Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-02
OF INTEREST TO vERMONTERs.

Miss Ihla Il. Baker, SlcnoSrapher IN
the Rutland city clerks Office has com
peted the work of making type-writtcn
card index of all land records in that otll-
&c. ranging in time from l773 to date. Th"
work was begun a year ago last July. The
total number of cards is 70,3g7
Ed DOhenY of NOrthtield expects to
leave about the 10th of next month to
Join the New York League base bah team
with which he will play the coming sea-
son. He will report at New York from
which city the team will sail for Charles
ton, $. G.. the 18th of March where spring
practice will be held.
4 singular result of the severe cold
weather and deep snow has been the APP
pcarance of hawks in the village of Ben
nington to prey on English sparrows.
Food has apparently been so scarce IN
the woods that the cravings of hunger
oVercame the wildness of the rapacious
birds. and the village was temporarily
made q feeding ground. Tuesday evening
large owl flew against the electric lamp
at the North street bridge. He fell stun
ned into II snowbank, and tightly held in
the owls talons was Il bleeding, half dea |
sparrow.
SUGAR AT WILMINGTON.
Wilmington's maple sugar makers are
said to derive more rev enuc from their
crop thar any other town of equal size in
America. The trade in maple sugar IN
that little town may be said to be perpCt-
ual. as the crop is marketed the year
round by two or three merchants there,
who put up the sweet to suit customers,
either in glass, tin or in attractive cakes.
Sugar making there is carried on on sCcn-
tiiic principles, and the manufacturer VINO
Is not provided with the latest and most
improved appliances for gathering the sap
and converting it into sugar is not reckon
DI CtII mi Ep,.N.
generally anticipate good season with d
degree of accuracy warranting extra pre-
paration. The converting of syrup into
cake sugar has become u profitable IN
dustry. Two firms in Wilmington handle
tons of the maple product in this way, be-
ing provided with n full-rigGed establish
nent for boiling and caking. They buy
The syrup from the farmersas desired, and
send the sugar to every state in the union
as we'll as TO foreign countries. Thus the
manufacturer of syrup finds a.ready mar
ket for his crop all seasons of the year
and the consumer gets his sugar, with a
flavor almost as fine and palatable as the
early spring product.
AN ANCIENT DEED.
While rummaging over lot of old pa
pcrs recently, u Brattleboro business man
ran across an ancient deed, hearing date
of May. 1886 The document, which rs
houses from William Lloyd to VILLAIN
Griffith in the county of Middlescx, Eng,
and Elizabeth, his wife. and older daugh-
ter Of Daniel Chadwick, in the county of
Nottingham. is eXcellently preserved
with seal intact, with two revenue
stamps Of the denomination of slXpence
The latter bear the English coat-of-arms
with the following inscription surrounding
AN imprint of rose, 'Iioni. SOFT Qui Nal
Y. Pense," The deed is written In the
ninth year Of the sovereignty of William
third by the grace of God of England
Scotland and ireland"
DOES A BUSINESS OF 5000 A DAY.
The Dairy Medicine company was or
ganized at Lyndonville a few years ago
! by three young men brothers, one OF
whom had had experience in the adver-
! Using department of large Boston con-
Germ. The company is now doing a business
of $1,000 u day and has IA agents on the
road. Ten young women are employed in
the Office mailing circulars. keeping books
and In running typewriters, while a force
of Workmen are engaged in its shipping
department. The company recently sold
the exclusive right to handle It's goods in
New York State for 5000, and the first
order from the New York concern was
for $500 worth of remedies