Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-20
LATE NEWS.


quarricd ia Nuutl. Rvegaie.
A Bradford man drives a sfctrn Which vas
built previous tn lSr2
Andrew wilkins of Eden was arrested the
other DAY oL.aTged with an assault with in
tent To kill his mother.
The trustees of West Randolph have or
dered the saloons to close ut p. m, except
on Saturday. when they can remain open
until $50.
The demand forall classcsof textile fabrics
manufactured at Bennington continues with
no sign of abatement Most of the factories
are working until ten O'Clock at night.
The total losses by fire in Vermont during
the four years ending Jan. l. 1850, were
1861, 100
During the year 1879, there were 81 births.
% marriages and 50 deaths in Swanton.
There have been fifty cases of measles at
Lincoln this winter, and more cases are ap-
pcaring daily.
Mr.. and Mrs Hubbard Bceman Of North
Fairfax observed their tfiicth wedding an
nversary ON Monday, February y.
\ sturgeon weighing 105 pounds and an
other weighing 15 pounds were spearcd
through the ice ut Maquam Bay, on Thurs
day.
The Champaign Valley Homeopathic Mcdi-
cal Society will hold its next meeting nj Mid
dlebury, the 9th inst The special subiec,
for consideration will be diphtheria.
A friend of the Vergennes Public Library,
a few days since, placed in the hands of the
librarian the sum of fifty dollars as present
TO he added to the fund for the purchase of
books.
a correspondent writes the St Adams
Messenger from West Concord that lady in
that vicinity is the direct heir to the great
Hyde estate in England. The estate now
embraces 1850 100000 it was in 1924,
CSC, 900, 0O0 1t is expected that this vast
sum will he divided within GO days.
Willard Paine of Perkinsville, while work
ing in the woods the other day, had lie.
broken in three places and died from the in
jury.
Thirty citizens of West Randolph have
appended their signatures to declaration
affirming their intention of acting as unit
for the suppression of crime of every form in
that village.
Vital statistics of the town of Brattlcboro
for 1879 Births, 20; Deaths 81 marriages,
81. In the village the number of births was
~ w. III htSl Dlsl
No. - the number of births was :; deaths 4.
The IS deaths at the asylum are not included
IN the above figures.
There are few instances of longer terms
OF judicial service, than these of the present
Probate Judges in Windham county. Judge
Tyler Of the Marlboro district was appointe.,
in 1914, and has served uninterruptedly
since. Judge Stoddard has held the same
office in the Westminster district since Judges
of probate were made elective, by the
10 the constitution adopted in
1850.
Norman Cobb of Putney is ~ years old
and his wife is 20. He has five brothers and
two sisters still living, and all his children,
six sons are alive and healthy. and of all
the grandch' 'dren he has ever had, sixteen
in number, only one has died. Is there an
other family record in Vermont that can
compare with it?
Rebecca Wood Gooch now living in
Braintree, was born in Stoughton, Mass,
February 10, 1882 With her fathers family
she came to West Brookfield, in November,
l19S. She was married TO Joseph Gooch, |
3D. in 1901. Her son, Martin Gooch is in
his 18th year In Massachusetts she has a |
fephew ~ and a niece So years of age. This |
woman is still intelligent and COM |
nunlcativc.
st. Adams has a haunted house The other
light the feminine part of the family awoke |
md saw man standing by the bed, looking |
1t her with his face wrcathed in smiles She
.rouscd the man of the house ard called his
IitentiGn to 1.-THE presence in the room )" but
lis eyes failed to detect anything unusual,
md She subsidized. \ night or two afterward,
however. he Glanced TO open his eyes, and
aw standing near the stove, the figure of n
nan. He jumped out Of bed and advanced
owardS the figure, when the latter moved
ut of the room. When in the doorway the
'ursuer sought to grasp the figure, it had
'anishcd. The next day that family abdicat-
ii in favor of the spectre. This strange
'istor did not have the usual ghostly garb of
white, but was dressed in "citizcn's" clothes.
Messenger.
Intelligence was received last Friday, by
friends in Brattleboro. of the death, on the
lay previous, at Grand Island, Nebraska, of
lr Chas. q. Lawrence, SO well-known rs Il
ormer hotel proprietor of this village, the
lcged cause of death being conclusion of
he brain from fall received at Des Moines,
owa. \ request for further particulars
rought the announcement by telegraph,
rom the attending physician, who also sent
he first despatch, that the body had been
uricd, and that Mr.. Lawrence son Frank,
'ith whom he was travelling. was under ar
est and in Jail on suspicion of having pois-
ned his father. Street gossip gives rise 10
lImor about nm accident policy of - 900 ON
lr. Lawrcncc's life which might furnish
ossible induccment to The crime limited at
Rctormer.
\ Mortified hotel has clock over 100
cars Old, and, although the inside works
re of wood, it still keeps excellent time.
McGregg, for burglarzing Rev. Chas.
an Nordons house. al ST. Adams, was
ED in $500 bail Monday morning TO appear
I county court, and in default was COM
littcd.
The Switzerland Falls Marble Company
re erecting a new building 80 feet long.
At the second annual meeting of the In
irrational Dairy Fair Association, held in
lew York, Feb. 10. Hon y. r. Spraguc,
f Brandon, J. W. Deanc. of Alburgh, and
}. 5. Bliss, of Georgia, were among the
ice presidents elected