Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-05
STATE NEWS.

The Vermont Farm Machine Co., at Bel
low Falls, are making preparations for
grand meeting of dairymen, TO be held in
their new building March 9th and 10th.
The programme includes addresses by Hon.
John Gregory Smith, Col. Mead, Prof.
Atwater and number of other well known
speakers.
Ten persons united with the Methodist
church at Montpelier on Sunday last.
The Central management viii at once COM
mence the building of separate track from
their depot at Montpelier TO the Coffee House
junction. so as to give them an independent
line to Barre.
Hazen Morse has been first constable of
the town of Duxbury during the past seven
years. recent transaction of his invoiv-
ing the payment of a sum of money to dis
charge mortgage on his house, and the fact
that his bondsmen, his two brothers, had
mortgaged their property for its full value,
drew the attention of the town officials to
his accounts, which he refused TO have ex-
amined. But at the recent examination of
his accounts by the town officials, a deficit
amounting to over 81 500 was disclosed, ex-
tending over period Of three or four years.
He declines to explain the deficit in any way
till June list, when the money collected by
him for taxes is required to be paid to the
state treasurer. The selectmen directed
him to furnish new and responsible bonds
men within ten days or surrender the tax
books
At Tinmouth, Sunday night, John II. AL
dows, leaving a wife and four children,
eloped with Harriet Packard, who leaves a
husband and four children
The North Pownal Manufacturing Com
pany surprised their operatives Saturday
afternoon by advancing wages ten per cent.
commencing March l. This makes % per
cent they have advanced weaving voluntari-
ly since Jan. l, 1880.
VERMONT formally presents Senator Ed
munds as a candidate for the Presidency.
No State has better right to name candi-
date and no State can present better man.
Albany Erenihg Journal.
At South Vernon, last week, John Toomy,
10 years old, son of the Waterman, slipped
on the track at the railway station while
opening the engine house doors for a loco
motive to back in, and one of his feet was
cut of. He is very low from loss of blood
Business has INCREASED rapidly of late at
the Rutland Scale Works, and n single mali
recently brought orders for more scales than
the works can turn out in a months time,
though PAS men are now employed in the
shops. The company is now erecting two
additional buildings each fifty by one hun
! bred feet.
The quNrrymen of West Rutland, to the
number of nearly two hundred, struck Mon
day, for higher wages. They have been work
ing during the Winter months at low pay
so to 80 cents a day-but had had notice
Monday morning that their wages would be
advanced to dollar a day. The men all
went TO work, and remained at their posts
for about half an hour. All the quarrymen
of the Rutland Marble Company, and about
| two-thirds of Sheldons & Slason's quarry
men then stopped work and left their quar-
ries, demanding twelve and half cents an
hour. The proprietors would not consent to
such an advance
The Springfield Republicans report of the
Republican State Convention at Montpelier,
said
The delegates gathered in the basement of
the Methodist church, low room lavishly
adorned with notices, Come TO Jesus"
Touch not, taste not, handle not" and so
on. The last admirable admonition had little
immediate bearing, for less drinking at a
political convention never saw The affair
was not opened with prayer as is the custom
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