Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-17

Ii. NJ. Mott has sold his interest in the
Brandon Union to his brother, Norman A.
Mott.
David Mcbride, OF the Witherell House.
Plattsburgh. has leased the Brandon House.
Brandon, from and after April lst.
The new depot at Brandon will cost
S., 600, 81 500 of which is contributed by
The citizens. 1t will be handsomely furnish
ed throughout, with a covered platform
eight feet wide all around it, and there
will also be covered concrete platform ex-
tending south up the track about 200 feet.
Superintendent Cheney, OF Boston, has
reinstated c. W. Searle. mail agent from
Newport to st. Adams. who was suspended.
a few days since. and Searle has resumed
his duties.
Charles Peck. of Newport, has, during
the evenings of the past two months, knit
seven pair double mittens, two pair gloves,
one PAIR fringed mittens, TWO pair socks.
three pair wristers and large gents scarf.
The First National Bank. of Fairhaven,
has lust declared its twenty-ninth semi
annual dividend of five per cent on its
capital stock from its earnings. Since Its
organization this bank has returned to its
stockholders, SI36, 456 in dividends, and
mas accumulated handsome surplus be-
sides.
Ministerial personals Rev. j. P. Hum
pbreys, for many years pastor OF the Con-
gregatlonal church at East St. Johnsbury.
has Just closed his labors there.-Rev. Mrs.
Perkins has just resigned the pastorate Of
the Universalist church at West Concord.
A heavy snow slide occurred at West
Dsnville the other day. The snow bad col
lected to the depth of several feet on the
hill Just south Of the village, whom all at
once it started for low ground, taking
house in its path. crashing through the
windows and filed the room with snow.
The highway was blocksded for long
distance.
j. r Morse. Of Westminster, has a flock
of $50 sheep, all wethers but about dozen.
1t is probably the largest flock in the State.
Ely boasts OF being the heaviest shipping
station on the Passumpsic road with two
exceptions. During last month fifteen or
sixteen carloads of copper pigs" were
shipped. each load weighing not less than
Is tons. The average amount of coke re-
cered monthly is 800 tons. and with the
completion OF new furnaces at the mines,
1000 tons will be required.
Miss F. E. Townsley and Miss NJ. A. Buck
are conducting q series of meetings at the
Baptist church. at Grafton. The meetings
are largely attended and considerable in
terest IS felt in them.
Washington Adams recently slaug htered a
beef critter twenty-one months old which
weighed. when dressed. 80 pounds. Who
beats or equals this ?-Rutidnd Herald. No
other newspaper east of the Mississippi, We
hope.
The Hon. Jerome j. Besrdley, of Chics-
go, who was born and formerly resided in
St. Adams, died on the 29th ult.. of psraly-
sis The remains were conveyed to Rock
Island, ILL.,. and inferred there. Mr.. Beard
sley was born in 1910, adopted the profess
sion Of the law and was member OF the
Vermont bar. In 1850, be removed from
Vermont to Illinois and settled at Rock Is
land In 1860 be removed and went to prac-
tice in Chicago. lie had been an invalid for
several years.
Golden weddings: Mr.. and Mrs. Asa
of Brookfield. Jan. 4th Mr.. and
Mrs Ira Smith. of Mansfield, Jan. 4th.
Warren Miller, of Newbury, was Instant
ly killed on Saturday by q load of boards
that he was drawing, tipping over on to
him. lie WAS twenty-three years old.
Chester Carr. of Calais, the principal
witness for the State in the recent Worces-
ter Corners murder, for which his cousin.
Royal Carr is now IN Montpelier jail, has
left for parts unknown. 1t will be remem-
bered that Chester Carr swore, at the pre-
lirninsry examination of the prisoner, that
his cousin, the prisoner, virtually confessed
the murder to him, going 50 far
as to name by the precise place
where the murdered man could be
found. This murder has created intense
in Washington county, and it
is asserted that Chester Carr has left be-
cause it has been limited that special grand
Jury would be called to indict the prisoner.