Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-30

Dixon reports an unusually large num-
Der of summer visitors for this season of
the year.
The fee on postal money orders for all
sums under 50, is now five cents instead
of eight as formerly.
The Van Ness House was appraised by
the assessors at $4,000 instead of S25OOO,
and O. j. Walkers farm at So, 800 ana not
800 as was announced.
Entries for the State fair are already
being made in considerable numbers and
managers are anticipating an unusually
fine exhibition.
j. c. O'Bren Of Bellows Falls the new
ly appointed paper clerk on the run to
Essex junction through this place, entered
upon his duties Wednesday.
About one hundred people attended the
picnic of the Congregational Sunday
school of Winooski to Highgate yesterday.
They had very pleasant time.
Edward Wells, Esq, has purchased
lot of land, corner of Summit and Maple
streets, from Mrs. Lawrence Barnes and 1t
is reported will build a fine residence soon.
The drab helmets ordered for the police
force have arrived They will be used
only when the force parades and by Off
GERS when in duty on the principal streets.
The check lists of the voters in town are
being made out and will be posted in
proper places on or before August :, ac-
cording to a law passed at the last session
of the legislature
The Vermont farmers should be on their
guard. Illinois farmers report the APP
pearance of a large black potato bug which
they think will prove more destructive
than the Colorado beetle.
The city taxes are now in the hands of
Treasurer Weller for collection. They
are payable on or before Friday, Septem-
Der 3, and to all taxes which are unpaid at
that time 5 per cent will be added
The ceiling in the new st. Joseph ;
church is nearly completed and it presents
handsome appearance Work upon
the other parts of the interior will be
pushed to completion as rapidly rs posi-
bic.
sam Sparhawk rode from Nergennes to
this city distance of 81 miles a day or
two ago, covering the distance in three
hours Considering the fact that the
roads were muddy the time made was
fast.
Chief of Police Adsit and Officer Dumas
yesterday arrested Lucy Gilmore,a domes
tic employed at l.. G. Kingsland's on
South Union street, for stealing $50 in
money and a gold watch from her EN-
ployer on Saturday.
One of the workmen on the Battery
street sewer found an old English penny
at the depth of 10 feet where there had
evidently been a washout decades ago
1t was i'll a good state of preservation aud
the date which can be easily discerned is
l7S6.
While tne eXcursionists from Wnooski
were at Highgate Springs yesterday a
NAH whose name it was impossible tC
learn, fell backward from one of the
swings striking on his head, and at last
accounts he had not reganed conscious
ness.
A Jersey bull, three years old, arrived
from New York in a special car for nr
Webb's farm at Oak Ledge Friday
The animal is "A beauty, as indeed he
should be, having brought So, 800 when
he was six weeks old. In the same cal
was fun blooded Jersey calf, two months
Old.
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a large party of ladies and gentlemen
Saturday afternoon with a fair breeze
was becalmed about three miles out. The
steam launch Cygnet which happened tC
be cruising in her vicinity lowed her in
late in the evening.
a prominent lawyer says at is moi
generally known that people who leave
their houses unOccupied for 80 days can
not collect for loss by fires unless they
have obtained the written consent of tn,
insurance companies in which they hay,
insured
The steamer Williams brought larg,
excursion, between 600 and 200 people t
the Queen City Park yesterday from Por
Henry and Westport. A good many o
the eXcursionists came to this city to "dt
the town" After bringing the excursion
the Williams went on her regular trip t
Plattsburgh.
Peaches are coming into market quit
plentifully, but prices remain high. Thos
that come from California are of extra
fine quality. The season for currants ant
raspberries is about over, the frequen
rains of the last few days having softeneC
them so that they drop from the bushes
Grapes have appeared in small guam
titles.
A hearing was had before Judge Tai
Monday on writ of habeas corpus il
the case OF Horace >. May who is cOnfine,
in Jail on a writ of possession, issued il
the case of Clark aud wife against salt
May at the April term of County Court
The hearing resulted in the release o
May from Imprisonment.
Much damage is reported from acros
the lake by the recent storm. Hailstone
as large as plums fell, destroying crop
and one man in Wadham's Falls had sew
eral chickens killed by the hail. Bur
lington was fortunate in forming tn
pivot, around which this destructive storm
seems to have swung.
The way the lumber employees at Og
densburg enjoy themselves is shown b