Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-01
STATE NEWS.

| The village of Bristol is agitatng the rail-
road question, and Patrick O'Neil has
offered to grade a mile of road bed free
and take several thousand dollars of stock
in addition.
| Rev. Edward Smiley, who has been pastor
of the Universalist Society in Claremont,
n. H., six years, has accepted a call to
minister to a newly organized society in
Putney, Vt, and Will enter upon his duties
on the first of April.
Peter Wyman of Factory Point was found
dead near his buildings Saturday afternoon.
| He had just returned from the depot with
load of lumber, and htching his horse, had
| partly finished unloading it, when, it is
thought from over-exertion, he died of heart
disease. lie was 70 years Of age and leaves
wife and one son. DIR. f. L. Wyman Of
Factory Point.
Mrs. Fanny Bostwck died recently in
GAINESVILLE, Wis. She was born in Shafts
bury, Vt, January 9, 1906. Her maiden
name was Matterson. As an interesting fact
in the family record may be stated that her
father, his four brothers, and her grand
father, fought in the battle of Bennington,
IN August, III, and not one received even
scratch.
Berkshire has discovered that copper ex-
lists in town. An effort will be made this
summer to see if there is enough TO pay for
beginning operations.
a little son Of Porter Terrili ut White
River Junction fell from n freight car last
Saturday, and hi his head on car rail, rem
dering him inscnsible. His recovery is
doubtful.
George A. Buck OF Fairfield was struck BY
a belt in the kenncbec framing company's
mill Tuesday forenoon, the 22d, and thrown
from pile of lumber on to the he'd Of .
planer. His injuries are supposed to be
| fatal.
| A Rutland lady, temporarily stopping in
New York city, sent her two children out
for walk with their French nurse. Some
Officious person imagined the nurse to be a
gypsy who had stolen the children, and he
caused her To be arrested and locked up all
night.
A COW belonging 10 Nelson Hill, of Lin
coin, brought him calf with two heads,
each Of common size, and Joined near the
upper part of the neck. Each head had
natural throat, both leading 10 common
stomach, and each head had two eyes, two
ears, being natural in all respects. The sin
Gle body was like that of any other calf, and
well developed.
Nearly half Il century ago Frederick
Douglass found himself unable to obtain a
hall or church in Vergcunes in which to
speak his niger sentiments on the aboli-
ton Of slavery, and when he attempted to
sit at the dinner table in the leading hotel.
the citizens got up and left the table. Now
the city has a temperance reform club, and
one of its leading officers is negro, and at
H. frI,n oil tt,n a11 sd
Frenchman for It's mayor, a negro for its
sheriff and young woman for its clerk
Exchange.
The new Methodist church at Brattleboro
is nearly completed, and will be opened for
service, April IS, in the evening Bishop
Andrews will preach the sermon on his way
to the Conference at Bradford The church
will have cost, at the opening. SIS, 500, all
of which is fully provided for, though all
of it has not yet been actually paid over
This does not include the larger furnace
which must be put IN next fall :; nor some
other small matters on grounds, etc, which
will make the entire cost Of the church,
including the lot about $4,000 The
church will not be dedicated until fully COM
pleted and every dollar of expense paid.
The new law entitled ''an act relating to
grand and petit jurors, which took effect on
the first Tuesday in March, seems to conflict
with the new method of drawing grand and
petit jurors, by the sheriff, to attend the
June and December terms of Addison coun-
ty court BY this act the town clerks are
required, within five days from the first
Tuesday in March, when the freeman's
meetings are held, to return the names of all
grand and petit jurors elected together with
their post office address by mail to the coun-
ty clerk and Is days before the assembly
Of the county court the sheriff proceeds to
draw out of box from these names the
venire for jurors anil summon them by mail.
Only eight town clerks in Addison county
have complied with the law. and the city of
Vergennes, which by charter, holds her free
mems meeting on the fourth Tuesday in
March, and her adjourned meeting April :.
will make nine towns from which the entire
grand and petit jurors for Addison county
will have to be drawn the present year
There are % towns in the county.
All Caledonia county, and the region
thereabout is much excited over Sheffield
| tragedy Two weeks ago Saturday last j.
Oln Ingalls,. about 46 years old. man with
a wife and two boys, aged 4..and Il years.
left home. The following Monday morning
Miss Clara Berry, girl about 10 years old,
went to St Johnshury, where she drew
from the Savings Bank about $50. and then
went to Manchester n. H., since which it is
reported that these parties have been seen
there together The next heard from them
was despatch last Saturday to stage driver
Jenncr, from Lyndonville to Sheffield, from
Ingalls, at Manchester, to take the remains Of
Miss Berry, and her trunk, which were COM
| ing on the train, to her mother in Sheffield;
and also another of the same purport from