Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-04-25

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that point until the Maquam renews her
trips. The Reindeer will make her list trip
the last OF this week or the first OF next.
A number OF belated taxpayers visit City
Hall daily for the purpose Of making out and
| handing in their lists to the assessors. If the
law is strictly complied WITH a large number
OF people will find their assessment doubled.
The assessors are finding their business
rather lively, just now. The law requires
them on or before April 25lh CtomorrOw) to
lodge in the City Clerks office an abstract
OF the individual list of all taxpayers in the
city; and they must have their work entirely
completed May 10Th. 1t may be added for
the benefit of those interested, that the law
requires aggrieved taxpayers who wish TO
present their case to the listers TO notify the
listers to that effect on or before the first
Tuesday of May.
Market prices for the present week are as
follows: Eggs % cents dozen lettuce 10
Sets. a head, and rad she's cts. bunch.
Maple sugar is ~! TO 10 cents a
pound; maple syrup, 81 to Sl.10
a gallon; apples, 81 and 50 a
| bushel turnips, 70 cents bushel parsnips,
cents pound bcets, 70 cents a bushe
Irish potatoes, 40 to 80 cents abushel. Cabbage
| u to cents Onions 25 to 80 ccntsa peck
| oysters, 80 to As cents a quart. Oranges
are from Is to G5 cents dozen bananas, 80
to 60 centsa dozen. Cocoanuls, to 10 cents
apiece; lemons % to 80 cents dozen. Cheese
is IL cents pound; lard, 10 to Is cents :;
| pruues ~ to % cents, and prunellcs %
cents; dates 10 to 10 cents. Figs, 20 to 30
cents a pound. Evaporated apples are
| 10 TO 20 cents per pound. Breakfast bacon
| a pound. Butter, 20 to 80 cents a pound
| Pickles, so to GO cents gallon. Evaporated
| peaches are sellingat 40 cents pound. Evap-
| GRATED apricots, 40 cents apOund. Mince meat,
best quality, Is cents pound. Hickory nuts,
| % cents peck. Buckwheat flour. 5 cents a
pound. Flour per barrel SO to So. SO. Dat
meal, cents pound. Nice hams, Is to IS
cents a pound, according to size. Cider
jelly, 20 cents a pound Horse radish is
- to 20 cents a bottle
Good Tempars hall was filled to its full
| capacity Sunday afternoon by an appreci-
| alive audience to listen to the address by
Professor G. II. Perkins. The speaker pref
| aced his remarks by abiding to the i'm
provements in the hall. He thought by its
| appearance, as well as judging from the work
| of the organizations that meet in it, that the
| temperance societies had all come to stay.
1t was a wise thing to make the temperance
halls beautiful and attractive in appearance
to counterfeit the influence of the brilliant
displays made in bar rooms and saloons.
After considering the efficiency of organiza.
| ton for work and the necessity for harmony
among the different orders of temperance
workers he spoke IN regard to the utility of
alcohol. 1t is quite a popular idea that
although alcohol is abused, yet there is some
| inherent good in it which the medical world
could i'll afford to discard. The fact is the
| leading medical authorities of this and other
t,t a
knowledge that its use is not imperative
1t IS interesting to compare the medical
| writings Of twenty and even ten years ago,
with the opinions of N ediCal experts of the
present day Ill rcHeIu use. In conclud-
| ing, the speaker denied the statement made
| by a writer in the Popular Science M0nthlY
that the Vermont prohibition law was u
| failure, and that here in Burlington, as in
other towns Of this State liquor was sold as
openly and to as great an extent rs befOrcthe
enactment of that law The speaker denied
the truth VI the assertion. II the testimony of
numerous citizens of this State was TO be con-
sldered of value, if his own eyes were not in
error, and his judgment at fault, the law
was far from being failure.
| Deputy Marshal George w. Fisk had a
somewhat unpleasant experience, Tuesday.
For some time past the United States officers
|
of Fair Haven, whe was indicted at the re-
cent term of the Federal court for robbng
the Pos!onice at Benson. lie lived close to
the New York line aud on the approach of
| the officers, of which he was duly warned
| OF the neighbors, he would hasten across the
| line, where OF course he was safe. Yesterday,
| however, he was at last arrested and Marshal
Fisk went to Rutland 20 bring him TO this
city. The return trip was made comfortably
until just after the train had left New Hav-
en-, when Howard, handcuffed though he
was, jumped through partially open car
window. That part of the country is deeply
inundated for several rods from the railroad
track, and as Howard made for the woods
the water was so deep that nothing but his
head was visible. Marshal Fisk left the
train as soon as possible and almost the first
step he made took an Involuntary header
nto the water. Howard escaped.
| Deputy Marshal Fisk and Thomas Failey
went down Wednesday to recapture Frank
| Howard, the post flee rosDcr, whose daring
! leap Tor liberty we recorded yesterday 1t
seems that as EXpressman William Lyons
was on his way to the station vt Ncrgennos
to meet the train which reaches there at A. 0s
a. IN, he was accoste. by a man ans serlug
Towards description, who inquired the
nearest way 10 the lake, and on being tvi,
departed rapidly in that FRICTION. The
officers In company with Deputy Sheriff q
L. o. klmba.i "a Nergennss. starta!!
pursuit OF the fugitive sut had failed HI :. !,
accounts 10 0-crtake him. Howard In,
evidently worked his way up f.om ~
Haven through the woods which lin.
railroad several miles and then tom ..-
track to Nergcnnes, aa he wss seer bui a
short distance from the cr~seirg.