Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-16
OF INTEREST TO vERMONTERS.

His friends in Windham county will be
interested in the stoCy of the enlistment.
discharge and return to Wndham of
Frank Harrington, a former member of
the Sth New York regiment Harrington,
being in New York city. thought it "a
novel idea to join the army at Chicka-
manga His father, who lives away on
top of Windham hill. considering his min
oIity. asked the authorities to discharge
him, which was done by order of the sec
Rotary of war at Camp Thomas. Mean
time the soldier boy had sent home his
pay. so that when his discharge came and
he had turned over his equipments, he
found himself without means to make the
homeward journey. Being ill., the ques-
ton arose as to his ability to reach the
paternal roof without means before be-
ing Frustrated by fever. All day Monday
he watched an opportunity for convey
ance northward. That night he slept up
on the stone steps of the auditorium at
Chattanooga with his coat for a pillow.
The following day he joined a companion
at the railroad station and they walked
tho next day some 20 miles in their Efforts
to hoard 4 train. They finally came
across another soldier and the three con-
tinued their journey to a junction, where
they quenched their thirst with the best
water since leaving home The trio sue
cccded in boarding freight train after
a wait OF many hours, and had a perilouS
journey thrOu h Tennessee, being without
food for SO houcs Arriving in Cincinnati,
HARRINGTON begged for food and lodging
until the mayor had telegIaphed his fla
Their and received a response. assuring
the boy transportation to Greenfield, from
which point he worked his way to Bellows
Falls, walking thence to his old home in
Windham. where he was Ill for TWO
months afteg arriving.
+ Only within short time has the breed
ing OF phcasants been success i'll Yer
mont. Probably the first birds to be
brought here we're those impor ed by DR..
Mead of Rutland and Col. Webb of Shell
burne, but their efforts to acclimate thu m
were not altogether successful, though
experimenting has given assurance that
the pheasant will at no distant day be-
come a game fowl of the Green Noun
tains. Much has been written regarding
the rearing of these birds their habits
and requirements but it hos remained Tor
Edwin l.. Roberts of Bratteboro to prac-
tically demonstrate methods or hatchlng
and caring for the chicks. The first nest
ings were supplied by Dr. O. X Roberts
of Pittsfield Mass, TO his brother, VINO
finally succeeded in rearing whole brood
by The use of a Pekin bant IN. which he
set upon as many as IT eggs at a
time, the bantam being the most motherly
bird, more devoted to the chicks than the
pheasant itself. The birds were hatcned
in Il barrel in which was placed a water
pail containing an inVoCted turf, the nest
being fashioned by the use of round
stone. Around the pail was banked a
quantity Of rowan to prevent the chichS
from getting out of. the pail, they being
very susceptible to cold and inclined Ia
early desertiOn Of the nest. After eight
weeks they we're transferred to screened
coop Though one Of the shyest OF birds
after eight weeks they were hardy and
hearty, feeding generously upon cut oats,
cracked corn, buckwheat and other GER
Gals During the early period they are
fed upon black ants, angle-w ormS, boiled
eggs and lettuce.
A case of official boiling to death took
place in Persia as late as 1880. The Of
fender who was guilty of stealing state
revenues was put in large cauldron OF
cold wateC, which was slowly heated tc
the boiling point His bones were distri-
buted, as a warning, among the provincial
tax collectors.
WELL KNOWN IN BENSON.
Roland d. MolineuN. who has been het
by the coroner for the murder Of Miss
Adams and is now in the Tombs in New
York, awaiting trial is nephew of MIS-
Anna MollneuX. who has passed sevcTa
summers in Benson. in the home of Nd
ward S. Howard The result Of the in
quest was a great surprise to Benson PEG
pie,