Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-05-18
ST. ALIkANS.
Of the baptist Church BY
fire Other Mnitrrs.

of the baptist church by |
fire Other Mnitrrs.
At ABOUT $780, Thursday m1tuiug, tic |
alarm Of fire was giycr, in 1t was discOv-
cred that the Interior OF the Baptist church |
was in flames. The hose compGnits were
quickly upon tn. spot. but because Of serious
delay on the rat Of sump one, or lbrodgh
the fault Of some one, n force OF water
could tie OBJ mined for quits" a G 'nsdciable
time. Consequently tn ntm,s gained great
Roadway, finally obtained complete control,
and the doomed bulldog was soon deuiui sii-
ed. NUlhlug 10 lett but the four walls apl
they are in damaged aud shiky coalition.
During the cUntiigratlOh lie adjacent terri-
tory wa. subjected to q rain II fire, and
other hui dn,s were for some time In dIpger
of having the fir: commune .tcd By the
pieces Of burning material. btIgrd's csrr,a!e
building shops uctualiy to * fire, hut it vas
exiting li-hed ihuodntely.
The oh iich cost over 53l, 600. and tue in
suIauc. upon it is $1,000. Il was bull in
1928 aul cUt5ecrat,d in 1874. Tie Rev.
Georsc Frat, the pastor, las los, his entire
library lie had very gooi collection OF
theological works, and works Of general ref
erencc. The Baptist sIcety had piaro in
their pIr,ors, and II considerable amount of
other property. The total loss must he
somewhere in the neighborhuod of SAC, 1000.
The MethDdists with brltherly kindness
and Christian spirit promptly notified Mr..
Pratt that The Methodist church ut certain
hours on Sundays and certain weekday
nights, was at the service of the BupIsts.
The loss enlacd by the burning Of this
church is more tlah prJiuarily unfortunate
the society not long since cleared Itself en-
tircly of debt and hal jus, got On Il ii althy
basis. The subject 10 mootcd OF hayiug
collection on Sunday in iii" ether churches
to 60 towards rebuilding fund. This is II
move in the right direction.
On "Wednesday afternoon and evening ii
Thursday forenoon a hearing was in progress
at S;einhOurs hotel (,he old maids IA High.
gate Ccntrr, before Hon. & o. H. Bisclow.
the nature of the hearing was in substance
abou, as follows W, 4. and }. c. Pace
keep store at llighgatc Centre, and w. \.
is postmaster. One Cross keeps IL store also.
A factiJnal fight has grown out OF i'll
feeling that has existed lately. III" Skeels,
| vino is the gcneraissim,oi the attacking forces
is rndcayorlng to have ". A. Place removed
from the postmas cshlp aud 10 have Cross
| instatcd as postmaster, Tothis end he caus
| ed charges to be preferred giinst the Place
| boys, in that they smulgled certain nails
| from Canadi. This charge wss heard Gni
Investigated some time ugO by the off ials ut
| Burlington, but ii had reference only TO }. c.
Place. After that Investigation had closed
communications were sent Dthe treasury de-
partmcnt that VIII A. Plscc had been EEK.
| tepslvely engaged in smuggling all kinds Of
| articles" and asking that his commission as
post master be revoked The authorities
thereupon sent Mr.. Bigelow to investigate
| The counsel Tor the parties prcirrrlng the
charges are q. A. Ballard OF Fairfax and
| # IL. ,Ng
Bros, Z. X. Hard, {. G.. Austin an ii. A.
Burt. 1t appeared that some Cana Ia nails
were fourd ut their store upon which duty
had not been paid this is accounted for by
| Mr. j. C. Place on the ground that be WAS
handling the nails for another party, whosc
name he was in honor bound not to disclose,
but who had left the nails on his Places,
hands. That was in brief the man evidence I;
it was supplemented by mass of "hcarsay'
evidence and er pdrte aiiidavits, that would
not have been admissible had the case been
tried in couit and under legal rules OF evil
dencc. The question TO BE- found by Mr.. Big
Glow is whether or not VIM. A. Place has
been guilty of smuggling. That is matter
wholly for Mr.. BisclOw to say but certainly
the result Of the healing would seem to leave
in the mind of L disintereslcd person not
only reasonable doubt but very grave
doubt as to the truth Of the charges prefer
red.
| On Wednesday night Lafayette Command.
cry of X. T.. held their annual coucavc. En-
nent Commander Sir KIT. T. 5. Miller, who
has served two years, made very felicitDus
speech rendering his hanks for past favoIs,
and expressing his determination to step
down and out" The Sir knights. howcv-
er, expressed as decided a determination that
he should stay in the position he is SO well
qualified 10 till and he was reelected, The
other officers were AS follows CIV. Squiers,
generalissimo; s. Story, Jr., captain gen r
al; |. A. Rogers, 5. W.; J. IL. Mimms, }. W.;
Rev. Thomas Burgess, pralate; g. Hand
ley recorder S. 5. Allen, Treasurer; Il.
McDougal, Standard bearer L. j. Chamber
lin, sword bearer L. a. Twitchcll, warder.
Thursday night occulei the final meet
ing of the Ransom Guards. The cxcap,
tain Of the company, John W. Newton,
was present and was well received by his one
| time command. The company exists now
only in its untarnishcd and brilliant record as
a company; and in the minds of is members
| is the many pleasant rtcollcctions, they will
ever perpetuate of many happy hours passed
| in the company iocm' and "ni der can
vas"
AT . O'Clock this dizzy ,.r. Inc fist meet
| ing of creditors Of the st. Adams Rolling
mill, in Insolvency. A stormy time is anlic-
| ipated.