The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-02-07
State News.

George " Farr OF Brandon recently
lost valuable horse by over driving and
want of care after his arrival home.
Lake Champlain is now one unbroken
sheet of ice, for the fourteenth time, thus
early in the season, during the last So
years.
The General Government has paid
to Vermont in the way Of refunding
money paid for volunteers, $772,997.
Still due, $l3l,784.
"A shrewd and INSCRIPTIONS Green
mountaineer made 500 by painting up a
few sheep, and selling them to western
farmer for a rare imported breed.
ST. ALBANs Two hundred and thir-
teen tubs of butter were shipped from st.
Adams on Tuesday.-Forty-seven boxes
of cheese were shipped on Monday.
-Orson Kenyon of Hinesburgh, owns
II COW II or Is years old which lost her
entire front teeth short time since, and
has now complete new set growing.
Timothy Keef OF Richmond was
thrown from his sled, the other day, by a
runaway team he was driving and his
skull so badly broken that he lived but q
few hours
The farm of John Balls, in Benson,
has been offered to the Vermont Horse
Stock Company as suitable location.
Fourteen hundred acres have been offered
at $50 per acre.
An exchange says there were only
300 divorces in Vermont last year /; but
it wasn't a good season for the business.
In year or.two they hope to have the
facilities for producing them so increased
that no family need be without one.
RAILROAD MATTERs.-The Burlington
Free Press says: The Central has not
yet taken possession of the Rutland, the
representatives of the contracting parties
not as yet having come to full agree.
ment on some of the minor points in
volved."
MIR. l.. NJ. Marsh of Springfield, a
Sunday School missionary in western
Massachusetts and southern Vermont, is
on visit East from the West, where he
has been recently laboring. He has since
April last, established and resuscitated %
Sabbath schools, numbering a thousand
teachers and scholars.
"A very interesting cave exists in
Clarendon The descent into it is through
a passage about two and half feet in
width, and thirty-one in length, leading
into room twenty feet high and nearly
thirteen wide. From this room similar
passage leads into room thirty feet long
and twenty wide. This room is sometimes
filled with water.
MUSICAL CoNvENTIoN.-The sixth an
aual session Of the Central Vermont Mu-
steal Association, will be held at Mont
pelicr, commencing Tuesday, Feb. 7,
1871, and continue four days. Conduc-
tor, Col. II. d. Hopkins, Montpelier
Soloists; Mrs. w. N. Oliver. Rutland
Soprano; Mr.. A. j. Phillips, Montpelier
Tenor Mr.. b. ID. Hopkins, st. Albans
Bass. Pianist, Ii. G. Eddy, Montpelier
BRANDoN.--A fire occurred about u
a. m. Thursday morning in the store of
Edgar j. Bliss. Being dark morning
he had lit small hand lamp and set it on
the desk and went down cellar to get some
coal. While gone lot of cotton batting
fell from one Of the top shelves, aud in
its fall hit the lamp and knocked it on
the floor, aud Immediately it set fire to
the batting that fell and bazed up the
side Of the store, burning tie goods on
one row Of shelves badly, aud injuring
the store to considerable extent. The
loss is estimated at about 800 on store
and from 5000 to $500 on goods, fully
insured. II was fortunate that the build.
ing was saved and no more damage done.