Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

ministrator, that the judgment of the
court precluded the commissioners from
acting, but, on motion and argument from
| the defendants counsel, Il. W. Smith and
John b. Pickett, Jr., the commissioners
| decided otherwise, and continued the
hearing till midnight After considering
the proof during the following day they
released the prisoner. The revivalists
Rev. Charlp, f. Hnllou and wife are con
tinuiug thcir services the third week at
the Methodist church, TO a constantly in
| CreaSiug attendance ... Thursday evening
of this week occurs the reading of W. II.
H. Murray, GLOW John Norton spent his
Christ mas"
Ncrgcnnes.
/ Intelligence is received here of the dan
! gerOus illness of Mrs. II. Is. Stewart, who
went to Ames, Iowa, some two years
since Miss Emma Pierce, formerly of
the \ergennes graded school, and Il grad
! uate ut the Chicago training school for
! nurses, Is in attendance upon Mrs. Stew
art. Since Mr. Stewart left Nergennes he
has buried his daughter Mary, who left
many warm friends here. Miss Helen
Stewart, who has been spending several
| pleasant weeks with friends in Randolph
Mass, and in Rhode Island, has returned
home The last meeting of the commits
sioners on the estate of the late DIR. Ii. A.
lngham took place Tuesday, Feb. 3.
The venerable Mrs. Jacob Smith, mother
of George and Isaac Smith, is very feeble
requiring constant care ....M Miss Jennie
stevens has left for Chicago, ILL.,, to spend
the balance of the winter with her sister
Mrs. G. l.. Hammond. Advices from the
| W. >. Holland party, III Los Angeles.
Cal, report all we'll and accimating
finely.
Waterbury.
| William Deal and his wife came near
! losing their lives from suffocation by coal
| gas While liking the stove Just before re-
| tirlng, the top griddle was accidently left
aiar, and by morning the room was so
filled with gas that its occupants barely
escaped death. The ceiling being of more
than ordinary height was all that saved
them. All the plants that were in the
upper part of the room were killed..
! There is an increasing interest in the car
nival at Burlington. especially among the
| readers of the FREE PRESS, and large
number from this vicinity intend to be
present IN. o. Evans not only has Il
drug store and barber shop, but the tele
phone exchange, connected with Mont
peler, Barre, Topsham. Bradford North
field, Randolph, Waitstield and Warren,
rs well as Burlington,St, Albans and Rut
land g. z. Warren has joined the
band. Mr.. Warren is an old player and a
good musician, and will add strength to
the band, which has been rapidly improv-
ing for the past year 1t is said that they
u /.
man OF Burlington.
West Randolph.
While Ed Bruce was chopping in the
woods Saturday, Il limb from n falling
tree struck him on his legs, telling him
to the ground No bones were broken,
but he was severely bruised The North
field Amateur Dramatic club presented
"Neighbor lakewood here Saturday night
to large audience. The ladies of the
Congregational society at the Centre hold
their annual festival Friday night at the
town hall. They have a good programme.
.... a large amount of Canadian ashes are
being shipped here. They are much
stronger than those made here and cost
about the same. Mrs, William
Bass died Saturday, being sick but one
day. The English Ballad Concert COM
pany of Boston will appear in the Reading
Room lecture course Friday evening.
Tunbridge.
An over-heated stovepipe set fire to Il
J partition in A j. Wills house, Friday,
and the house came near burning to the
ground. There are many cases OF
measles in town.. The mercury was 80
below saturday morning.
Bristol.
The market Saturday was not very
brisk. Butter, Is to 20 cents; eggs, 20
cents. Henry Soper a former resident
of Bristol, but now of Grinnell, Iowa, is
quite sick with complication of diseases
&c. p. Gilman will deliver his illustrat-
ed lecture on The Land of the Nile" at
, Holley hall, Friday evening -. Rev. \
, II. Nash has gone to Florida to join his
. wife, who is lying at the point of death
THE union meetings, which have been
, held by the Baptist and Methodist
churches the past month closed last Thurs
day. Owing to the absence of Rev A.
II. Nash the congregation at the Metho-
dist church Sunday WAS limited in NUM-
bers 80. There was AN unusually large
congregation at the Baptist church sun
day, which included Il large sprinkling OF
MethodistS Rev. ;. =. Haywood of the
Advent church, says that the Christian
people of Bristol are to blame for permit
ting half dozen liquor holes to exist in
this village The thermometer last week
ranged from to % degrees below zero.
New Haven.
, As result of the recent religious awak-
ening here over twenty candidates for
church membership have been accepted,
and many more are expected to come
, forward in season for the March commun-
, ion. For some time past Mrs. Paul
Wetherbee has been quite sick,
Peck is somewhat less violent, al
though his condition is yet serious
For the past four months or Il little more,
ending January 25 there have been ship
ped from this station 40 carloads of slaves.
The scarcity of hay that existed in
Lincoln, Starksboro and vicinity one year
ago is repeated, considerable quantities
having been already rawn to those towns
, from here and more being contracted
for.
Hartford.
Gov. Plngree went to West Randolph
Monday on legal business. The first
3 meeting of fire district No. /, which was
: recently established by the selectmen pur-
suant to petition, and includes the major
part of school districts No. l3 and No II,
was held at Pease's hall last Saturday af-
> ternoon and proved IA farce. The juno
ton voters attended the meeting in a
body, fearing that some measures would
( be taken whereby this village would profit
r at their expense, and defeated the object
5 of the meeting by adjourning to meet at
e village hail. White River junction. in six
: weeks, a committee % three WAS elected
+ to make investigation and report at that
I time ~ 10 the best measures to be adopt