Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-28

The st. Johnsbury academy opens with
25O students.
Lake Bomoseen is said to be higher than
| has been known for years
| There will be a reunion of Co. |, 1lth
| Vermont Volunteers, at ;. ii. Fosters
| Grove, North Calais, Sept. I.
| There was frost in the vicinity of
| Waterbury Tuesday hight, but the heavy
fog prevented any damage thereby.
The reunion of co Apany A, 9th Yer
mont regiment is being held at the Il. A.
h. encampment at WeybridSe.
A cornet band with twelve members has
lately been organized at Fairhaven. Elmer
Reynolds, formerly of Rutland, Is TO he
| the leader.
lightning struck Adna Brown ; barn at
Springfield last Friday night during IL
thunder storm and burned It, Loss about
| $1,000.
Rev. NJ. l.. Severance principal of Burr
and Burton seminary, and his wife, now
in Europe, will sail from Liverpool on the
Germania Aug p.
The thermometer at Rutland last even
ing registered 53 above. There was some
frost and Il little snow fell on the noun
tains yesterday morning.
A Barton woman, who had been enter
tanning her company for some time with
talk, asked to be excused, temporarily,
that she might retire TO another room ITO
rest her tongue"
Il f.. II. Pattee. one of the selectmen OF
Richford, fell from his chair viii lie eating
diuner on Sunday, and died almost IN
stautly. The cause of death was apopleAy,
, Deceased was 30 years Old.
f Hon. William NJ, Evarts, on Friday OF
4 last week, in company with l.. II. Can
y field of Arlington, visited sunderland tC
{ see the birthplace of his father, the dis
Y tiaguished jeremiah Evarts. 1t is said tC
, have been his first visit
t Rutland county clergymen have en-
t gagged A. l.. Parsons of Lowell to do mis-
# sionary work through the county, especi
: ally on the back hills where there is grea
e need of religious work.
|, Rev. l.. l.. Beeman has decided to de
!, cline his recent offer of a college presl
y dency at the West, and continue in hi
present appointment of pastor OF tn
:. Methodist society in st. Johnsbury.
Is A three weeks loss of time and hun
= dreds of dollars damages were caused yes
|, terday by thousands of tons of earth slld
IL ing in the pit of the Union soap ston
le adarry at Chester filling it complete
~ up.
- Robert Moulthrop, one of the bes
= known and most highly respected OF Rul
j. land's farmers is dead. He had suffered
= lingering sickness for several years. ba
,, been confined 10 the house for six Weeks
y and died at about two O'Clock Monday al
n, | ternOOn.
/ The Shaftsbury association begins It
Of annual session at Brandon to-day IN
,e meeting Will continue tomorrow and Wi
ar be followed by the centennial celebratio
of the Brandon Baptist church, at WhlcI
a DIR. Thomas who was pastor of the churc
~ for forty years will deliver the address.
y Officer Durkee of Pttsiield took Fran
III and MAY Townsend, brother and sister Z
~ that town, to the WOrkhOuse Thursday
rs committed for burglary, in default OF S1Ol
n, They are charged with breaking INTO Care
v line LeWis's house in PlttsHeld Sunda
Of morDing and stealing SO.
OF \ man by the name of DoiloH, living
East Charleston, recently put Paris gree
on his potatoes, using sprinkler Whlc
leaked little, so that his pants becan
J., saturated with water about the ankle. .
of few days afterwards his legs began
r. swell and he has since been very sick wit
ne symptoms of arsenical poisoning.
+. At the special town meeting held &
ed Brandon Monday afternoon to see if til
u town would rescind the vote and action
the meeting held July Z, directing that II
soldiers monument be erected in the tr
+o angle at the junction of Park and Franl
ho lin streets in front of +. j. Ormsbee
~ ~ house, the town refused to rescind. Th
'ai was the second meeting that has bee
X called for the same purpose and both hay
hy failed to rescind the action of the meetin
nj of July :.