The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-30
STATE NE us.

There are about $50 nailes Of RAILROAD
In Vermont.
The bonded debt Of Burlington ok
Gee DIS 100000.
There are six prisoners in the Gale
donna county jail.
The Congregation church at South
Hero has just gone lnio occupation Of a
new vestry.
Adams's wooden mill at West Derby
was robbed Of 81 900 worth of goods. the
other night.
Franklin county farmers say pola-
toes will hardly be more than half a
crop,
G. X. Dfury, dealer In books and
at Essex Junction, has fall.
ed.
Typhoid fever Is quite prevalent In
Woodstock and vicinity, but very sell
dom fatal.
Rev. Q. G.. Wheeler has been pastor
of the Congregational church In south
Hero since 1910.
The annual inspection and parade of
the Burlington Fire department will
occur to-day.
The new crop of potatoes Is selling at
so cents per bushel by the car load IS
and 60 cents for small quantities.
The question box" is made an inter-
estlng feature of the teachers instl.
tutes now being held in Vermont.
Major Brigham. who was shot by
Hayden at Derby Dine, has so far re-
covered from his wounds as to 90 out.
Mrs. n. b. Stevens, the alleged Brad
ford inCendiary, was committed to jail
at Chelsea, Tuesday.
The grand jury of Chittenden county
recommend the building Of new jail
m the ground that the present one IL
90 small for the needs of the county,
Gov. Fairbanks has engaged fine
nit of rooms at the Pavilion Hotel
'IontpelIer, during the session of the
Legislature.
A second crop OF potato. bugs has ap.
reared in Rutland county also mallR-
nant dil iberia, and other dlsagreeable
thingS,
Stephen Whlpple of SALISBURY I'M
shed his 95th year, day or two ago,
when a company of attached friends
allied to congratulate him.
The young men of the recently failed
cooperative industrial works at Spring
leld are to form a new organization
md the purchaser of the property
promlses to sell 1t to them again.
Warren Johnson. aged IL, was ar
ested Monday, for attempting TO burn
lie house and barn of Charles Cole
nan, at Newfane. johnson was the
,dopted son of Coleman.
Henry II. Ooodsell Of Isle LAM tte
las been adjudged bankrupt. and his
;reditors will meet October 9, to prove
heir debts apd choose one or more as
,lgnees.
The Vermont Central Railroad Com.
pany pay Della Harris OF Milton
ny her for injuries received on the plat
form OF one of their cars.
The Dog River Valley Fair held last
week at Mortified. was an entire sue
cess. The receipts were sufficient to
nay all expenses and all past indebted
ness, leaving tho society in excellent
shape.
A reform club OF sixty mem.
oers was organized at North Hero, last
week, Orris p. Knight being chosen
president. A speech was made by De-
los Brooks, now II minister of the gos-
pei, but formerly liquor seller.
The land case of Cochran vs. Elliott,
both Of Mortified, tried In the Wash
ington County Court, last week, result.
ed in verdict for the plaintiff. The
controversy was over n line, involving
land worth 500. The costs OF the trial
will be not less than $500.
Mabel, daughter of n. r. Brown, of
Mortified, on her way to school, fell
and drove slate pencil, which WAS In
her pocket, into her thigh two and a
Half inches, when II broke Off. 1t has
been removed, but leaves an ugly
wound.
Michael Mulqueen, of Burlington,
died Tuesday. of dropsy. He was q
native of Ireland, for 90 years a resi-
dent OF Burlington, and for some time
an active politician. He was q mem.
her of the present Board Of City Asses
sors.
The completion OF the Vermont di.
vision OF the Portland and Ogdensburp
railroad through to Swanton ia pro.
crossing rapidly. Track laying has
hegun beyond Johnson. and at Shell
Ion iron is arriving rapidly. Swanton
is expected 10 be reached In about two
month";.
The new dam Of the wooden mills ~
Winooski, the beet ever built In Yer.
mont. Is now finished, and at a lttl.
o~st noon, Saturday, the passages al
he bottom Of the dam were closed and
half All hour later the Winooski river
'as nonriug over tho verge Of tho new
strusturs.
The grand jury has Indicted the Rut
land county Jail In very vigorous Ian
susge. 1t Is "a disgrace 10 the county -
is CONSTRUCTED In the worst possible
form, and without the remotest oppor-
unity for ventilation, and how the
health or life even" OF prisoners can
he preserved lis TO us a wonder"
Professor Frank Bradford, the elocu
ZIONIST, was rendered benefit by the
Young men Of Burlington last Monday
evening. The largest audience ever
convened In Library hall assembled to
listen to a programme OF select readings
and the reception Is spoken OF as most
brilliant.
The case OF Alfred Cotton W. VIII
liam Jameson. which has been on trial
At the Orleans county court IN Irasburg,
for All assault with intent to kill, was
finished, on Saturday. by disagree
meni of the Jury. Cotton has been In
fhe lnsane asylum at Brattleboro for
the paet nine months, and there Is lii.
tie doubt but that he Is Insane.