The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-19
State NcWs.

don make $4,000 scales year, and en-
ploy three hundred men.
e. ii. Wiley has retired from the
editorship of the Orange County Eagle
and p. =, Ripley resumes his former
position as editor and proprietor.
Prof. w. O. Perkins, the well
known musical conductor, will hold a
grand four days convention in Hyde
Park commencing the I'd of September.
AN OLD PEELER.-Adna Crandall OF
Greensboro, IS years Of age, has cut and
peeled 103 heEl ,ck trees, averaging two
feet on the stump, during the present
season Of bark peeling.
Parties from Canada are negotiating
FOR site and water power at Bellows
Falls for an establishment for the manu-.
facture of alpacas, which, will require
$500, 600 capital and employ 500 hands.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company have declared an assessment Of
two per cent, for losses Of 1873, payable
in October. This assessment is one-thirJ
less than the one made for 1872.
Hunts shawl factory at Benning
ton employs two hundred hands, con-
sumes annually 400, 600 pounds of wool,
and the payroll amounts to 5000 per
month. The total cost of the mill, in
GLIDING machinery, was over 5000, 600
RE.UNIoN OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT.
The second reunion Of the old Eighth
Vermont Regiment occurs at White Riv-
er Junction, September ID Members
will be carried for half fare on the rail-
roads
CoRREcTIoN.-The Rutland County
Fair will not be merged into the State
Fair as stated in last weeks issue. The
State Fair is held the second week in
September, and the County Fair the first
week in October.
"CAMP COMFORT. A party OF fifteen
Burlington boys are rusticatiug on Bow
and Arrow Point at the above named
camp. They hope to return to the Queen
City" brown and fat and /" Juggling the
great sea serpent on harpoon "
The Ninth Annual Fair Of Grown
Point and Bridport, Farmers and Mechan
les Association will be held at Grown
Point, N. Y. Wednesday and Thursday
September 18th and 18th, 1873.
G. NJ. PEAsE Sec.
Judge David p. Noyes, of Burling
ton, while descending the front stall
case ut the Revere House, Boston, OF
Tuesday morning, made mis,tep anC
broke the ankle joint of his left leg
The Judge is eighty years old anC
ls,,, =. 70 in lAt ttNttt nj.
y. V. M-The University of Yer
mont graduated its first class in 1904
Three Of its four members lived to attenC
the semi-centennial commencement il
1854. The last surviving member Of tn,
class was Justus Perry Wheeler, witt
} died in GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, Octobe
} Is. 1872.
; DR.. j. NJ Currier, of Burlington, i
about to commence the publication Of I
first class medical periodical, to be enti
tied the Vermont Medical Journal Thi
will be the first undertaking Of the kin,
in the State. The leading men in tn
profession have been secured in the prose
cution Of the work.
Mrs. Mary s. Fletcher and Mis-
Mary Fletcher, widow and daughter o
the late Thaddeus r. Fletcher, have Civ
: en- to the city Of Burlington, Vermont
,, each $4,000, for free library. Tn
, only conditions being that the city shall
furnish suitable room or rooms for tn
library.
The Lamoillo County Agriculture
s Society have offered a premium, to b.
! awarded at the time Of their County fair
I of seven dollars to the finest child no
, exceeding one year of age at the time o
, holding the fair; five dollars to the sec
4; ond best. and three dollars for tho thir'
. best. The committee TO decide upon tn
quality and favor of the young innocent
is DR.. Il. G. Hall, Rev. II Herrick an,
r T. j. Baker; also Ms, j. w. Codding
Mrs. Il. p. Mudgett and Mrs W. II. II
4. Bingham.
The Cooperative Manufacture
: Company of Springfield, are now maxim
$ 400 patent dolls day, Or over 1890
: year. These dolls cost the manuiactul
j ers thirty cents apiece, aud sell at whole
sale for from seventy-fve cents to on
dollar each, thus giving an estimated nc
9 profit Of $4,000 day, or nearly 500
: 600 per annum. Among the machiner
t which they have lately introduced is
y hydrostatic press. which exerts powC
d of 100000 pounds, and is used for pres
q ing the features of the dolls heads. whic
n are made of solid mOple.