Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-21
STATE NEWS.

Brattleboro has twenty cases of scarlet
fever.
Master George Page. of Danville, recently
shot black rabbit.
A. Nsssn, of Rupert, recently had
yearling heller killed by dogs.
The diphtheris has appeared in Peacham.
there being ten cases and one or two deaths.
| The annual report of Brattlebo-o shows
that the amount OF unsolicited taxes exceeds
$1,000.
The little village of Vernon has recently
had a revival, at which seventy conversions
were made.
| The National Life Insurance Company,
Montpelier. have just put in 81 ton sale,
costing $4,000.
A fire at Craftsbury, the other night,
destroyed the academy and hotel. Loss
$40. 900; partially insured.
A pair Of three year old steers were stolen
from the barn of Oliver Willard, of South
Barton, the other night.
I In the town of Greensboro there were
ii marriages, % births, and 10 deaths for
the year ending Dec 81. 1873
Putney has been sued by one William
Perry to recover Sc 900 TO pay for dam ages
resulting from an accident, alleged to have
been caused By defect in the hig hway.
Mrs. Jonathan Northrop, of Sheldon, has
presented the town OF Bakersfield with $500
for the purpose OF purchasing a bell to be
placed in the Brigham Academy.
Lydia and Sophia Bruso, OF Manchester,
seven and nine years of age respectively,
have pieced bed-quilt containing seven
thousand four hundred and seventeen
pieces.
Mr.. Isaiah Macomber. of Greensboro, has
an eight day clock said to be one hundred
years old, which has not been cleaned for
80 years and keeps good time when kept
wound.
Edward Whitney. West Randolph lad
of l6. has been arrested for robbiag Prov
idence (R ~ jewelrY store, where he was
employed, and requisition has been issued
for his return to Rhode Island.
Mrs. Tyler, of Newport Centre, whose
dsughte died few weeks since will try to
get damages from the village district, on the
claim that her daughter sickness and death
was caused by the dampness Of the school
house.
Extensive lumber operations are being
carried On all over the State. At Green's
boro bend" the lumbermen are drawing
in sixty thousand feet per day. Eighty
horses put up there every night.
Rev. David Melndoe, one Of the owners Of |
tbs Windsor Journal and long connected |
with the paper in the capacity of agent and |
canvasser, died on the 4th inst. He was |
brother Of the former proprietor, Lyman j. |
Mclndoe, and was in his 55th year.
Craftsbury is considerably excited over
this lightning rod swindle. One party has |
been sued on his note and is summoned to
appear in Poultn.y at court. Other parties
about North Wolcott have paid from 800 |
to Sis. Five men in one neighborhood are
in Tor over $500.
A pint OF oysters, which formed part of
the supper of a Fair Haven family. recently,
was sufficient to scken seven persons and
the family dog. All were seized with
violent pains, followed by vomiting and
purging, and it was noon OF the day follow
ing before any of the family were able to
leave the house.
Milton physicians report much sickness
in that town and vicinity.
William G. White, a veteran OF the war
OF 1872. died, the other day. aged 81.
Report says that woman in the vicinity
of Newport Centre has sold her two-years
old child for SIS.
There was funeral in Fairbsvsn. on
each of the ten days ending the oh. They
were mostly of elderly people. and Of no
settled type Of disease.
Rev. Mr.. Austin, pastor of the NJ Z.
church at st. Johnsbury has got himself
into hot water by signing the bail bond of
A. R. Stokes. a notorious abortionist of
that village. Good business for a clergy
man.
The item going the rounds to the effect
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Pownal, recently, was, it seems unfounded,
she having died from natural causes
The physicians of Bethel and adjacent
towns have formed an organization under
the name of the White River Medical So
,iety. with DR.. W. K. Huntington, of Roch- 1
'ster, as president.
The late 5. B. Hazeltine, of Bakersfield,
lad been town clork for SIS years. lie was
! lieutenant in the war of 1872. and after
ward colonel of Militia and in 1910 the
legislature created him brigsdisr general.