The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-11-25
STATE ITEMS.


seventeen new buildings this year.
A Bellows Falls man has lost four
children in as many weeks by diphihe-
ria.
.Diphthcria has broken out at South
Woodstock, and several deaths have
occurred.
The docket OF tho Windsor county
court contains only 40 entries, the
smallest number for years.
III. A. Hodges, OF 1lichford, has ship
ped 6,000 bushel of cider apples, bought
ut ten cents bushel.
The Proc iorsvillc cheese factory
made, in round numbers, 50, 1000 pounds
OF C heese the past season.
The total losses by fire in tho state
during September were S17, 800; insur-
ance company losses, $4,000.
The house of correction has more in
mates now than for many months, the
prisoners numbering over ninety.
The railroad hands OH the st. Johns
bury and Like Champlain road have
had their pay increased 20 cents per
day.
The paper mill at Pittsford is doing
good business making wrapping pa
per. A large number of neil are en-
ploycd.
A pickerel weighing sixteen pounds, |
caught In Lake Bomoseen, was re-
Gently received at the Berwick House,
in Rutland.
Mrs. Ansel Thomas, of East Hub
bardton, sevcnty-five years of age, has |
Just finished bedquilt that has in it
7,140 pieces.
The entire capital stock, 81, 800 900, -,
for the construction of railroad from
Dandy to Whitehall, has been subscrib-
ed and the money is in the bank.
Jonathan Hadlock and his wife. the
oldest couple living in Jay, having liy.
ed together for over sixty wears. died
recently within four days of each
other.
During the year ending September
30, 1881, Il 900 loaded freight cars pass
ed through st, Adams from the west
for Boston, against GA, 800 the year pre-
vious.
A lCastleton man, SO years old, is
! teaching class OF students i'm Greek.
He has been we'll versed i'm Hebrew.
Greek, Latin, and other languages for
: sixty years.
During the past season ten thousand
/, persons have visited the mausoleum at
Cuttingsville, ten miles from Rutland,
: erected by John z. Bowman, of Creek
y Centre, Warren County, New York.
. Mrs. Abal Adams, of Newport Cen
{ ter, recently fell and broke one hip I;
| she has suffered the fracture of both
@ hips, both arms at the wrist, and o
4 bone of the shoulder, within the last
n eight years.
Il 1t is said that Hon. G. w. Hendee,
C Hon. G. S. Page, ii. G.. Fisk, Esq, and
l.. III. Lewis of the Lamoilo News.
e have purchased the Citizen of Mr.. Earle,
e and that the News and Citizen will be
g consolidated.
:. The Lyndon Union says that The stu.
n dents lof the st. Johnsbury academy
IS are ga bother, set of rogues, and Q
&c curse to the people of st, Johnsbury,'
and calls for more police to take care
of them,
Accounts already appear of people
killed by gas from coal stoves. Those
&c who sleep in tight closed rooms will
III stoves for companions should see Il
it that the stoves are in good "drawing'
r order.
m The Ere eman says that horse buyers
% cattle and sheep buyers, pork buyers
turkey, geese and chicken buyers, are
20 now roaming the country, buying every
70 thing they can lay their hands upon and
=, paying "war prices" for the same.
IT Early Tuesday morning an attempt
II was made to rob Swift's fur and MILL
ner store on Main Street, st. Adams
!: A futile attempt was made the nigh
le previous. There are several Thousand
h dollars worth of furs in the store
IS which the rogues hoped to secure.
u The Isle La Motto bridge is to bt
10 finished ready for business early tht
~ next spring. Farmers OH this island
and was at one time called "Viueyard'
Y say the present years crops were thu
ID largest ever raised.
"Signs of severe winter" are now
re being brought out. The Connection
~ sportsmen who bag wild ducks sa,
er they have never known these birds, OF
" cartridges either, to be so thickly ant
k. heavily feathered. Ducks especially
IN are loaded with mass of down under
I'd the feathers.
q The liquor crusade in st. Albans i
still in progress. A citizens meeting
~ was held Monday evening, at which
- !, the proprietor Of the Weldon House
), the leading hotel, agreed to keep
~ temperance establishment If sustained
ne ne by the citizens. The proposition wa
accepted.
~ More than 200, 900 bushels of charcoa
:, are produced annually at one establish.
~ mont in Dandy. The kilns are thirty
four in number, with capacity O.
E. thirty-fvc cords of wood each. The
1t proprietor owns $4,000 acres of wood
" land and carries on large lumber bus
d mess.
D Governor Farnham has appointed
Is Hiram A. Cutting, of Lunenburg, aud
r Herbert Brsinerd of st. Adams, fish
10 commissioners for term of five years
d II. A. Savage, of Stowe, assistant Judge
/: for Lamoilc county, vice Chester w
y Ward, resigned; George w. Har.
n man, of Bennington, judge Of
|. the municipal court for the village Of
/. Bennington, term of two years from
/ December 1st.-TF Free Press.
= Some time ago S. d. Hammond, OF
l. Troy,was slightly injured by collision
between two runaway teams. The in
jury was considered SO slight that a few
II weeks later, when he complained, OF o
s. pain in his side, nc was treated for
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