Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-29
The Eret 9ress.
CITY AND VICINITY.

Inc tall term Oh inc l nlNcTSllN 'ptIl0
september II.
We are glad To chronicle Mr.. James b.
Scully's recovery from his recent severe
illness.
Hon. G. II. Blodgett mourns the death
of his famous Waikiki stallion The horse
was valued at $1,000.
4 Blaine and Logan club has been or
ganizcd at Winoosk with l20 members. \
j. Stevens, Esq, is president.
Senator Edmunds and Senator Morrill,
have each contributed two hundred dol
lars to the state campaign fund.
Rev. DIR. Kmball, who has preached
here several times this summer has ac-
ceptcd Il call from the church at Bcnnng-
ton.
Work upon the st. Paul's rcctory is pro
crossing finely. The exterior is practi-
cally completed and presents Il very pleas
ing appearance.
The st tamcr Reindeer j, enjoying a very
successful season, and il is stated that her
owners contemplate binding a companion
boat in the near future, considerably
larg n than She is.
The school at the corner of North and
have double its formcrcapdcity The school
has long been crowded and its enlarge
mcnt Had become an absolute necessity
Michael Conlan. employed on DR.. Wcbb's
farm, was on Sunday night. while return
ing from Colchester, assaulted near the
soap factory by several men, whose cvi-
dent object was robbery. They were
frightened Off, however by the approach
of some paSscrs-by.
The Fail term of the public schools will
begin week from next Monday. 1t was
announced to begin next Monday. but Il
postpOnement of one week has been de
cided upon, on account of the weather
and because at some of the school build
ngs repairs are being made which will
not be completed for some time,
The Y. VI. c. \. has made arrangements
to open branch reading room in the
north part of the city, and for that pur-
pose has rented the Ground floor of the
building on the northwest corner of Wi
uooSli avenue and North street. The
main room is about !ON35 feet in dimcn-
SionS. and there is also a room in tn" rear.
about = feet square. which can hc used
for the attendant : room and office. II is
hoped that the reading room may he open
en- as early as the list of September 1t i,
centrally located for the residents of the
north part of the city. and will no doubt
be a great convenience. In this connec-
ton it is pleasant to notice how the V NJ
c. a. follows up and supplant3 the liquor
saloons of the city,-thc building ON Wi
nooski avenue having been previously used
for that purpose as well rs the central
Of A., 1,
In this respect the Association is doing Il
laudable work.
The heated term under which the coun-
try has been sWetering ended Friday
1t is seldom that hotter weather is expert
enced in Burlington. For ten days be
ginning at noon of "Wednesday August
18th, and extending to Friday noon. the
22nd, the mercury stood at so or upwards
in the shade at noon. AZ recorded in the
weather record kept by our townsman, C.
f. Allen. Esq, during four days of the
tine, the thermometer rose to ~ or over
during the afternoon, while on two days,
the 10Th and 2lst, the remarkable tempera-
ture for Burlington of "a in the shade
stands recorded. This weather recalls the
hot week of July, 1870, mentioned in
Thompson's Vermont For seven days. at
that time, July 18th to 2lst inclusive, the
maximum daily temperatures were as fol
lows: a, ~, %2 !, %, 80, 81, o. The
mercury sank little below 50 at night
during this fiery week, and Thompson
remarks that another such succession of
hot days and nights was perhaps never ex-
perienced in the State" Tremendous
rainfalls and disastrous freshets followed
that hot week in 1880. On the 18th of
July,l 1876, the thermometer rose to 96, July
10, lSi7, to 9S, and July II and Is, lS49, to
100 in the shade at Burlington. We re-
member nothing hotter than the latter
figure at this point.
\ party Of about three score people from
Waterbury and Montpelier made IA trip to
Ausable Chasm on the Williams Thurs
day. On returning from the chasm to
Port Kent one of the stages was tipped
over, the breaking of nut causing tn,
loss of IL wheel. Mrs. DR.. Washburr
of Waterbury suffered Il broken collar
bone. and Mrs. Arthur Ropes of the sam,
place was severely injured in the spine
l.. {. Shear was IA fortnight since arrest
ed here by IA Pinkerton detective and takeI
to New York on a charge of forgery On
"Wednesday he pleaded guilty and wa.
sentenced to five years in Sing Sing prison
the lowest penalty under the law Tn,
Grdphic says; "The lightness of Shear
sentence was due to the fact that his evi
dence had helped to bring to justice sew
eral others. No less than thirty forged
checks were in circulation by the gang
The Hcrdld says: SHEAR confessed t,
having given ii forged draft for $50 upon
the National Park Bank of New York il
payment forsome articles he purchasct
on June 2, at Mays, to wi, -Severa
bottles of perfnmery, two lunches of arti
fetal sweet violetS, II pair of double acting
patent corsets, and IA love of II bonnet. IL,
said that he wanted the things for his wife
who, he said was one of the best womel
in the world, the judge took this fact in
to considerations and in order not to scpa
rate Shear from such II treasure Longer