Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-04-25
STATE VS..

A twe1ty year. Old youth of Ludlow has
Just eloped with married woman CT twice
his own age.
Golden weddings Mr.. and Mrs R,yal
Roberts, of Sharon, April : Mr. and Mrs
Abner Ii. HoYt. Of Danville, April 10.
The new I'm versalist chGroh at White
River Junction, will be dedicated May
lst. The event will be preceded by the hold
ing Of conference. which will meet TIes-
day evening, April 20
Ruben Lsggc. Of " .r.:-y:I;e. who was
severely injured by \ horse rearing and
falling over upon him two years ago while
working at the Malvern farm. Gied IRON the
effect Of his injuries last week.
John D. Hopkins, of Lyndon, has been
awarded $3.50 a. cJmpensatlCp for damages
from assault at the hands Of z. W. Dickson
of Lancaster The suit was brought for
$4,000, and has been pending a long time.
A COW belonging to George E7erleth, Of
Dummerston. recently dropped a large,
healthy calf, which ii shape resembIed a
rabbit. 1t had 20 tail. and its forelegs were
go much shorter than the hind ones that it
could only move about by hopping like a
rabbit. So say several exchanges.
In Ryegate the other day little JAMIE,
aged four years, only daughter of John and
Bette Gibson, climbed TO the cl5set where
her mother kept medicines, and took there
from bottle containing some pills which
she ate and in fue MINUTES she went into
commissions. She gu ifered terribly TOR forty
minutes when she died.
John c. Daily. who killed james SPELL
man on the 2Orh of July, at the State Line
House, near the line between Clarksburgh
and Stamford in this State. VS. arraigued
before the Supreme Court a. PIttsheld,
Mass. The indictment against him con-
tanned three count-. bdt, on advice of coun-
sci be plea I'D guilty Of murder IN the Sec
ond degree and the Plea was accepted BY the
attorney general.
Searios' veneer GetoIy at Newport EN-
Dloys over 10 hands. some 30 OF them being
Ia one room maxim. straw berry baskets tor
the New York market Mr.. Sesrlcs is at
present working on contract for 400, 900,
and he get out from four to six thousand
day. These baskets ore mostly made out of
the waste, and one can make from 100 to
400 and nim5le fingers even 900 2 day.
Mr. jonathan Hmith died suddenly at
" Olcott town farm last week " ednesday,
aged about 81 years Quite a number of
years ago Mr. Smith was one Of the promi-
nent men Of the place, having represented
the town in the Legislature, and gas holored
with many Offices of tra.i by mis- townsmen,
ell OF which were discharged with fidelity to
the town and credit II himself - Lam0Me
Nei0s.
Mrs. Mary PepperiiI SparAawk Jarvis
Cults, widow of the late Hon. Hampdep
Cuts, OF BTittebOrO. and daughter of the
late Consul JaIyIs,u Wegthersfeld, dropped
dead in the depot at Jersey City, last Satur-
day, aged 20 years. She wasia highly edu-
Gated lady. and someEh hat known in litera-
ture % or so years ago. She had written
several poems, Gad they were gathered into
small volume, and another OF her publica-
tions was an interesting and valuable life
of her father. Mrs. Cuts was noted for
her social grsces and hospitality.
K. B. Shaw, Of Peacham, has kept thir-
teen Jersey cows tho past year, and they
have made tbesides what was wanted for
family use) 400 pounds Of butter to sell,
with an average price OF 26 cents per
pound, from March Both, rs, to same date,
10 Ii amounts to Sl,066-s little over
$50 per COW. lie feeds them i've quarts of
meal, one halt corn meal or Its equivalent,
and one-halt bran. mixed, per day. the year
round, with all the good hay in winter end
green corn in the fall, they can cat.
The Caledonia gives an account of q dead
IL assault or Wm. &. Stowe of st. Johns
bury. the other evening Mr.. Stowe went
into the cemetery to look alter his traps.
He found skunk N ane Of them. and while
ho was in the act Of killing it, he thinks
some one hit him on the side Of the head
with club. At all events. when he came
to himself there was severe cut in his
head and his face was battered up. He
managed 20 report himself at police head
quarters, and investigation disclosed tracks
in the snow, and blood about, but who made
the cowaIdly attempt on the cd mans life
is not yet ascartsined.
The quarrel In Bennington village is seri-
Gus. The charter says ballots shall be taken
1t called for 10 th> election of Uticers As
they were refused by tie clerk good lawyers
say the proceedings ct the annual meeting
are all void Several O, the officers chosen
d, cline to act. 4 large meeting of ta1-psy-
ers was held Friday evening and resolutions
were adopted declaring that the records had
been ialsi fed so as TO declare elected officers
receiving only minority of the votes, and
that committee be appointed to inyesti-
gate the facts This meeting was attended
by the business and wealth Of the village,
and since then some OF the manufacturers
have received anonymous letters threaten
ing personal violence.