Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-08
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CITY AND VICINITY.

CIIb AMI NlClNihh'
Barefooted boys with one suspender
have made their appearance.
Postal carriers are to have new un iforms
of light material for warm weather wear.
Souare-toed, rather thick soled, low
heeled boots are the latest novelty in foot
gear for 1885.
There is remarkable falling off in real
estate transfers in this city as compared
with last year.
Hold on to winter clothing yet awhile.
Regulation summer does not begin for
number of weeks yet.
The street department have given or
ders to have the street crossings cleaned
every Saturday night.
The building boom continues undated,
a good number of foundations having
been recently begun for residences.
The first shipment of lumber by boat
from Canada is expected to arrive at this
port about the middle of this month.
Mayor Woodbury. has appointed f. S.
Adsit to be Chief of Police. There is not
much doubt but that he will be con
firmed.
The New York and Lake Champlain
Transporiati company started steamer
from Whitehall with TOYS for st. Johns
on Saturday.
For the benefit of our lady readers we
will state that the latest shades for para
soils are in imitation of either the mush-
room or toadstool.
Buffalo bugs, the destructive carpet
pests now at work, are said to be provok-
4; 10 nxyta ,1t, ,t
except powdered alum.
The case of Wilbur Perrigo, who is con-
fined in Jail here on the charge of assault
ing Officer Larose, is not to be heard until
another term of court.
Stannard Post has in itsfpossession a
gavel made from wood from the stockade
at Andersonville. 1t was presented to the
Post by Gen. r. S. Peck.
The English sparrow now stands ac-
cused of bringing the Buffalo moth to
this country. AS he has no friends it is
safe to accuse him of anything.
The steamer Germania went north Sun
day with thirty boats from Whitehall,
bound for Montreal. 1t was the first tow
of the season on Lake Champlain.
Senator Edmunds and his family arrived
in town last week. The Senator is look
ing well and Burlingtonians will be pleased
to learn he is enjoying good health
Captains Osgood and Knight of Port
Henry have secured large contract for
the transportation of salt from Syracuse
to wholesale dealers in Burlington.
Farmers murmur over the low prices of
butter and eggs, and some of them are
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sibility of war between England and Rus
STA.
Contracts are being made for poles along
the line of the Central Vermont road for
the telephone line between this city and
Rutland. The company expect to have
the line in working order in Il short time.
The management of the Home for Des-
titute Children are having private sewer
laid from the Home TO connect with Pot
ash brook, Il distance of about eleven hun
dred feet. The work is nearly half com
pleted.
Venus will be evening star during May.
Neptune is evening star till the 18th, and
then morning star. Jupiter is evening
s.ar ali Inc month ; hcgulus is hls near
neighbour. Mercury and Mars are morn
ing stars, Saturn and Uranus are eve
ming stars. The May moon fulls ON the
2Sth.
Van Scklen, Seymour a. Co., shipped
yesterday, two canal-Doat loads of empty
kerosene oil barrels some twenty-five
hundred in all. IN the same tow were two
loads of lumber from Bronsons, Weston,
Durham & Co., and one from the Shepard
& Morse Lumber Co.
Minister Phelps will not only step into
eX-Minister Lowel's diplomatic shoes, but
he has arranged to occupy ms house, in
Lowndes square, London, and expects to
be in full possession by mid-May. He has
engaged it for only one year and it is pos
sible that he does not expect to remain
abroad longer than that period.
The alarm rung in from box "a about
1:20 Friday afternoon was due to the
discovery of fire il the shavings room OF
Bronsons, Weston, Durham & Co.'s lum-
Der mill. The Fire department responded
promptly and large number of streams
were playing in "a short time, but owing to
the nature of the contents of the building,
the flames were not wholly eXtinguished
until after o'clock. The damages were
almost entirely confined to the roof of the
building, the walls, which were brick, be-
ing intact. The building is insured in
Gen. Il. s. Peck agency
Fruit Trees.
G.. f. Allen of Brattleboro, Vt, offers
fine trees of pear, apple, plum, cherry and
peach, in good variety, in single dozen OF