Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-12-07
cry NOTES.


Ore touch of winter makes the Who'll
world of plumbers grin.
The Mary Fletcher Hospital now la
wenty.Onc patients.
The store windows are gay with holda
goods. Christmas is coming.
Less than month more for carrying on
latt New Years good resolutions.
The usual good.szed crowd went up 4
Dixons TO attend his Thanksgiving ball.
Now the Young ladies will devote thci
whole attention TO making Christmas slip
pcrs.
The annual phenomenon OF large in
crease in Sunday school membership !
noted.
The new tity directory is being pu
through the press as rapidly as is consistcn
with accuracy.
Two boats laden with two hundred tons o
hay, from Grand Isle, arrived at this por
Tuesdiy night.
Many of our readers will be glad to lear
that Montreal will have another winter car
nival, next February.
The artists of the street department So.
that the fros. has penetrated the ground 10
depth of eighteen inches.
Ouuu L. IlDNdlu, Esu., is ~ pICscut III
Philadelphia. 1t is doubtful il he RETURN
TO Burlington this season.
Dion Boucicault, the famous playwright
and dramatist, will probably appear at tho
Howard Opera House soon.
The history Of Prussia by our former
townsman Herbert futile will be issued by
Houghton, Miflin & Co. this week.
It's only the merchant who doesn't adver
Use who looks as though he had the dyspep
STA from one years end to the other.
Our former townsman Rev. Edward Hun
eeriord has been installed pastor of the Con.
gregetional church at Adams, Mass.
The Maple street sewer has been complet-
cd as far Us the Smith tenement house, and
work has been suspended for the season.
Young ladies who pu. the wlshbone care.
fully over the front door should remember
that leap year will be here in few days.
The cold snap started up the coal dealers
business amazingly One dealer rctsiled
nearly bundled aud twenty-five tons, on
Saturday.
The real estate movement seems TO have
come to an end, for the present For n
month past there have been only few small
transfers.
Mr.. d. II. Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby')
of the Toledo Bldde is coming 10 Vermont
10 investigate the practical working of the
prohibitory law.
The Jail is to be connected with the sewer
and other Improvements are to be madc-all
of which doesn't look as if we were 10 have u
new Jail in hurry.
Mr.. Thompson, for a great many years
janitor at the University has retired from
that place, and his successor, MIR. Cassidy,
has been duly installed.
Mr.. George b. Pease, the longtime Port
Henry holelkeeper, well known to very
many of our people, died on Monday. The
funeral was held Wednesday.
The bust of John p. Howard, ESD, by
Johu S. Hartley, the famous New York
sculptor, will BE- put in position, at the Uui.
versity, about December 25th.
Manager Drury's ears were tickled with
245 telegraphlc messages transmitted to his
office by telephone during the month of Oc-
tober, and 1913 during November
Robert Collyer is to lecture here this sea-
son under the auspices of the y. M. Z. A.
He is most interesting and eloquent speak
or and ought to have crowded house.
Prof. j. W. Churchill, the well known
and favorite eocutioni.t will give reading
in the Howard Opera House, December 18th,
under the auspices of the Y. M. g. A.
The new postal note is to be narrower than
the present one, the color to be changed
to blue, the paper heavier and of firmer
texture, ard the dt sign to be changed.
The Burlington Commercial Travellers
association will give their annual banque,
about the first of January. The association
numbers about one hundred members.
The work Of laying the Pine street waite,
main was legun in good earnest Monday
A large force is employed and it is intended
TO push the work as rapidly as possible.
The primary and intermediate school,
close their session for the Christmas holi
Gays on Friday Of next week, and the high
and grammar schools the week following.
The pleasant report comes from Capt
George Rushlow that he is improving, some.
what; he takes his food nov quite regularly
and hopes are entertained of his ultimate re-
covery.
jerome Hopkins has been invited by
Brinsmead Il Son, celebrated London piano
makers, 10 visit Great Britain and give hi.
peculiar and excellent pano-lecture concerii
through the country.
Mr.. w. II. Root, Grand Secretary. ha
witain the past ten days sent out considera
bly, more than half II ton of that wildly ex
citing publication the report of the proceed
ings OF the Graud Lodge.
Principal Oscar Atwood of the Rullar,
high school, who has been at the Mar,
Fletcher Hospital for treatment for ncrvou
prostration, has, We are glad to learn, nearl.
recovsr,l and will be able TO leave the hos
pital IN few days.
Mansll, the western weather prophet
warns us sc tinst storms on the 18th, 10Th
23d and Goth of this month"; and says tha
the temperature for the month will probabl
average above the mean of the season, owe
the United States and Europe.
The last lumber barge of the season wa
unlosded on Saturday. The imports Of ,hi
season have been considerably smaller tina
last, and the amount Of lumber will probabl
not exceed eighty million feet.
The Lake Champlain and River Richelic
steam navigation company, which is to ~
steamers between st. Johns and Whitehall
has been incorporated under the laws of Me-
York, with capital of $4,000.
Now the fashion is for "wishboncr wet
ding. At marriage standing under flor
wishbone the couple pull at II wishbouc tia
is given them; and the one who breaks O
the longer piece need not get up and max
the fires in the morning.
Prof. Ross of the Dudley observatory, A
bany, states that the phenomenal glow in tn
sky at sunrise and sunset is doubtless cause
by peculiar atmospheric conditions, and
neither the result Of meteoric dust nor III
movement of comets tail
MIR. Robert j. Wright, formerly of TIL
city and well known to all our people,
present cashier Of the Newport bank, had
hemorrhagc of the lungs, last week, and Q
latest accounts was very weak. His man
friends here will wish him speedy aud pc
manent recovery.
Mr.. George W. Holmes will spend the r.
mainder of the winter in Boston, where
has the offer of an advantageous positic
and where it is hoped his health will in
prove. His many friends will wish him
pleasant winter and Comnleic restoration