Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-21
VERMONT MATTERS.

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TENDER 10, III and II.
II. l.. Chase druggist, East Waling-
ford, is reported to have failed.
1t is reported that J. j. X. Randall is to
be appointed National bank examiner for
/ Vermont
The general Offices of the Vermont Mar
BILE company will be moved to Proctor |
about September 1.
A small Newport boy found a set of false
teeth in the street after the great lumber |
fire there last week.
The workhouse has lost six inmates in |
as many weeks. Fred Harvey, who went
Sunday, is the last one,
The Chittenden Reporter has come out
in an enlarged form and with new dress, |
and displays considerable enterprise.
A drunkard's carelessness caused the
burning of WOrcester's hotel buildings
Sunday night ; loss $500, insurance $1,000.
Prof Chas. f. Bailey, an experienced
teacher, late of Barre, Vt, has been en-
gagged as principal of the Rouses Point
schools.
Rochester and Il brave Union soldier, died
of sunstroke in Washington, ID. c., last
Saturday, aged 81 years.
j. V. Stevens's store and dwelling at
Waterville were burned Thursday. The
, fire started from the bursting of an oil
: stove loss S5OOO partly insured.
Fourteen $50 shares of the stock of the
Bellows Falls National bank were sold
Tuesday at Sl02 a share to George H. Bah
bitt of the American Express company.
= Two men attempted to burglarize Places
, store at llighgate Saturday night, by
breaking through glass door. The clerk
l heard them and fired ut them but they es-
: capped.
The slate and pencil quarries in North
Z Castleton are filled with water from the
= little deluge of last week and thirty or
! forty hands will lie on their oars until the
y pumping is over.
y A Derby Line despatch says that the
y drug store of Flint Il Laythee at Rock
i Island Grove was entered by burglars Fri
y day night. The safe was blown open and
., 500 distracted.
y Rutland has been sued for $4,000 dam
{ ages Ivy two citizens for keeping Il defect
IS i've sewer near their houses causing, they
@ claim, the deaths of two children of one
l. and one of the other.
e DR.. II. A. Ingham a resident of Yer
I gennes, VT, and manufacturer of Ing
l. hams pain killer, was found dead in bed
# Friday morning at Asbury park, n. j.
where he had been visiting.
e The mysterious maple tree disease has
q made its appearance in Rutland and a
H. good many trees are affected with it, The
lie leaves die, first on one branch and then on
lie another, nobody knows why, and it is sup
n posed that the death of the tree must fol-
IL low.
~ Patents were issued to Vermont inven-
~ tors for the week ending August II, as
ID follows: George w. Lepper, ST Adams
# cultivator; Leonard ID. Howard, st
sr Johnsbury, combined try-square and
r. bevel.
le The Woodstock Democratic campaign
es flag was draped in mourning and put on,
C. for Grant, a wind blew it down and broke
. l.t. 10 h.Nt,
al souls among the unterrifed are worried
d. about it.
he 1t is announced that John c. Burke o
lie Albany is booked for deputy collector o
&C. customs-in chief at Newport, and Franz
ne Sherman, for a long time customs broke
ne ut that port, is to be his right hand MAJ
~ and bookkeeper
es Unless "A good deal of promise fails Rut
III III land expects to have horse railroad be
al fore the season ends, three brothers name
g Haines of New York having proposed t
IN take hold of it. The understanding
y, that the road will be built to West Rut
10 land this fall.
w. Trial Cutler, one of the pioneers o
- Woodford, was recently freed by IA bear
and kept i'll confinement all night. |
the morning bruin and her cubs sauntere
off, and Mr.. Cutler, with lameness i'll hi
limbs, wandered all day before he foun
his habitation.
C, George II. Barnes .of Farhaven had
on narrow escape from drowning while i
II bathing in the river. He got beyond HI
n' depth, and but for the timely assistance
re- Charles Hamilton who went to his rescu
rt- would certainly have lost his life
l.. A family by the name of Maloney, liz
let ing in Dorset and consisting of Il moth,
and her two grown SONS, was poisone
last week from taking some narcotic poi
~, Oning with their food unknown to thet
1rn selves They are all now out of danger
md Henry Mccormick and John Iowle
: re re of Rutland, have each brought su
Nc against the village on account of Il defeC
m: i've sewer for 5000. 1t is claimed that II
on death of two children was caused by II
in sewer and that another is seriously i'll fro
II the same cause.
our The Bar docket for the September ter
on of Washington County Court has bee
nm issued, and contains 231 law and 80 cha
the Gerry cases. OF the former there a
IA thrty-two State prosecutions, and thi
,im, teen of those are for cases arising und
ION the prohbitory law.
Lightning entered the train despatc
lns ers' room at St Adams, Thursday toe
iso possession of the switch board, eXplodil
with a loud report, and blowing one
the switch pins clear across the room.
stirred the boys up considerably, but
en- serious harm was done.
ON The Universalist church at Brattlebo
,er- is being raised to make vestry, and W
at u.nGnor,a ,,;;ar,ntrini uindnus nr. to
his place the old ones. Money for the who
eet. expense has already been subscribed
me A singular accident happened recent
, as to the youngest son of Mr.. Glenn, w
p lives about two miles west of Mclndo
w. Falls. The child is about two years q
re- and was nluvinu with a common hedstp
pit, caster, and falling out of a chair near
1t amputated the thumb below the Ia
uti- joint.
an a German foot pedler was going
ON Bryant hill in Richmond, Monday mig
nth and met IA man also on foot who drew
lies pistol and demanded his money or lii
1t the German gave him $. 80 and told hi
and that was all he had. After firing one sh
tbs. and further threatenings he demand
was his overcoat and took it, Officer Coma
the is after the robber.