Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-10-12
CRY NOTES.

j. u. Bakr, Esq, is to remove TO Nor
treal.
The lumber business, ard trade generally
is booming.
ii. N. Leach, Esq has returned from hi
Western TIP.
The street depaitmen, has suspended opel
atoms Tot the season.,
Tie ST, amer NJ guam has been tcnaire
aud has resumed her trips.
Apples are allng At the magnificent 6gu-
of five dU!Iass barrel and II Is said that tn
price is sure togo still higher.
sx divorce cases were heard at the rcccn
term of Chitlcudcn county court, but in onl.
two OF them was divorce decrecd.
George w. Pa,ten of Willis,on, one OF on
subscribers, has left III our Office a mammoth
potato, weighing pounds l2t ounces.
The Lake Memphrem.gog excursion, Sat
urday, was patronized by IS Burlington pco
pie. OF course all had delightful timc.
The New England Dental society il
session at Providence has elected our towns
man DR.. James Lewis first vice president.
John Hilton, who was one of the principa
witnesses against Lanya the inccndiary, ha
been sent 10 the House of Correction for fou
months.
The out-of town press Is represented a
the musical festival by ID. w. Dixon, ESD
OF the st. Adams Messenger, end Mr.. &. s.
Forbes.
There was a moderately severe frost the
second Of the season. Saturday morning. IL
some parts OF the State there was n severe
cold snap, the ground freezing hard.
The Central Vermont road has just pur.
chased ten locomotives Of the "moyul' pat.
tern, The present number being inadequate
for the immense business now being done.
The injuries to the steamer Maquam prove
to be more serious than at first believed
There are two holes in about the centre Of
the boat, and 1t will have to be put in the
dry dock to be repaired.
-Four hundred tons of steel rails for the
Rutland railroad have just been received at
this port. This is the last instalmcnt, and
it is expected that the work Of relaying the
track will be completed next week.
Ono of the crack companies Of the Salem,
Mass. fire department will visit this city on
Wednesday of next week, October 17th ac-
conpaned by band. or course our fire.
men will see to it that they are suitably re-
ceived and Hospitality entertained.
The steamer Maquam struck rock while
steaming through the passage which bears the
elegant name of The Gut" Wednesday, and
sprung heavy leak. She remained over
night at Gordon's Landing and Thursday
went into Shelburn llarbor for repairs.
The new standard time was taken at every
railroad station in Vermont Sunday. In
this city the clocks on the Unitarian aud
College street church towers were set by the
new time the clocks in the public schools
and the 9:15 signal will follow the standard
One Of the fastcst trains in Vermont is the
night express over the Burlington and
Lamolle railroad. The other night the 80
miles between Cambridge Junction and this
city were made, including II stops, in so
minutes, and the Iun il very frequently
made inside OF au hour.
The snow fall of Oct. 2, in the eastern
and central portions Of the State is said to be
the heaviest fall Of snow 10 Vermont in Octo.
Der for more than forty years. Thompson's
Vermont notes n snow fall of two inches
Oct. Sth, 1s4l, which is the earliest date
previously known in our history.
The use OF the Methodist church in Shell
burn has been kindly proffercd to the Episco-
palians OF that town, for Sunday morning
next and the Rev. Theodore Hopkins Of
Burlington has been engaged 10 hold services
and preach there a, 1890. As all are invlt-
ed, it 10 hoped these will be united congre-
CATION. The Rev. Mr.. Hopkins will also
officiate at Trinity church, Wlnooski, at 4:3O
p. m. OF the same day.
Mrs Stacy, whose death is elsewhere chron-
icled, was the widow of the late Henry b.
Stacy, who was for eighteen years, prior to
1916, editor and publisher of the FREE PREss,
and Subsequently L. S. consul at Rcvel,
Russia. Mrs. Stacy had been in failing health
fnr ha nn1N Mt lact Cltn
passed away very suddenly. She was an es-
Unable lady and will he mourned by nu-
merous circle Of relatives and friends.
The instructions Of the postoffice depart
ment TO pos,masters throughout the country
are that the present one and three cent
stamps and envelopes will continue to be
valid after the fret of October, and must be
accepted in payment of postage in appro-
pirate amounts. The three-ce stamps may
be used in combination with other denomna-
tions on letters requiring more than II at rate
OF postage, and on parcels of third and
fourth class matter.
The Central Vermont managers have adopt
cd the standard lime agreed upon By the other
railroads 10 this part Of the country. The
new standard was used for the first time
on Sunday last, at noon of which day the
time OF the Central, Southern and Rutland
divisions was set back twelve Q2)
minutes. The adoption of standard
time is most excellent idea and will
be a great accommodation to all travel
ers. And hereafter let us, in the name
of common sense, have our city clocks sci
with the railroad time and keep them there.
At present they scem to be keeping $50 as
You please" time, and the result is far from
satisfactory.
A new time table went into effect on the
Central Vermont and leased lines Monday,
the changes being as follows: The Boston
train over the Central leaves here at 7:45
n. m instead of 7:l5; the morning mail for
Rutland leaves at $3.50 a. m. instead of 10
the express for Boston via Lowell leaves a,
10:45 a. III. instead of 10;40 the express for
Mortified leaves at SEQ p. m. instead OF
5:25; the accommodation leaves for Rutland
at $3.50 p. m. instead of $40: the night ex.
press for Boston and New York via Spring.
field leaves at 1915 p. M. instead Of 1890
going North and West, the night express fol
Montreal and Ogtensburg leaves at 4:10 in
stead of 5:l5; the local express for st. Al
bans leaves at 10;45 a. m. instead Of 1040
the express from Boston for Montreal ant
Ogdensburg leaves at SEQ p. m. instead Of
525 and that from New York for the sam,
points at $50 p. m. instead OF 6:25 and tb,
fast Boston train leaves at 7:15 p. M insteat
OF 7;20.
The county court did well in refusing tc
CHANGER the bail (S5000) on which Bernard
Daley WAS held 10 answer an indictment fo
attempted rape. In so refusing, Judge Taf
said that the object of bail was to ensure
respondents appearance for trial, and tina
as in the present case Daley's appearance hat
not been ensured, the bail could not he re
garded as excessive. MIR. Russell stated tina
Daley's crime was one of the most atrocou
committed in this county for many years
and that an attempt had been made by hi
friends, by the offer OF large sum OF money
to induce his victim to leave the State ant
not become witness against him-an ofTe
which the girl promptly refused. We ar
informed that every one of Daley's bonds
men have in the meantime transferred al