Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-19
VERMONT MATTERS.


make its first semi-annual dividend July /.
Joseph Battcll has been commissioned
us postmaster at Bread Loaf.
a writer in the Vermont watch man ad-
NocatcS he forming Of Il State lIOrtcul-
tural society.
A Bennington firm made large ship
ment of fine quartz sand to LeipsiC, Ger
many, recently.
The steam mill at Chester depot has
started again manufacturing chair stock
after six months idlencSS.
a Bjattleboro man has chicken with
only one leg and one eye, which, neverthe
less, manages to hold its own with its
more favored fellows.
An observing and inquiring physician
says consumption has declined in Vermont
from forty to fifty per cent since the lands
were thoroughly drained.
SwantOn has a new shooting club, with
constitution and bylaws enough to govern
the whole town.
Frank n, Forman, painter, was ar
rested IN SWantOn on Saturday on the
Charge of bigamy. In default of 500 bail
he was committed to st. Adams Jail
The Union Soapstone Company ut Ches-
ter is building Il foundation for Il new mill
for saving and working their stone into
blocks near their old mill.
The Belvidere special mail service and
the regular service from BrattlebOro to
W est BrattlebOrO have been ordered dis
continued.
A portion of the Bennington Wooden
mill Is to be started July /.
Seven persons between the ages of fifty
ana ninety years have been buried at Cas-
tletOn in the last ten days.
Further particulars state that Miss Mary
Burnham, II notice of whose death was
published last week, was suddenly taken
with acute brain trouble which made her
dclirious, and that she had been in this
condition sixteen days when death ended
her suiferingS.
An exchange says the present arrange
ment of trains ON the Vermont division
OF the Boston and Lowell railroad does
not accommodate the public very much.
1t Is impossible to get to Burlington or
Franklin county and back the same day.
Rev. +. f. Strong, IL recent graduate
of Hartford Theological seminary, is with
his young bride nicely settled in the Con-
grcgatlOnal parsonage at North London
derry
News has been received ut Rutland of
the death OF Byron ID. Morgan and Charles
Cheney, Rutland men employed on the
Panama railroad. Particulars are lack
ing.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Vermont are to hold Normal
institute, on hereditary and hygiene at
Bellows Falls, June % and %,
The late Mrs. H. VI. Stevens of st. Al
Dams, who spent several years in mission
airy work at the South. willed $1,000 to
found a scholarship in Fiske University,
Nashville, Tenn.
a town meeting at St Johnsbury last
Thursday, held to see if the town should
refund its debt at Il lower rate of interest
adjourned without action. y warrant is
issued for Il special meeting for this same
purpose, to be held Tuesday, June %
1t is said Walter f. Howard, for two
years past United States consul at Toron-
to, Canada, and II former principal of the
Castleton Normal school will resume his
law practice in Fairhaven.
+. \. Bissell, Esq, of East Shoreham
has Just returned from IL trip to the West
having attended the meeting of the Ma
tional WOOl-Growers' Association at St
Louis He brings with him three head of
pure Galloway cattle.
The store of f.. Lane at Derby Centre
was broken into on Friday night. Find
ing clerk sleeping in the store, the bur
glars were frightened away without tax.
ing anything. The tools with which they
made entrance were left behind.
j. NJ. Currier, secretary of the Castleton
| Memorial association has received a hand
/
for the resolutions of sympathy for him
and his, passed by the citizens and veteran
soldiers at their decoration ceremonies in
CastletOn, May 30.
| The annual camp meeting at Silver Lake
will commence Friday, June 26, and close
sunday July ,. Rev. ID. j. Griffin of Ware
/ ham, Mass will have charge of the meet.
! ngs, assisted by other ministers Return
checks will be furnished by the Central
Vermont Railroad company to those pay
ing full fare one way over their lines.
| At the twelfth annual convocaton of
the Grand Chapter, Order Eastern Star
held at putney, the report on foreign cor
respondence by Mrs. >. y. Bass showed
that the order was progressing through
out the country The officers elected
were: Foster y. Harris of Wolcott
Grand Patron; Mrs. Susa :. Bass of West
/ Randolph. Grand Matron H. l.. Stillson
of Bennington Grand Secretary.
John c. Gault who will become general
manager of the Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Texas Pacific railroad, July l. in place
of John Scott, resigned, is at present ar
bitrator of the Western trunk lines. He
is said to be an efficient railroad man,
| thoroughly versed III all matters pertain
ing to the general management OF Il rail
/ road, as well as an an able traffic man. Mr.
Gault was born and brought up in North
/ field
| Mrs. Albert Laraway of Stowe has a
/ four-leggeI chicken. The chicken is OF
regular shape every way except III tn,
number of its legs, two of which are just
| back Of its wings, and the other two art
where the tail fought to grow" The
legs are in good shape, including the
/ toes, and resemble those of perfect fOrma
ton. The mOnstrOslty lived about half Il
day.
A Woodstock man has given to the