Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-29
STATE NEWS.

Edward Brown was committed to the
Rutland county Jail Thursday from Pawlet
for adultery. He was surrendered by his
bondsmen
Pardon Bushnell. the carpenter who was
so seriously cut with a chisel by an insane
woman at Waitsfield is still alive, but small
hopes are entertained of his recovery. Miss
Suffer will probably go to an asylum.
r. Richard of Sherbrooke, p O., who is
one hundred years old, went TO Derby Line
the other day with woman of forty-five to
get married. He is hale and hearty, his hair
is turning from white to black, and where
he was bald the hair is growing again.
Ben Drown of East Hardwick according
TO the Orleans County Monitor, was taken
from his house one night recently by party
of men and boys, and tarred and feathered.
1t was claimed that he had been living with
disreputable woman.
Young Hallock, the Vergennes forger, was
engaged all last winter it seems, in series
of petty thefts, in which he was assisted by
two of his relatives of the same name, and
by their aid wrenches forks, oil-cans, maple
sugar. horse feed, cider barrels, meats, poul
try, etc, were continually disappearing from
neighbors houses. An uncle, Charles Hal
| lock, was arrested last winter for stealing a
horse and wagon, which were found in his
possession, and he is now awaiting trial
| During the same winter the lattcrs four
barns were set on fire and burned. after
being heavily insured. Insurance Adjuster
Fletcher investigated the matter so closely,
however, that Hallock was glad to surrender
the policy for upward of $1,000 for 81, and
no questions were asked. So says the Spring
field Republican.
A lady in Albany, nearly hundred old, is
learning to play the organ and the Orleans
County Monitor says she bids fair TO become
a proficient.
W. ii. Berry is held in 81 900 for threat
ening to shoot John Lawrence, his father-in-
law, at Bennington.
The Central Vermont Council, Patrons OF
Husbandry, covering twenty oranges in
! Washington and Orange Counties held their
quarterly meeting at Roxbury Tuesday. The
forenoon OF the session was devoted to pri-
vate work and reports from oranges. In
the afternoon the meeting discussed the ques-
ton, Ought Vermont farmers to raise their
own corn! = and passed Il resolution favoring
an equal taxation doing exact Justice to all
classes of property. The attendance was
about 200. The next meeting will be held
at Brookfield the last Tuesday in October.
Mrs. Clarence Reynolds of Norwich was
fatally injured on Sunday night by falling
through an open place in the kitchen flool
of her house into the cellar Her husband
and son were the only other occupants of the
house at the time of the accident, and both
had retired for the night Mr. Reynolds
awoke about midnight, and, missing his wife
called to her, but received no answer BE
coming alarmed at her absence, he proceeded
to search for her, and soon discovered hel
lying on the cellar bottom her head resting
on a rough stone in pool of blood. He
skull was badly fractured, her position indi
eating that she had fallen head foremost int,
the cellar. Her death occurred on Monday
Linus Leavens of West Berkshire, age,
80 years, died on Thursday evening, after
long Illness which for two years dcstroye,
. his mental faculties. lie was for thirty -fv
years the town clerk of Berkshire, an oil,
time captain of the militia and in variou
ways prominent and honored citizen, film
; all positions of trust with scrupulous fidelity
Here is what they sing at public school ex
aminations in Il Vermont village, to the tun
of Yankee Doodle" visitors and all joinn
in the chorus:
II anythlng on earth can make
4 great and moral nation,
tits To give the little ones
thorough education
J Chorus-Fye times 1--WE are twenty-five,
, Five times six are thirty.
Five times seven are thlTiy-nye,
, And five times eight are forty.