Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-04
decamped, taking with him the team and
the wife of DR.. Hamblin of Granville.

The Rutland postolice is to be equipped
with electric lights.
George Wardner, brother of Senator
Evarts's wife, died at Windsor Saturday at
the age of 10.
Goddard seminary at Barre has opened
its term with over 100 students and there
are still more to come.
A five-year old child of f. A. Field fell
off the fence mt Rutland Tuesday after
noon and broke its right arm.
Hon. l.. w. Redngton delivered the
address at the Franklin county fair at
Sheldon yesterday afternoon
Granite dealers think their kind of
stone good enough for the Bennington
monument and want to "hgure" on it.
Castleton has about forty old soldiers,
and there is some talk of forming q. A.
X. post. Forty old soldiers ought to be
able to sustain Il strong post.
The annual meeting of the Passumpsic
Railroad company was held at Newport,
yesterday but was not as largely attended
as usual. The old board of directors and
officers were elected, but no other business
was done.
The Troy PdllddiUm reports people in
its vicinity scared about the smallpox,
and some of them are carrying Jumps of
camphOr gum in their pockets, Others are
wearing sachets of CarbOlated powder
about THEN neCks, and "a few are being
VacCinatcd.'
Michael Kennedy of Rutland jumped
from load of lumber Saturday, the team
having started to run, and fell 50 that one
of the wheels passed over his right leg
Just above the ankle, breaking both bones
and crushing them and bruising the flesh
very severely. 1t is thought the foot can
be saved.
John Dufy's barn at Rutland was en-
tirely burned Sunday morning. Mr. Duff
fy was awakened by the noise of the
burning wood, at about l2:3O O'Clock, went
out and found bis barn almost consumed
then, and Just had time to save the horse
and COW.
Col Eldon a. Tilden who died in All
ston, Mass, Sunday morning of cancer on
the liver, was born in Barre in lS4l and
learned the tinsmith business of his faith
er there was private in the 2d Vermont
regiment, and afterwards served in the
army of the Potomac. He went to Bos-
ton in 1871 where he has lived since. The
burial was in Barre.
a late number of the New York mirror
contains portrait of Willard Brigham
a Montpelier boy who has risen rapidly in
the actors profession, and is now engaged
to take heavy characters with W. f.. Sher-
ldans company. The mirror says that
few young actors can point to such Il
record in the short space of three years. y
The damage by the recent rains in the
vicinity of Fairhaven will amount to over
$4,000 in the matter of crops alone. Besides
the grain and hay, many farmers on the
river bottoms have fields of potatoes and
corn ruined. Some farmers who have
usually had potatoes to sell will this year
be compelled to buy for their own use.
Prof John W.tBurgess of Columbia col
lege was married at Montpelier yesterday
to Miss Ruth Paine, daughter of Col. f..
u. Jewett. President Seelye of Amherst
college oi1c. ted.
Major c. +. Branch of the National
Guards carries Il sword which he captured
ut the fall OF Richmond April 3, lS65 The
sword bears this inscription "Surg. +.
b. Stuart, Sd Battalion Richmond City
Guard, Richmond. Va The sword was
captured from its owner as our troops en-
tered the city, by Major Branch, who was
in service with the 9th Vermont Nolun-
teerS.
The Sheldon hose company of Rutland
challenged the Kellogg hose company of
Fairhaven to run 700 feet and string 300
feet of hose for 800 il side, and the chal-
lenge was accepted. The foremen of the
two companies meet at Castleton Thurs
day to decide upon the time of the race,
which will be run at Castleton.
"Silent" Darby, an old man - or 50
years old, well known to most people
d
syncrasies, was found dead recently in a
barn on the old Nichols farm, and was
buried by the town. Darby was crazy,
but was harmless, except for tendency
to build fires in farmers barns to cook his
meals. Darby had evidently been dead
several days.
There are fresh complications in the
management of the Howe Scale works
1t seems that some members of the syndi-
cate which is backing the trustees who
have the active management of the con
Germ got uneasy, and as result the
trustees have been enjoined from issuing
any more paper, etc. 1t is declared. how
ever, that there was no real cause fol
! alarm, that the works are on a good
strong up grade, and that the injunction
suit is not likely to be pressed.
Rev. f. Il. Aiken, II graduate of Yale
college and of the New Haven Theologi
cal seminary, goes to Boston this week
| to complete arrangements for entering
the mission work in China He sails DC
tober 3, accompanying DR.. and Mrs. " hit
ney on their return to Shanghai, and will
! 90 north from there to Pekin.
The matter of the new government
building for Montpelier will not be inde
! fnitely postponed, as many have supposed
/ il would be. The government inspector
has decided to approve of the site selected
| by the local committee, which Is ON state
street, opposite Christ church. He viii
recommend to the Secretary of the Treas
ury that the matter be pushed, and that
work on the building be Immediately be-
gun.
A correspondent of the New York Ere
! nina Post, writing from Bread Loaf Inn
at Ripton says "One of the most ap
precatiye of our landscape painters, Mr.
George Smile, has found here materials
| for his summer work. and as Mr.. Bristo
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