Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-31
STATE NEWS.

Ground has just been broken for a new
veneer factory at Newport.
\ horse was killed at Newport Centre re-
Gently ly eating Paris green.
81 Johns ury has Poultry Club, which
will hold il first exhibition the last of De
! ccmhcr.
\ young man by the name of Loverin of
Rich,url recently attempted TO commit sui
eide hy taIiu, Paris green. Emctics saved
his life.
Bradley Barlow nf the Southeastern Rail
road of, Is - 600 reward for the detection
Of the persons who recently placed obstruc-
ticns on the track of that road.
Henry Dcl0rmc of Burlington, an inmate
of the State Reform School at NcIgennes.
met with q distressing accident Monday last.
In company with several other boys he was
engaged in gathering walnuls from one OF
the many trees on the grounds, when, step
ping upon a small limb. it broke off, and he
caught Ia limb over his head, which proved
to bc dead and gave WAY, prccipitatmr the
unfortunate hov some twenty feet To the
ground. lie icll face downward, breaking
his right wrist both bones short Off, and
brcakin" almost entirely off all the fingers Of
his left hand at the lower joint, making the
AM Uldtlu 'l IN lli'' llllG'lN Il i''teSllN ~
the bones. jieamcnts aud all the arteries were
severed
The report comes from Addison county
that wells, springs. ciStcrns and small streams
are dry, and farmers living from two to
three miles from the lake drive all their
stock 10 the lake for wafer, and are obliged
to draw from there all the water used in the
family One gentleman. who owns "A good
4 81 ,,ail
of water WAS all there was on his farm on
Monday last. Fires are destructive in for
est and bush in consequence of the remaIka-
bic drvncss of everything.
One morning about a year ago. Wells
Green of East Bethel discovered that, during
the night. his house and barn had been dis
figured hy sundry daubs Of black paint. Mr..
Green has since repainted his house, and on
a recent morning it was found to have been
diSfigured second time. The ncighhors
turned out and soon removed most of the
paint.
\ span of horses. with carryall. contain
ing Hon. \. r. Bonncv wife and daughter,
ran away Thursday afternoon in Belvidcrc.
To check their mad course he refined them
against an iron fence in front of the High
street church. The occupants were thrown
ont Mr.. Honncy was badly bruised and the
ladies slightly injured. One of the horses
was So badly injured as 10 require being
killed.
The two barns and their contents, Of sam
uel Parker OF Rutland, were burned We'd
nesday morning. by incendiarics. The con-
tents included twenty tons of hay and the
rye and buckwhcat product of twelve acres
of land.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roster of st. Adams
celebrated their golden wedding, the other
day.
Capt. Paul Boyton passed through Bellows
Falls, Tuesday morning, the 22d, en- route to
Wells River. He goes from there to the
head of the Connecticut river, from where
he proposes TO swim TO its mouth.
Tuesday afternoon +. Il. Scott was paint
ing on Camp Il Stewards block, Newport,
when the staging gave way and he fell some
twenty-five or thirty feet and was s.s.re!y
InlMCu. he held ON to the cave trough Tor
awhile and fellow workman partially held
him. hut both let 20 and he fell end over end,
striking upon his head and shoulders. His
recovery Is uncertain.
II Is stated that a Montpelier man exhibit
cd Al the Washington county fair three pack
ages of butter from the same churning, but
under diff, r,nt marks and got first premium
on one. second on another, while the third
was condemned as poor.