Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-23

The Pittsburgh musical festival was no
successful, financially
The seasons imports of lumber have bee
considerably smaller than last year.
DR.. ". Il. Lund has purchased the Spca
house, corner of Pearl and Pine streets.
The Rcindecrs machinery has arrived au,
will lie uuloaded to day. The boat will max
mo moro trips this season.
Sheriff Barton went up to Undcrhill Fri
day AID made couple of liquor seizures
tic quantity seized aggregatng twenty-five
gallons,
A change has been made in the design 0
The new two cent postage stamp. The color
ing is Of a brighter hue and the lettering il
more distinct.
1t is said on good authority that the build
ings now in process OF construction in lhi
city will cost, when completed two hundret
thousand dollars.
The movement of real estate this year ha
been very heavy. 1t is said tina, the trapsfers
exceed the total of any two years in the his
tory of the city.
1t is expected that the new comet vii
soon be visible to the naked eye. 1t now
can be seen with the aid of an opera glass IL
the northern sky.
The only change in the directors of The
Champlain Valley association Is that DR.. w
S. Webb succeeds Governor Barstow, who
declined a reelection.
The horse Frank, who has just made the
phenomenal record Of 2:0S1, trotted at How.
ard Park last Fall. On that occasion, how
ever he failed to show any alarming rate Of
speed.
DR.. Frank n. Lewis has Just been elected
house surgeon of the eye aud ear hospital,
Brooklyn, N. Y. DR.. Lewis lisa capable and
promising young physician and has brigh,
future before him.
Vcnnor predicts that cold wave Is com.
ing this way, and will reach us about Nov
gath or 25th, giving us dose of cold
weather which will be likely to last pretty
well into December.
The Shepard & Morse lumber company re-
ctivcd on Friday and Saturday ten boats laden
with nearly two million feet of lumber. Six
more boats. now en- route, will finish the
cumpany's importations for the season.
The State Agricultural society has chosen
the following named members for directors in
the Champlain Valley association John w.
Cramton, George A. Merrill, Crosby Miller,
Henry Chase, Henry g. Root, James a
Shcdd Lemuel S. Drew.
The fair at st. Mary's hall has been very
successful. The voting as test of popularity
ended in Mr.. A. Taylor's favor among the
aldermen, Dr. Wheeler of the physicians,
Mr., Rush for the gold chain, Mr.. Casey in
the go-as-you-please and Miss Philbin for the
prayer book.
A despatch received Saturday night an
nounccd that the pinflat Paul, Capt s..
Jean, had been swamped by gale in Lake
st. Peter, near Sorel, and that the captain
and crew Ohrte mem had been drowned.
The boat was loaded with lumber for the
Shepard & Morse lumber company, and the
company at once sent man TO Sorel to it,
vtstIgatc.
There will be five eclipses in the year 1884,
three Of the sun and two of the moon. March
2Sth partial eclipse OF the sun, visible in the
United States April 10th, a total eclipse of
the moon, visible in Boston; April 25th, a
partial eclipse Of the SUD, visible in the Uni
ted States; April 4th, total eclipse of the
moon, partly visible in Boston October 18th
n partial eclipse of the sun, visible in tie Uni
ted States.
David II. Allen, the actor, who was killed
by Frank +. Sarkc, member OF his com.
rany, at Vicksburg, last week, was fire.
quenl visitor to this city in times gone by
and is well remembered by our older theatre
gocrs lie served in the war as n private in
Company A. Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers
the company of which our townsman Maj
T. t. Sanborn was member.
Hon. Charles Hughes has been presented
by the French residents of Glen's Falls with
bronze lavatory, handsomely decorated, in
recognition of his services in the cause of
their countryman, Georgh Ii. Willett, recent
ly acquitted Of charge of murder, and
whom Gen. Hughes defended. The gift was
purchased for the donors at the foreign exhi-
bilion in Boston.
The muskrat is building thin walls to his
dwelling, the squirrel has laid in no supplies
and corn husks are very thin. These things
are said to indicate an open Winter. Yet the
most open Winter we ever have in this eli
mate is certain to be long season of cold
and Indictment weather, in which comfort can
only be secured by warm dwellings and warm
clothing. 1t 10 a season very trying to the
poor, for work is liable to be scarce and de-
mands which cln only be met by money are
sure to be many.
The Malet,s Bay marble company has
been consolidated with the Black and White
marble company. The latter concern owns
quarrics at Pitts'ord and Brandon. The mill
at the bay will he removed to some more de-
sirable location - Vergennes, Brandon or
Mcchanicsville, n. Y, probably. 1t is un-
derstood that the Maletts Bay company has
expended on Its works the enormous sum of
one hundred and eighty-tive thousand dol
lars. The company's principal asset is its
mill, which is Two hundred feet In length
and contains sixteen gangs OF saws.
1t seems that there is really to be new
line of steamers Oh the lake. 1t is announced
that the new Lake Champlain and River
Richelleu Steam Navigation company has
hnn ,lynl Mt Dn;.
passengers aud freight between Whitehall
aud st. Johns p. Q, and that two boats will
be built during the winter with a view
particularly to speed. The ncorporators
are 7. w. Myers, w, j. Weldon. C. Arpin,
Aleq. Z. Mcdonald, Geo. F. Darrell and
L. z. Parads. Mr.. Paradis is mayor of
st. Johns, Mcssrs. Arpn and Myers are
brokers, Mr.. Weldon is a lawyer, and Mr..
Darrell is of firm in New York.
The Y. NJ. c. A. regular lecture course
opens on the evening of Dec. 18th, with
Prof. Churchill the well-known reader, who
will be followed by other distinguished
names in the lyceum field. We understand
that membership in the association entities tc
free admission to all the lectures member
ship fec being 81. Full course single ticket.
Will be issued to the general public, at So OF
each; double tickets, admitting gcnllcmal
and lady, $500. Double tickets for tn,
course TO members OF the association, 81 il
addition to membership fee. Entertain
menls out side of the regular course will have
special prices of admission to the genera
public. Members of the association admitted
free.
Principal Landon has inaugurated at thu
High School series of practical talks" thu
q st Of which was delivered Tuesday after
noon by Lieut.. Tuthery, U. S. A. Lieut.
Tutherly's subject was 1.-The military system
Of the United States" and he explained 1t ii
very thorough and at the same time inter.
esting way. The series so well begun cal
not fail Of being of great value to the pupils
In this connection we may say that the Higl
SohA hoo L..