Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-10-01
STATE NEWS.

The town of Pomfrct is overwhelmingly
| Republican, and vet Otis Chamberlain, pro
nounced and veteran Democrat, has held the
Office Of town clerk for forty-scven consecu-
| tive years.
The blooie,l sheep business bids fair OF
reaching its old-timc prices, when -, 900 and
SlU, 900 was often paid for ram. OF course
these figures are not paid now, but large
1 prices are paid for good sheep, fully one
third more than last year, and there Is a call
far all there are for sale addison CoHHtg
Journal.
Miners at Plymouth Five Corners are sink
| ing IA shaft TO reach gold bed.
| The Normal School opened at johnson
with IS students. The entering class num-
be-s 10, and the graduating class in both
courses L. A new feature this term will be
n reading room l3r The use of the students.
The dwelling ho?se OF Herbert Wood IN
Barnard was burned on Thursday, The I'D
while he and his wife were attending the
fair at Bethel The fire is supposed TO have
taken in the roof from some defect III the
chimney. Loss about $1,000. Insured IN
| the Windsor County Mutual for 81 900.
Farmers are very generally in the White
River Valley shipping their butter To Boston
sion houses and receiving very satisfactory
returns. About 400 packages, mostly tubs,
were sent from White River Station on
| Tuesday.
Robert skinner. who lives some five miles
above 81. Albans on the SwaniDn road. thinks
that he has found coal on his farm. lie Is
| now digging a hole about eight feet square
and is down eighteen feet He is ais" rN-
| pccting TO strike oil which floats upon the
water in the neighborhoOd, sometimes dense
enough to burn when match IS applied.
The sign of one of the first tavcrns in
Manchester was discovered the other day,
having remained hidden in the attic OF The
Taconic Hotel for the past sixty years or
more. Deacon Black, whose father Dullt
the old part of the Taconic. remembered To
| have seen it there and search
brought it to light. 1t was an oval SWING
| ing sign, with the picture of knife anu
| fork on each side and underneath the name
Of Robert Pierponi.
Timothy IIarrigan and Patrick CAIN,
workmcn on the narrow gauge, were severe
| " injured last week. While pushing n load
Of iron on Whist is called the 'Branch
bridge" in Ncwfanc, one OF them lost his
foothold and Selling the other both fell a
distance of nearly forty feet. Gains condl-
ton is critical. lIarrigan will recover.
lIarr.an is Vermont Central hand, having
his home at Mortified. Cain is from Sey-
mour, Conn, and has been at work ON the
narrow guage during the Summer. Rcf"r'
| ner.
Marccllus Woodward, II FrcnclIman about
twenty years of age, committed to the
House of Correction from Holland on Wed
nesday last to serve term Of two years ioi
horse stealing. was. with three other prison
crs, taken out 10 dig potatoes near the House
of Correction, Saturday afternoon. Mol
fancying the business, he started oil. The
keeper fired four shot mt him without effect,
then pursued him into the woods were he
was losi sigh of, and has not been seen since
When he ran away he had neither hal,
coat nor shoes. 1t is supposed he has gone
to the northward.