Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-04-02
VERMONT HAPPENINGS.
WHAT A WEEK BRINGS FORTH IN
THE WAY OF NEWS.
Tho Happenings of Seven Days on. Oui
Hills and in Our Valleys Condensed
and Photographed for Busy ''
Free Press Readers.

The Baptist state Sunday-school con
vention holds It's next annual meeting ir
Newport, June % and "a. In addition tc
the usual exercises provided by the past
ors and members of numerous loca
schools, an attractive array of talent
marks the programme of the occasion
Among the speakers definitely engaged
arc Rev. r. d. Burr, pastor of the Rug.
giles street church, Boston, and Rev. Dr.
Kerr Il. Topper, who has recently remov.
ed from Denver, Col, to Philadelphia &C
succeed Rev. DR., George Dana Boardmar
in the pastorate of the First church. The
convention has a constituency OF SG5C
members.
There have been added to the Sheldon
Art Museum at Middebury the past year
over 500 volumes of books, 100 pamphlets
and many other articles of interest that
usually find their way to such an insti.
tuition. Among them Is an Italian wal
club as large as a bowl with an indenture
passing around it to attach handle and
a meteorite the size of an apple, as smooth
as glass and as heavy as lead. Mr.. Shell
don devotes all his time to the interest oil
the museum.
Hugh II Baxter, who has captained the
New York Athletic club for the past two
years, and last season selected the win
ming candidates to compete with the Don
don Athletic club team, has recently order
ed according to the New York Herald a
large naptha launch, to be built by the
Gas Engine and Power company at Nor
ris Heights and arranged to suit hts own
conception of a small pleasure craft. She
will be 50 feet over all, with 10 feet beam
and equipped with 16-horse-power motor
The forward portion of the cockpit will be
covered by mahogany cabin, and divided
into pilot house, feet inches saloon, lC
feet: toilet and gallery, feet 10 inches,
while the after part Will be left entirely
open for sun exposure and for smoking
purposes. Mr. Baxter has heretofore used
the Nudge, n 25-footer, well-known to the
habitues of the club at Travers island
The new boat will be given the same name
and will be used for cruising about the
sound. with mornings ct Larchmont.
The work of copying the records OF
the comrades of Sixth Corps post in the
memorial record book presented to the
Bennington post some time ago by ii. q.
Root is now being done. Many events
that have never been printed are united
with the records. and some of them are
20 be furnished for publication. The first
page of the book is devoted to sketch
of H.. G. Root. Maj. A. b. Valentine,
who Is one of the active members of the
post and who was one of the most active
in securing the memorial volume, has
the original field desk that he used in the
service. on a silver cross inlaid In the
desk is the inscription: This field desk
was in all the campaigns of the Vermont
brlgades of the corps and division indicat-
ed by this cross, after the year 1863 and
used by Brevet Mai. a. b. Valentine,
CAPTAIN and comissary of substance for
papers relating to the duties of his mill
tary service from 1862 to 1865, inclusive. y
This silver cross was made from one of
the silver dollars found hidden back of a
chimney in a house occupied by soldiers
of the Vermont brigade in Strasburg In
the Shenandoah valley.
A very pleasant feature has been added
10 the Essex County court room by placing
therein a large number of portraits OF
Judges and lawyers now dead who were
prominent in court affairs during their
lives The friends OF the late Judge Storrs
are preparing one of him and when the
line shall have been extended around the
walls of the court house stranger VIII
get very accurate impression OF the
Essex County bench and bar of the times
that were says the Essex County Herald
The bench and bar of the county has en-
tirely changed within the past nifty years.
ONLY two of the bar of forty years ago
remain.
A team driven by Marshall Brothers of
Poultney ran away Wednesday. The men
were thrown out and the horses jumped
I'D on the Poultney house stoop, and al
most broke the large plate glass window
of the hotel. The sleigh was wrecked AMI
the horses cut n little, but the men were
unin1ured.
c. 8. Bailey OF Lexington was severely
injured last week by log which rolled
upon him. Two of his ribs were broken
and he was otherwise badly bruised and
hurt.
There was a general raid OF the liquor
dealers of St. Adams Friday afternoon,
when Deputy Sheriffs Ladd. Draper and
Thompson took in the Weldon House, Am
erican hotel Park View House, Park Cafe,
Grand Central hotel, st. Adams House,
Exchange hotel Elm Tree House, James
Wallace's saloon on Lake street, Edward
Brennan's on Foundry and William
Prior's on Lake street A quantity OF
liquor was found and seized at every place
searched, and the representatives of the
places arraigned before Judge Finn in tie
Municipal Court. charged with keeping
with intent to sell and selling; the respond
ents all pleaded not guilty, but on trial
were found guilty and sentenced to pay a
fine of 500 and costs or the alternative SEN
tence in the House of Correction. They
all appealed and furnished bonds In the
sum of 800 for appearance at tho April
term of court.
The estate of Franklin Baldwin of North
Grafton, at first believed TO be hopeessly
involved, will net sufficient money within
a few years to pay the public requests
which viii take effect at the death of the
widow. The legacies are: To Wellesley
college s50,0O0 to endow a professorship OF