Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-12
STATE NEWS.

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STATE NEWS.
Rev. y. c. Saunders, for nearly five
years pastor of the Baptist church at New
| port, has resigned his charge on account of
| ill health.
Among the members of the Senior class in
| Dartmouth selected to deliver orations on
constitutional law before the trustees of the
college at commencement are DAVID +. Eos
ter of Passump>ic, Lyndon a. Smith of
Norwich, and John T. Stacy of Ncrshire.
The town of Jacksonville will celebrate its
centennial on June 18th next.
1t is rumorcd that the White River Iron
Works al Bethel are to start up before long.
| Browns Academy ut Norwich, owned by
| Henry King, was burned on Monday. Loss
| $1,000, partly insured.
W. : Beckett retires from the town clerk
ship of Williamstown after thirty-iive years
service in that capacity.
\ Holland man recently shot white owl
that measured four feet and ten inches from
tip to tip of lis wings.
| Considerable maple sugar was made in
! Northern Vermont the last of February, an
unusual occurrence for that part OF the State.
George Lyford, 4 carpenter of East Mid
dlebury, was found dead in the woods on
Friday from loss of blood from cash cut by
his axe in his ankle.
Jonathan Marston, aged 90, living just out
of the village of Bellows Falls, was found
dead in bed Thursday morning. lie retired
in his usual health.
Four young men left Huntington for the
West, last week, and party of l. will leave
Bristol this spring for the silver mines at
Leadvillc, Colorado.
Samuel ID. liolcnmb Of StaIksLuro. whose
| death is announced had been State Senator
for two years and lad also represented the
town in the Legislature.
F. l.. Golf of Echford was recently in
! jured in peculiar way. While mailing
cover upon Il drygoods box he drove nail
into his knee, INJECTING Il serious wound.
The two evenings entertainment At Bel
lows Falls, given by the young people of
| that place in aid OF the Irish sufferers closed
| Thursday night, netting about $3.50.
On Saturday evening John " Baxter was
presented by employees of the Rutland mar
BILE company with superb gold-headed cane
and fine mecrschaum smoking pipe.
| The Rev j. NJ G. Fulton. the rector of
| St Thomas's church. Brandon, has accepted
Il call to the rectOrShip of the church of the
| Epiphany. in the city of Providence, Rhode
| Island.
st. Adams fire companies are made up Of
| 100 men. At the fires during the past year,
the number Of working hours have been 53tt
and to accomplish the work required, 5000
| feet Of hose has been laid. .idrTtistr.
Harris Bros. Il Co. late contractors Of the
Brattleboro and Whitehall narrow guage
railroad, have. according To their books, re-
| ccived $50. 900 from the officials of the road
and expended over SIT, 600.
The boys who escaped from the Reform
School, Saturday, got rs far as West Troy,
| y. Y, where they persuaded 4 telegraph
| operator to senda message to Superintendent
| Fairbanks. They were taken back TO the
school
The noted flock of Spanish Mcrino sheep
| owned by the late Edwin Hammond of Mid
dlchury have been kept intact and are now
owned by his son, George Hammond, at
| Mddlchurv. He is said to have recently re-
fused $1,000 for 4 wo-ycar-old buck.
\ petition to Governor Proctor for the
pardon Of Mrs Mignault and daughter Of
Derby, is being circulated in that county.
/ The two women referred to were sentenced
| by the Orleans County Court last September
10 three years in State Prison for forgery.
| The inccndiary who fired the premises of
| Lyman Royce in Sheldon, "Wednesday, was
| caught Friday lie proves TO be Il Canadian
| tramp. who was seen Il short distance from
the fire after it broke out, named John Ne
! Gerry. He confesScs to Lighting the straw
in the barn. The property destroyed was
/ valued at $4,000.
/ \ little son of Daniel Aldrich who lives
| about two miles from South Londonderry.
was fatally poisoned with corrosive subli-
mate, the other day The poison had been
left in parlor cupboard, where it was sup
| posed 10 be- out of the reach of the children.
hut this one, two-and-a half Years old, got
| hold of it somehow The child died after
| lingering three days in the most poi snant
! agony.
The grand jury Of Hall county, Nch., have
| found an indictment against Frank Lawrence
| for the poisoning of his father at Grand Is
| land, last month. and his trial is set for May
-. at Il special session of the county court
| The State will almost wholly depend upon
| Prof Aughcv. the chemical expert, for proof
! of poisoning 10y priISsc acid This, with the
fact that this poison was found about Franks
person after his fathers death, and his strange
actions and expressions al the inicrmcnt at
Grand Island, will constitute the cas-, Of the
State. The defence will rely upon the ties
| timony of druggists a, Swanton ami -. Al
bans. where it is said the Lawrence family
have bought and taken prusSic acid for med
| cnal purposes during the past year, Il wit
ness being found who will testify OF having
seen the dead man take the poison. Further
than this, prominent physician sf the state
will testify TO having administered prISSic
acid to the family for some time, showing
| that the finding of the poison upon Franks
! person is not sufficient proof of his guilt.
Anthony Euhar. who was bound over at
| the last term of the county court at Wood
| stock for horse stealing, has an extensive
| criminal record Each convctlnn has been
| followed hy n sentence 10 confinement IN the
| State prison at Windsor. Ills first convic-
| tion was at Middlchury, June Is, 1889, AMI
/ he was sentenced To three years hard labor.
On tins term hc was par,Iunc,l, june %, 1850
| lie was next convicted At Burlington, October
=, 1862, for grand larceny, and sentenced
for two years Next at Middrhury, Dccem-
her II, 1870, for larceny. and sentenced 10
two wears term Again at Miidlchury, for
| larceny, June =. 1879 and sentenced To four
wears hard labor Each time he has served
out his sentence, except the first, when he
v,s n,rIonrd ,ftrr The last term he had
been ont of prison Int short time when, IN
.Iunr 1879 he STOLE hnrs, in Canada and
brought the stolen property to Vermont. for
which crime he is now in nil awaiting trial
a candidate for the fifth term in Windsor
Edwin Tatro. now in prison II, Windsor
and sentenced To hr hung the first Friday in
April next, has received a letter from his
c'i,,nsJ ;,r,rr,ir,, him that everything hnJ