Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-22

the distance from Prospect street to the
Van Ness House in 81 seconds. This dis
lance is three-quarters of Il mile to within
n very small fraction and at the same rate
of speed milo would be covered in less
than 80 seconds.
The officers of the Vermont Bible society
will he met at Essex Junction to-day by
the secretaries of the American Bible so
ciety and interesting meetings are expect
ed at . and O'Clock p. IN. Addresses will
be delivered by DR.. T.. w. Gilman and
Rev. Alexander Mclean of New York
city. The railroads will furnish free re-
turn checks and large attendance is
looked for.
Mrs. Peter Miller residing at POO South
Battery street, who was the principal vic
tim of the recent coaching accident, died
Wednesday morning at about O'Clock.
Until day or two since Mrs. Miller was
supposed to be on Il fair road to recovery,
but so much of her flesh was burned that
the skin failed to perform its proper func
tions, in addition to which she probably
caught a slight cold, and the two pro
duced Il complication that proved fatal
The fire department were called out
0:45 o'clock last f riday night by an alarm
from box 43, which was occasioned
by the discovery of fire in o. j. Walkers
barn on South Union street. \ quantity
of hay stored in the loft was on fire when
the fire companies reached the scene, and
although they kept it from spreading it re-
qured n long time to eXtinguish the
flames The barn was not damaged much,
and the loss will be light.
Walter Beckwth was arraigned in the
City Court Monday afternoon charged
with larceny. He pleaded not guilty and
his examination was proceeded with. The
evidence for the State was not all in when
the case was continued until next Mon
day at a. IN. During the day papers
were served on Beckwith charging him
with petit larceny in taking a small sum
of money from the y. NJ. c. A. rooms,
and both cases will be considered at that
time.
The funeral services of Patrick Madigan,
late of New York city but formerly of
Burlington, were held at the Cathedral of
the immaculate Conception Monday
morning, there beng IL large concourse of
the friends of the deceased present He
was brought from New York several
weeks ago by his brothers of Burlington,
and worthy tribute was received by
them from the friends of the deceased in
tine former city through Mr.. p. j. Hinchey.
\ lady with mathematical turn of
mind who resides on Main street counted
103 traverses which passed her residence
in an hour one evening the latter part of
last week. AS the traverses accommo-
date from 10 to Ii persons each, some idea
can thus be gained of the number who in
dulge in coasting between the hours of i
and 10 every favorable evening Coasters
will be pleased to hear that the project of
erecting Il chute for traverses near the old
medical college is being discussed.
At a recent meeting of the Society of the
First church, Horatio Hickok was elected
treasurer Messrs. II. : Peck, A. X. Lem
on and Warren Reynolds were elected
auditors, and B. 5. Nichols, c. =. Frissell
and +. b. johnson, prudential committee.
At meeting of the church organization
VI. II. Stone was elected secretary and f.
l.. Ripley treasurer. Mr.. +. =. Shaw was
continued in the Office of the Sunday
school superintendent, this being his
consecutive election.
The Winooski Association Of Congrega-
tional ministers met Monday afternoon
at the study of DR.. Halves. The attend
ance was large, and several new members
We're admitted. Papers of great interest
We're read by Rev. DR., Worcester on
"Christian Consciousness by Rev. Mr..
Bates on Funeral Services and by Rev.
Mr. Williams on "rhe Tendency to FiXity
OF Character. The association Will meet
more frequently than in the past and
plans We're adopted for making its meet
ings of still greater value.
The Burlington Coasting club have
made arrangements to have a code of sig
mails displayed on the flag pole of the Van
Ness House when the different sports may
be INDUCED in. When the slide is open
for tobogganing a green flag will be dis
played during the day and green light
at night. When Main street is in condi-
ton for coasting red flag will be display
ed during the day and red light at night
When the ice rink Is open white flag
will be displayed in the day time and
white light at night
Among the other attractive things for
carnival week will be three performances
of The Mikado by the Stetson company of
sixty people, who are now playing in Bos-
ton. This, with the Snowshoe concert,
will make the opera house a reasonably at
tractive place that week. The Mikado
will give some of the best
operate performances ever seen in Bur
lington. They come here direct from Bos-
ton and 90 dieectly back to Springfield. |
Lawrence Barrett has been engaged for
the second week in March.
We are informed from a creditable |
source that a syndicate of New Workers,
through their attorney, have been negot- |
ating for the purchase of "A large tract of
land in Shelburn, embracing the SaXton
farm and farms contiguous, on the lake |
shore and inland. The parties intend to
build summer residences upon the prop
crty, which, with all that that implies, |
means Il considerable impetus to the bust |
ness of Shelburn. Surely, for desirability |