Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

wife, of Minneapolis, have been stopping in
| town for q few weeks and and returned home
/ Tuesday. Mr.. Seth Langdon accompanied
/ them West.
The first lecture of the Academy course
was delivered by Prof. f. II. Higley, of
| Mlddlebury College, in the church, Tuesday
evening, to a large and appreciative audience.
Others will follow soon, but dates are not
announced, as yet.
Mr. +. C. Sanborn left town, Wednesday,
to commence work for Messrs Wells Rich
ardson a Co., as travelling salesman. The
best wishes of his many friends in town ac-
company him.
The " ceum this week was omitted on ac-
count Of the lecture.
Mr. F. ". Nash has returned to town and
engaged in the sale of sleighs, etc
VIM. Partch and family are moving this
week
BoLToS-Quite pleasant affair occurred
| at the school house in district No. in Boil
ton on the evening before Christmas day, in
the form of a beautiful Christmas tree, which
was bountifully supplied with presents for
oil Of the school children of that small dis
trict and also for others who do not reside
there and whom it will not do to call child
rem. The presents were thankfullyaand
| cneer1ully received. 1lOsl VI tutiu Olu ohntd
Claus distributed himself, which very much
amused the older ones present rs well as the
| children. The presents consisted of dress
patterns, shoes, vases and notices, and each
and every one present received q bag of pop
| corn and candy. There were also many
other articles too numerous to mention. One
newly married couple present receiveda very
nice pop corn baby. The exercises were very
good indeed and included defamation by
| Herbert Tomlinson, original poem by Miss
Hapgood and select reading by Miss Will
son and Mr.. G. J. Sabin. Mrs. Locke played
the organ land sang, assisted by others A
quartctte sung by Nh. and Mrs. Locke, Miss
Wilson and Mrs. Eaton was excellent. All
together it was Il very pleasing affair.
NORTH FERRIsBURsH. - The donation
party or oyster supper for the benefit of our
pastor, Rev. J. W. Bennett, on list Friday
evening. at the hotel, was a grand success.
The greatest satisfaction seemed to prevail,
and none seemed to enjoy it more than did
the landlord himself who so generously
placed his house and its contents at the dis
posal of the society and its guests. The net
proceeds of the evening were S663l.
On Saturday evening Dec. 81, just befOre
dark II pair OF boots disappeared from the
shop of George D. Webb. of this place. Mr.
Brown, the workman, was absent at the
time Suspicion rested upon a Young man
(Alcx La Coy) who was arrested on the
evening of the 25th. found guilty of theft,
fined and sentenced to the House of Correc
ton for term Of about three months.
On Saturday evening of the present week,
the NJ. +. S S. Society will meet at the
vestry to complete the reorganization Of our
Sunday school.
10 g., 3, l,ar 81 IF
the present conference year will be held at
tho NJ E. church, one week from next Sab
bath. The quarterly conference will he
held ontho preceding Saturday.
Geo X. Mallory died Dec 80. OF h6mor
rhage OF the lungs, aged 10 years
SAMUEL CHAMPLAIS- Contrary to the gem
eral belief which is that the territory now
embraced i'll New York State Was originally
occupied by the Dutch or Netherlands, the
first white man who ever set foot on the soil
of what afterwards became New York was the
French navigator Samuel Chaniplain. Sim
gular enough, he entered the lake which
bears his name ON the date of the anniver-
sary Of our independence (July 4, 1909
with two whit attendants and IA company of
Canadian indians, and on the Both fought a
battle on tie western shore with a band of
year, but two months later Sept. 81, Henry
Hudson, an Enghshman. although in the
ploy of the Dutch East India Company, in
his little sLaiop. the Halt lIocn discovered
the bay of New York. Champlain seems to
have been not only intrepid and energetic,
but entirely upright and humane. He made
no less than SIX voyages from France to this
country, most of them during the reign of
Henry ", who had given him pension, and
attached him in youth to his person. Very
Jealous in the cause of religion. he lived up
to his professions. which was much rarer in
his time even than in the present, and did
lis utmost to Christianizc the savages. He
was the first governor of New France, or
Lower Canada, and died at Quebec in his GGth
year. 1t is strange that the French, who had
SO much 10 10 with the early settlement of
this land should have retained no foothold
on tho continent They planted colonies,
but these did not last. Highly successful as
the French are at home, they have never pros
pered as cclonists. -Ner York Times.