Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-17
STATE NEWS.

/ IHNcTSlllSl cnurCn IenucrS MS resignation,
to take effect January l.
The slate mills of Fairhaven are full of
business, running night and day with two
gangs of men.
The dwelling house and barn OF William
b. Sawyer of Greensboro Village was destroy
ed by fire, Oct. 4. Insured for $1,000
Rev. MIR. Pugn of Fairhaven, the Welsh
minister, has been acquitted of beating his
wife, she having failed TO appear against
him.
An incendiary has burned the house, barn,
sheds hay, grain, farming tools and house
hold furniture of William Little of Irasburg
loss $4,000, partly insured.
The chair shop of W. Ii. Marshall at
SALISBURY was destroyed by fire, Friday,
with contents. The loss is SIS, 900: insured
for $4,000. Cause unknown.
Mark Harrington, employed about the
barn of Dudley Davis of Derby, fell fourteen
feet into the cellar, Monday, striking ON his
head. He died in two hours.
Diphtheria has been raging at West Rut-
land in epidemic form. One physician has
had 40 cases, three of which have proved
fatal. There are ten cases there at present.
Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Avery of Thetfori,
celebrated their golden wedding last Friday
evening, receiving many presents. Mr..
| Avery has resided on his farm where he now
lives IS years
PostOilicc established Morgan Center,
| Orleans county, Frederick ~ Gray postmas-
| ter. Postmasters appointed Julius W.
Baker at Ripton, Addison county Egbert
ii. Robinson at West Charleston, Orleans
county.
The unmOrtgaged part of the Vergennes
Machine Company's property has been auc-
toned to satisfy an execution in favor of the
Nergennes water-pOwer company. 1t was
bid off at 81, 500 by ]. d. Kingsand of Bur
lington for his son, A. w. kingsland of Chi
| cago, Ill.
Five barns belonging to Byron Davis, in
| RchfOrd were burned on Saturday night A
| horse, a lot of grain, amowing machine, farm
tools, etc, Were also burned Loss 50, 300;
insured for 800 The fire is supposed to
have caught from the engine of a freight
train passing near.
Eliza Bennett, who was run over by the
cars at Pownal, Saturday. died within two
hours after the amputation of both legs and
an arm She was conscious to the last and
| expressed a willingness and desire to die,
For" said she, no one cared for me
before, and they would have cared less for
| me now"
\ Vermont Atwood Merino sheep-breed-
ers' club" has been organized at Middlebury,
with f. s Stowell president, and George
Hammond secretary the membership to be
strictly from Vermont. The trade in fancy
sheep is looking up. Two thousand dollars |
was recently given for buck, and 81, 500 |
was paid for half interest in another.
A competent young women teacher from
West Rutland, engaged by the Castleton |
School Committee fpru min he hos
refused admittance to the school house at
beginning of the second term because the |
committee discovered that she was Roman
Catholic. However, the girl can collect her
salary for the whole time
The Washington County Court having
completed the list of civil cases set for trial
by jury, Oct. TO- took a recess till Novem-
Der IS, when the criminal cases will be tried
The recess was made necessary on account
of the County Supreme Court, which adj
journed from August II, opening at Mont
pelier October 81, and the general term of
the Supreme Court, full bench, opening
October 81
a number of the physicians of Lamoille
county have organized the Lamoille Valley
Medical Association with the following
officers President, Z. J. Hall; Vice-Presi-
dent, IL. W. Hendrlck Secretary, Joel AL
of Arrangements, T. J. IIolbrook, ID. D.
Grout and Joel Allen. An adjourned meet
ing will be held in Hydepark, Wednesday,
Nov. 9th.
Deacon Franklin S. Hazen. a prominent citi-
zen of Hartford committed suicide Tuesday
week while temporarily insane, bx hanging in
sugar house lie has suffereda few years
from the effect of a sunstroke, and last wear
his only son, member of the freshman class
in the agricultural department at Dartmouth,
died, since which time he has been OCCASION
ally deranged
The extremely dry weather is making for
est fires very dangerous. Several men
while engaged in ditching for F. d. Doug
lass in Cornwall swamp kindled a fire around
an old stump. The flames spread in the dry
grass, and soon hundreds of acres were on
fire, much of it being valuable timber land.
