Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-10

arrested in Berlin, Germany. and is waiting |
| trial, charged with fraud by the proprietors |
of the Minsrve Hotel, where he lived for |
! month without paying his bills. He states |
! that he started from Boston with one cent |
in his possession, meaning to work his way |
around tho world.
Castleton has special policemen. This the !
| town has found necessary in order that the |
| tlrebugs might be di covered before the viii !
| lage was burned. The many fires Of incen-
diary origin have aroused the people there,
| and they are determined to run down the
! culprits. Castleion is probably the only
village in the United States that is under
| police protection for similar purpose.
! Gov, Page has pardoned Nelson Whtten
| OF Sandgate, who was sentenced to serve Is
| years in the States prison for manslaush-
, ter. He Las served nine years Whitton,
| sr., got into a row with some gypsies and
young Written pulled his revolver. The
| result was ne wounded one of the gypsies
and killed his father. The latter acciden-
tai, but as he was using firearms contrary
to law, the shooting was manslaughter.
The St. Albans Messenger of Friday
said: ''The heavy wind prevailing this after
noon has rendered dangerous work in the
| ruins of the fire or within some distance of
| the burned walls. A about / clock the
6nlH6 SOuIu wills OIL Lue tOubTcbdllOudi
| church ruins fell with a tremendous roar,
and the walls in the burnt d strict Main
street are at this time swaying to and fro
and threatening to topple over at any
moment
The Boston alumni and friends of God
dard seminary at Barre held their first
union at the United States Hotel, Boston,
last Thursday. The seminary was insti
tuted in 1870 at Barre by Thomas A. God
dard, Boston merchant, and is one of the
three Universalist semmaries in New Eng
land. Addresses were made by many grad
yates, including F. E. himball 'SS Of Bur
lington, who is now attending TUFTS college
The Boston Herald reporter a few days
since said that when Abbott Almy in
the Vermont State prison he was accus
toned to receive visitors on Sunday. The
statement, like many others, that have
been published in the padded columns of
metropolitan papers relative to the muir
derer is without the slightest particle of
truth for Il foundation. The fact is, Alb
bott had no visitors while in confinement in
the Vermont prison.
James and Jerome French, brothers, re-
Gently from Mineville, who have been at
!, work for some time past at the Leicester
paint works. got crazy drunk Saturday
, night, went to the house Of their brothcrin
, law, Peter Smith, and gave him a pound
+ ing Sheriff Fletcher, VITA Officer Phelps,
went to the scene Of the disturbance and
placed the pusiists undor arrest. They
were arraigned before Judge Willard and
, fined S33
The bennington County Court has been
engaged in trying the famous case of Merritt
f. Rudd against James II Rounds for sew
eral days past, The court house was filled
daily. 1t is an action brought by Merritt
H. Rudd against James II. Rounds for
alternating his wiie's affections. Rud1 is q
: farmer and Rounds is an organ agent.
; Rudd sued for 500 damages They
have both been locked up this summer
Rudd for beating his wife and Rounds for
this action.
Tom O'Brien, who worked the gold
brick swindle in Rutland, has turned up in
3 London lie swndled James w. Peck of
= Albany out of SiO 900, was arrested, for
It feited his bail OF $4,000 and fled to London.
g Thursday he was arragned in the Bow
Street Police Court there and remanded for
5 week 10 await the arrival OF extradltion
papers, o. Brien will probably pay dear
q for his gold bricks now. Perhaps Farmer
q John O'Donald of HAMPTON, n V, whom
O. Brien worked for 5000, will have the
y last laugh after all.
'f The Bennington creamery, which was
:. considered one of the best equipped estab
IL lishmants OF its kind in Vermont was sole
a. auction November % to Sheriff John Rob
st inson for sl,2J. The purchase included th'
ie building, which is quite new, all the machin
Il cry and apparatus, which are of the mos
ie approved patterns, and half an acre of land
Less than two years ago the plant cos
le $780, The farmers were dissatisfied will
te the prices realized for butter and refused t.
l. support the cream'ty. 1t is said that Sher
es itI Robinson will try to enlist the eo-opera
,e tion of the farmers III the enterprise.
The trustees of Bakersfield academy hav
~, been notified that Mrs. Sarah b. Jacobs
\ native of Bakersfield and sister of Pete
40 Brent Brigham, the founder of the acad
80 emy, who died in Boston last week, ha
M wled 500, 900 to the academy a
endowment fund T. B. Brigham q
his death in 1877 left $50 900 as schoc
IN fund for Bakersfield his native town; !
ig 1878 Mrs. Jacobs gave $4,000 toward erect
10 ing an academy, and soon after Mrs. ;
20 Juno brigham Kendall, niece Of Nj
~ Brigham and Mrs. Jacobs, added $1,000 I
the building fund. These handsome gift
in to Brigham academy are now supplements
nd by an endowment much larger than that {
u any other similar institution in the Stat
lie except st. Johnsbury academy.
ne The extensive lumber mills at Groto
Pond are 20 ho moved, about next June, I
ed near Upper Bartlett, n. H., where Messr'
on Hazen, Stevens, CRANKY and Garland hay
Z. purchased nearly a whole township of wood
n. land and will control nearly eight miles {
IL railroad for drawing lumber. AT GrCto
Pond this winter gang of men and 81 oXc
rv are to get spruce logs from Spire mountair
Il and gang with Is horses and over so oXe
T., will get hard wood logs from the opposit
Mt side of the pond to be sawed up in the spring
nd About two miles from the mill large an
valuable granite quarry has been discovere
. and specimens lately sent away are calle
-, extra good quality Charles Wnslow, LAT
81 foreman of this large mill, is now managin
=, a mill at " Woodsville, ~ IL. a small mi
49, will probably remain here after the lars
;t plant Is moved away.
ng Rcv. l.. &. Abbey Ordained At Barre.
Die BARRE, Dec. 9.-Rev. p. c. Abbey W;
rd ordained pastor of the Baptist church t,