The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-11-14
STATE ITEMS.

The Burlington Free Press says that
Senator Edmunds arrived at New York
Monday.
Brien Mcclure fell dead in the graded
school yard at Bennington, Monday.
Heart disease was the cause.
The authorities Of the railroads CEN
tering at White River Junction are at
last beginning TO move towards build
ing new depot.
Two barns with produce, etc., owned
by Lucius Morse, at Waterbury, we're
burned Tuesday night. Loss $1,000;
insured in the Vermont Mutual for 1920.
The customs officers, Wednesday,
seized a good team and a quantity of
butter, at North Troy, the property of
Mark Bannister, who has been doing
an extensive smuggling business.
There are to be foot races at the City
Market Building, Burlington, on Tues
day and Wednesday of next week, for
benefit of the Barnes Hose company,
though no members of that company
will be allowed to compete.
Lewis Colburn's house and outbuild-
ings at Springfield were burned Satur-
day; the furniture, however, being saw
ed. Insured for S1,100, which will
cover the loss. The property was to
have been sold at auction to satisfy
two mortgages.
The managers of the st. Adams iron
and steel works have recently made the
successful experiment of rolling steel
rails without flaw or blemish, from
imported English blooms. This is be-
lieved to be the first attempt to roll i'm
ported steel in Vermont and the second
in the United States, the first being at
Springfield, III.
The village reservoir of St.Albans, in
North Fairfax. has been dredged to in
crease the quality of the water and the
supply. The capacity is now estimated
at 100000 gallons, and the greatest
daily consumption of the village 100,.
600 gallons. About 5000 loads of soil
and vegetable growth were removed
besides not less than 800 perch of stone
The Vermont Farm Machine com
pany, of Bellows Falls, who own the
patent for the Cooley Dreamer, social
led, obtained an injunction against par
ties infringing the same, with damages
and costs, at session of the United
States Circuit Court, holden at Rutland
in October last. Patented invention.
are held to be property as much as any
thing else, and therefore should not bt
used without the owners license OF
consent.
The Glenwood Classical Seminary TO
boys at West Brattleboro, &. L
Blake principal, commenced the yea
with a largely increased attendance
The new improvements have greatl
increased the accommodations ant
working force of the school. This inst
tuition publishes calendar that give
full information in regard to the school
but giving no lists of students name
that may be used by the vendors of vii
literature. 1t is by school catalogue
that those who sell corrupting book
and pictures approach the young.
: The Lake Champlain sea serpent
has been seen again, this time right il
Burlington bay. Wednesday afternoon
while out boating, three of the Univer
sity boys, each possessing the Washing
tonian inability to prevaricate, saw tn
moHster-or at least part of it, TO
; only some fifteen feet of its length wa
above the water. 1t measured, appar
' emily, some ~ feet in circumference
1 while its length of course, could onl
l be guessed at, but, to preserve anythin
1 like graceful proportions, must hav
/ been not less than ninety feet. tn
4 serpent was first seen near Appletre
a Point; thence it went up the lake, thi
4 side ofJuniper, turne'' PEACEFULLY arOun
c Rock Dunder and star ed in bee lin
n for Esscx-probably to get the lates
e news from the New York election!
+ The distance from the Point and aroun
G Dunder was made in fifteen minutes
t If true-and the boys say it 18th
r story is fact Free Press.