Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-12-20
made some time ago. will be on hand in
few days. Due notice of their arrival will

few days. Due notice Oh their arrival VIII
be given.
Lawyer Henry c. Ide of st. Johnsbury
plans to spend the winter in the South,
going thence this week. Although in i'm
proved health he has never fully recovered
from his carriage accident of last spring and
complete rest from all business cares is
deemed essential
Walter G.. Davis, formerly Of Danville
but now director of the meteorological bu-
reau of the Argentine Republic, was mar
ried on December A. to Miss Mabel Quincy
of Quincy, Mass. The ceremony was per-
formed in Boston by Bishop Hun tington,
uncle of the bride.
Allen Russell, aged 20, of North Adams,
is charged by Luther Russell of Heartwell-
vile, Vt, with having abducted his IA
year-old daughter Ada. The couple went
to North Adams Tuesday and stopped for
two days Thursday her father found the
young man on the street and promptly col
Jared him. He will be taken back to Ner-
mont for trial
U. S. Marshal Robinson has completed
| the sale of certain pieces OF property belong
ing to Mrs. L. \. SOwles which he under
took by virtue OF execution recently issued
as the outgrowth of First National Bank of
| toi ftlDdlS llIlBullOll, ut Sdico tioBl lt5dteCl
| something over SO, 1000.
Webster Reed of Weathersfed went to
look at his traps recently when his dog treed
| two young lynx which he shot. Carefully
arranging his traps around the carcass of a
sheep he left but returned the next day
to find an old lynx caught in three traps at
once 1t stood two feet high, was three
feet long and weighed 26 pounds. This is
the fourth that has been captured in that
vicinity recently.
Capt. Charles H. Holden, the old time
steamboat man of Saratoga Springs n. Y,
was born in Arlington. Capt. Holden ha,
a fervent remembrance of the days when
there was no railroad north OF Saratoga
and when passengers from Whitehall and
Canada came through by canal packets
and We're met by steamboat runners at
West Troy, and travellers from Bennington
and other parts of Vermont were delivered
at the Mansion House, Troy by stages.
Capt. Robert j. White of Shelbnrne ha:
been designated as United States inspector
of hulls for this customs district vice b. j
Holt, removed. Captain White was for
mcrly inspector of hulls and was removed
four years ago, for no cause except tC
make a place for New York democrat
lie was and is an intelligent, experienced
thoroughly competent and trustworthy
officer, and his many friends will learn with
pleasure of his reinstatement in his ole
place.
a large amount of labor has been requir
ed hitherto at crcameries in handling Ice anG
butter makers will be pleased to learn tina
Mr.. Edward Burt OF Enosburgh Falls, la
an ice house attached to cold storage room
Of his creamery so that he is not oh iged tC
move a single cake of ice and he has ice il
his house now that was put III year ago
His method, which is sin. Ss,,s is similar il
operation to that of refrigerator ana coli
water is secured by running it in "A series o
pipes about the cold storage room.
The accidental dropping Of a hghte
match into a large open drawer filled wit
cotton batting. in the basement of Twig
a Co.'S store on Main street, st. Albans
CAUSED a good deal of trouble Monda
night. Tie blaze was comparatively
Slight one, and was easily extinguish,d b.
the tirenen, but the resultant smoke was
from the peculiar nature of the materii
on lire, very dense. and filled the base
: ment and store proper so completely tina
it was almost impossible for nybody to rt
main there. The damage was not serious
1t was the Vermonter John Culvor, VIII
Hcll OUT on lne NrOnln jury, Inc tnlch-
correspondent of the New York lribun
5 describes him as honest, but likely to noun
hobbies at any time and ride them to dcatl
He appeared daily in the court room with
Bible He is a Sunday school teacher,
= radical temperance advocate and a membC
+ of several reformatory societies. His cour,
t seems TO have resulted in delaying the end
of justice as he worked to save the mech
of O'Sullivan and Burke, particularly ii
latter
Reports are current of prospective saI
of the immense marble interests of the Ner
mont Marble company and the Shedo
Marble company to syndicate of Englis
q capitalists 1T is an open secret that En-!
lish capitalists have for some time regarde
the marble industry of Vermont as offerin
superior inducements for the investment
their surplus wealth. and it would be
4 line with the purchases already made b
. them in this country to seek to buy 50 var
E able property as the marble quarrics al
millsof Rutland county.