The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-29

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Senator justin s. Morrill, arrived II
New York, Friday, from Europe.
Jacob Estey n 90. of Brattlcboro ar,
making 200 cottage organs a month
The wood pulp mandatory at Ben
ningtou Falls will soon be in working
order.
A large number of horses in Water
bury and vicinity are suffering from
epizootic.
Colonel A. F. Walker, of Rutland
has gone to England ON professional
business.
The late Mira Hiram Bellows, of St
Albans, left $4,000 in trust for 81
Luke's church of that place.
Tie old Essex mill of North Ben.
nington has got 80 OF its 100 looms run.
ming, low water being its chief draw.
back.
An engine on the Connecticut river
railroad, formerly named the s, M
Waite, has been repainted and the name
left off.
Thomas Neagle, about seventeen
years old, was killed at Ely, last week
by some accident on the trestle rail way
outside the shaft.
Hon. f. T.. Woodbridge has had n
call from the Republican National
Committee requesting him 70 speak in
New Jersey, between now and election
day.
The railroad depots at South New
Nbdry, Bradford, Fairlee and Haverill,
N. H., were broken into Saturday
night, and their contents opened and
scattered about, but the amount stolen
is not fully known. The same party
did the whole job, having probably
travelled along the Passumpsic railroad
in hand car.
The Fairbankses, of st. Johnsbury,
are melting thirty tons of iron day at
the scale works now, and are yet far
behind their orders. Since 1880 came
in they have averaged over one rail-
road track scale for each working dav,
aggregating more in these nine months
than they have ever made before in
year.
1t is understood that S. M. Waite
will be indicted at the adjourned term
of the circuit court to be held at Rut-
land on the 10th of November. The
Encouragement has recommended the
appointment of Colonel Kittrege Hask-
ms of Brattleboro as special district at
torney to take charge of the prosecu-
ton.
Fourteen, nearly one-half the men,
bers of the senate, are Congregational
lists, and twentv-eight of the thirty are
natives of Vermont. The oldest is sew
enty-seven and the youngest thirty
four. Thir.y-cight members of the
House have no religious preference,
and two hundred and eight of them are
native Vermonters. Their youngest
member is twenty-five years old and
Roman Catholic.
In the supreme court at Montpelier,
Saturday, Royal Carr, convicted of MUIR
dering the half-breed Indian. William
Wallace Murcommock, at Worcester,
was sentenced to be hanged at Windsor
state prison the last Friday in April,
1881, the last three months to be in SOL
itary CONTINENT, Judge Barrett pro-
nouncing the sentence. Carr appeared
perfectly uumoved. Nathaniel Blair,
for arson two years ago, was
sentenced to five years in state prison.
j. d. Whitney of BrattleDoro, organ
reed manufacturer, has invented, and
been for three years perfecting, ma
chine for the manufacture of reeds. II
is now in operation, and is an ingen-
ious mechanism, doing its work auto
matically in most satisfactory man.
ner. This one machine punches, heels,
marks, planes to thickness and nicks
the end-five operations in one. This
machine is now performing these OPP
cratiOns on 67 reeds per minute, and
the speed can be materially increased.
I Boston journal of Commerce.