Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-03

STATE NEWS.
Norwich has a licensed distillery.

Neither the Bethel nor the Franklin
county fairs took in enough money 10 pay
the premiums in full.
The choir at the Free Baptist church in
Lyndon is assisted by an orchestra consist
ing of two violins, flute clarinet, cornet,
violoncello and organ.
The Windham County grand Jury indicted
the proprietors of three hotels and two
! saloons in Bratteboro and the hotel in
! West Brattleboro. Four of the six are
/ TO answer to the court for second offences
under the law, and two for the frs; Offence
! Some unknown disease has attacked the
dairy cows of Col. c. d. Gates of Cam
bridge, and seven died within three days
| The stomach of one of the cows has been
sent To this city to he analysed. Paris
green is suspected to be the cause of death,
as the cows had broken into a field where
it had been used.
The Lamoille county fair adjourned We'd
nesday night to October 18th and 18th. in
consequence of the storm interrupting the
races. All races and the game of base ball
were postponed TO those two days. The rest
of the programme was completed hut the
attraction was small.
John Lamb of Guilford 81 years old, was
instantly killed by being run over by the
afternoon train from the north on the Con-
necticut River Railroad, Tuesday, between
Gill and Mortified, Mass The horse he was
driving was also killed. Mr.. Lamb was very
deaf, and thought the train had passed.
During the two weeks ending Saturday,
the Goth inst, the Fairbanks Scale Company
received orders for 2,S6S scales, including
orders for no less than nineteen iron frame
railroad track scales. This is the largest
number Of orders booked at the factory since
the panic of 1873. To meet this business
pressure. the factory has commenced running
evenings, the first time since the war.
The dredging machine of the Bellows
Falls canal company is now at work on the
canal. 1t is intended to have it so the entire
Connecticut river can be drawn through if
necessary, thus affording a water power that
will rival llolyOke 1t Is expected two
years time will be necessary to lower and
widen the canal
The Connecticut River Lumber Company
are now busily engaged in blasting the large
bouldcrs in the river on what is known as
Fifteen Miles Falls" They began at the
head of the falls and are blasting rocks in the
channel that stick above water at its present
low water stage, expecting that with the
usual spring rise the drive of logs will not be
hhbNu'' tllil hbtS llOl dlpthi
above the present surface The blasters, &c
in number, have cleared about ten miles of
the river. This is rather an expensive way
of clearing the river of distractions to the
annual drive of logs, but there seemed to he
no alternative after the experience Of last
Spring, as it cost over $40, ZOO to get the
last drive of logs over these falls
Mrs. Miranda Kellogg, widow of the late
Judge Daniel Kellogg, has made the Wind
ham county bar a donation of an oil por-
trait of her late husband, painted by Miss
Brainard of st. Adams. Good judges pro-
nOunce it to be an excellent work of art,
and strikingly correct likeness in every
respect. 1t now hangs in the court house
at Fayetteville. The bar and the families
of deceased members have already secured
and hung in the court room the portraits,
some in oil, some photographs, of Stephen
Roe Bradley the first lawyer admitted 10
the Vermont bar, Vim. c. Bradley, Oscar |
/. Shafter, Asa Reyes, Daniel Kellogg, J Ohm
f Butler, Stephen p. Flagp. and Alexun-
der 5. Campbell.
At West Randolph the other, day, Fannie, |
a fOur-year-old child of n. VI. Draper turned |
up missing and the whole village started out
on the search A peculiar booking tramp, |
with long white beard had been seen by |
Mrs Draper near the house that day, and by
others in the village, and search was imme-
diately commenced for him. AT length one
party came TO 4 low, swampy and impass-
able piece OF land, about a mile from the
village The water stands here, usually,
the year round; ills full of ponds and holes,
and much of it covered by thick mat of
and thick green coating of scum,
sufficient to sustain the weight OF child,
hut a man would sink in the mud and water
to the armpits. In this lonely and danger
Gus spot the searchcrs family heard the wall
ing voice of child calling for papa.
Following the sound through the
tangled briars and grass, wading
through water in places t" the armpits,
little Fannie was found. nearly exhausted, On
A large bog III the swamp She had evident
IL fall-n into the water, as she was COM
pl..cly drenched about up TO her shoulders,
nut her head and neck had not been in water
How she got there is still a mystery. There
5 no road leading near the spot. and she
could not have got there without passing over
lriars, yet not the slightest scratch could he
ound upon her person, indicating that she
must have hccn carried there by some per- .
ON After hing taken home, warmed and
cstored siH was looking over a little pic !
urc hook, and, turning to the picture OF a
nan with a long white beard, resembling
he man noticed by Mrs. Draper and others !
n tie forenoon, she gaZcd at it and bright !
nnT up, exclaimed, That is the man that
)oI little Fannie away TO go to the circus" 4
he opinion prevails that this man, for
,mc purpose, cnticed the child away, !
nd finding the people were aroused and on /
ne scaph he abandoned her and made I
God his escape. :