Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-05-24
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ty alone has 10 cases before 1t.
A trapper at Milton has caught
800 muskrats this spring.
The Free Press publishes sh'
particulars Of the killing Of a pol
dier by his captain at Fort Griffin
Texas, taken from the Echo Of TIM
place. The soldiers name wa.
Charles McCafrey, a native Of Bur
lington, who was drunk and insult
ed Capt. =. q. Lincoln, who shot
him. Capt. Lincoln is native Of
Massachusetts, and enlisted as {
private in the old Sixth Vernon
regiment, was promoted rapidly
and became a gallant officer. The
coroner's jury found that Lincoln
killed Mccartney without any law
full provocation.
The May term of the United
States court commenced at Windsor
on the Goth. Several important
cases are marked for hearing.
The medical department of the
university of Vermont at Burling.
ton has 100 scholars, the largest
class for years. Sixty-pne become
full.fedged M. DIS in about eight
weeks. the literary department has
80 scholars. 20 of whom graduate
at the same time.
The state prison now has one
hundred and fifty.nine inmates
just enough 10 fill all the cells.
The new hotel at White River
Junction is being rapidly pushed
toward completion, and is expect.
ed to be ready to receive guests the
last of June. 1t is about one and
half times as large on the ground
as the old one, four stories high
and will accommodate about two
hundred guests. 1t will have a hal
to seat about one thousand people,
and all its arrangements will be on
a larger scale than the old house,
and the furnishing and fitting on
the most approved modern style.
Papers have been served upon the
de facto village officers of Bonn ing
ton, VT, whose pretended election
at the village meeting held in April
last has been reported, requiring
the moderator, clerk and trustees
now acting by virtue of that cleo
ton, to appear and show cause why
said court should not depose them
The order is made returnable be-
fore session to be heidi at Mont
pelier, on August Is, 1879, and the
time given defendants to answer is
limited to 40 days. For a debt-rid
den village commend us to this
same Bennington. Its indebted
ness is now 1921, O00-to pay which
would require Sl5.17 upon each in
habitant, by the census of 1870.
Some other towns in BENIN gtQn
county also have al immense r
debtedness--as Arlington, $40, 900,
or $1,000 on the grand list Sund-
erland, s1S, 900, or S11.S3 ; Shafts
bury, s65,OOO, or $14.53 ; and Dor.
set, $4,000, or $685. Free
Press.
Recently while q gang of men un
der Keeper Crawford were at work
in a field near the House of Correc.
ton planting, two of them became
somewhat separated from the 9TH
ers and improved the opportunity
to take leg bail and escaped to
Pine Hill and the woods. They
were Luke Piper, of Middlebury,
aged Is, six feet high, fair complex
ion, blue eyes and brown hair Gill
bert Baker, aged 20, sentenced from
Benington-home, Pittstown, N. j.
five feet ten inches high, COM
plexion and Eyes dark, and hair
brown. They were each dressed in
gray pants, grayish blue flannel
shirts, black hats and brogan shoes,
coat or vest. Their pants
were worn some at the ankles from
wearing shackles. Their beard was
! week old.
The Free Press says: Hon. Il. d.
Mason of Richmond, president of
he Vermont Dairymen's Associa
ion, has received three of the Hig-
gin meda's-one each of gold, sill
yer and bronze-designed as premi-
,ms for the first, second and third
,est fifty pounds of butter, respect
vely. The medals are presented
~ Fl. r. and +. B. Thurber g. Go.
agents for the celebrated
3iggin dairy salt, and those who
for them must use this salt
4 their butter. The medals are of
cry neat design, the silver and
rome being something like an
nch and a half in diameter, and
he gold somewhat smaller. The
bverse bears the figures of two
nilch cows, and the legend, "The
liggin Medal, for Improvement of
american Dairy Products" The
everse bears the inscription, "Pre-
ented by Il. Il. and f. b. Thurber
, Co.," with a blank space under
oath m which RI nnUrava thu ro | l