The largest loss is on the timber lands owned
by John Dyer whose loss will foot up sever
al thousand dollars.
BRADFORD, VT, Oct. ia large frame
building, 40 by 80 feet, owned by the Yer
mont Copper Mining Company. at Pike Hill,
and used as wash house, was burned last
night. One hundred and fifty people are
thrown out of employment The upper
story was used as the eompanys storehouse.
Total loss about 50, 900, insured in the .Etna
for 81 500
The staging in the slate quarry at West
Pawlet gave way Tuesday afternoon. Three
men were on it at the time two of whom. !
John Thomas and Dennis Mccormick fell
10 the bottom of the quarry, distance of
about thirIy-five feet. McCormick's collar
bone was broken his head cut and it is fear.
I'd he is bleeding internally Thomas was
tut in the head bruised about the back and
sides and some of his ribs were broken.
The other man chung to rope and escaped :
injury.
The extensive farm buildings of Lewis A.
loslyn, at Waitsfeld were burned Tues
lay, Oct :, together with valuable pair Of
White Durham oxen, weighing 5 900 pounds
which took the premium at the State Fair, Il
our year-old blooded bull, n hundred tons of !,
lay and a large quantity of grain and other !
produce. The fire was undoubtedly the work I
# an incendiary, as the fire was discovered
n the buildings of Julius Joslyn and NJ y
'ady, in other parts of the village, which u
we're put before much damage was done. 7
lr. Joslyn had 81, 200 insurance. His loss 81
) estimated at $1,000.
The floor of the Addison county Jail at y
is being relad in cement and u
marble slabs six inches thick, and doweled "
osether with iron rods. a few years since y
he Jail was enclosed, the sides and top, with =, o.
Oiler iron over an inch thick and, when the ~
resent improvements are completed it is u
clieved that it will he a comparatively safe
Ill, although one of the five prisoners now
Iere, Frank Emery, SAYS he shall escape ar
gain shortly. Having broken from this Jail Ill
'vcral times already, he is now chained to ar
lc floor of his cell, with shaclles riyeted on ed
9TH legs co
Last "Wednesday, Mr. A. W. Abbott of
est Barnet, with his wife AMI ten children, sn
nd Mr.. Gilmore Morrison of Ryegatc with n
is wife and eleven children, came to ST. &c
and were photographed in fun dc
v groups. They came to town in four
)rsc coach and two horse coach and at
rst were supposed TO be some Sabbath
hool excursonsts. The oldest of the
lildren was about u years old and they
ere II happy, bright appearing crowd fol
he fathers and mothers are middle aged pc
EN- and women, and are evidently happy an
it'll their families The mothers are cousins. tin
Cdltd0HiaR. aw
The Nergcnnes correspondent of the Je'
,rngiield Republican has the following lh'
Frederick Douglass visited Nergennes in Tho
43 to speak on slavery, and, stopping for atl
nncr at the Stevens House, the boarders re- pei
scd TO sit nj dinner with a negro. More ITO
cr, prominent merchant, Byron Murray W.;
w proprietor of the Clarendon Springs In
lusc, Indignantly left the table. though he pe'
is assured by friend of the abolition NV
rty, John l.. Barker, that he, Murray, 10
,uld yet be glad 10 sit by Douglass side. req
st year the citizens of Ncrsennes elected inc
,,r, no their chief nf noIicr and no better tho
m cnuld have hccn chosen And unon Tho brC
ps of the same hotel where Douglass was tie
used his dinner leading resident of Monk gar
was rottcn-cgsed by the citizens for ex- ms
,ssing 'anti-nigger' sentiments. III
sen
rnE San Francisco Chronicle publishes Ind
following \ customs officer engaged in una
charging the City of Toxic rejoices in the
luisition of Grants autograph on wine
a presented 10 him by one of the officers
the steamer. This card he proposes to Gle