Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-02

Nennol'S mild winter IS being lulllleu as
per prophecy
DR.. w. S. Webb and family left town foi
the season, Monday.
Bishop D,Gcesbriand passed this week
the thiri' til anniversary of his cpiscopacy.
The steamer Williams is doing a large
ircightiug business betwcca here and plaus'
burgh.
Autumn leaf productions are about used
up aud poets are getting ready for the beau
full snow.
The College gee club has recognized and
begun practice under the direction OF MIR. N.
III. Thompson.
Mr.. A. c. Spear and family left for the
South Mondry. They will be accompanied
10 Florida by Miss Mary Henry.
The ladies realized the very handsome
sum of four hundred collars from their
"Smith family entertainment.
Sixteen cayload. of steel rails for the Mont
rclter aud Wells River road passed through
t!is city Tuesday, coming from Troy,
N. Y.
N. S. Hill, Esq, with Mrs Hill, has gone
to Wise Jnsin After brief visit there they
will guto California where they will spend
the winter.
The superstructurc of the crlb sunk this
season at the north end of the brcakwntcr is
now being built. The work is to be finished
by December LIST.
Work is progressing rapidly at the Under
wood place. The old roof has been ralsed
and prcparatlous are being made to replace it
with French roof.
Two barrels of wbiskey, consigned TO one
Oliver Lambert, have been seized at the Gen.
trail Vermont freight depo. and are now
awaiting a caimant.
Gen. w. ". Henry left town Wednesday
for the South, with his SOD, Mr.. Ferdinand
Henry, who is, we are sorry to say, in fail
Ing health. They will go 10 kinston, N. g.
Senator Elmunds and family left for
Washngt IN, Monday. Mrs. Edmunds and
Miss Mary will probably spend tho colder
part OF the Water at Nassau, IN the Bahia
mas.
A new order has been Issued by the rail-
road management to the effect that no trains
shall he rug, while passing station, at II
rate of speed exceeding fifteen miles an
hour.
There is COOL deal Of newspaper criticism
on the new postal notes, but they are popu-
lar with the public, however. In this city
five hundred were sold during the month of
October.
There was the usual Sunday fight down on
Battery street, yesterday afternoon. The
police arrested two of the participants, but
one of them made his escape while en- route
for the jail.
The friends of Mr. John Henry Hopkins
will lie glad 10 learn that he has become cs-
tablished in the insurance office of Caspar I.
Hopkins, San Francisco, with very ilatteliug
prospects of success for the future.
Sheriff Barton seized barrel Of ale Ut the
residence of Mrs. Baker, on Spruce street,
Saturday. Mrs. Baker was very much sur
prised when the ale was found and was loud
in her denuuciatiops Of the man who had
rolled the barrel into her place.
This is great year for babies. The crop
is larger than ever known before. A well
known and popular young married couple
living on Maple street lave just become the
rejoicing parents OF twins-a boy and girl
whose combined weight is fifteen pounds.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Harry lie
Grand Cannon, lie Monde Illustrc," the
Frcuch pictorial weekly, will be found on
file at the Fletcher Free Library. Mr.. Can
non also generously supplies the library with
the Magazine IF Art and the London Grdph-
ic.
The steamer Mariquita has been resurrect-
ed and again sails The wave. The old boiler
and engines were found still sound after the
fire and the hull was found to have bee.
Quilted, but sound externally. The sides
have he repaired, new braces and interior
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The Chittenaen county cases heard at thu
general term of the Supreme Court, now il
session at Montpelier, are those of X. b.
Walker VS.. the City of Burlington (to rccov
or city taxes on the ground Of the illegally
of the grand lisD, Charles Laf0untain VS.
Tao burlington Savings bank, 5. NJ. Pope
executor OF Sydney Barlow vs.. The Bur,
liug,on Savings bank and Marian Gushing.
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