Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-09-25

13 years old who weighs $50 pounds; also
| that there are three women living in the
same town whose united weight is 1000
pounds.
The Valley fair will he holden at Brat
tleboro on September 30 and October -
| The managers of the exhibition are holding
out liberal inducements and that the fair
will be well patrosized goes without saying.
The farm buildings of Frank Slack, about
three miles from Norwich village, were
all burned on the 10Th, together with all
his hay, grain and household furniture.
Tho buildings were new, and the loss is
heavy.
The breach of promise case brought by
| Miss Olive b. Stout, typewriter of Mont
pelicr, against Choate O. Howard of Towns
head has been settled, and au expectant
portion of the public is disappointed. Terms
OF the settlement are not public property, SO
say the interested parties.
Arson Curtis, carpenter, employed on a
new house in Cnstleton fell from the staging
to the ground below striking on a large
slate stone He received severe bruises and
two ribs on his right side were broken.
j. P. Stafford, a blacksmith in East
Burke, was kicked by horse few days
since and had two ribs broken.
Col. A. f. Walker and fsmily left Put
land Monday for Chicago to spend the win
ter. Col. Walker Is al tha head of the
| Western Railway association for which SER
vice he receives the snug llttle sum of 500, -
600 year.
Some chap wishing to re1lcnish his ward
robe went through Park Davs's house at
Troy while the family was at church and
took n quantity of clothing and silver
amounting to 500 The authorities have a
clue to the thiei
Robert, 13 years old son of Henry
Stockwell of Lyndonyille, while attempting
to load revolver recently, discharged it,
the ball entering the end of the index finger
and loding near the middle Joint. No bones
were broken
James \. Emery of Springfield left his
team standing at the door of his house and
went in after his family. The horse started
and in Mr.. Emery's endeavor 90 catch it,
was thrown, breaking thigh bone and dis
located a shoulder.
A revolutionary cannon has been found in
the marsh on the border of Lake ChuInplain
in Dresden, opposite Benson. The date on
it in raised letters is 1874, and it is believed
to have teen brought from Canada in
revolutionary times.
The names of 3G little ones-nearly all
under five years old-who compose tenn
perace baby band, mostly from Derby, have
been forwarded to Chicago to be placed un-
der tue cdlstone of the temperance temple,
which is to be laid this month
he gang of chance men who started in
quite briskly with their games at the open
ing of the recent Rutland county fair, were
! squelched and driven from the grounds on
the last day, principally through the in
strumentality of the Rutland Herald.
A man registered as j. T. Mead of Fair
| Haven, Conn, hired team at Castoton to
go to West Rutland and return The livery
mans suspicious were aroused and he fol
| lowed on. Finding no trace of him he return
ed. In the evening telegram announced
the horse was in Brandon.
Frank Crawford and John V. Carney
have laid the foundation and are rapidly re-
building their shoddy mill in Bennington
which was undermined, upset and burned
during the high water Of the night of August
-. The new mill will be ready for occu-
pancy in about six weeks.
The Wilmington railroad commissioners
have issued five year bend, bearing five per
cent interest to raise the money to pay the
towns STARE of the cost of the railroad O.
NJ. Lawton has taken $40, OG0 of the amount
alone and there is little doubt but what the
remainder can be easily disposed Of
Herbert Jordan, who is employed by tho
! FREE PRESS job department, found a book
| of poetry entitled The Green Mountain
| Muse while carpenters were engaged IN
repairing the office. The author wa, James
Johns of Huntington and the work was put
in book form and published in 1923.
a new quarry of beautiful blue marble
| has just been opened on the Dean farm in
Brandon about q mile and half from the
| village The marble is Of an even and fine
grain, and partakes of a fine polish is easily
quarried aud can be transported to the mill
or depot at comparatively small expense.
The grand jury in Rutland County Court
| al iourned on the 10Th after a wcek IS
service. Forty.three true bill We're found,
most of them supposed to be for violations
OF the prohibtory law. Judge THOMPSON
ordered that cases should not be entered on
the docket until alter the arrest Of tue
parties.
in trial of speed betwoen George Eel
tons horse and horse owned by a Nr.
| Wissell of Shoreham at the Orwell county
fair Thursday, the horses ran into one an
| other and the shaft of Nlr Felton, suliv
struck the other in the breast and must
have reached the heart, for he reeled to one
side aud dropped dead.
Mary Tobin of Hardwicl and Gerte De-
Long of Huntington, recently drove into an
| open ditch left unguarded in the evening by
those IN charge OF putting in the water
works at Hariwick, Miss DeLous was ter.
ribly injured, her back being so nearly
broken as to cause what is hoped may be
only partial paralysis.
The New England Trout and Salmon club
has from 1900 to %, 600 two yenr-o,d
trout, 5000 two-year old land -lockel sal
mon, 25O0 each of lake trout and Loch
Lommond trout Two years old, and 80. 900
to 40, 600 yearling brook trout. All these
trout are in the hatcheres at the Frost
ponds in Brattleboro. The two-vear- old
brook trout are 9 to - inches long. They
expect to have about 800, 0O0 eggs another
! season.
The Deerfeld Valley Times means to keep
in hearing distance Of other papers with
stories as this will demonstrate: Kendall p
Ames harvested yesterday from one Hub
bard squash vine, If ripe squashes which
weighed lO2 pounds The vine measures
| today o32 feet Including branches Som.