Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-19
STATE NEWS.

The grocery and boot and shoe establish
ments of W. Ii. & C.. S. Jacques of St Al
bans have been closed by the Vermont Ma
tional bank, a creditor of the firm to the
amount of 1900. The liabilities outside
the banks claims are not large.
Two brothers named Rowland. from New
bury, Vt. made an assault upon one Fred
McIntire of Haverhill, at North Haverhill
village, n. H., Saturday night. They pound
ed him severely and finally used their knife
upon McIntre, cutting his clothes badly,
but not injuring him. Mclntire was forced
to use his knife and stabbed one of the How
lands several times so severely that the ply
sicians consider his recovery doubtful. Nc
Intire is young man of good reputation
According to an exchange, the whole ex-
pense of the town of StannarGl for the past
year was $50. IA. Over half of that was for
maintaining paupers.
Joseph Whitney of Craftsbury, in jail for
kidnapping his own child, was released on
bail by the Supreme Court. Whitney's wife
obtained a divorce three years ago and
custody of the girl, and died. leaving the girl
with guardian. Whitney took the child
by stratagem. prefers to live with her
father
Miss Ann, fifteen ear-od daughter of II.
A. Waite Of West Wardsboro, who mysteri-
ously disappeared the other day, has been
found. 1t seems that she left home at dusk,
walked all night across Stratton Mountain
which, most of the way, is wild and thick
ly wooded country. She finally brought up
at Factory Point, where she was found and,
against her will, taken home.
Probably the most remarkable case of sick
ness on record is that of c. E. Stone of Rut-
land, who has had dropsy-resuting from
organic disease of the heart and liver-for
two years and half. During that period
the physician has tapped him 81 times, and
removed from him 800 pounds of fluid He
is able to be about, drives out daily, and says
he feels much better than he did thirty months
ago.
The six cases brought in the County Court
against the village of Rutland by Patrick
Lynch, for damages caused by the bursting
of a sewer in the western part of the village
in the Summer of 1877, have been settled,
the trustees paying the plaintiff S1,O76.5O.
A carload of OK yokes was recently sawed
at Newport to be shipped to Egypt.
The railroad shops at St. Adams are now
running on full time, much earlier in the
season than last years advance to ten hours
after the usual winter reduction Business
is booming in all departments.
Middlebury holds town meeting Sltur-
day, the Goth, to see what action the town
will take in relation to the fire engine, which
is in an unsafe condition, and 10 see if the
| village will vote to exempt the polls of the
firemen from taxes this year.
A Mr. Steady, brakeman on the cattle
train over the Central, met with painful
accident at Vergennes, Monday. lie was
coupling, and by some means got his hand
caught between the deadwoods, taking nearly
all the flesh from both sides of the hand, but
| curIously enough breaking no bones.
| Mr. n H. Eaton, publisher of the North
Star, at Danville, is seriously ill. He has
been confined to the house for several days
His troubles appear to be a complication of
| diseases, caused by close confinement and
long, steady application to business
David d. Brown, who was formerly in the
division office of the Grand Trunk Railway
| at Montreal, and who for several years past
has been located at White River Junction as
Division agent of the Vermont Central Rail-
road, has resigned his position and returned
70 the Grand Trunk road to take a lucrative
office at Detroit Junction.
Mr.. F. II. Mclaughlin of Boston has dis
posed of his interest in the Bethel Iron
Works, and the principal owner is now Mr..
Henry r. Flagler of Boston Business is to
be pushed this Summer, and it is expected
that the FORCES will be in blast before June.
| The St Adams iron and steel company has
just finished re-rolling 500 tons of iron rails
| for the Central Vermont railroad and is now
about ready to begin on several large con-
tracts for steel rails. Some 900 tons of the
best imported steel blooms have been re
ceived, and 9, 900 tons more are on the way.
| The capacity of the furnace and rolls is about
100 tons every twelve hours, and as the
works will be run night and day, about 200
tons daily will be turned off.
| The farm house and several other build
ings belonging to Thaddeus Hubbard, in
Hartford, were consumed by fire Thursday
night, together with all the furniture house
hold goods and every article of wearing ap-
parel of the family, except what they had on
| at the time of the fire, and nearly 80 bushels
| of grain, farming utensils, etc. Loss about
| $4,000: insurance on the buildings, including
three barns saved, and on the household
goods, etc, 80, 200, in the Windsor County
| Insurance Company.
At the factory of Sherman. Bradish & Co.,
Montgomery Centre, about forty men are
now employed in the manufacture of butter
| tubs and boxes. OF this number several are
employed in drawing the logs that furnish
the lumber used, and at the present time
| &. 900 spruce logs are in the mill ward and as
| many more are soon to be tusci: =, making
about !, $780, 900 feet of lumber TO be used
| during the year The mill is in operation
day and night and about 600 tubs are turned
| ouf daily.
In 1850, a bachelor, now some 20 years
ehss, ,,ar, t. ,n, sar. ,,,n I,,n ,,l'' 70 ~
H.rend H4 fa ~ 400 and ,n,t = nort,ror"
s..n,r;,n on farn, nortb Win The neT
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A.. GIan,nar hold = nr;or life lier, fnr Their
80 In ,;ma Mr. Cbnnn,ar ,J;cJ
and ,ban after a few years the mnr,ragor
d;od and Tho odr,;n;s,ra,or If lis astat.. CON.
t;nued 70 su-nort Mrs Chsnmon ON the
farm and then the widow of tbe mortcaror
d;.d EIf,ee- vaars a,ro rho h,cbeI,r HIrr-
800 fore closed b;s mort gare as ,r,;nst the
odn,;,istrator and tool nossession Rut the
,a ,u rau, n'. ~ ~ ,a anu ;I, -, s,,,lr,;n,
her 60 that the owner of The 800 note
could only cast I'D his interest and add it to