Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-12
VERMONT MATTERS.
Indictments Found by the Grand Jury
at Middlebury.


Indictments Found by the Grand jury
at Middlebury.
The grand jury at Middlebury Friday
found indictments against George Gil
more, formerly of St Adams, for stealing
a suit of clothes at Vergenues last winter
and against f. Mcbride for rape, alleged |
to have been committed at the passenger
depot in MiddleDury, where he is baggage |
master last Wednesday. Gilmore plead |
ed guilty and was sentenced to fourteen
months Imprisonment in the House of Cor |
rection at Rutland. McBride's trial is eX
peCted to begin to-day.
Caledonia County Court
The first case in the Caledonia County
Court ut st. Johnsbury Friday was
that of the St Johnsbury and Lake
Champain railroad against A. b. Hunt
for trespass. \ heifer belonging to Hunt
was killed on the road, and Hunt caused
the engineers arrest, took him off his
engine and delayed the train he was run
ming. The case, which had been removed
from the Supreme Court resulted in a
verdict for plaintiff of one cent damage
and costs. The case neXtOn trial is a. j.
Willard vs.. a. ID. Pike. Willard refused
TO pay his taxes, claiming that the grand
list on which the taxes We're assessed was
Illegal, and Pike attached bank stock be-
longing to Willard. The case is lmpor-
tant. as it involves the validity of the
grand list.
A Rumor that Gov. Hale has Failed.
a Bradford despatch says: \ report
here says that eX-Gov. Hale of New
Hampshire has failed for large amount,
and that all his property in Vermont has
been attached for four times its value.
Death of George VI. Clark.
George NJ. Clark the well-known and
popular minstrel died at his home in Felch-
ville VT, last Friday, in the fiftieth year
of his age. He enlisted in the war as
Lieutenant of Company d, Seventeenth
Vermont Regiment, and has an honorable
record of service in the field He was
Mason, a member of the Good Templars
and was one of the charter members of
William G. Tracy Post No. 81 q. A. r., of
Windsor His funeral took place yeSter
day, large delegation of .Masons and the
William G. Tracy Post being in attend
ance.
Postmasters Recently Appointed in YER
mont.
The appointment of the following Post
masters for Vermont Is announced: Fran
els Richardson at Willoughby, i'll place of
f. +. Richardson, resigned Flora j.
Peake at Orange, in place Of Henry j.
Curtis, resigned Edward ID. Plimpton at
Wardsboro, in place of +. b. Bissell, re-
signed s. b. II. Stullebeau at Sheldon,
in place of ID. ID. Wead, resigned ; Alonzo
A. Curtis at Londonderry, in place of +.
NJ. Leonard, removed
The Randolph Normal school closes a
successful term June IBIS.
The West Randolph graded school grad
uated IL class of nineteen last week.
The northern association of Universal
lists will hold atwo days convention at st.
Johnsbury, June "a and %.
Edward p. Butler superintendent of
the Vermont Marble company at Proc
tor, was run over by the cars Saturday
morning and lost an arm.
The Nineteth annual meeting of the
general convention OF Congregational
ministers and churches of Vermont opened
its sessions at Bellows Falls yesterday.
An effort is being made to secure the
pardon of Arson f.. Hayward, of Wind
ham county, who has served eleven years
on Il twenty years sentence for arson.
Charles c. Spaulding of Cavendish was
found dead Thursday night near the Proc
torsville wooden mill, upon which he had
been ut work. 1t is supposed that he fell
from staging and broke his neck.
The case of A. j. Willard against A. d.
Pike in the Caledonia County court at st.
Johns5ury, has resulted in verdict for
the defendant, thus establishing the valid
ity of the grand list
The marble figures made by the Yer
mont Marble company for the Boston sub
treasury building have been put in posi-
ton. AS they are over one hundred and
seventy-five feet from the ground they
appear rather less imposing than was eX-
pected.
The Boston advertiser says that the re
port is untrue that arrangements have
dent OF the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad company, and Edwin MOrey,
president of the Boston and Lowell road,
by which work is to be begun upon rail
road between Marshtield and South Hard
wick before the snow flies next fall.
Fifteen minutes walk from Woodford
will take one to bank of snow and ice
two feet deep. The immediate surround
ings are huge boulders and mammoth
trees, the trunks of which are nearly
three feet in diameter, while round top
spruces of small growth and evergreens,
| lichens and "tizZy-wZzies" without num-
Der, with Il gentle brook leaping over
great rocks adjacent, are the attractions
round about
Work on the burnt district at West
| Randolph has progressed rapidly since it
began III April Charles ThurstOn's block
is nearly done those of w. f. Lamson
ul3ois x Gay, w. IL. Dubois and Dr. ii .
| II. Mcintyre are three stories high. All
are of brick, the smallest thirty by fifty
| feet, and the largest seventy by one hun
dred and twenty Almost the entire bus
blocks when completed.
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