The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-11
STATE NE WS.

last year.
The Chester national bank has in
creased its capital to Sl50,000.
Belknap, the st. Johnsbury knife
blade man, made ten thousand knife
blades the past year
Jacob Estey has been electe presi-
dent of the Bick ford Knitting Machine
Company of Brattehoro.
The old Barre academy building
caught fire Sunday night, the ID inst,
and was considerably damaged.
The creditors of J =. j. Pratt compelled
him to close his dining rooms at the
capital on Monday of last week.
In the burning of the Lumber Com
pany's mill at McIndoe's Falls, the loss
above insurance cannot fall below $10,-
600.
Week before last, Robert Remission,
of Plainfield, tapped some maple trees,
and got sap enough for quite a batch Of
new sugar.
Montpelier rejoiced in the warmth
afforded by seventeen fires, during the
wear 1876 the losses from which footed
up about s225, 900.
A hotel at Montpelier owned by J.
S. and r. Il. Drenna was burned Thurs
day, causing loss of $4,000, on which
there was q small Insurance.
The improvements OH the Vermont
insane asylum buildings, at Brattlebo-
70, which have been going on for two
years, are completed at a cost of $780,
000
The partners in the Burlington
shirt factory have dissolved, and it Is
proposed to form a stock company and
make it one of the important indus
tries of the city.
Luther Newcomb, Esq, clerk of the
Washington county court for more
than twenty years, died at his resi-
dence in Montpelier, Jan. 2,of Brights
disease of thu kidneys.
Hon. Hiland Hall of Bennington
was elected one of the vice-presidents
of the New England Historic Genoa
logical Society at its annual meeting in
Boston on the 9Th inst.
Salem manages to get along without
q doctor, lawyer, minister, post office,
store. grist MILL saw mill, or manufao-
turing enterprise of any kind, and
still her people are virtuous and hap
py'
U. Elliotts house in Mendon was
broken into, one night last week, and
about one hundred dollars worth of
clothing and groceries stolen. The
family were at the time away on,a Wis
iting tour in Lincoln.
The barns of Stephen p. Black, on
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Berlin, were burned Wednesday morn
ing with large quantity of hay and
thirty-four sheep. The loss is estima-
ted at 81 900 insured for $500.
At meeting of the directors of the
Central Vermont railroad, held at st.
Adams on Thursday, Hon. Bradley
Barlow, of St Adams, and Bradley b.
Smalley, Esq, of Burlington, were
elected dirssters in that corporation.
A hotel built of brick and wood, two
and half stories high, at South Hard
wick, occupied 10y }. S. ana r. F.
1 Bremen, was burned last Thursday
morning. 1t was valued between
81 900 and $4,000, and is well insured.
The prospects of the Green Noun
tain narrow gauge railroad seem to be
poor. Plymouth held its second annu-
al meeting on the Goth of December,
and voted not to bond. Stockbridge
has voted to bond for the White River
Valley road
The bursting of steam pipe in the
boiler room of J. Estey & Cos organ
works at Brattleboro, New Years Eve,
was the occasion Of general fire
, alarm, the Waterman who made the
, discovery having mistaken the steam
| for smoke.
Sidney j. Bronson of Weathersfield
, recently cut on his farm mammoth
= birch tree, measuring ten feet five
, inches in circumference at the stem
and twenty-five inches in diameter at
the first limb, forty-two feet from the
ground.
Daniel Colby caught his clothes in
the shafting of his mill at Victory re-
Gently. The goods We're strong, how
ever, and winding tight, they stopped
the mill. Mr.. Colby miraculously es-
capped with his life, receiving but slight
injuries.
+, s. l.. Thompson of Proctorsvlle
caught pickerel, the other day weigh
, ing two and half pounds, inside Of
Which was another pickerel which
measured nine inches in length. and
inside this was still another which
measured five inches in length.
Montpelier congratulates itself over
the erection of dozen large new
! blocks, mbracing thirty stores, which
stand on the site of those burned hard
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ready rented at good prices, which
p speaks well for real estate in that vii
lage.
: On many of the Vermont farms are
8 moo mes OF from 5000 to $500, realized
e yearly from the sale of turkeys. Flocks
i averaging from thirteen to fourteen
: sounds, dressed, are not uncommon
Particular care is taken in selecting
. turkeys to breed from, to secure sucl
! as are shapely and Of good size
: A strange accident occurred at Pas
n sumpsic recently. Curtis Kidder, Will
I. at work in his saw mill, managed t
e drop q stick of timber on the handle O
o an ak in such q way as to make the in
strument fly up and cut him severel.
on the neck. The cash was just abov
e the jugular vein, and the flow of bloo'
70 was with diflicu lty staunched.
1t George G. Hunt, paymaster of tn
10 Central Vermont railroad for fiftee
h years, and brother to the late Henry J
ID Hunt, of Chelsea, Mass, lies in yer
Ell critical condition at st. Adams. II
passed very restless night Thursday
The operation upon Mr.. Hunts cal
10 oerous cheek bone last summer LA
l. proved an unsuccessful surgical opers
ar ton.
ii1s Charles l.. Hubbard, II respected eli
~ lieu of Saxton's River. committed su
" " eide by hanging himself in his bar
~ Sunday afternoon, I'd inst Financi,
" difficulties was the cause of the ras
10 act. He was but thirty-three years I
age and leaves family. He had fC
h. several years been prominent bus
tn ness man Of the town, and was ais
a. collector and constable.