The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-24
STATE NE US.

Burlington is Just rejoicing in the
luxury of street letter-boxes.
Warren Daniels, of Rutland, has los
horse aged thirty-six years.
The Isle La Motto quarries are doing
a good business this season.
A futile attempt was made to edo
the Woodstock bank, last week.
Thirty persons are conversing Will
the spirits through the Eddys, at Chit
tenden.
There are now twelve inmates of tn,
Rutland county Jail, four of whom are
women
Mrs. Cordelia l. Harvey has beer
appointed postmistress" at Alburgl
Springs.
The freight business is more brisk
than for some time on the Central Yer
mont roads.
Ten dollars trout is the price asked
by the state for every trout caught after
September l.
Sixty entries have already been made
for the fall meeting at the driving park
III burlington.
Some four hundred citizens of Rut
land are absent at the Watering places
and various camps.
There are about two hundred guests
at Mt. Mansfield hotel, and more are
constantly arriving.
There were go arrivals at the Mem
phremagog House, Newport, for two
weeks ending August 10.
w. c. Crippen, of West Rutland, has
been appointed principal of the State
Normal School at Johnson.
Mrs. George Rice, of Brownington
one day week before last bought and
shipped 242 quarts of raspberries.
Mr. Henry Williams, of Bristol, has
given his entire collection of Indian
relics to the University of Vermont.
Mrs. Orange Buck, of Johnson, has
fig tree with six full grown figs on it,
with every prospect of their getting
ripe.
John w. Nichols, of Waterford, up
to August 10, has made from eight cows
1000 pounds of butter, which he has
Rev. w. l.. Hines, of the Advent
church at Castleton, has made applica-
lion for orders in the ministry of the
Episcopal church.
Whitmore & Clark's Ministries started
OH their annual tour last Monday
morning, giving their first series of eX
hihitions at Windsor
Rev. q. A. Barrett, of Port Henry,
n. y, has been elected principal of
the Castleton seminary, in place of Ed
ward j. Hyde, resigned
Ashbel Grow, of Charleston. found
several bushels of clean snow under a
pile of muck and had party with SUI
gar on snow, the 9th inst.
Jason 0. Johnson, of Norwich. has
harvested, this year, one hundred and
thirty bushels of Strawberries from one
and one-half acres of land
The managers of the Orange county
agricultural society have decided TO
give premiums for the best, handsom-
est and smartest babies on exhibition.
An exchange announces that "the
women of Rutland are arming and be.
coming expert shots, the law being in
effectual forprotection against tramps.n
Deputy Collector James Lang, OF
burlington, seized from Frenchman
ut st. Adams, Thursday, $500 worth of
laces, which he had Struggled from
Canada.
On tuesday evening of last week Mr..
Benajah ). Potter, of Bennington, was
SO severely beaten by some tramps,
whom he refused to lodge. that his re.
covery is doubtful,
A child was baptized in the Catholic
church at Brattleboro, recently, at the
remarkable age of eight hours, the
father probably acting Oh the principle
that delays are dangerous.
The ST. Adams Foundry, with all its
machinery, fixtures and patterns, has
been sold to Edward A. Smith and
John w. Newton, who have been the
lessees for several years, for $4,000,
The lightning knocked down law
yer at st. Johnsbury, few days since.
Pass that shower around Monitor.
Hg}ifg TYrin 1iSJaGsu he elements BY
Union.
The house of John Root, of Rutland
was discovered TO be on fire SATURDAY
night, and Root has been arrested rs
the incendiary Little damage was
done. According to all accounts, Root
is bad case.
There was II pleasant little reunion
down Oh Water street, Burlington, The
other night, from which one gentleman
QmarDpd nlinnl hnuinf, in,
unguarded moment accidentally placed
it in the mouth of companion.
AS Mr.. Thomas O'Brien, of Burling
ton, was uperntending the putting
down of cistern in the north part Of
Charlotte, the 10th, he made mister
and fell, breaking his hip. His re
covery il considered somewhat doubt
full
Capitalists in Vermont, who MAY
wish to escape taxation, should come t
Burlington, says the Clipper of tina
city, before another spring, for wheI
an honest man offers to put into til,
list 500, the listers cut it down forty
per cent,
A lette' to the Boston Journal from
st. Johnsbury says: vermont may
justly claim the best marble and gran
lite in the world, as the Sutherland
Falls marble in Rutland is claimed I,
be superior to the Italian by those VIII,
have worked hoth."
The Woodstock Standard says: 1t i
u grave error going the round of tn
newspapers in regard to the amputa
ton of George NJ. Clark's arm. Let i
be distinctly understood that Mr.. Clarl
has yet two good arms, and work
every day in his new mill, of which
Felchville may well feel proud.
The assignee of the bankrupt firm O
Duncan, Sherman Il Co. has publishe,
statement of the depositors of tba
firm at the time of their failure. w
find In the list the following: Benning
tom Rutland Car Company, $50, 622. 80
Park q Duncan, settlement of account
$36,077,53; Park g. Duncan, Sl2O, O26.
10; Annie V. b. Duer. Poultney, 81
1884; T. w. Park, Bennington, SO,
207.l6; II. Henry Baxter, Rutland
Sl,253,63.
The case of the state against Rev. G
w. s. Porter for adultery. came befor
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