Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-22
ADDISON COUNTY.

s,w-o.s and tirewood are now being
| drawn tut town in large quantities, and work
n the sw-mis IL becomlns Lrisk Wood
sells at from 90 to 80 per cord
| A gentleman who intended to take the j:20
| train going north the other evening, but who
rrglecle 10 git on unl the train had rot
| well under way, threw his overcoa, on a
| platform car, Ihinking thereby 10 gel on the
easier. T.'c train took the overcnat ont Of
town but left the gentleman behind. He
says that III. next tim" his ovcrc "a, no ards
train o! cars, lis owner will be inside of
| II.
| Wcdnc.diy morning large load Of hay
which Albert Brissau was driving tipped
over two different times, the second time in
| irng the driver slightly.
1t is 81 ,tel tint tn, childfcn of one family
in town have the diphthcria, and tmid peo
pie are apt to he little frightened by the
reports.
| lce-cutling has begun on Otter Creek, aud
VIII be pnlsuet rapidly, as peopl. are calcu
laing on on immediate thaw.
| w. W. Sweeney hls Just come within hall
an inch OF losing his right eye by an acct
! deat. Mr. sweeney was saving small block
at a circular saw, when Il piece OF ii flew up
| with tremendous force, cutting his forehead
to the bone and taking the beauty all out of
his eye. The eye will soon be all right
again, but II has had narrow escape.
| Two personal encounters have occurred
between enrigcl citizens, in each of which
| the originator OF the fracas is said to have
come oil second best and Il lad second at that.
In one case wralhy young man announced
his intention 10 thrash another young man
souudly, ,rdvcllc a mile To 10 it, and came
back badly damaged, having been knocked
| down with a club aud otherwise treated with
unexpected severity.
The ladies' aud misses of the Episcopal
church gave a largely attended fair at school
house hall On Tuesday evening. The chief
feature Of tle affair Was the broom drill, 4"
| which created y good d al of amusement
Many articles were dis?osci of and a snug
little sum of money was realized from this
source aud iron the admissions.
The hands Al tue pup mill have been idle
several days, but are nov at work again
The boiler has .arrvcl and after 1t has been
set in place there will not be great deal more
to do before the making Of pulp will begin,
which the company expect, will lie very
early in the new year TINS will be consid-
erably sooner than they first expected.
Harrison Drake is seriously sick with the
typhoid fever, with which d-eas, so many
in this vicinity have re, ntly been sick, and
from which some have died. His sister Hor-
tense, who was dangerously i'll with the same
disease for many weeks, has become much
better and Is on the road to final recovery.
! The whole Sophomore class of Middlebury
college took II sleigh ride to Vergenncs Tues
day evening and INDUCED IN an excellent
class supper at the Franklin Hous,. After
supper the boys had very pleasant time
singing college aud class songs, making
speeches, etc, in the time-honorcd college
, fashion.
! Charles Wooster, young man about
twenty-five or tweuly-thrcc years old. was
arrested and shut up in Jail Tuesday night.
> Wooster sold to j. 4. Negus 1875 bushels OF
oats Which Col. Albert Fletcher claims be.
long to him. Wooster had been at work for
! Chester Clark and claims that Clark some two
Z months ago turned the oats over TO him In
: lieu of his wages, and that he has since hung
! on to them because he could not get AS much
for them as he had allowed for them in work
i But it seems that Col. Fletcher has chatte
E mortgage on all Clarkes crops and hence this
. trouble. Last Summer Wooster sold hay Il
. the same man, which he said he had obtain
] ed in the same way he got the oats, and moth
l ing was said or done about IL. Altogether
0 it seems quite probable that Wooster may b,
0 innocent Of any intentional wrong doing, !,
: hearing in the case will be had Decembe
Z Goth.
VI Runaways are becoming 70 numerous tina