Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-17

Mendon, recently, fired at George Wing,
his companion, who was lying down beside
| a log quite distance from him. Graves
saw an object moving, and, thinking il was
game, fired at it. Fortunately the shot
grazed the top of the log, with only a few
shot entering his hat.
The strike at the Lyons granite quarrics,
! Bratleboro, has been adjusted, the company
yielding to the demand for an advance to 20
cents a foot for cutting curved work. a
large force of men will at once begin ON the
granite for the Main street arch over the
railroad tracks at Springfield, Mass. Steam
has been put into the cutting sheds at the
quarries.
The congregational parsonage at East St.
Johnsbury was burned Friday night with
barn and outbuildings. Workmen were re-
| pairing it for the occupancy of Rev. b. S.
| Adams, just called to the pastorate. The fire
! is supposed TO have caught from the stove
after the workmen left. a two-story house,
barn and sheds were destroyed. Loss $4,000,
insurance $1,000
The Rutland Telegram says that the par
ishioners of Trinity church, Rutland, with
hardly an exception, are strongly in favor
of having Rev Charles NJ. Niles of New
York city called to the rectorship Of the
parish Mir. Niles is young man, 81 years
of age nephew of Bishop Niles of the
New Hampshire diocese, and is at present
assistant rector of st. Andrews church,
New York city.
On the new board of civil government at
Somervlle, Mass, are two Vermonters.
Alderman Alien +. Carpenter, who was
born in Waterford. 1912, where he lived
until he was about 20 years old, is one of
thom. He attended st. Johnsbury academy,
served in the 18TH Vermont volunteers, and
went to Somerville in 1861, where he en-
gagged in the grocery business. Councilman
| Edwin y. Wilcox spent his early childhood
| in Westminster, and was educated at the
st. Johnsbury academy, engaged in business
at Newbury and served in the army.
On January 7, Joseph Roy, u Barnet farm
er, gave employment TO u man named Small,
who was a deserter from the Charleston navy
yard. Small skipped on night train going
North, taking $50 III money, gold watch
and an overcoat belonging to Roy and Roy's
11-year-old boy The distracted father and
an officer found the boy at Derby Center,
VT, 40 miles from home, after several days
search. Small ha, not been found.
Rev. John W. Chapman, Mi1debury
boy, is now living as u missionary in Alas
ka and is stationed far in the interior away
from all civilization. At his solicitation
,',.a..;',,. ,,,,.I WI, M +l,a ,.,y,I
carriod if ~, tho YUKON ~ i+s das+ira+ior
one of the men on board asked: "Have
they man to run this saw mill up there
at Auvik :" The answer came, "No; but
that minister is a Nermcnter.
Mr.. II. +. Reed of Castleton has received a
,a, W. W, 'eu i'i,
that he is confined to his bed in New York city.
rrIior tLino, ohont Iis oh~cncoi ie tho+ a,iau
who has always haan nrop,nt in hi. na,,.
na,,ts sLouI1 ro+ Lo,,n nroviiloi for ,a,,,,,
that might come due while AWAY y II is
Lalieved Thar he win vot claor nm everv+bine,
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III lne Jul VI 'he -1"s9''oluse''s
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Iau Johh Clark OF 81. JohhsDury re-
NAMED al ms III lhe pIacksmltn shops
o. lhe faroahks ocue WORKS untl the
tiliru uay oil next mohll, 10 years WouId
nave elapsed since ne began work at the
seale shops: ana excepting SIX years from
io1o 10 lo'o' when he spent IN Danvllle,
h4s connection WIN scaie-lnaK ing mas peen
cohllnuoh9' lie entered the shops al the
age OF - as blacksmith. 80 says the
oaieoohiah' ana 1T speaks We'll lor both
employer and employee.
Mr.. Alfred A. Hall of st. Albans has pre-
sented to the +. ii. Stoughton Post
&. \. II. of Bellows Falls a small wooden
gavel, in the top of which is half imbedded
, a bullet the whole being finished in neat
style. and inscribed in an appropriate man
ner. In n letter accompanying the gilt,
Mr.. Hall says ~ had the pleasure recently
Of visiting Lookout Mountain where the
battle now famous in song and story above
the clouds was fought. | procured the
gayel where lighting Joe Hooker's brave
men assembled the heights ana on the battle
ground, the wood and bullet We're taken
from the field.
stock train of II cars ran into the rear
| of another stock trnin ot ('autra RutinnJ ~,