Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-06

! W IiSon OF Fairfax.
About sixty boys and girls are employed
at the Newport veneer mills, making straw
berry baskets. About 800 900 will he turn
| ed out the present Spring.
The Ely copper mines continue 10 prosper.
Nearly hundred lahor,rs have lately
been added to the working force, making
about seven hundred bands On the pay roll.
The remarkably cpym weather has been
| taken advantage OF Il, l. T.. " right al New
| Haven to SOW and harrow in Il half acre of
| Winter rye, a rare feat in that latitude dur
ing January.
Henry McInfire of Randolph is at home
from Alaska where he has charge of the sup
plies and collects the fines on the islands, his
brother benjamin having charge of the main
| land.
Little Freeman, Youngest son of Mrs r.
I. Gleason of. Brookline. met with fearful
accident on Sunday, by falling in a pail of
hot brine. He was badly scalIcd and it is
feared he will not recover.
While J. b. Morse and his hired man were
chopping and drawing wood at Westminster,
a tree two feet in diameter, tell across pair
Of valuable horses and crushed them to
death. Mr.. Morse was ON the sled and bare
ly escaped.
Funds have been raised for the purpose of
opening the coal mines at East AlburEh. and
work will be commenced az once. Il. Calla-
non, geOlogist, of Plattsburgh. y. Y, claims
that coal can be found in large quantities
Andrew Laird. Of West Barnet, caught a
trout on the Goth inst. out of Harvey pond,
which weighed eight pounds and measured
29i inches in length. Ii is said to be the
largest front ever caught with Il hook and
line out of This pond CGledoniaH.
State Senator Eugene l.. Norton. Of
Charlestown, Mass, who died recently from
an amputation, owned one of the best farms
in Southern Vermont. Ills estate is near the
Vernon depot. and on it he raised forty acres
of corn annually and kept herd of fifty fine
COWS.
y series Of gospel meetings is being held
in the Congregational church az RoXbury,
under the direction Of the executive commit
tee of the Young Mems Christian Assoca-
ton, and conducted by Professor Kendall
of the Vermont Conference Seminary.
Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock has
given one hundred dollars to the Congrega-
tional church at Plainlield to be used in fitting
up their vcsiry so they can hold meetings
therein, and they are now nj work on it for
that purpose.
Fairhavcn is to be supplied with wafer
from pond some three miles distant with a
fail of nearly two hundred feet. Thirty
thousand dollars has been appropriated, the
money to he obtained by Issuing five per
cent bonds. running 20 years
During the seven years pastorate OF Rev,
l.. ii. Elliot. over the CONGREGATIONAL church
at Bradford. - were received into the
church by letter, and 33 by profession. max
ing a total of 50. He has married 70 couples
attended l26 funerals.
Moses Brown, the oldest inhabilant of
Stafford, died recently, aged % years. Mr.
Brown moved to STAFFORD with his father
90 Years ago, and has always lived on the
/ same farm. Although HginJ within six
miles of the Central Vermont railroad, he
never rode in the cas-
MIR. Asa Robbins of Chelsea East hill. went
to his barn the other evening and assembled
to the high beams for some hay to feed his
horse, and fell from there to the barn floor
where he remained in an unconscious state
about two hours His injuries were so
severe that he died in a few days.
Mrs. Sophia d. Drew of Chelsea celebrated
her 91st birthday recently, 10y little party.
at which were present Mrs Douglass aged
also 81 years. and her sister, Mrs. IIinckley
of Nershre. aged % ycars-an aggregate of
$50 years They are all remarkably smart
and active old ladies, and give promise of
! living another decade.
F. l.. Merritt of Wolcott was severely hurt
the other day, by his horse biting him on the
right side and jamming him to the ground
and then lifting him up and shaking him. 1t
was very narrow escape, and would have
| been worse had not Il man at work for him
beaten the horse of with shovel.
Vital statistics of St .IOhnsburv for 1879:
: RIrtl -,
| 1000 of the parents of the children born.
| leg were born in Canada, 1t in Ireland j in
| England, in France, ) in Germany, and
/ in Scotland The other l01 are native born.
Over one-half of the children born were of
foreign percentage. OF the births IS were
| boys and IL girls.
Rev. Harmon Lewis, a minister Of the
/ Presbyterian church. died at his residence
/ in Brooklyn, on Monday night. in the seven
| ty-third year of his age. lie was born in
| Georgia in this State and studied theology in
/ the Andover Al d in the Princeton seminarrS.
For thirty years he was connected with the
/ American Scamen's Society. and for the last
twenty-five years he resided in Brooklyn.
Father Lane of the Catholic church at
Bratieboro, formerly of Burlington, docs
not approve of evening dances by the yoGng
| people of his parish. Learning that com
pany were enjoying dance in Armory lla
Saturday evening he attempted To enter the
room hut some of the company slammed the
door in his face and fastened him ont. This
naturally excited the Indignation of the priest
and on Sunday he took it ont" by giving
/ the young people short lecture in strong
and forcible language.
4 The BrItlcboro hank, Il few days ago re
/ ceivcd for redemption one dollar Hill dated
March /, lS96. This bill with two others,
one of which was on the bank of Bellows
Falls appears to have belonged to one Ma
than Bailey of Waterford. y. y. In 1876
these bills were found in a bank book in the
garnet of the old Bailey homestead and fell
into the hands of a grand-tliu shier Of Mr..
Bailey. The bill WAS promptly redeemed.
Roy Il Mckee of Logan county. %, have
just purchased in Addison county =. of the
choicest breed of Spanish McTino ewes and
bucks and shipped them To ohl" The trade
in Merino sheep Is very cncodraGln" Tor ]
breeders. and closer attention is paid 10 the /
care of their flocks than for several years.
Over thirty carloads of these sheep were 4
shipped from Vermont in 1879 to points in .
the far South and West, where the demand
is steadily increasing.
q. & L. s Hall of East Randolph. recciv-
ed Il silver medal for wool sent 10 the Worlds
Fair at Paris They have recently sold Il
ram lamb from their thoroughbred Mcrino
stock, to parties in PENNSYLVANIA, for the
nice little sum of four hundred dollars.
There are still sporadic eases Of home
talent rinafort in the more remote parts
of the State.
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