Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

the other day nearly four feet long
Island Pond viii spend 81 10, fixing up
ii, hugh school building this summer.
Thnrv were ~, pounds of butter ship
pod ir,n Waterbury, one day this week.
Harmon. ia" +"1upn bigamist, has
been taken tu Windsor for II two years
stay,
September docket Of the Rutland County
COut.
Il. X. Seavpr, broom handle manufac-
tnrrr u stowe, j. reported financially EN-
blrlH,s ii.
Geo. W. Abbott. of South Barton, re
Gently received pension arrearages of about
$500
The project of bringing water from
Crystal Lake for culinary, fire and other
purposes is being agitated at Barton.
The Rutland marble dealers are com
planning about Il less brisk trade than last
year, but are looking for Il good fall busi-
ness.
Measles are still prevalent in Rutland.
In one family there are six children sick
with them, and Il number of deaths are
reported.
James Mitchell, a well known citizen of
Springfield, and formerly prominent
business man of that place, died Thurs
day, JUly2 aged 60 years.
llt llNt anu Ollt-HulI miles from snow
vile postoilce to the Randolph National
bank vas covered last week in 81 min
utcs on fOrty-two inch bicycle.
The Ludlow Congregational society has
bought II lot ON Main street in that town
with It view to building church
Rev r. ~ Hammond, lately of Barnet
Centre, has received call to the United
Presbyterian church, Thompsonvlle,
Conn, at Il salary of 100 Il year.
go ~
the apprehension and conviction of any
person or persons found guilty of stealing
flowers or shrubs. or detacing any tree
shrub or monument in the cemeteries.
Rev, f. Owen of Lyndon Centre has
move,! to Meredith, n. H., where he is en-
gaEeu as pastor.
Thu assiguees of :. NJ. Waite's insol-
vent estate have filed statement of their
accounts with the probate judge, which
will be acted upon the 23d.
| Prof. Isaac w. Dunham, after ten years
as superintendent of the Bennington
| graded schools. has resigned ami will re
move to the old homestead III Schenect-
ady.
y Bennington baby four days old was
! given carbulic dcid for castor oil by mis-
take and died two days after.
| \. G. Austin, a Newport hotel proprie-
tor, pestered by roughs about the depot
lun2. red pepper in the eyes of one and
| knocked another senselesS the other
day.
| The Lyndon institute has elected Al
| bert G. Hall of New York trustee, and
also president of the board of trustees to
fill the vacancies occasiOned by the death
of his father, Dudley p. Hall.
| EN-Gov. Selden Conner of Maine, who
| was elected senior vice-cOmmander of the
q. \. r., was a law student with Wash
burn x Marsh of Woodstock, and went
out with the Woodstock light infantry on
its three months service III the spring OF
| 1861.
The Fall Mountain Paper company at
Bellows Falls, is paying ten dollars Il cord
delivered, for spruce butts. The demand
is only temporary. the company having Z
large quantity of logs in a lamb or strand
ed in the vicinity of White River juno
ton.
Frank Kirk of Swanton was struck by
lightning during the storm and had hi,
arm paralyHcd, but recovered the use OF
it in II short time. The electric fluid left
Il yellow mark ON his arm. \ boy stand
ing near him was shocked, but not seri
ously.
| The Nergennes Catholics have broken
ground for Il parsonage near the church
1t is to be Il brick building thirty by thirty
eight feet, and is to be connected with the
church by a passage way.
The anniversary of the Bennington hat
tie will be celebrated this year by Custer
post of Bennington, As August II come,
on sunday, the celebration will come OF
saturday the 18th.
The gold fever has struck the town o
Reading, and already fortune hunters are
at work The rock is said to yield SIS 4
ton at five feet depth, $40 at seven feet
and $50 at ten feet
Brandon Catholics propose to eXclud,
their children from the Protestant schools
and are building Il school house of theil
own. The move is discountenanced by
some Oi the Catholics,
w. A. Guernsey of Rutland goes tC
Watertown, y. y. to take the secretary
ship of the y. NJ. c. \. in that town. Tn,
ASSOCIATION there is large and fiourishin.
and has II $50 200 building.
A village meeting was held at Bartol
Landing last evening to see what the vii
lage would do about building sidewalk
in connection with the new iron bridg
that the selectmen propose to build there
Ludlow is to have new bridge acros
Main street. The Berlin bridge compan,
of East Berlin, Conn, have been awarde,
the contract and have agreed to have th
new bridge ready for Use by August 15 a
a cost to the town of S2GOO.
{ Michael Leonard's little girl fell int,
the creek at Rutland Sunday and cam
about the bank when the earth under he
feet fell in and she with it. a young MAJ
named Quinn saw the accident and jump
ed in and got the child out
Mrs. C. A. Drake of Castleton Will,
out berrying Saturday was taken sudden
~ and violently i'll. She was moved t
her home in an unconscious state, wher,
she survived only half hour.
j. NJ Currier, secretary of the RUTLAND
Comfy Historical society, is gathering al
of the relics of the Indian fields, Neshob,
,, island, the battle grounds of CastletoI
and Hubbardton as far as possible, fol
exhibition ut the coming meeting of tn,
society, August |.
Rev. T. l.. Drury organized new
church at Chippenhook last Sunday,whicl
will be known rs the "Church of the Mes
sah.' A tlourshing Sunday-schoOl wa
also formed in connection with the churcl
of forty or fifty members.
Col. Balm of Kentucky will come into
this State IN September, Mrs, Lathrop o
Michigan in October, Miss Lucia kimbal
of Chicago in September and lecture ol
temperance. These lectures will be unde
the auspices of the W. &. I. |.