Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-04-16

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elusive. Good Friday and Easter services
Ton the 23d and 25th inst at the church,
at | II, m, On Wednesday in holy week a
service IN Fairfax, April 81, at Mr. 5. f.
Sturges's at 1;30 p. m. On Easter Monday
the annual parish and vestry meetings at
the rectory, Buck Hollow.
South Royalton.
Josiah Smith, Esq. who was formerly
with G. il. Hart of Burlington died here
Friday p. IN. He was born August 30,
1915.
Henry f. Bardy, grocer OF Brandon, has
been attached.
Two Rutland men have contracted to
furnish n New York confectionery firm
with three tons of maple sugar.
A few more books have been put in the
library at Barton Landing, making the
number now In circulation Just 400.
Mr. 5. w. Stinson, formerly sheriff Of
Windsor county, has been appointed
special liquor prosecutor in Ludlow.
A Wilmington stage-driver reports the
snow as three feet deep on the mountains
between Wilmington and Bennington.
The town of Brattleboro held a special
meeting Tuesday for the purpose of
appropriating money for the soldiers mon
ument.
The Odd Fellows of Rutland are to re-
furnish their hall in the Billings block.
\ new carpet is to be bought and some
new furnitur and hangings.
William G. Elkins of North Troy has
sent to Washington 600 pounds Of maple
sugar, among the lot being one can Of ex-
ira fine sugar for Gen. Sheridan.
Work is being pushed rapidly in fitting
up the building for the shirt factory at
| Rutland, and it is expected that 3S ma
chimes will be started up next week.
1t now looks as if the efforts to form a
northern base ball league would be sue
cessful. Glens Falls, Fort Edward. Rut.
! land, Ticonderoga, Port Henry, and Platts-
| burgh clubs are willing to join.
The April term of Franklin County
| Court opened at st. Adams Tuesday
morning Chief Justice Royce presiding
with Hons. :. P Carpenter and +. C.
Thompson as associate judges,
At Boston the case of Dr. f. NJ Nelson
charged with completely in the Lancaster
/ bank troubles, was continued for another
month 10y United States Commissioned
/ lIallett Nelson being still unable to leav,
the hospital,
Albert H. Collins, - years old, wa,
struck on the head by an iron wrench fou
feet long, which had become caught in I
train of rolls at the Rhode Island Hors'
| Shoe works at Valley Falls. His skull
was fractured.
are to begin the manufacture of new ant
unique cases The Estey company arr
manufacturing parts OF their new piano
at Brattleboro for lack of room in thei
large New York factory.
; II. Preston, grocer of Barton is ad
justing his affairs in insolvency. \ meet
ing OF the creditors will be held at "A Cour
of Insolvency at O. II. Austn's office il
Barton Landing on April 80 at . O'Clock a
, m, to prove their debts and choose ON,
, or more aSsigneeS.
During the year 1sS5 there were in Cas-
tlelon "a deaths, 81 births and II MAJ
ridges. The age of the oldest person VIII
died was - years. There We're 81 over >
years old Eleven died of consumption
q IA We're foreign born and 20 were born i
o. CastletOn. OF the births 81 were male
and IL females.
An Old man in Holland while walkin
alone, the other night thought he saw tw
men with two doss approaching, but Whe
he met the strangers, they turned out t
be bears, the old ones walking erect, wit
. the cubs following. 1t Is needless To sa
; that he did not stop to shake hands.
Somebody is circulating cheap literatur
. in opposition to Senator Edmuuds as
= senatorial candidate. We do not know
whose interest this is in, but the Yer
, character of the stuff will tend to max
friends for the senator, if he needs any
a I)iI tOU -hbNttDI.
Mrs. ~ i. Sweet OF Richford is unde
arrest charged with cruelty beating lttl
E girl She took from the almshouse to car
e. for An investigation shows that she III
mercifully whipped the child many times
stuffed her mouth with rags, bound he
and used Il whip over her feet, Crippln
: her for life.
Henry Rice, s. years old, one of New
fane's oldest residents, was killed las
week by falling down cellar way in hi
house. He was born at Shrewsbury
Mass, In 1901, and was for some years
merchant at Dover and South WardsborC
and afterward served as trustee of thu
Windham county savings bank for abou
! 25 years
The spring sale Of the New Englau
Holstein Breeders association will he hel
at Greenfield Mass, Wednesday an
Thursday, April IA and 10, lsS6. Abou
l25 head OF registered Holstein- Friesia
cattle will be contributed by Fred |
: Houghtou of the Houghton farm, II. {
| Warner & Son, r. NJ Washburn, Georg
l.. Wells :. H. Warner & Son and other'
and will be sold
The board Of listers have appraised tn
value of bank stock in Rutland as TO
5 chants National banks and the Stat
t Trust company at par or SlO0 Il share, tn
+ Rutland Trust company, 80 per cent {
t which is paid in, at $50 "A share the M
tiOnal bank of Rutland at $50 share or 4
per cent of the par value, and the Ru
, land county and Baxter National banks 4
:. sl25 share, or % per cent premium.
. Explosion OF "A Boiler weighing Two Ton