Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-09
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CITY AND VICINITY.

DR.. Grinnell gave II reception to the
medical students at his residence We'd
nesday evening.
There are at present l6 students in the
Medical college, an increase of about %
in the last month
The strawberry crop is growing short
and they are offered only in limited guam
titles at 10 cents quart.
On and after Monday July 5, train No.
81 on the Central Vermont which leaves
here at Ills a. m. will stop at Richmond.
Stakes for the sewer on Battery Park
We're stuck yesterday and the work will be
begun at once, beginning ut Maple street.
Twenty persons went from Burlington
to Bar Harbor, yesterday. Manager Leach
furnished them Il through car to Port
land
The annual meeting of the Vermont
division, l.. A. w, was held at Bellows
Falls Wednesday, but the Burlington
wheelmen were not represented.
The stockholders of the Burlington Gas
company voted to reduce to 50 per thou
sand the gas consumed since June in
stead of January l as announced.
w. H. II. Murray has invited party of
about % gentlemen and their wives to
take Il sail at an early day on the Sharpe
and many of them have accepted the in
Vitation.
The Central Vermont people are going
to build a covering over the platform at
the Queen City Park station, an improve
ment which is both a necessity and great
convenience.
Dr. w. 5. Vincent filled Il prescription
yesterday that he filled for the first time
in 1867. In the meantime it had been fill
ed in London, Paris and several cities in
this country and the bottle was nearly
covered with labels
Twenty-eght barges of lumber arrived
last month, against 10 in June, 1855. The
large falling off is attributed to the stag
nation produced in the lumber trade, not
only here but everywhere, by the recent
labor troubles.
An apple tree branch was handed in at
this office, bearing good sized apples and
also Il number of blossoms in full bloom,
which is remarkable for this season of the
year 1t was from the orchard of +, Whit
ney of Williston.
Mayor Woodbury. has issued call for a
city meeting to be held Monday, July 10,
at $50 p. m. for the purpose of taking ac-
ton with reference to improving the
water works and buildinga soldiers mon
ument, and a hose house in Third ward
About 40 Burlington people took tho
Vermont Tuesday morning to attend the
meeting of the Young Peoples society of
Christian Endeavor in Saratoga. They
Were accompanied by 35 ladies from
Maine, who on their return will spend
Friday night in the city.
DR.. H. y. Ballou of Troy, who prac-
tised medicine here about 30 years ago
and was the first surgeon of the I'd Yer
mont, was in the city on Monday. He was
the surgeon who amputated Col. Wood
bury arm after the first battle of Bull
Run, - years ago yesterday morning, and
the two had not met since that event.
On account of the arrival in Burlington
waters Of new sharpe yacht which
goes by that designations the original
Sharpe owned by Col. Hindes and IL. w.
Hall has undergone Il notwithstanding, and
henceforh will skim the water rs the
White Wings,
man We're driving down Church street,
near Main. some boys threw fire crack
er into the street. The horse became I'M
manageable, broke the carriage consid-
erably and would have run away, had it
not been seized by a by-stander.
The alarm of fire rung in from box %
Saturday at $50 p. m. had its origin in a
fire which some children started in pile
of straw between the barns back of the
American House. The flames had been
eXtinguished with pals before the arrival
of the fire companies.
The steam yacht Albani from Brock
vile, Ontario, arrived at Burlington, Sat
urday, with her owner and family, and
stayed over Monday. She is schooner
rugged, besides her steam, and is a beauti-
full boat, equipped with a view to the ease
and luxury of her occupants. To spend
month on cruise in such a craft is the
ideal vacation.
a freight train with Il load of railroad
ties some Of which protruded beyond the
edge of the car met with an accident near
Leicester junction about S O'Clock Tues
day night. While passing through bridge
the ties struck the side, tore things ND
considerably and put two or three cars of
the track. No lives We're lost, and the
damage was not as serious as it might
easily have been.
By reason of the high west wind the
Vermont was unable to land at Basin
HarbOr Wednesday with the Unitarian eX-
cursOnists, and they had the privilege of
making the complete trip to Ticonderoga,
or OF landing at any of thp intarmed iatp