The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-09-27

presses now in operation, or ready fol
use. The factory appears Glenn and It'd,
from top to bottom, and the huge cheese,
exceedingly inviting A few moments o
watching operations are sufficient to con
vince that the maker, Mr.. l.. II. Jen
ings, who so courteously shows you a
round the establishment, is not only Q
gentlemen, but that he understands his
business thoroughly, and comprehends the
necessity of q faithful attendance upon it
State News.
Full returns place Gov. Stewards
majority at little over ,000-70O
more than last year.
st. Johnsbury is getting anxious
about water supply in case Of fire, as
nearly all the springs and wells are dried
up.
Hon. James X. Hyde, Judge of the
County Court for the County of Rutland,
died at his residence, at Sudbury, from
typhoid pneumonia, wednesday afternoon
at the age Of sixty.eight years.
The Lamoille Valley Railroad grade
work is progressing finely. Contractors
are pressing their work with energy and
parties are examining other sections with
view Of contracting for the grade work.
A Coop ONE.-The Lyndon Union
tells the following Some years ago, Free
dom Gates and Calvin Root, brother of
Eldad, lived in East. Burke. Both were
rather eccentric in their ways and indulg-
ed in good jokes. Gates was one day
talking with a crowd, and seeing Root
coming down the street, called the atten.
ton Of his companions to him, and re-
marked that as he passed he would get off
joke On him which would make him
squirm. As Root was passing, Gates
sung out, Halo, here comes the Root of
all evil" Yes" said Root, just pas.
sing the Gates of hell" Root passed
triumphantly on, and left. Gates to do the
squirming.
A GEOLOGICAL CURIOSITY. "A great
geological curiosity exists only a few
miles from Poultney, at q place called
Carver's Falls in West Haven. They
are three miles north of Fairhaven, on
the Poultney river, and the remarkable
change of river-beds was made during a
freshet in 1886. The river previously
had run through rocky gorge over a
fall Of $50 feet high, because probably its
old bed in a previous century had been
filled with sand. But having been d.
verified back again by human agency it is
said, into the sand, it soon cleaned out its
old channel and left the falls dry. A
legend AYERS that man ran a furrow
across the place where the presen, bed is
located. and thus began what finally
changed the course of the river.
DEATH OF GEORGE F. HoUoHroN, ESQ.
We are panied to learn, by dispatches
from st. Adams. of the sudden death of
George Frederick Houghton Esq. of that
place. who was found dead in his room
at the fremont House, about ! o'clock
last evening The cause of his death is
to be heart disease.
Mr.. Houghton was well.known citizen
of Vermont. He was graduate of the
University of Vermont of the elias, of 80,
was a member of the Franklin County
Bar; in lS4S and 'l9 was Secretary of
Civil and Military affairs, under Cover
nor Coolidge, and was at his death Presi-
dent of the Vermont Historical Society
He was prominent member of the Epis.
copal Church of St. Adams. His sudden
death will be learned with sorrow by
very wide circle of acquaintance and
friends. He leaves wife who is daugh.
Ter of the late Hon. Benjamin Swift, for
merly United States Senator from Ver-
mont, and one son. lad of l3 or IA
years.
VERMONT VOLUNTEER MILITIA-GoINa
INTO CAMP.-The lst regiment of YER
mont Volunteer Militia, and the LIST Sec
ion Of tho Vermont Light Battery, will
20 into camp on the Fair ground in Bur-
ington, Tuesday tho 9th. and the en-.
will continue until the evening
IF the 29th. There will be eleven com.
oanies on the ground, "a" 3D." &C" and
3D." and the lst section of Vermont
Light Battery from Burlington compa.
lies az" and 81" from Winooski; com.
'any "F" from Huntington company
n" from Hinesburg, and company "K"'
rom Westford. There will be practice
iring in infantry and artillery drill. The
roops will be reviewed by the Governor
md staff, Governor elect John W. Stew
lrt and others the afternoon of the 18th,
md inspected by the Adjutant and In.
'pector General, Gen. VIM. Wells, of
Burlington. There will be about 200
ents, and those who visit the grounds
will gain pretty correct idea of SOL
lier's camp life. Music will be furnished
~ the Westford drum corps and the
queen City Cornet Band
The DAILY FREE Pass AND TINES, for
he Legislative Sessions for 1870. The
Burlington Daily Free Press and Times,
published morning and evening, will give
is readers the fullest record of Legisla-
i've proceedings, and of all matters con.
lected Herewith, that can be found in
my journal The coming session of the
Vermont Legislature-the first under the
new biennial term rule will be very i'm
'ortant one; and the full official report
Of the proceedings of both Houses, will
pc published in the Daily Free Press. Its
columns will also contain abstracts of i'm
'ortant debates, special and regular cor
dependence concerning the course of leg
of anniversaries and other
matters of interest, and general news of
he State; with the full telegraph report
If the Associated Press including the
Gable kilograms, will give twice a-day
accounts of the progress of the country at
arge. The Daily Free Press and Times,
therefore, will he the best paper to sub
scribe for
Terms, one copy for three mouths
either editiou) 5000. for two months
B | 80, Ten copies two months (eitber