Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-28
MONTPELIER r.


The March term of Washington County
Court will open on Tuesday, March II.
There ale only % civil cases on the jury
calender the smallest number they ever had
at any one term, and all are assigned TO the
jury for the first and second days. The cases
are for Tuesday: Lyman Clark VS.. j. a.
Woodward, apt: Franklin A. Preston vs..
Clark King, admr., apt, and William B.
circuit, tn: c. b. & O. +. Morrill, vs.
Charles Foster, apt; +. a. Preston w.
Clark King. admr. and William B. Orcutt
tr.; a. Beckley VS.. c. S. Adams and Eli
Perkins, tr. L. w. Scott VS.. Wheeler &
ketchum, apt; +. L. Kendall vs. Barre
Novelty company; Caroline A. Kinney,
apt, VS.. estate of w. d. Hooker; Mrs.
Avery Cummings VS.. estate of Polly Gould,
apt, Meader q Bailey vs. Frank Hoadley,
apt For Wednesday, second day, Horace
H. White VS.. Wallace Culver; Lewis j.
White VS.. James Atkins; Lewis j. White
VS.. Fred Mansfield; Lewis j. White VS.
Samuel Mansfield; Lewis J. White VS. Dan
Russell ct al; Lewis J. White vs.. Elmer
Ayers; Amos d. Hopkins VS.. "A. II. Mich
OILS, apt; Hezekiah s. Smith VS.. 5. d.
Dana; j. F. Waterman VS.. Charles &,
Quimby, apt. Alanson Luce VS.. James Ew-
ing, apt; j. V. r. Kent, admr. VS. Still
man Chase: Alfred Merchant vs.. William
Martin, apt: A. NJ. Selinas vs. George
Oviette, apt, and c. c. Dudley, tr.;
town of Marshfed VS. town Of Tunbridge;
George Dow VS.. David c. Conner. Among
the criminal cases that of State VS.. Sher-
man Caswell for murder of George Gould
ON the 9Th day of last September, will be
the most prominent. j. O. Livingston of
the bar has been drawn on the petit jury,
Judge Ii. H. Powers of Morrisville will
preside.
A copy of the will of the late Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Kellogg has been received by Montpelier
officials aud pronounced to be all right. No
contest is expected against it. Mrs. Kel-
logg left property in New York city valued
ut from $500, coo to $400, 600 to he convert
ed into money for use in erecting and FUR
nishng library building in this village;
500 OUO for building a chapel in, and $4,000
for making an entrance to- Green Mount
cemetery.
The petit jury for the March term of
Washington County Court are, from Barre
@. II. Waterman and Erastus Keith; Berlin,
Henry Reed and J. c. Cameron; Cabot l..
p. Cole and II. G. Williams; Calais, d. +.
Hawkins and Willard Lilley; Duxbury, f.
l.. White; Eust Montpelier, Edward W.
Ormsbca and Clinton Cutler; Fayston,
Richard Brown: Marshf cid A. n. Flood
Bruce and Jerry Mahoney; Montpelier, Nat
Tabor and :. o. Livingstone; Moretown,
Joseph H. Knapp; Mortified, Luther Rich
and d. VI. Derby; Plaintield, W. Z. Bart
lett; Hoxbury, Martin Handion; Waits
field, Reuben Bates and T. A. Fisk; War
rem, :. y. Naudeusen and William Elliott:
Waterbury, T. a. Jeckman and w. +.
Boyce; Woodbury., A. NJ. Benjamin; Wor-
cester Roger Hovey.
Mrs. Nancy Hutchinson. aged 80 years,
died at East Burke Saturday. She was
mother of l.. b. Huntington, of this vii
lage, and grandmother of w. 2. Hunting
ton
Rev. J.. H. Elliot of Waterbury, cor
responding secretary and agent of the Yer
mont Bible society, gave an interesting
talk on the aims, objects, and work of that
organization, at Bethany church. Sunday
morning. Dir. Elliott says that more than
one-hnlf OF the people in Vermont do not
attend church, and OF the towns in Wash
inc ton county, in Barre So per cent of the
population attend Protestant churches, and
~ per cent Sunday schools; Berlin, 80 and
90 Cabot 4S and 33; Calais, 22 and 10
DuXbury. % and g; East Montpelier 81
and p; Fayston, 33 and %; Marshlied, IS
and %; Middlesex, % and II; Montpelier
b and %; Moretown, % and 10; North
field, 33 and 49, Painfeld, II and "a
Eoxbury, Fl and -: Waitsfield. the ban
ner town. 81 ana p; Warren 43 and 30
Waterbury. il and 21; Woodbury. 30 and
~; Worcester, % and IS; showing through
out the entire county that 81 per cen
attend church. and 20 per cent attend Sun
day school.
Personals. j &. Brown and j. II. Bur
pee went TO Boston Monday morning
f. Boswell has purchased a new cylinder
press and expects TO occupy the capital cat,
rooms about April l.-Charles W. Selina
has bought the stock of goods in the auction
room.-James T.. Curran is at Newport anC
Derby Line on pension business Mrs. F
w. Morse will give whist party at Hote
kempton Friday evening. Rev. j. Ed
ward Wright will lecture on temperance al
the second anniversary of the Good TEN
plars in Plan.ield Friday evening
The Montpelier directories for 1S90-0l
from L. +. Waite & Co. Newburg \. V
We're distributed Tuesday. They show To-
the village six churches, 20 secret societies
10 physicians and surgeons. Is lawyers,
notares public, five dentists, four drug
stores, seven dry goods stores, 16 groceries
seven meat markets, four hotels, Is board
ing houses, 81 dressmakers, 81 carpenters
20 masons, six carriage and "A house paint
ciS, ~ granite dealers, ~ truckmen, elgh
blacksmith shops, and six livery stables.
Mrs. Seraphina. widow of George r
Thompson, died Saturday at Milwaukee
Wis, of gastric fever, aged - years. TIL
body arrived at Montpelier Tuesday noon
accompanied by Charles NJ. Thompson, he
son and the only remaining member of tn
family. now literary editor on the Bosto
Adycrti.er Mrs Thompson had for sew
rrai years resided at the home Of H. n
Tapun. a cousin, and was visiting in tn
west at the time of her death. She was
laughter of old DR.. Tapln, and her hu,
band Was a son Of d. p. Thompson. Fl
neral services were held at the residence
II. y. Taplin, at 10 "A. m Wednesday, an
Rev. j. G. Flanders OBLIGATED.
Joseph G.. Brown guessed nearest to IL
number of policies issued by the New Yor
Life Insurance company during 1889 an
wins the first years payment on IA new pc
icy, as per their offer last month. T.
guessed 80, 164, and the actual number W,
- 4YY.
The managers of the nail mandatory
Lynn and Boston have submitted to Il
business men committee in MontDelie