rev. c. W. Griffin has Just closed two
| years connection with the Baptist church at
East Randolph.
In the river at Swanton, the other day.
was caught sturgeon 81 feet in len 9Th and
76 pounds in weight.
Bishop Bissell visited St. Andrews
church, St. Johnsbury. on a recent Sunday,
and confirmed twelve persons.
The widow OF the late Rev. Dr. Lord. of
Montpelier. has gone to Syracuse, N. T., to
mako her future home with her daughter
James Hurlburt, Waterford farmer. rs
years old, committed suicide. on Thursday,
by cutting his throat. Cause dependency.
Mr.. W. Ii. Haskell, of Weathersfeld Bow,
has accomplished the feat OF raising ninety
SIX early lambs from ninety-,bree ewes, this
spring
Charles Page, Esq, formerly station
agent at Brandon and brother of ex-Gov.
John B. Page, of Rutland, died at Glen
Cove, l.. l., recently.
A large party of excursiunists will soon
leave Bennington to prospect in Minnesota
and Nebraska, with view to a permanent
settlement in the West.
Coleman Sanders, of Chester, recently lost
81, 600 in government bonds through the
speculations of the cashier of a Massachu-
setts bank, in which they were placed for
safe keeping.
Richard Peabody, the forger, who is still
confined in Jail, at st. Johnsbury, busies
himself with studies, drawing and reading
and says he is finishing his education. lie
has wound the bars OF his cell window with
white flannel, that something Of the gloom
might be removed.
East Coventry has an athletic sensation in
the shape OF the finding OF the half decom-
posed body of a female infant IN house
which had been tenantle>s for some time by
family that had just moved in.
c. D. Mason, of New Haven, sent car
load OF fine Merlno rams and a few superior
ewes to Colorado, the other day. The ewes
were bred by A. +. Ellsworth, and are all
registered. Mr.. Mason has sen. over eleven
hundred rams and two or three hundred
ewes to Colorado in less than a year.
A ten-year-oid son ofSeymour kneeland,
Of Waterbury. was thrown from u brighten
cd horse one day last week. When picked
up by his father he was Supposed to be
dead. The horse stepped upon his head.
lie was restored to consciousness, and the
doctor las hopes Of his recovery.
On the farm of Martin Guild. OF Chester,
the other night. stone 40 feet long, 20 feet |
wide and feet thick, slid down the noun
tain, nearly a mile, tearing up trees and |
OF o.. n In plaPpa |
the ground was torn up to the depth OF two
feet, and the noise was 80 great a. to awaken
persons two miles away.
Ross 4 Shaw, of St. Johnsbury (the
senior partner being Judge Ross, Of the
supreme Court, have settled with their
creditors in the lumber business carried on
in Victory and been released from the fnan-
cial embarrassment which at one time
threate them.
A while ago. one Robbie bought place of
Hiram Weeks. the 81. Johnsbury swindler.
for $500. Robbie has paid $500 in money,
built barn and other improvements. in all
amounting TO about 5000. and a week ago,
Tor the first time was notified by jefferson
Butler, of Portsmouth, N. H., of whom
Weeks purchased the place. that there was
a mortgage on the house and land which
he bought, amounting to $1,000. Weeks
confessed to Robbie that he knew OF the mort
gage ae the time of the sale and intended to
lit it before it gave Rebe any trouble.
OVER TIE LaKK-Captains have been as
signed to the steamers of the New York and
Lake Champlsin Transportation Company
as follows Captain Martin Sawyer to the
Bascom. Mark Manville to the Brilliant.
and James H. Manyille to the Grand Isle.
Last Saturday the Ausable Horse Nail
Company paid their men and girls entirely
in gold and silver.
A child died in the French Catholic
church, in Whitehall, last week, while
there Tor baptism.
Owing to the increased demand for pig
IRON, the Crown Point Iron Company is re-
pairing it, old furnace and will put it in
blast about Nav Is. During the coming Snm-
ner the company will build twenty new
houses at Hammondsyile for the use of the
miners.