The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-07
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tennlal party, in costume, on Thurs
day.
One hundred arrests were made in
Rutland, for the year ending Dec. /
1875.
temperance societies are to be or
ganized in tile Montpelier Sunday
schools.
Chittenden county drank 1895. 81
worth of the ardent through various
agencies, last year
The ladies of the congregational
church at st. Adams, held IL festival on
Tuesday evening.
The number of births ia st. Adams
during the year 1875 was 2l5, maria
yes "a, aud deaths So
On the 18th of December last, o. +.
Mason of Windham county was killed
by Indians in Montana.
Frank d. Wilson, of Bethel, furnl-
ture, has failed, with liabilities of
$4,000. Assets unknown.
The national board of underwriters
offer $1,000 for the discovery of the man
who set the recent big fire at Rutland,
Rutland Railroad stock, preferred,
is selling in Boston at l2} first mort
gage IS, 1902, 49, ; scrip No 6, 80 No.
7, SO.
We are pleased TO see that Judge
Dunton of Rutland, has o far recov-
cred from his late illness, as TO he able
TO ride out occasionally.
Mrs. Babcock tainted on receiv-
| ing the news of her husbands ac-
guttal Her health has for some time
past been very delicate.
H. II. Bishop, who won an enviable
reputation while landlord of Bishops
| hotel, Montpelier. assumes charge of
| Bouquets hotel at Pittsburgh, n. Y,
the LIST of April.
The February term of the United
States district and circuit court was
opened, Tuesday morning, at Burling-
ton, Judge Shipman presiding, and
Morillo Noyes foreman of the grand
jury.
Stephen Carver, whose death at the
advanced age OF Sc years, recently &C.
Cured in Whitehall, was the first
steward on the first steamboat. the
Vermont, that ever ran on Lake |
Champlain
Asa 7. Barron of the White Rivsrl
Junction house nnbbed i'm the depot. |
the other night, man who swindled |
him out of a horse, fifteen years ago,
but whose whereabouts since he has
not known.
w, +. Paige, late proprietor of the
Bates House in Rutland has leased |
the Berwick House. and took posses
sion on Wednesday, March l. This
hotel will hereafter lie known as the
paige House."
st. Adams has public library, and |
the town elects three trustees at the
coming March meeting. and.act upon
Il proposition to appropriate a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars to en-
large the library.
Albro +. Perkins ofPromfret shipped
from Woodstock station on Tuesday
morning to Texas two year old year
ling merino buck, Sweepstakes"
The price paid was Sis, and h. is a
very superior animal,
Mrs, George n. Weber, wife of the
pastor of the leading Presbyterian
church in Troy, is doing much good
for the poor in that city by her efforts
to relieve the destitute and suffering
who are in need of assistance
They tell of a Frenchman who re-
Gently went into the woods at West
moreland to chop wood and whose fate
was indicated, after two days, by the
discovery of his head and one foot, and
near them panther track.
Brainard, alias Pond. tho confidence
man under arrest at Springfield, Mass,
has been identified as the person who
recently swindled =. =. Headley OF
Bellows Falls out ofSl25 by means of
bogus check, purporting to be signed
by Is. w. Dunlllee & Co. of Boston.
Storrs' invocation of the divine bless
ing Oh the Babcock jury failed to touch
the Chicago Tribune, which s,ys:
'Storrs is good fellow and a sharp
lawyer, but is not on such intimate
terms with the Almighty that his in
vocation had any special reason for be-
ing made,
S. A. Millett, of Manchester, has a
powder horn, formerly belonging to
his grandfather, who was killed in o
massacre by the Indians, in western
Massachusetts, which is curiously
carved and bears the date, deeply cut,
l744. He has also the identical toma-
hawk with which his grandfather was
killed.
1t is said that the assignment of
Charles Towns of Bellows Falls was
not made because lie cannot pay every
thing he owes, but to concentrate his
Indebtedness, his assets being SllO, 900
and his liabilities but $50, 600 The
Bellows Falls savings institution will
assume his Indebtedness taking secur-
ity on the real estate.
sheet and pillow case party was
held at the Town Hall at Arlington,
lately, which proved a very enjoyable
affair and was attended by nearly all
the best people in town Mrs. Jesse
Burdett had the supervision of it, In
NAL. About forty dollars was realized
after paying expenses.
The dwelling house and out-build-
ings of Judge /. X. Batchelder, in
Townsend, came near being destroyed
by fire one night last week. One of
the family, returning from meeting at
late hour, discovered the fire in a
parlor. The fire started from dropping
from the stove pipe or chimney against
the fire board. 1t was a fortunate es-
cape.
Messrs. Marsh and Burnett, well
known bark and lumber dealers of
Bethel, have failed, their liabilities be-
ing about $40, 900, with estimated as
sets Of about S2S 900. Their principal
ere litors are the White River National
Bank, of Bethel, S15, 900; Woodstock |
Bank, So 900; Royaltsn Bank, So, 900
Randolph Bank. SO 500. f. f.. Wilson |
of Bethel, So 900.
The Industrial Works at Spring
| field, under co operative management, |
| seems To he thriving better than most
| manufacturing concerns. They have
orders for about SIS 900 worth of goods
not yet shipped, and though they have
recently increased their number of en-
ployes. they are running day and