The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-06-22
Addison County.

Higgins, living near the steamboat wharf,
fell from the boat and was drowned. His
body WIS not recovered for an hour and a
half
New DEPoT. "A much needed and
desirable improvement is being made by
the Il. & b. II. II. at the Salisbury depot.
There is to be an addition made to the
present depot buildings, and the room for
the accommodation of passengers is to be
enlarged and the whole finished up in good
style.
Upon the courteous invitation of Gov
Page extended to the Convention, large
proportion of the delegates, after the ad.
journment, proceeded by special train to
the marble quarries at West Rutland,
where an hour was spent in examining
the quarries and mills, with great interest
and qualification to all.
The new State Committee met after
the adjournment of the Convention, and
organized by the choice of G.. G. BENEDICT
as Chairman, and Kittredge Haskins,
Esq, as Secretary and Treasurer of the
Committee.
COUNTY CoNvENTIoN.-B By an oversight
IN the making up of the paper, last week,
the call for the County Convention which
ia to meet in this place to-day, was omit>
ted, The people are generally aware of
the time and place, through previous ans
nouncement, and no particular inconven-
fence will result from it.
Friend Johns of the Remarker wish-
es us to correct an errcr in the history of
Granville, formerly called KINGSTON, which
was published in Miss Heminway's Ga
zetteer the writer of which reports that
Joseph Patrick was the first returned ac-
credited Representative from Kingston,
whereas had he consulted the Legislative
Journal of 1907, the first year which we
find any member recorded from that town
he would have found it to have been Joel
Rice. Patrick was its second representa-
tive elected in 1908, and who continued
to represent the town till 1917. Warren
then in Addison Co. but since annexed to
Washington, was first represented in 1909
by Thomas Gerald, thence for q number
of years by Jos. w. Eldredge. Goshen
first represented in 1915, by Phineas Blood
i. e. in the Legislature proper. but it had
a Delegate in the constitutional convention
of 1914, in the person of Grindal Davis.
LEICESTER. II arris on White has re-
Gently sold his farm to Thos. Armstrong,
from Ausable Forks, N. Y. Price $1,000.
Mr.. White afterwards purchased Alanson
Bak cr's farm at $4,000.
The foundation of the new Town
Hall building, in Bridport, will soon be
co mpleted and the carpenters will be set
at work. The Village School district
will occupy the first floor for school rooms.
The Survey of the Northern route
for the Addison Railroad has been com
menced from Salisbury Station, west
ward.
The pass over the green mountains
at Granville, in Addison county, is 2,3f0
feet above the ocean.
The population Of the town of Brs-
tol increased only eleren in the ten years
from 1850 to1SG0.
The following arc the statistics of St.
Paurs church, Vergennes, for 1868 Indi.
viduals, l15 baptisms, communicates,
males Is, females 46, GA; marriages
Sunday schools, 43 teachers, 5.
The original name of the town Of
Bristol was " Pocock," and was changed
to its present name by the Legislature,
October 2lst, 1859.
The Congregational church in Rip.
ton was organized Nov, 9th, 1898.
There are 3S5 persons connected Will
the Congregational churches in Addison
county under 30 years OF age.
The Baptist church in Bristol wa'
organized in 1864. There are eight Bap
tist churches in Addison county.
Three of the District Clerks in tn,
town of Lincoln failed to comply with thu
requirements of the law in keeping anC
filing their school registers.
ALIENS CHEMICAL WASHING Con-
PoUND.-H. f, Daniels Esq, of Yves
Salisbury, is agent for this celebrate,
compound which is likely to take the plac
of soap for the purpose for which il
designed. If this article was no bette
than common soap, for washing purposes
the extreme cheapness ofthe article woul
be sufficient TO induce its general use
But the best feature Of it is that it dis
penses with large share of the hard la
Dor attendant upon washing, This alon
is sufficient. 1t is the housewives frienC
Consider these facts. 1t saves labor
saves the wear and tear of clothing il
cost is only one fourth that Of commo
! soap it makes the clothes clear an
: white; it is excellent for cleaning WOO
work, silverware, &c Mr.. Daniels
wellsknown in this community, and n
sponsible for any statement he may maxi
We recommend trial of this compour
= and believe you will be satisfied with Il
result
The members in attendance upo
/. the Peace Jubilee in Boston, last weel
from the Middlebury Choral Societ
: We're, c. f. Stone, II. l.. Sheldon, Miss
:, f. S. Robbins and NJ. f. Steele of Mi,
;, dleburV. w. w. Thomas Salisbur,