Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-19

Valentines have already made th.ir APP
pearancr.
Hon. Henry. Ballard is now in Denver, and
favors Us with files of the papers OF that city.
The Philharmonic society have engaged
Mrs. Know cs US solOist at their coming con-
cert.
General Wells and General Peck and Hon.
George ii. Bgeow have been visiting Wash
ington
A parry Of some twenty-five of our roller
skaters ale lo visit the st. Adams rink next
Friday night
The ay,rlgc time OF closing of the bread
lake for the ust seventy years has been
January 2Al.
VIM ~ smith have moved back into THEN
old shop ana will soou he doing business as
actively as ever
The high wiud of saturday driftcd the
country roads very badly aud some If them
are neXt 10 impossible.
MI I'm McIuncrney, who will lie well
remembered by many Of our people IS now
located a! Houston, Texas.
Hon James II. patt is in town, the guest
of the Van Mes House, ard his many friends
are hight glad TO SEE him again.
Mr.. BlItn is II have Wholesale store in
New York and will in addition continue his
two refill stores here. ~ at present.
The Madison Square theatre company will
give "IoJng Mrs. winthrop Mt the Opera
House ON Sutu'd4y evening, Jan 2nth.
Our philan.hropic town,man Lawrence
Barnes, Esq, has just given three thousand
dollars TO the Vera ont Academy, at SaXtnn's
River.
Our distinguished townsman, Col. lie
Grand Il. Cam II has recently been cleo cd
one Of the yicc-pr, 5idents OF the Union
League club Of New York city.
The venerable John Il. ilolenbeck, now
ninety-two yeas Old continues in excellent
health except for lis broken hip, and bids
fair 10 become nenaiiaD.
Trains over the burlington and Lamolle
Iailr.aI had some trouble with snowdrifts
Yesterday. One train was stalled at Jericho,
and it tod; an Ii ur or 81 to get i, ont.
Mi James y. SAedd has the credit Of ui.-
ing grade Durudn steer, which weighed,
one year Old, dr,ssed, 81 puuuds-ihc
heaviest animal Of its age yet heard iion,
In accallaoce with an act Of tn Lr.i-a-
ture, giving set of the Governor and
Couucil"-tishu vO.umcs-to every town in
the State, the cry has jus, come into pos
session Of the work, which rcposos in the
City Clerks 'rMy.
Down-tuwu thermometers registered four
degrees below zero, early Friday morn
ing. La.cl ia tat day the sun clmc cut
aud shuna bYl hly until his set iu1, max
ing the day one Of the plcasaHlrst of the
Winter.
The Messenger rises to remark; Rutland
authoiitoa srriull' the slippery sidewalks
tho,e with sauI. In most other places the
slippery walks ar spanked mainly with
falling specimens of humanity
Old Proh- prrphesic / fair weather for Sat
urday, hui in pac, q it we had the severest
wudstJ.m that has visited these parts for
many long day. Il was a south wind and
Alright vigorous one, and the few ptopc who
ventWcA oul on the Slr,cts had had time
Of it
The Burlington Philharmonic : cicly will
give a con2er. in Howard Opera House Feb
Iuary 1jh. Ms Henrietta kulWls If
Boston, Me p0pilr suprdnp who has made
macy lrienas II til 5 city during the musical
festival, given hy the society, viii take part
in lhis concert.
III. Abncr b, Lowry, whose s,,iols illness
has hcen ann.Wccd, died Friday alter
noon. Nj. Lowry was one of The oldtimc
citizens AMI wa wei! Known 10 all our peo-
pie. lie had leli various city offices, having
been ovuTsger 1T HE poor for several years,
keeper OF The city scales, au !lur ctr.
The Bennington Mcthldists want R4v.
Merritt llulOGid next year, The R"aHcT
says; at l. und,r-to that Rev. Merritt
Hulburi viii succeed Rry. Nj. d, Jump next
Spring as III mt II Of tic Methodist church
in this place. ID quarterly cpalcr.lc has
unanimously resolved 10 inyill HI a,ro nj
ment.
AT the Wiuo1sM avenue Congrcgauonal
church the interest created duling l!c week
of prayer WAS such lna the meeting, Il we
been continued during the pres nj Week, and
with gratifying results, Al Monday cy H.
iug's meeting 'mt"rn pcl,nne aGn ,Uuccd
their intention # leading Christian lives.
Affairs at the Pioneer Shops are progress.
ing finely There were several castings at
Nj. W IL. Drinks foundry, which is III
better supr than ever before j. X. b ,,th'S
planning nill and box shop will be completed,
except the in roof, this week, and Tie ma.
chincry viii be put in aud work hequl a,
soon as possible thereafter
The rev dock now in process OF cons,ruc
tion at North Hero Is at point EoIthe s. d
the old dock where the water is Of Sulll on
depth 10 admit Of the passage of steamers
The water at that point is now seven fee
deep, lower than it has teen for some years
An old lake bIatmnn says lie has observed
that the average depth ut the lake is CROWN!
less every year.
At,pronn,,.l u,cetipg of ,b, Grant Ir
s,eamhoo, r"u'many nt & A,hnns Thm's inv
the following directors were elected Jp D
~ ,Lis ri,v II n Ran,o,t Iic,iar, pro;n
erd aud L. c, Smith OF st. Adams, and Hen
" Mott Of Aburgh No other business wa
transacted, owing TO the absence OF some o
the directors
the drou,li /. General. not only ,I,r,pol
ont this coulty. In, ali hi, nlr oi the STAT
and Northern New England Farmers wer
the first 10 feel lis effects, in parched an