Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26
CITY AND VICINITY.


There could very appropriately be
boom in little hatchets to-day.
The medals to be given at the polo tour
nameut are on exhibition at b. w. Car
penter Il Cos
The early closing movement has got Il
firm hold in tins city and even the grocers
are pleased with the results.
Lent will begin March 10, so that there
remains but Il little over two weeks OF fun
and feasting and opportunity for we'd
dings
Sleighs made their appearance on the
streets Saturday afternoon, and the merry
Jingle of the sleigh bells greeted the ear
once more.
The protracted warmth is thought to
have started the buds on the trees and
fears are expressed that injury may result
to the fruit crop from the cold snap
We notice that in the list of luxuries
priced in Troy, n. Y, skinned perch from
Lake Champlain take high rank.
Farmers in this vicinity report that
chicken thieves are at work and some have
lost AS many as thirty chickens in one
night
As the rink is to be used for furniture
store after March |, for at least a year,
polo players will he obliged to change
their trade.
At last the Winooski bridge is finished
and the street car track runs from the
derot in this city to that at Winooski.
Col ". l.. Greenleaf announces that the
officers school of the National Guard of
Vermont will be held at Rutland Thurs
day and Friday, March II and y.
The battalion reception ut the Uniyer-
sity last Friday was great success. De-
spite the horrible walking the attendance
was gopd-too good for the convenience of
the d;tncers-aud everybody had IA good
time.
The carnival seems to have completely
over-shadowed city politics, but consider
able wire-pulling is going on and there
will yet be sharp work in all probability.
A young man who was watching the
trottng race let his curiosity take him
into the track too far and he was struck
by the cutter and knocked over, but did
not receive serious injury.
A telephone message announces that the
game of polo at Montpelier Monday be-
tween the Golden Fleece team and the
Newport, y. H., club resulted in favor of
the former five goals to one.
The Corelli Opera company which made
series of attempts to present opera in
this city some time ago, and which was to
appear this week in st. Johnsbury, has
disbanded, having come to financial grief.
This year for the first time in over a
century Easter falls upon April % which
is also st. Marks day. There is "A concur
rent tradition that late Easter makes "A
late spring and the colored people of the
South often say ITS no use talkin'
there will be no good weather until after
Easter"
The new mail agent between Essex and
Boston, H. H. Branshaw and his assistant,
j. f. Lang of this city, travel 80 miles II
day, and leave and take mail matter at
over 80 stations They handle 80 to 60
sacks of second class matter and about 80
pouches Of letters every day.
The regular February term OF the Uni
ted states Court will open at the Court
House in this city at 10 o'clock, this morn
ing, Judge Wheeler presiding. Among
the important cases to come up are the in
junction in the case OF Receiver Hendee
against the Connecticut and Passumpsc
River Railroad company ana Receiver
Hendee against number of National
banks of Vermont.
Daniel llennessy, the victim of the ac-
cident at the Winooski bridge about three
weeks ago, died at the Mary Fletcher
Hospital early Saturday morning His in
juries from the start were so serious as to
give small hope of his recovery, but the
fact that he fingered so long encouraged
the physicians to think that perhaps he
might survive. Conclusion of the brain
was.the fatal injury, The remains of the
deceased were taken to his home in
Springfield, Mass.
Mr. Holton is a square and honest man
AS well as a stiff Democrat-and is al
together too sensible to suppose that he can
be elected mayor this year. Large mum
bers of the Democrats, indeed, were not
and are not, in favor of making any fight
on mayor Col. Woodbury's majority
will probably be even larger than last
year
Captain Hare, too is an amiable gentle
man, and has sometimes been pretty
good Republican. but he ought not to de
lude himself by supposing that he can be
city Judge The Republicans have voted