Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-24
VERMONT MATTERS.

Thursday.
Recent heavy rains has raised the water
in the Connecticut two feet.
X. a. Knight has been commissioned |
postmaster at Dummerston.
The thermometer at Northfeld register
ed 96 above in the shade Friday.
1t is thought that 100000 tons of hay
will be cut in Washington county.
Tae East Concord Methodist church is
rejoicing over new 800 pound bell.
a new hotel, called the Bellows Falls
house, is being built at Bellows Falls.
The Lyndonville camp meeting will be-
gin Monday, August ~, and close on Sat
urday
y mountain town in Rutland county re-
Gently tried by jury man who had stolen
five eggs.
The Congregational church at Ludlow
has bought IL lot ana intend to build a new
church editice there.
Barre's granite business gives employ
ment To 5GO men and the FORK shop, tacto-
ry and foundry employ 40 men.
y Walden woman recently had eight
tunOrs, varying in size from Il pea to Il
turkey egg, removed from her head.
The CHIEF matter of interest at present
III Ludlow is the coming semi-centennal
celebration of Black River academy
A Manchester despatch says Rev. DIR.
Prime is growing weaker and is not eX-
pected to live more than Il day or two.
Lyndonville has Il newly organized
Esther chapter" of the order of the
Eastern Star, with strong membership
Mary McDonough of Rutland, seventy
years old, fell down stairs Saturday and
broke her skull. She died in few hours.
Next Thursday is the day set by the in
solvency court for the third and final
meeting of the creditors of ;. NJ. Walte's
estate.
julie Bordo,. Jr. of West Enosburgh
| lately received pension from the gov
eminent, the back pay amounting to
| 81 OPP.
c. c. Morse, mail agent on the Lake
| road, has been discharged, and the place
| has been given to ;. X. Waterman of
| Morristown.
| The laying of pipes for the Newport
water works is finished, and last week Il
| preliminary trial was made with some of
| the hydrants.
The mill property of Moore, Arms X
| Thompson OF Bellows Falls built at II
cost of sl5o,0OO, will be sold, it is said, to
| w. a. Russell
w. NJ. Farrow of Brattleboro has shown
his patent rifle to local sportsmen who are
talking of Il company to manufacture the
new gun in that town
Samuel ;. Brewer of MendOn, siXty-five
years old, hanged himself Saturday. He
| was III his right mind and no cause Is
known for his committing the deed.
J. A. Clement of Lunenburg, Vt, aged
% attempted to jump on IL moving eNcur-
sion train at Tiltun. y. H., yesterday fore
noon and fell beneath the wheels, being
killed Instantly.
| st. Adams is mentioned as the next
meeting place of the Vermont Press as
soclatlOn, aud it is suggested that the
Sdglenay be the scene OF the next an
nual excursion.
The I'dlty sun has shed its patent out
sides and is now printed entirely at White
: River junction. There is not 50 much Of
: it AS there was before, but what there is i.
Il great deal better.
Arnold Bros. x Co., have resumed work
| ing their silver mine at Hortonville ON
large scale. They have put up building
, containing three crushers and intend tC
add other necessary machinery soon.
The Vermont marble company is get
ting out a large order for the wainscot
, ting, steps, etc, to be used in rebuilding
i. the court house in Cincinnati destroyed
/ by mob during the last riots in thai
| city.
e Wilson Walker and Frank Williams o
+ Castlcton We're thrown violently from /
e buggy Thursday by a runaway horse thai
4 they were driving for the first time, ant
+ Walker was badly bruised on his heat
e and about his body. Williams was un
e harmed.
= \ DulhmerstOn man has Il cannon-bal
; which his step-tather picked up on tn,
= Bennington battlefield seventy-tive year,
; ago. 1t weighed four pounds, and wa
5 undoubtedly fired at the battle Of Ben
/ nlngtOn i'll liii,
Workmen began Thursday morning OF
Z the site chosen for the soldiers mOnumen
u at Brandon but the digging was post
II poned, as Deputy Sheriff Stearns of Rut
: | land served an injunction fOrblddlng then
} To do any further work.
. The Chester Union Soapstone compan
i will erect new mill on the ground owne
y by the Chester Steam Power company nd
~ joining their mill al the depot. The build
" ing Will be eighty-tour feet long and thin
# ty-four wide and one story high.
. Fred Yarmouth, aged - years of Brad
e ford, arose i'll his sleep the other night
IA opened Il second story window and crawl
Il Ell out, when he TELL to the ground. II
1t was picked up in an unconscious state bu
/ it was found his injuries We're slight
e Surveys and measurements from Man
e chester and Factory Point to Equine
4. pond and various springs have been mad
II with Il view to supplying these two vi
IL lagos with water, A stock company
/, talked of IN connection with the matter
The Valley Mill company in Brattlebor
is making important additions to It's bus
ness facilities. y new elevator of increa
IN ed capacity has been put into the mill @
", paOle of handling Il carload of 500 busl
I els of corn or 1000 bushels Of oats in ha
IL an hour
lg| a petition is being circulated at Bral
w don FOR another special town meeting
rescnd the vote of the last meeting
-. put the soldiers monument in the trla
a' gle, and to see ii the town will vote
- put it between the Congregational churC
u and Engels block.
Is The committee appointed to report {
Id the prospect of success in organizing
nt new bank at ST. Adams, produced 4
So agreement signed by about fifty citizen
# mostly business men, promising to su
n port a bank conducted on conservati'
rk principles and by honest men.
he An architect from Middlebury, who h
b. under consideration the building of Il he
in Congregational church at West Rutlan
90 has examined and pronounced the o
.r. structure unsafe. The new building, it
re- expected, will occupy the site of the cha
re- ell on Ross street, and will be complet,