Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1880-02-28
Col. G. w. Hooker has been

J y. Taylor his ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
An incendiary fire destroyed fou
, large barns ut Brandon last week
together with hay, straw, grain ant
three COWS, Evidence of the incen
diary's course to and from til,
buildings and his subsequent mid
night ride on horseback, and TIL
aid rendered him by confederates ID
already In the hands of the officers
The town has offered q reward o
5000 for his arrest and conviction
The farm is occupied by one Cir
mond, whose right Of redemption
on the forecl0sed mortgage wal
soon to expire. There was also {
chattel mortgage on the three cows
burned, and there was an insur
ance of $4,000 In the Vermont mu
tual company.
The big girls at Morrisville il
in school district No 8 have made
trouble which promises to involve q
school committeeman in firstclass
lawsuit. The school is taught by q
Miss Douglass of M0rristown
against whose government five o.
the "big girls" rebelled; and find.
ing herself unable to maintain order
she called in Clement Smith, one O
the committee, who endeavOred tC
quiet them and have them receive
their punishment from the teacher
Upon their refusal, he took the re
sponsibility of teruling one of then
severely, and the father of the CIR
claims 800 damages from Smith
and if this is not speedily paid thu
parents of the other girls threaten
also to begin suit.
Henry Barber, the horse-thie1
who stole horse and carriage il
Orwell and drove it to Rutland &
: few days ago and escaped the off
GERS BY lodging into the woods
was rearrested by Sheriff Peabody
in Willsboro, New York, a day OF
two since. On being given the
choice of awaiting to be extradited
running the risk of being taken fol
crimes committed in New York
State or going with tue officer.
quietly that evening, he chose the
latter. But the train had gone
and as the officers feared that 6
meddlesome individual, who LIVED
near Willsboro and delighted tt
annoy foreign officers for the pur
pose of getting fee, would get out
Il writ of habeas corpus, they on
gagged a team and driver to take
them to ESSEX. As the ice was get.
ting weak no one could be fount
who had courage to drive across
the lake. An ice boat, however
was secured, and the Vernon
shore was reached safely about mid
night. They had mary narrow es
cvpes one time their boat wa,
stopped within six feet of a grea
hole that would have taken in til,
boat and it's load.
A few days ago small still l0cat
ed in an unoccupied house on the
premises OF a substantial farmer il
one of the western towns of Wind
ham county was seized by a specia
Deputy Collector Of Internal Reve
nue.. The farmer was taken before
q United States Commissioner ant
held to bail in the sum of $500
The arrest was made SO quietly thai
the MOonshiner's friends knew
nothing about it and are yet in ig
norance of the fact. His name is
withheld for the present, as the
Collector is on the scent Of other
offenders in that vicinity. The lit
tie still was quite a curiosity, the
boiler being a large covered brass
kettle with capacity of about
twenty-five gallons. The worm
was a block tin pipe, twenty-five
or thirty feet long, coiled in cider
barrel. The old farmer said he
made it himself for his own USE
and could not do much with it as it
took him almost all day to "run up
u barrel of cider in it. He was
troubled with rheumatism, he said
and when he had on hand little
cider that had become too "harV
to drink he run it Into brandy in
his still aud kept it for bathing pur-
poses. He said lie thought he had
right to run a still that he made
himself aud to manufacture all the
brandy he chose to make from his
own cider.
The recent announcement of the
sudden death at Grand Isle, Neb. d,
of Charles G. Lawrence and subse-
quently the news of the arrest of his
son, Frank, under suspicious of
patrici1e, has caused sensation at
Brattlehoro, where both father and
son have been well and favorably
known for many years, the former
as the landlord of the old Brattle-
boro house and later of the new
BrattlcbOro and Brooks house, the
latter as a faithful clerk in one of
the principal dry-goods stores for
several years. About two years
ago Frank leased a hotel at Swan.
ton, where his father and mother
afterward joined him. A few
months thereafter Mrs. Lawrence,
"a widely-respected woman died.
After her death, Frank influenced
it is said by bad associatesl, seems
to have gone somewhat astray, and
finally went from Swanton leaving
numerous bills unpaid. His father
joined him at Chicago after havlna
done what he could to settle mat
ters at SwantOn. AtOhioago Frank
procured a $4,000 accident ticket in
his fathers name for ten days, say
Ing he was going to Omaha, Neb.
The next learned is from Grand
Island, where DIR. Stevenson says
the father arrived in feeble con.
ditiOn OH Saturday, Jan 81. On
the following Thursday he died I'M
der suspicious considered strong
enough to warrant his sons arrest.
Investigation showed that Frank