Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-03-25
STATE NEWS.

The Park Guard of Bennington has been
dissolved and a new company is being formed
there.
The gold mining in Worcester is beng
pushed vigorously A boiler and a steam
pump have just been put in.
An attempt at suicide was made last
week by Mr.. Ayers of Willismstown who
was working on granite. ledge in Barre. He
discharged u pistol at his ear, but the shot
did not prove fatal and it is thought he may
recover.
The heirs Of Hannah Dunklee Of Brattle-
bore (who was killed by highway ACCIDENT
have recovered 1888 of the town.
Ellery Albee, who is 800, 900 short in his
accounts as treasurer of the Winchester, n.
H., savings bank, is We regret to say, Yer
monter and graduate of Middlebury Col
lege
The Misses Churchill have made another
donation of books TO the Woodstock village
library, making about $50 volumes they have
contributed. The total number of books has
now reached over thousand volumes
T. Knight of Charleston thinks that he
has come into an $4,000 fortune through
some mineral lands near Sherbrooke, p. O..
which his father owned, supposed to be
worthless, but now turn out TO be very val
liable;
In reference to the East Barnard horror it
is now said that there was no cause for sus
picion OF any criminal act, or foul play,
whatever, and no foundation for the rumors
except that there have been controversies
growing out of litigation. There will be no
arrest made.
Rev Zadock s. Haynes, clergyman of
the Providence Conference, Methodist Epis-
copal Church, died at Willimantic, Conn, on
the 9TH inst, in his 66th year. He was born
in Guilford, VT, and filled appointments in
Vermont for % years before joining the
Providence Conference.
Joseph E. Tucker, well-to-do farmer of
Halifax, 62 years of age, committed suicide
the other day by taking Paris green. About
9 o'clock in the morning he took a tumbler
and went TO the barn, swallowed the poison,
returned to the house, told what he had
done, and went to bed. As soon as possible
medical assistance was procured, but was of
no avail. He died in about "a hours from
the time he took the poison. He was sub
ject to periods of melancholy, but there is no
known motive for the deed. He leaves q
wife and three grown-up children.
About noon Thursday the old marble mill
at Hydevlle was found TO be on fire, and
when discovered the flames had made too
much Roadway to render efforts at saving il
of any avail Sparks fell upon small emp
ty dwelling near by. and it was burned. The
marble mill was erected twenty five years
age by the Hydeville company, but was last
used rs pulp-mil by Mr.. George Hurlbert
of Fairhaven, and is said to have contained
some ten tons of pulp and machinery. In
sured for S5l5. The mill was owned by
Squires, Sherry Il Galusha of Troy, N. Y,
and was insured for $4,000 The small
dwelling was owned by the Schaghticoke
Powder Company The fire was caused by
the falling Of stove pipe.
A Nermonter, who for many years has
been salesman in the far West, for marble
firm, man that always keeps his business
before him in all his movements is the hero
of the following funeresl tale He has been
West So many years he has become well &c
quaintcd in many Of the smaller towns.
When they have no minister he otficiates in
the desk upon the Sabbath. On one of his
last trips on Saturday evening he came to
one of these towns that CHANGED to be short
of minister He was invited to fill the desk
the coming Sabbath. There CHANGED to be u
funeral there He was not used 10 the bust
ness After closing his eXhordium he said
MY friends, we mourn for our dead the
best way to perpetuate their memory is to
purchase a monument from-mentioning the
firm he worked form-and closed with bene-
dictiou.