Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-20
BURLINGTON W. Friday. NOVEMBER Iss5TWENE PAGES.
LIN. NEW SERIES VOL. NXXI.


ing where he expects to enter business
&C.. A union meeting was held at the ball
in the Y. NJ. G.. A. building last sunday
evening, at which General Secretary {. H.
Page read very interesting paper upon
the work of the international committee
of the y. VI. G. a.
south Royalton.
A California excursion agency has been
established here by Warner Bros. a
Crosby of Chicago. &c. The revivalst, Mrs
Balloti, nee Mrs Hammond, has com
prted her labors here. Mr.. Ezra Burn
ham of Stockbridge has been cqnvassslng
here for vermont in the Rebellion ....
Mrs. II. c. Jones. Eastern emigration
agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Paul railway, has returned here and Is
looking for people TO emigrate to Dakota
Waterbury.
A harvest home festival was held at the
| Methodist church last Sunday evening. 80.
George w. Kennedy, Esq, has gone West
to attend a law suit in the District Court at
AtchisOn, Kansas There is claim OF
| over $4,000 IN the case.
Enosburgh Falls.
There will he Il concert in the Methodist
| church on Friday evening for the benefit
of the parsonage fund...N y. James,
bookkeeper for the DR.. B j. Kendall com
pany, returned home Saturday from a trip
to Boston; also j. NJ. Jeflords and NJ. r.
Perley of the Hub drug store, who have
been to market for goods -. w. II. Bill
lado has his new brick block nearly com
peted. 1t is one of the finest stores in
| Franklin county. The three days
preachers meeting ut the Methodist
church last week was well attended, con-
sidering the weather and the condition of
the roads.
Mr.. and Mrs Ezra Warner of Chicago
l,1+ i-it NJ 1r-
Warmers mother, Mrs. Remsen, who goes
to New York this week for "a short visit,
and from there accompanies her daughter
home, to remain during the winter. Ty-
phoid fever still holds its victims at w. II.
| DeLOng'S The daughter, Il young lady,
has been very i'll for several weeks ana
for some time her life was despaired of,
but she is somewhat better now. Mr..
and Mrs Frank Bacon of Waltham We're
in town over the sabbath, at Hiram Bing
hams Franklin Hooker. who has been
sick during the past week, is now conval-
escing .... The Cobb cider mill Is about to
close for the season, having been run to its
utmost capacity during the past two
months. BY vote of the Congregat ion
al Sunday school, last Sunday, i. p. ID.
Matthews the superintendent and Mrs NJ.
y. Porter were constituted life members
of the Congregational Publishing cOmpa-
ny of BOStOn....James :. Wing, VINO tor
some time has devoted II good deal of
time to fancy breeding of fowls, has erect
ed il large and commodious hennery.
Springfield.
Mr.. Londas Ellis was found, Saturday
at about 93O Il. m, suspended from Il roof
ratter in the barn by his neck. He had
been dead about thirty minutes it was
thought as the body was quite warm He
had hung himself by Il Slip moose in u
clothes line rope about four feet long,
throwing him forward and strangling by
bearing his weight on the rope. His feet
touched the hay on the loft floor. Mr..
Ellis has been troubled with poor health
for some years, and several times has at
tempted to take his life. He was Il son of
the late Christopher Ellis, and his age was
about forty-seven years He leaves three
daughters now orphaned.
The statement in some Of the Vermont
papers that the horse thief recently ar
restee at Constable, y. Y, 'is Sterry w.
Langdon, a native of New Haven or vicin-
ity," is incorrect, 1t is author'tatiyely
stated that the erring young mans father
is DR. ;. w. Langdon of Sheldon, W.T..
Mr.. Herbert Miller a former pupil at the
academy, but now successful merchant
at Saranac, y. V, was in town over sun
day, the guest of Mrs. Eliza Meacham,
.... The Young Ladies's Working club
give "pound' sociab.e on Friday even
ing, in this manner: The young ladies
are separately weighed, and the sealed
weights deposited in grab-bag. The
young gentlemen draw from the bag, and
take out to refreshments the "prize' they
draw, paying Il uniform percentage upon
the fair ones avordupois. a merry time
is anticipated. Deacon Hugh Potter is
erecting Il wind mill for the purpose of
watering stock, making the fifth mill
within hundred rods of the village
green. Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Byington
OF Constable, \, y, left on Tuesday for
home .... a workman on Walker X l3oOth's ;
barn was quite severely injured last week,
by falling from the plate to the ground.
Franklin.
\ company Of over sixty of the friends
Of Mr. and Mrs +. r. Bell gave them II
pleasant surprise last Wednesday evening
at their home. After the evening had
been well spent in social intercourse, and
the refreshments which had been brought
in had been properly disposed of, Mr., and
Mrs, Bell were comfortably seated in NO
elegant easy chairs which had been pur-
| chased for the occasion. The chairs were
presented to them in behalf of the friends
present by Mr.. c. Temple in an appropri-
ate speech, to which Mr., Bell briefly res
pOnded. Mr. Bell and family intend to
move out of the village on to their farm
in a short time. They will be greatly
missed by their many friends here, who
hope to see them back again at no distant
day. go. Mrs. DR.. Geo. G.. Briggs of Burling-
ton has been spending Il few days in
town.
| West Randolph.
Mrs. y. a. Smith and three ladies met
with an accident Friday. They had just
got into II covered two-seated carriage
when the horse started and turned around
suddenly, throwing all the occupants out
Mrs. Smith had four ribs broken. The
other ladies escaped serious injury though
they were thoroughly frightened and con
sderibly bruised. Old Mrs. Moulton,
mother of the Moulton Bros, was
buried Sunday .... A despatch was
received here announcing that Miss Ma
hel Moulton formerly of this place, at
TEMPTED to commit suicide by drowning
n Windsor