Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
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CITY AND VICINITY.

There are about forty students at the
preliminary term of the medical depart
ment of the University.
There will be about fifty pages more of
names in the new city directory than
there were in the last edition.
The postoflice was closed from IL till 3
o'clock Tuesday, on account of the funer-
al of the late Vice President.
Rev. Joseph Cook is to lecture at the
Methodist church Dec o on "The Seven
Wonders of the Modern World"
The mercury fell to within four degrees
of zero, in this city, Saturday morning.
Yesterday morning it stood at twenty
above.
Richard Dodge, the brakeman, who was
injured recently by falling from the Bur
lington and Lamoille train near Under
hill, is reported to be slightly better.
The Sherman Military band have made
arrangements to give Il series of promen-
AIDES at the skating rink during the winter,
the series to include five or six entertain
ments.
A party of young people have recently
formed themselves into an organization
called the Unique club for the purpose of
passing pleasantly in IL social way the long
winter evenings.
The superintendent of the railway mail
service has designated W. j. Madigan,
clerk in the postoflice in this city to act
temporarily as postal agent between St.
Adams and st. Armand.
Commencing next Monday, December
Z, the Central Vermont will resume the
running of solid trains between Boston
and Montreal, and no further detention at
st. Adams will be made
1t is not often that winter strikes us as
squarely and as strongly as it has this
year. Eight inches of snow, good sleigh
ing and temperature less than ten degrees
from zero, is regular Christmas weather.
A canal boat laden with sugar for O. j.
Walker & Bros, from New York, while
coming through the canal was struck in
the bow by Il cake of ice. The conclusion
stove a hole in the boat and as result the
sugar in all the lower tier of barrels is a
total loss. The merchandise was insured.
The cake of soap for which Dr. Vincent
got a design patent the other day is
known as the 'diamond' soap, and is
doubtless the handsOmest in shape of any
cake of soap in the market. 1t is diamond
shaped with perfectly cut facets and looks
very attractive. 1t is likely to have a
large sale.
Quite a number of the Young people en-
loved a season of coastiug ON Main street.
Saturday afternoon That coasting will
be more popular than ever this winter, is
shown by the fact that in the neighbour
hood of ten new traverse sheds are being
constructed. costing from lhrtv-fve to
forty dollars each.
If those people of this CITY who create a
demand for the services of IA Bergh bv
having their horses sheared inst AS the
winter opens. were themselves Obliged to
wear shaved heads uncovered in the win
try air. possibly the suns ravs might
strike in far enough Though their frozen
scalps to thaw out their hearts.
II y Nav Of Notick Mass. has been
ENGAGED ia ,ct ns iu,lpo at the noultrv 4x-
bihitinn IN he h.ld in mis- citv tha bind
week in january under the auspices of the
Champlan Valley Poultry association.
The committee having the matter i'm
charge say that Judging from the number
of breeders who expect to exhibit the show
will be the best ever held in this city.
IN "Wednesday of each week commenc-
mo Yesterday and continuing until fnrth
or notice n warm car will leave the Fitch
hurg railroad depot in Boston for ALI sta
tions ON the Central and 3utland divisions
of the Central Vermont railroad. and the
Vermont and Massachusetts division of the
Fitchburg railroad This car will he for
the transportation of fruit and other prop
erty pershable from cold and will with
out doubt prove great convenience to
Burlington fruit dealers.
The Howe Scale companv of FINLAND
has RECENTLY presented to the University
of Vernon for use at the college com
mons one of their portable platform scales.
weiphinp nm to six hundred nounds This
will be eoually seryiceable in weighing n
side of beef or tub of butter or in testing
the effect of the fare on the avoirdunois Of