Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-28
STATE NEWS.

Bennington's Indebtedness foots up over
| $500. 900. the disputed railroad debt with
interest being over Sl97 200, the towns
floating debt ST. 900, and the graded school
debt about $4,000.
An old lady by the name Of Thomas, in
North Bennington. died under rather pecu-
liar circumstances, and an autopsy was held
which revealed the fact that she died OF en-
bolism. In the Left auricle Of the heart was
| an organic substance about halt the sizs of
a butterDut, which had several branches eI-
tending out into ths arteries.
Henry Hayden. of Albany, recently cut
| spruce tree that measured 81 inches in d.
| ameter on tho stump thirty-siX feet from
the base the tree divided into two prongs,
which were each large trees. The whole
length Of logs cut from the tree was 100
| feet.
There is a peculiar disease prevalent with
horses in North Troy and vicinity. The
limbs swell badly, the horse refuses to eat
and rapidly diminishes in flesh. There arc
probably some SO to 100 horses in the i'm
mediate vicinity that are thus afflicted.
| Old veterinary surgeons and "hoss" doctors
can find no remedy.
NJ. Ii. Sherman, formerly ofWest Rupert.
has Just been appointed State superintend
ent of public instruction Of Colorado.
Eledisa Plimpton, of Wardsboro. who
died recently on her Goth birthday, was the
last OF the first settlers of the town and the
last of large family. She had lived in
WardsbOro ninety-two years.
George Weeks, of Wheslock, demands
ST., 900 of the town of Lyndon for an scci-
dent on the highway last Fall.
A sad catastrophe befel;a tramp in Peck
EFT L Co.'s mill, Bradford. Ii would seem
that the tramp had entered the mill and
went to foOling with some of the machinery,
and got caught in such way that when
found in the morning life was extinct.
TnE U. 5. SIGNAL SERVICE -The perma-
nent committee Of the Vienna Msteorologi-
cal Congress have Just paid the United
States the high compliment of recommend
ing to proposed second congress the adop-
ton throughout the world of plan for
exchanges of data for simultaneous weather
maps or other purposes, similar to one first
organized for the United States by General
Myer, the chief signal officer, in 1873, and
which has b,en continuously pursued by
the signal service to this day. The features
of this exchange, as sot on foot By the
United States, a.o as foll1ws:
LIST. The Signal Office of tho United States
asks all countries to make and record daily,
on land or sea, one simultaneous weather
observation at the same exact instant OF
time.
End. The United States then exchanges
with each country separately. making an
a IS ~nhl lib ,nh
exchange.
3rd. Each country sends to the United
States every fifteen days its own Observa-
tions; all are thus received by the United
States.
4th. The Signal Office of the United
States then collates and prints all, its own
aa-inoiSAnt ebssrssttons included. and re-
turns in this shape TO every regular OBJ
server, who has sent continuously q single
report, the reports gathered from almost
the whole northern hemisphere. For one
report sent regularly by any regular OBJ
server anywhere. on ship or shore. be re-
ceives 500, and these 500 surround and
cover nearly the northern hemisphere. 1t
has been the theory Of the Chief Signal
Officer that, with such information 50 wide
ly diffused. great deal OF work will be
done by separate observers in every country
which will be Of use to all, but which the
solitary observer alone could never think OF
undertaking unless the data have been thus
laid down before him. The United States
need the data for themselves. and they help
besides an international union Of brains rs
well as hands.
For nearly six years this exchange origin
ated and conducted BY the Signal Service of
the United States, has been perfectly sue
cessful. Almost every civilized nation north
Of the equator has taken part in it. 1t has
made possible for the first time in the his
tory OF the world the preparation of daily
simultaneous map of the northern hemis-
phere, at Washington (Which is sent to
each obseryer). and has probably advanced
the study Of practical me.eorology as far as
any one undertaking in the last century.