The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-17
STATE ITEMS.

The Sherman Band of Winooski gave
a concert In Rutland Monday evening.
Bennington BARRIERS charged 2b cents
n victim during the rush. A regular
shave.
a Stowe man named his ten children
Luceba, Lucretia, Lurana, Lucinda, Lu-
Ga, Lula, Luna, Charlie, Carroll, and
Clarence.
A body in fireman's uniform, sup
posed to be that of William Maloney of
Burlington, who was lost while return
ing from a fireman's muster at Port
Henry last fall, is reported to have been
found on the lake shore near Westport.
The drug store of II. II. Davis at
Bellows Falls was burglarized last
Friday night, and money, cigars and
other goods to the amount of about
fifty dollars carried away. A reward
of 1926 is offered for such information
as will lead to the discovery and con-
viction of the thieves.
Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, is
having hard luck as a farmer. His
best horse was found dead in his stable
not long ago: later strange dog killed
a $500 imported buck "Royal George"
and last week his beautiful heifer, i'm
ported from Jersey at cost of $500,
was found with her neck broken i'm the
pasture.
The gentleman of Indiana, to whom
both political parties refer as "Uncle
Jimmy Williams" was to be present at
the Bennington celebration. The In
dianapolis journal implores that gentle
man not to wear black clothes, but ap-
pear in suit of his blue jeans, mas
much as it is not the governor, but his
apparel that Vermonters desire to
witness.
There was recently quarried without
the use of powder, at the Barre granite
quarries, for the Oliver granite works
of Rutland, a block weighing about six
hundred and eighty tons, being forty
feet long, seventeen feet high and ten
feet thick. This immense stone is said
to be perfect in every respect, and is
believed to he the largest block of
granite ever quarried in the state.
At present there are 1853 prisoners i'm
state prison at Windsor, whose labor.
shoemaking, has recently been re-let
by the prison directors to Messrs. Nav
Kinney Il Co., of Boston, for forty cents
per day, a man. Up to the first of the
present month the convicts have been
working under contract to the same
parties, made a year ago, for five cents
less per day, or thirty-five cents man.
An immense temperance picnic, un-
der the auspices of the State Temper
ance Reform Club, was held in the
grove near WOlcott depot, Wednesday.
Bands of music, choirs of singers and
many subordinate clubs from neighbor-
ing towns were prescott in large force.
Stirring speeches were made by Rev.
Edwin Wheelock, grand chaplain, and
L. l.. Durant, president of the State
Temperance Reform Club. Hundreds
signed the pledge.
A fire in the Bush ~ Austin paint
works, at Forestdale, in Brandon, Fri
day, destroyed several large buildings,
large $4,000 engine, ten machine lath-
es and other machinery, besides one
hundred barrels of paint. The loss to
Mr.. E. d. Bush, of Shoreham, and Mr..
Calvin Austin, of Salem, N. Y. ), is about
SIC, 1000, with an insurance of $4,000.
Messrs. Newton & Thompson, who had
recently leased and occupied the works,
lose about $4,000; insured for 81 800.
Twenty men are thrown out of employ
ment. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by an exploding kerosene
lamp.
The Norwich University term opens
OH the 3Oth inst. Government is to
furnish the institution with artillery
and infantry ammunition for practice,
and morning and evening gun will
be fired through the year. The class
to enter this fall promises to be the
largest for many years. Prof. Charles
Gestrim, graduate of a foreign univer-
sity, has accepted the professorship
of ancient and modern languages
rendered him by the trustees at the last
commencement, and Prof. w. M. Rum
baugh has accepted the professorship OF
drawing rendered him at the same
time.
Thomas +. Prentiss, formerly of Rut-
land, where he filed the responsible
position of clerk and bartender at no.
tel, as also at Middlebury and YER
gennes, and for the past six years Uni
ted States consul at the Sychelle
Islands, recently returned Oh visit to
his fathers home at Waitstield, bring
ing a wife and two children and a gOr-
geous lot Of wearing apparel, including
one hundred silk parasols and other ar
ticles equally desirable to keep on hand
in large stock for private use. Sad to
say, all this glory and pomp is turned to
sorrow. Prentiss was arrested shortly
after his arrival on writ in favor OF
Mrs. Sarah A. Thayer of Waitsfield,
claiming $4,000 damages for breach OF
promise to marry. Mrs. Thayer is said
to be a respectable, good-lOOking wild
Ow, of small means, to whom $4,000
would be an object. The evidence
seems to be good for her case.
II any one in the vicinity of st. AL
bans, or travelling through that burgh,
wishes good square meal, he should
make haste to seat himself at the tables
of L. A. Dunton's railroad dining
rooms, where can be obtained the most
tempting viands, cooked and served in
the best manner on the shortest notice
of any railroad restaurant in New Eng
land. There is no more important adj
junct to pleasurable travelling than
good hotels and restaurants. However
delightful and satisfactory every other
condition, if one fails to find good
wholesome food OH his travels he feels
that his life is a burden and travelling
bore. Here everything is favorable,
plenty of time is usually given, the
walters are prompt, the supply of well
cooked food is abundant, ..and varied to
suit the wants of the most fastidious
Mr.. Dunton gives his personal atten.
ton to his customers and prices are
reasonable.