The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-02-06
STATE ITEMS

The temperature at North Troy, Mon
day, was 80 degrees below zero.
Bethel has lost its button factory, il
having been removed to Boston.
Deer are plenty down Mendon way,
lve having been seen at one time.
Putney, with eleven hundred lnhabi-
tants, has thirty-eight widows and
eight widowers. Eighty-six persons
are over seventy years Of age.
About sixty boys and girls are en-
ployed at the Newport veneer mills,
making strawberry baskets. About
l, SOC, 900 will be turned out the pres
ent spring.
The drive wheel OH a saving ma
chine that Frank Buffum of Mcindoes
Fails was driving recently, burst, and a
piece hit him on the leg, inuring him
seriously, but not fracturing the limb.
Funds have been raised for the pur-
pose OF opening the coal mines at East
Alburgh, and work will be commenced
at once. r. Callanon, geologist, OF
Plattsburgh, New York, claims that
coal can be found in large quantities.
While ]. B. Morse and his hired man
were chopping aud drawing weed a,
Westminster, tree two feet in diane
ter fell across pair of valuable horses
and crushed them to death. Mr.. Morse
was on the sled and barely escaped.
AT Catholic wedding in Ludlow the
other day, a ripple was created by the
father of the bride, who put in a de-
murrcr on account of dislike for his
prospective son-in-law. The priest
paid no attention to him, and the mar.
riage was completed.
James A. Shedd, Esq of Burlington.
Is feeding on his farm at Angola, Iowa
this winter, one hundred and fiity-fiye
head of steers, one hundred and eighty
five hogs, besides ninety other head of
steers and cows, and six horses. the
last used for farm work. 1t reouircs
eighty bushels of corn per day to feed
this stock.
Joseph Currier,, employed in the
Central Vermont car shops, had q mar
row escape from serious injury last
week. In some way his clothing was
wound upon revolving shaft and he
was carried around several times.
Fortunately the clothing gave way and
precipitated him to the floor. He was
bruised considerably, but was able to
get home without assistance.
A st. Johnsbury man has adopted a
new way of collecting bills. lie re-
Gently told his delinquents he should
advertise them through the street I'M
less they paid; and few days after his
sled appeared with a list Of dead leafs
painted on the side in large letters. 1t
had the desired effect, and after dinner
when the team appeared, two of the
names were marked "paid."
John Colman, while intoxicated in |
st. Adams, Tuesday night of last week,
smashed the windows of III. G. Nor.
toms and Charles Cohn's clothing stores
on Lake street, and made a general dis
turbance. He was arrested and fought
furiously with the officers all the wav
to Jail, requiring three men 10 manage
him. A small amount OF goods is re-
ported TO be missing from the stores.
Edward Young of Georgia was froz.
en- to death on the lake, Sunday. He
and six others went on the ice, Sunday.
fishing. When the gale came up they
started for the shore, but became be-
wildered and lost their way. Six of
them succeeded in getting home, but
Young was missing; and, search being
made, he was found Monday night.
dead, some two or three miles from the
Georgia shore. Young was a married
Press.
The freight traffic on the Central road
for the month of January shows a
marked increase over that for the same
period last year. The total number of
cars going south from st. Adams dur
ng the month was 1851, the number
'or january, 1879, being 3,693. There
we're Ia extra trains going south dur
ng Sunday night and these, which NAV
% fairly averaged at II cars to the
rain, when counted with the seven reg
liar trains, make total of n trains, /
of about 357 cars for the ri
lours ending with O'Clock Monday af.
ernoon.-lFree Press.
Burlington. had fire on Tuesday
which burned out the lower of the
known as the Pioneer shops.
The first story of the building was oc-
upied by j. II. Booth for getting out
Material for the manufacture of doors. ,
The second story was occupied by r.
N. Clapp's curtain roller factory. Mr.. /,
Booths loss OH machinery and Stock is
at $500; insurance 81 800. {
ir. Clapp's loss does not exceed :
1000; insurance $4,000. The fire y
vas caused by an employee of Mr1
Sooth, who was standing on a ladder .
With lantern in his hand oiling shaft,
When he lost his footing and fell, and n
he lantern breaking set fire to the shaw I
ngs on the floor. "
A Central Vermont express train the
ther day ran from st. Adams TO White
river junction, 120 miles, In 1913 min
ties, and made thirteen stops on the
cute. The time consumed in the stops Z
must have reduced the actual running
ime to about mile aminute. 1t was a n
reat feat and but for the admirable sys- c,
EN- In force on the line.a steel track and
he best of men, wonld have been i'm
ossible. But this is no more remark
BILE than the every day achievements
1 the company, which run more trains .
n q single track and with less acci-
ents and irregularitv than any other O.
ne In the country.-[Woodstock Stand. Z
I'd.