Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-04-04
ALL OVER THE STATE.
WHAT A WEEK BRINGS FORTH IN
THE WAY OF NEWS.
Brief Items of Interest from Every or
ner of Vermont-Postmaste APP
pointed-Personais, Manufacturing
Notes, Fires and Minor Items.

inspect dykes.
Past Commander P. D. Blodgelt Of st.
,Iohnsbury delivers the Memorial Day al
dress at Island Pond.
The maple sugar exchange at Brattlehoro
haa received about three tons of new sugar
aud 200 gallons of syrup.
Dr. r. W. Coe. for % years a prominent
citizen of Vergennes, died suddenly of heart
trouble Sunday, aged - years.
Mrs c. l.. Goodell, who has just closed
her church work in ST. Louis, and her
daughter are at st. Johnsbury.
When the ice houses row in process of
filing at Newport are full, there will have
been something over 81, 600 tons stored.
The 50th anniversary of the marriage of
Mr.. and Mrs Jerry Bugbee was celebrated
at the family residence, Bennington, We'd
nesday.
A cabegram from London announces the
safe arrival of Morrison and Clark and the
lot Of morino sheep they are shipping to
Australia.
Rev. Dr.. Il. W. Parker of the North In
tlia conference. n Nermonter, hes been APP
pointed general evangelist for India by
Bishop Thohurn.
The annual Masonic convocation for the
eighth district of Vermont was held IN Ma
sonic hall at Bratteboro Thursday after
noon and evening.
W. A. Hutchinson, managing editor of
the Chicago Evening journal, who is East,
is a native OF Caledonia county and served
full apprenticeship on the st. Johnsbury
Caledonian.
q. ID. Matthewson of Wheeock was
elected president and +. o. Green of St.
Johnsbury, treasurer of the Dartmouth
senior class at the election of permanent
officers Tuesday.
The president Thursday sent to the Senate
the following nominations: Postmasters
Edward Clark, Poultney Alexander w.
Davis, White River Junction. Jasper II.
Orcutt Northtield.
Lowell Bates, who figures as a witness in
the investigation into the alleged transac
tions of the Tammany ring in the city sher-
if IS office at New York is a brother of a.
C.. Bates of Rutland.
c. a. Prouty, II. S. Root, and Z. 4.
Stewart constitute committee to give the
proper notices and draft the necessary
papers for procuring a charter for savings
institution in Newport.
Tie Blue Mountain Granite company at
South Ryegate are getting out a % car load
lot Of granite for the new Lisbon, n. H.,
school house. The Ryegate granite works
are employing about 40 men.
The Vermont Librarians who signed the
petition to Congress requesting the passage
OF the impending international copyright
bill are Abbie NJ Mcneil and Edward T.
Fairbanks of the st. Johnsbury Athenaum.
J. S, Tupper has purchased a third inter
est in the Brandon Union from John Parish
and will become editor and manager of the
paper. j. Il. Engels, the late editor, has
accepted a position on the Rutland Herald.
The Troy conference of the Methodist
church, which includes the burlington dis
trct, will hold its annual session in Sara
toga April IS to p, and will be presided
over by Bishop j. z. Newman of Omaha,
Neb.
Rev. Edward Mills for 10 years pastor
of the Rutland Baptist church, has been in
stalled pastor of the Franklin Baptist
church in Boston. On Wednesday evening
last he was rendered a reception by a crowd
cd company
II is worthy of note says the Woodstock
Standard, that Henry b. Reed q Sons have
flied an order for maple syrup to be sent to
Minister Lincoln, resident near the court OF
EAg!and. But It is not the first maple sugar
they have shipped to that country.
It. Johnsbury has organized a Mercantile
association combination of retail dealers
for the moral reformation of dead beat,
AID for mutual protection against that
fraternity. Nearly all the local retailer,
have agreed to join the new organization.
A Richford despatch says: Capt. Stephen
g. Marvin of Berkshire has an appointment
lu the custom house here. Capt. Marvin
was lieutenant III the First Colorado cav
airy for four years. He has held BE vera
",IIces in the town, the last being town rep
ra--utatvc.
lion. c. C. Beaman. in acknowledging
~" vote Of Cornish, y. H., thanking him
iur erecting a stone arch bridge in that
town. wrote shat ona-lAirl of the expense
was assumed by United States Senator
ETaris whose summer home at Windsor,
: t., Is just across the river from Cornish
Edwin Page of Ryegate loosed a bull fol
water the the other day and when the chair
dropped the bull made Il furious assault upor
hlA and had not been for a man who was il
the barn at the time, the uil would proba
bly, have killed him As it was Mr.. Page il
yert seriously injured.
J.. d. lIa2eu of st. Johnsbury has Logged
l6OG0 UJG feet Of lumber at his mills thi,
winter and says he has never had "a better
season tan tins since January /. Lumber
has advanced 81 or more per thousand feel
an, stOcha are SdlL 10 De llSnLer than usual.
"Oney' the famous travelling dog
owned by an Albany a. W transfer
clerk. made his second visit in Brattleborc
Yesterday, coming up from Palmer will
Postal Clerk Clark. This intelligent canine
which travels with the train hands, is wei
known all over New England.
The St Johnsbury ice syndicate has jus
closed its brief but brilliant career 1t wa
in business only three weeks and each of TIN
four men comprising it made net profit o
$ll00. Their crop was four thousand tons
cut at Miles pond, and they sold it to par
ties in Worcester Mass.
At a meeting of the Addison COUNTY
Board of Education, held at Middlebury
the following list of text books were adopt
ed for the Use of the schools in the county
Readers, j. b. Lippncotts geography
Harper Brothers; grammar, II. r. Greene 5
arithmetic, Greenleaf's new inductiva: spell
ing, normal course; drawing, Thompson
Industrial; writing, normal course; history