Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-13
STATE NEWS.

Woodstock has Il new town clock, the gift
Of Hon. Frederick Billings.
New Haven has some aged citizens; there
are 20 who are above 20 years old, % above
S0and 3 above 80.
The Young Ladies' Missionary Society of
st. Johnsbury is getting up a loan cxhibi-
| ton.
Mr. Ira Wilkinson and wife Of Ira cclc-
bratcd the fiftieth anniversary of their mar
riagc, on the evening of February 9th.
The Republicans of Ira ut their caucus to
select delegates to the State convention, voted
on Presidential preferences and the result
was an almost unanimous choice Of L. :.
Grant The vote stood; For Grant. - ::
others. 3
Dr. +. W. Page of Brandon has accepted
the superintcndency of the new ncrvnc
asylum ut jamaica Plains, Mass.
The North Pownal Mill is to be enlarged,
and thirty new looms added, making 400 in
all, including 30 which Superintendent j. +.
Priest has had to add within short time
The mill is now making 100000 yards of
print cloths week.
Mrs. Rebecca Forsyth, m aged lady re-
siding with her son, A. NJ. Forsyth, at North
Enosburgh, recently received injuries from Il
fall that it is feared will prove fatal.
Charles G. Lawrence. for many years the
proprietor of the old Brattleboro House, and
late of the Brooks and new Brattleboro
House, died at Grand Island, Neb, last
week from the effects, it is supposed, of
fall which fractured his skull.
The Rutland Hfrald in a notice of a home
| talent drama at Orwell, says the hall twas
filled TO OVERLOOKING, many being unable to
obtain even standing ROOM Probably 60 per
sons were in attendance"
Bennington loses notable landmark in the
recent death of County Commissioner John
Sibley. A lifelong Democrat, he cast his
first Presidential vote for Jackson and his
last for Tidcn. He was justice of the
peace for % years. On his S0th birthday
last Monday he could recall only three per
sons in the town who were residents in his
boyhood.
Asa Tarbe, of South Reading, - years
old and a long sufferer from dropsy, had
II quarts of water drawn from his body
recently.
Diphtheria is quite prevalent in jamaica.
Warren Stearns has been depot master at
Braintree for 26 years.
Norman Harvey of Middlebury was tipped
from load of hay and had n leg broken.
Clinton Hatch of Pomfret while trying 10
walk on picket fence, fell on the pickets
and was severely hurt.
A Sandsate man has a pair Of boots which
he has worn 30 years, and they are still in
good condition.
Horace +. Smith, a soldier in the late war,
son of $. c. Smith of East Clarendon, was
killed by tree falling upon him while fell
ing timber in the woods at Belle Prairie,
Mimi. January &c His age was 33 years.
He went West last spring
The following changes took place in the
officers of the Reform School February
Mr.. j. W. Thompson, who had charge of
the bakery, left at that date, after nine
years service. His place is filled by Mr.. J.
W. Parker the former ovcrseer of the chair
factory, which position was taken by NJ. C..
lIealey, the assistant superintendent. Mr..
Abbott. the former Waterman, 4 graduate of
the State Normal school at Randolph, takes
charge of the schools.
Besides multitude of minerals, beasts,
fishes and curious works of mems hands,
Col Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury
has over nine hundred different specimens Of
birds in his well -filled cabinet.
AT the annual meeting of the village of
West Randolph, held the End inst. the
trcasurcr's report showed that there was no
, Indebtedness of any kind against the village,
and that there was money enough in the
treasury for the ordinary current expenses of
! the village for the year ensuing-no tax
raised. West Randolph has an excellent
graded school, five ilourshing churches,
new village hall that will seat 600 persons,
an efficient fire department, and is one of the
most pleasant, thrifty and active business
l,.t, l,1,
is one of the best farming towns in the State,
and has no Indebtedness that is not liquidated
at its annual March meeiin. each year, and
every dollar of the towns State tax for 1879
was paid into the State treasury before the
Sd day of February, thereby saving its tax
payers the discount of 3per cent.
Mr. and Mrs c. n Grow of Brain,rcc cele-
hated their golden wedding the other day.
Capt Stephen McGafTey of Lyndon Cen
ter died the other day at the age of So years.
Mr.. McGailey was always prominent in the
management Of town affairs, and represented
the town at Montpelier more years in sue
cession than any other man who ever lived
there. and was for a long series of years kept
in positions of trust by his townsmen.
Some contemplate miscreant recently
chopped down 10 choice apple trees h.l4at
pot.
\ tcn-ycar-old son of ;. Ward Cox Of
Woodstock broke his leg last week Thurs
day morning while sliding down hill.
Two St Johnsbury boys, while colsting
across the railroad track, We're struck by Il
passing engine, though, strange 10 say.
neither of them was dangerously hurt. 1t
was 4 marvellous escape from death.
During the year 1879, the Bellows Falls
postotlice sold lG7, $40 stamps, amounting TO
"a, 9OS.0S. Number Of envelopes and paper
wrappers. 2O,650. amounting to S6Ol.13
Number OF postal cards. sold 41,S13,
amounting to S41S.73. Total Si,9SS.44.
The Mortified House, at Northlield was
opened on Thursday evening, with Il ball.
Citizens of I.amoille county, through Sen
ator EdmundS, have petIiioned Congress that
the patent laws he amended so AS to pre-
vent the prosecution Of persons who may
ignorantly infringe upon patents, and thus
protect them from Spectators or impostors.