Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-06-17
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Before the war the docket of the Windsor
county court usually numbered three or four
hundred cases and the jury trials consumed
several weeks each term. At the late term
Inc Total OF rev entries was sixty-three, in
cllldlnS nine State cases, or less than two
cases 10 an attorney on the average. This
condition OF things is not peculiar to Wind
SCR county but extends throughout the State.
Friday night as the mail train arrived at
South RoyaltOn a French family. who could
not speak English found that one of their
children, t nine ycar-Old girl, was missing.
She lad been on board at ltOyatOn. A
brakeman and the father went back with
lanterns ami about four a. M. found the
child beside the track Just below ROyalton,
where she probably fell in trying to pass
from one car To another, as the train was
running at the rate of p miles AN hour.
She was taken to a neighborIng house, where
her injuries were found To be severe, and
she cannot live.
The steam saw mill at South Lancaster
took fire from the engine Sunday afternoon.
and in two hours was burned, together with
the Boston, Concord and Montreal passenger
and freight depot ten platform cars, large
building occupied by two families and u
large amount Of wood and lumber The
losses are as follows: ID. II. u I. } Bcattie,
saw mill, Sl2, 900, insured; Boston, Con
cord and Montreal passenger and freight de-
pot, nine cars, wood and lumber, $1,000 !;
I. j. Bealtie, lumber, $1,000; j. \. Smith
Il Co, lumber, $500; G.. W. King, lumber,
$500; W. \. White, hay seed and press,
$1,000 George Clough, building, $4,000, in
lnrt4l. T. 4 "a Sf.,Ia .1An.
Adds Drew, furniture, 800. b is estimated
that no less than 1000 cords OF wood have
been burned.
On the BOstOn-bOund train from Montreal,
Tuesday night, was a well-drcsscd man who
had entered at Montreal and was evidently
suffering from Gelirium tremens. lie spoke
only IN French. When the train was about
half a mile south of Newport, and was rue
ming about twenty-five miles an hour, he
dashed through the car door and without
pause leaped from the platform into the
darkness. The conductor, c. II. Bagley of
the Passumpsic Railroad stopped the train.
and with Charles Harris of Montreal, and
others, went back TO search for the man.
In a little while they came TO the place
where he hal made the leap, but though
they could hear him shouting in French
they could not discover his whereabouts
Finally, after having descended the embank-
menl, which was at least twelve feet high,
climbed fence, and scrambled through a
ditch, they hcari him in the darkness at
some distance Shouting 10 them 10 put down
the light. Mr.. Harris spoke to him in
French, trying 20 coax him to remain where
he was until they could reach him, but as
as the seaFchcrs advanced the crazy man
receded and the upshot of the affair was
that after spending three quarters of an hour
in that way, the train went on without him.
Ills well stocked valse was searched, but no
clue to his identity other than that given
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