Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-18
CITY NOTES.

The pedestal of the Lafayette statue wi
he completed next MONTH
The annual parade Of the Fire Depart
ment will take place on Thursday, Septcm
Der eth.
Workmen are now engaged in laying stee
rails on the railroad cmbankmrnt crossing IT,
interval.
The work OF pastering has been commenC
ed at the mortuary chapel a Lake View
cemetery.
Burlington boasts OF thirty-four lawyers
of whom only twenty-sevcn, however, are ii
active practice.
The managers of the Reindeer have, il i
understood, settled their little difficulties will
the Government for $3.50.
To accommodate travel Ia Howard Park
Proctor street has been extended and improv
ed nj II cost of $4,000.
1t is understood that Judge Taft is prepar
ing II dissenting opinion in the LaugdDn rail
way case, which will soon be published.
Another member of the older generation Of
our citizens has passed away-Mr. Elisha
Newell, whose death is else where announced.
The movement of freight is lively BE
tween sixty and eighty loaded cars are sen
out from the Central Vermont station daily.
General George j. Stannsrd has returned
from Washington. He is in firc ,alth and
spirits, his many friends will lie glad to
learn.
Elsewhere in this paper will be found the
announcement of the death of our venerable
townsman, j. $. Pierce, Esq. which occur
red Yesterday. A fuller notice will he given
hereafter.
The County Agricultural Society will hold
II fair at Essex junction, September 9th, 9TH
and Slh. Senator Morrill, is announced as the
orator of the occasion.
A musical party consisting of q. W.
llindes, Lawrence X. Barnes and wife, G.
L. Macomber and wife, Miss Lotlie Viii.
liums and n. ii. Thompson are in camp on
North Hero.
Prof. G. ii. Perkins's a,,r, IS on "The
Physician Of the Future delivered at the
opening of the last course Of lectures at the
Medical College, appears in full in the Sep.
TENDER nnrnber of Applcton's Popular Sci,
ence Monthly.
The Chttenden comfy court docket for
the coming September term shows 126 law
and 22 chancery cases-a much smaller num-
Der than usual. The only cases If great
public interest are those of the llinesburgh
and WillistOn listers under Indictment for
perjury. The term begins September 10Th.
An alleged swinder has been doing a
thriving business among our Catholic pOpu-
latlon by soliciting orders and receiving the
money for II religious subscription book
which he fails to deliver lie was prosecut-
ed in City Court but tie case against him
not being fully made out was dis charged on
his own recognizance.
The subscription for the benefit of Box
cr engine company amounted to the
very handsome sum Of over four hun
dred dollars. The new uuif, runs to be
bought with ii are now in process of
manufacture and will be worn for the
first time on the occasion of tie annual
parade OF the Fire Department, Septem-
Der 9Th.
MIR. &. W. Thompson Of the Collegiate In
slitu,c has sold ont to Mr.. c. j. Brown of
Randolph, N. Y, and will engage in business
elsewhere MIR. Thompson came here four
years ago, and, laboring under discourage
menls that would have completely disheart
ened less persevering man, has built up
school of which he has right to be proud.
lie has shown himself, too, not only an ac-
compshed and successful teacher, but
genial gentleman and many friends will re-
grei his departure from among us.
The residence of Rev F. j. Parry was en-
tered by burglar on Wednesday night and
Mr.. Parrys gold watch and chain, valuable
lockct and pin and number of other articles
of jewelry taken. The burglar gained ad-
mission through the bedroom window and
was busily engaged in his work when Mrs.
Parry was awakened by the noise he made.
She awoke her husband, who sprang for the
burglar and attempted to grapI.le with him,
but the visitor was on the alert and made a
flying leap from the window, quickly disap-
pearing In the darkness. There is no clue to
his identity or whereabouts.
A notable event in the history of Oddfel-
lowshp in this city will be tie visit next
month OF Naumkeag Encampmenl, |. o. o.
F., of Salem Mass, They will arrive here
on Monday, September 4,h remain over
Tuesday and return by way OF Lake Cham
plain, Lake George, and The Hudson, on
Wednesday. The Burlington Odd Fellows
have not yet completed their arrangements
Tor the reception of their guests, but their
Tast record is sufficient guaranty that it will
be oil that visitors could expect or desire.
Househoders will be glad to know that
early reports to the contrary Notwithstanding.
the peach crop this year is large. Already a
very good article has appeared in this market
Notwithstanding the remarkable yield of the
present season, the growers look Tor high
prices. While admitting the fruit will be
nearly as plentiful as In 1875, they demand
better prices than ranged that year-fi first, on
the ground that the fruit is OF a very superior
quality; secondly, for the reason that con-
sumers are better able TO pay higher prices
than ever before, and, thirdly, because the
backward season exhausted the stock of can
ned fruit.
A venerable citizen of Burlington, whose
fourscore years entitle him to give counsel
to the men of this generation, expresses to us
the opinion that the criminal laws of Yer
mont are too lax in our day. The breaking
into the house of minister in this city the
other night, and robbery of his watch before
he had been resident of this city for six
months, he views as an outrage which makes
him wish for return to the TINES of his
boyhood, when whipping post, a tall pine,
one of the iirst-growth mOnarchs of the
forest, stood in court house square, at
which he remembers to have seen man
whipped seventy years ago, till the blood ran
iown his naked back, for stealing pork md
when rape was punished by hanging all over
New England. He thinks, and no doubt
correctly, there was much less crime in those
lays than now and that restoration of the
everer penal code OF that time, would
rave tendency to afford better protection
o the property Of citizens and the persons