Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-19
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ampton, Mass, j. II. Williams of Bellows
Falls VT, Hugh Henry of Chester, VT
| The treasurer's report showed the net earn
| ings for the past year to be S12, ,SOOS7. n
| three per cent dividend was voted amount
| ing to $50 900 and S9S04. 20 was carried to the
surplus after deducting S?996.61 for inter
est and rents, bringing the total surplus up
| to S13 ,S25 05.
Anson Hayward Pardoned.
A White River function despatch says;
On petition of over 1000 citizens Gov. Pin
gree has conditionally pardoned Anson
Hayward of Windsor, Vt. who was
convicted at the May term of court
in 1874 of maliciously burning his
own buildings in Weston, VT, and sen
fenced to twenty years imprisonment.
| Gov pingree has also condtiOnally par
doned Wilfred ID. Sprout of Norwich, Vt.
convicted IN December, 1876, of arson, and
| sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment
st. Johnsbury Academy.
The St. .Johusbury academy closed its
| forty y-second year this week. The eXamin-
| ations took place Monday. A concert by
| Blaisdell's orchestra was given in the eve
| ming under the auspices of the senior class
| at Music hall On Friday evening the
graduating exercises occur. The gradu-
! ates number twentynine.
| Baptist Sunday-School convention.
| The annual convention of the Wood
stock Association of Baptist Sunday
| schools met at Bellows Falls Wednesday.
| The Association is composed of sixteen
| churches with 100 members in this vicinY-
! ty. The following officers were elected :
| j. j. Miner of Chester, president :. |,
| PettigreW of Ludlow, vceprcsident =
| !. Phelps of Andover, secretary. Prrsi-
dent Miner presided and there was Il full
attendance and "A long list of subjects dis
cussed.
| Regimental Reunion.
| The reunion of the Sth Vermont Rcgi-
ment took place at Montpelier Wednesday,.
| a good attendance of veterans was pres
| ent.
| Middlebury.
| \ couple of young fellows were arrested
| here Wednesday morning, charged with
| intoNcation. In the evening they had Il
| hearing before Justice Knapp. One dis
closed on the other who disclosed on "A
| saloon keeper, No. > was fined the usual
sum, amounting with costs to $1,000 i'm
payment of which he gave AN order ON the
Otter River Marble Co., in whose shop
he was employed When wanted for Il
witness in the morning it was aScertained
that during the night the shrewd young
man had started for that extensive coun-
try known as parts unknown" and it
was discovered later that he had drawn
all the money coming to him from his EN-
ployers,, thus leaving no funds behind
with which to honor his order The
game of polo between the Amateurs and
Stars at Bonds rink "Wednesday evening
resulted i'll victory for the former, who
won by five straight goals, playing two
extra ones. The Amateurs PLAYED q
strong game. and the contest was Il lively
though one-sided one, and was witnessed
bV a large number of peOple
young man from East Middlebury was
arrested, and on Saturday was brought
here and tried on charge of intOXicatiOn
a considerable retinue of witnesses were
summoned by the State, and the young
man thought it well to bring in some ter
or dozen witnesses for himself, but they
were Unnecessary Not one OF the wit
nesses for the prosecution was able tC
swear that the young man was intoXca
ted on the occasion in question, and the
charge appears to have been based solely
upon the imagination of an old woman
and the fact that the young mans horse
SHE'D out of the road. In about sixty
seconds the jury came in and said that
the respondent was not guilty. But il
cost him probably some twelve or ffteeI
, dollars to let the State prove him innocen,
of charge which itself had brought
through its authorized officials The
joke of the whole thing is that the
person who signed the complaint against
the young man is herself liable to prose
cuton for selling cider, and it is under
stood that complaint to that effect has
already been made. 1.-Two other liquor
cases were tried on Saturday, and it cost
one man, for getting full and furnishing
to friend, something like $2S. There
J was game of base ball on the college
grounds, on Friday afternoon, for $40 1
side. a nine picked up in the village
, played against a nine taken from the col
, lege, the high school and Beeman academy
in New Haven. "Muffs" were trumps
and the latter nine won by IL score o
included some of the best players wh'
ever handled the ash in Middlebury, bu
they were away Off.
Mr.. George Mac donald of New York, a
former Middlebury boy, and at present
wholesale importer in New York is il
town visiting his mother, Mrs James
Macdonald. The final examinations o
5 the senior class of the college We're held OF
Monday and Tuesday, and Tuesday eve
ming the seniors were at last free mel
with the exception of delivering theil
G Commencement orations and paying THEN
= bills. The examinations of TIE othe
three classes will occupy all of the week
: -. Lewis st. Mary was quite badly in iureC
"Wednesday forenoon by falling from ,
ladder on which he had been at work. Hi
head was badly gashed and it is feare,
that his spine is in jured, but the full eX
: .... The billiard and pool rooms in the Dye
block were closed Wednesday by order o
the selectmen. No cause is assigned for thi
= action, and, SO far as has been learned, N
responsible complaint had been made. =.
The Senior class of the college advertis,
for their Commencement concert Miss VI
= Gertrude Edmands of Boston for contra
alto soloist, with the Ruggles stree
church quartette of Boston and the Blais
!. dell orchestra of Concord n. II.
e st. Johnsbury.
George f. May has engaged as nigh
n clerk at the st, Johnsbury house. 80.
e Geoge l., Bradley and wife left Wednes
4 day for Minneapolis, MINI, 81. Rober
o McKinnon has moved in to the hous
4 which Mrs, Bradley lately occupied
Rev. II. Fairbanks and Harvlin Paddoc
n of the South church society are this wee
:. attending the convention of Congregation
S al churches at Bellows Falls John No
= Donald has received u pension of IS pc
+ month and back pay amounting to tw
{ hundred dollars.
n The programme for commencement a
the academy is as follows: Sunday, Jun