Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
ADDISON COUNTY


bury Thursday night.
An arbitration meeting was held at
Bristol on Thursday to consider the claim #
John II. Spraguc Of Wallham to half-own.
ership in the Ring trottng horse Wa,cheyc.
Mr.. Spraguc has no documentary evidence
to support his claim. No decision has yet
been reached in the matter nor is any likely to
be arrived at without taking the case into the
courts
DR.. llalsey's young child presents a cur
ious case in its sickness 1t often goes into
face and for time apparently ceases TO
breathe. Then after thus seeming to be
dead, animation returns, and the child is as
much alive as evef.
Some of the boys at the CO llege went on
rampage Thursday night, completely gut
ting one of the recitation rooms Seats,
tables, stove and stove pipe were all dumped
out into the snow aud nothing movable was
left where 1t belonged. Now that the boys
have had their dance they will have to pay
the piper, for each student in the college will
be assessed and compelled to pay enough so
that the amount of all the assessments will
be sufficient 10 repair the damages
A surprise party of over twenty couples
swooped down on Mr.. and Mrs. James +.
Ncgus al their pleasant residence on South
Pleasant street, Wednesday evening. The
surprise part OF the programme was thorough
and complete, but the unbiddcn guests found
Mr.. and Mrs. Ncgus as we, prepared to en-
terrain them handsomely rs though their WIS.,
it had been expected. The guests enjoyed
themselves until a late hour, and those who
were there are enthusiastic on the subject OF
their reception and declare that the evening
passed of most pleasantly.
Intelligence was received here Friday even
ing of the, sudden death Thursday of Judge
| Thurman Brookins. Judge BrUokins was
driving from the saw mill at Richvillc to his
home in East Shoreham, and had a large load
of lumber on his team on which he was sit.
ting. When found, the horses had stopped,
facing up a Hill, and Judge Brookins was
| lying face downward on his load. Fer
| good many years Judge Brookins was one Of
| the most prominent farmers in Addison
county and was one of our lest known and
most popular men. lie was not supposed to
be in poof health, having been about all
| Winter as usual, and only last month he at
tended The meetings held here Of the two
ccp-brceders ard OF the bec-kGepurs' asso-
Citations
\ convention to nominate candidate for
county commissioner for Addison county
was held here Wednesday. Deacon Sa nucl
James Of Weybridge was nominated for the
position and he will of course be elected
without opposition. In the afternoon the
annual reunion meeting of the Addison coun-
| ty temperance societies was held at the Con-
gregational church the attendance being
large. Rev. Merritt llulburd of Burlington
delivered an addr, SIS, the principal point in
which was that it is not the States A,tor-
ncys or other officers of the law who are to
blame for the failure to enforce the prohibit
tory law, but the people themselves, who
neglect TO support and bacl, up the officers in
their efforts TO execute the law. An uneasy
feeling seems to exis, among the people OF
the county who are in favor of carrying out
the law as it stands, and the near future will
probably see some earnest efforts - enforce
it thoroughly.
Mr.. John II. Spraguc of Waltham claims
to own half interest in the horse Watch
eye which was in the possession of the late
John Ring at the time Of his death and
which every one supposed to be wholly the
property of Mr.. Ring, Sprague raised the
horse and Ring got it OF him, and now
Spragnc asserts that he retained a half inter
est in the animal. The horse is valuable
one, and half interest in him is worth own
ing, if the claim can be proven. The mat
ter will be fought out in the courts.
The stone for the foundation for the new
to lie a settled thing that the new building
will be erected on the old site
Mr. Albert Chapman has returned from
Washington, where he went to urge the
maintenance of the prescn, tariff on wool
unaltercd.
DIR. lIalscy's child which has been so sick
ever since its birth about four weeks ago,
Las al last succumbed TO disease and is dead.
n
gennes brought Zeb Sears of Ferlisburgh to
ing III the country jail. Selrs got drunk
Friday in Nergennes and was arrested and
locked up. When hauled up before justice
on Saturday morning, he refused point blank
to tell where he had procured his soothing
syrup, and hence his Incarceration in the
county Jail
Saturday afternoon and evening there
were hundreds of strangers in town, but,
strange TO say, no drunkenness was to be
seen among them. The Saturday afternoon
before it seemed as if almost everybody was
drunk. So that the contrast was obseIvably
great 1t is pretty certain that If we lave
such another Saturday afternoons orgie
in town some one will suffer heavily for it.
The scholars of the Case street school, dis
trict No. 8, gave an exhibition Friday night,
as wind-up TO the Winter term of school.
The school-room was 50 denscly crowdedthat
standing room was al II discount and several
loads of people had to return home without
being able to gain an entrance. The eXhbi-
ton was athOrough success I'M every respect,
A son Of photographer A. V. Brown fell
on the ice on the river Saturday evening and
was stunned. lie was hurt 50 bad that he
had to be carried home. AT this writing the
ytn IT lic I'M urin is /. lint
are probably not serious.
There is a prospect that the old cotton
factory will be put 10 good and PROF.
liable use after all. Mr.. II. j. Chapman,
who owns the wooden mill here anu used
to run it himself, is negotiating with the pro-
prietDrs of the building for its purchase and
| rs the two parties are now only short dis
lance apart in the matter of price, it is prob
| able that the bargain will be closed within
| few days. Mr.. Chapman intends il he can
get possession Of the factory, to fit 1t up as 4
wooden mill and to run it to the fullest ex-
| tent possible.
The young man who was arrested on Thurs
| day afternoon for intoXication was brought
before n justice on Friday and denied the
| soft impeachment lie was up again Saturday
Afternoon and again denied that he was drunk
when arrested but the fact was very amply
proven. lie then in the way of disclosure
asserted that he procured his fluid from a
IMAM whom he met on the railroad track.
The man had in his possession pint of re-
duced alcohol-known in Middebury as
Jack together the two drank it up.
lie didn't know tho man in fact he never
saw him before and of course has not seen
him since. The court thought this disclosure
rather thin and the prisoner was remandcd to
the county Jail TO mediate there over Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hammond gave
party TO some of their friends on Friday
evening at their residence about a mic east
Of the Village. Fifteen or twenty COUPLES