The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-20
STATE ITEMS.
Myron Il. Rogers has been appointed
postmaster at Wallingford.

STATE ITEMS.
Myron Il. Rogers has been appointed
postmaster at Wsllingford.
In Montgomery, the personal list has
been increased from 1925, 1855 to $141 ,542,
and the real estate from S21S,o6S to
s250,600.
A Rutland taxpayer thought his taxes
ought to be abated because he had a
son 81 years old whom he was Obliged
to support.
There are at present one-hundred
and twenty-four men in the state pris-
on and one woman-the smallest num-
Der since the war.
Joseph Doyle, keeper OF the Lake
House at st. Adams, has been fined
1920 and costs for selling liquor and
keeping nuisance.
A. l.. Inman, late of Burlington, Is
paid salary OF SIC, 900 year as secre-
tary and general manager of the Chat
eaugay ore and iron company.
Ten st. Adams men went fishing in
MissisquOi bay, caught no fish, were
arrested by Canadian fish commits
sionor, taken to Phillipsburg and fined
thirty dollars and costs.
Special agents of the postoffice de-
partment will shortly make an exami-
nation Of the star-routes in Vermont,
of which there are 1,l57, to see If any
reforms are necessary.
An OK weighing 1850 pounds was re-
Gently received at the Union market,
| Watertown, Massachusetts. 1t was
raised in Addison county, and was the
largest ever received at the Union mar
ket. Last week pair of cattle weigh
ing $3.50 pounds was received from the
same county.
| Following are the lists of some OF
Brattleboro's rich men: Estey q Co.,
are assessed on $500, 900; Jacob Estey,
$4,000: j. j. Estey and wife, $24,000
G. N. Davenport, $4,000; George j.
Brooks, S57 900; F. w. Brooks, 3d.
900; p. Bradley and wife, $35 900; Ed
ward Crosby, ISL 900.
The death Is announced, al Essex
Junction, Sunday, of Mrs. Fanny M.
Kile, the well-known teacher ard writ
err upon educational topics. Mrs. Kile
was the widow of the late D. II. Kile,
at one time principal of the high school
at Vergennes, and at the time of bis
death, in 1873, superintendent of schools
at Westerly, r. 1.
Philosopher Spaulding of Morris
vile, has left this world and climbed q
tree. In the crotch of a huge birch
tree, forty feet in the air, he has made
him a house, with stills 5x7 it,, which
he has bolted to its limbs. Under
meath it Is platform, where stands his
stove, the pipe running through the
house and out at its top.
1t Is now said that the reports rela.
tive to the drowning at Alburgh, have
been greatly exaggerated, and It is de.
MED that Deuel. has Gainor's watch
bnt there are many who still believe
that foul play was had. Search fol
Gainor's body is stopped, no one
knowing just where the boat overturn
ed and the town having offered no re-
ward for its recovery.
r. Kitto, q mining expert from Fer
roma, N. Y, in the interest of Western
parties, has been inspecting the Brain.
erd iron mine in Sheldon, with thu
object Of buying share OF the pro
perty. Four shafts have now beer
sunk about sixty feet each, and all are
in rich ore. II the purchase is mad,
the mine will be Immediately worked
The Adds property is found to contain
valuable ores. The shaft is down now
about twenty-five feet, and the lead il
constantly growing wider.
There was hairbreadth escape from
a terrible death of seventeen workmen
employed in the Eureka slate quarry at
Poultney, last Wednesday. Mr.
Hughes, the owner Of the quarry, 6
few moments before the accident no
ticed an opening in tho ground Of
about two inches, twenty-five feet from
the quarry. He stopped the engine and
pumps, and went to the mouth of the
PIT and shouted to the men to flee for
their lives. In half minute after they
escaped, the walls went in with q
crash, burying engine-house, derricks
and house, at loss of $4,000. The
quarry was ninety feet deep and one
hundred and fifty feet wide, clear OF
water, and never in better shape 10
make slate. The work of cleaning oul
will be commenced at once.
Tuesday afternoon, May 10, there
were violent thunder storms in Mont.
pelier, Barre, Brookield, Washington
and Williamstown. At about 8 O'Clock
in the afternoon, the Chelsea Methodist
meeting house was struck by light
ming, the bolt seeming TO be attracted by
the gilt on one of the tin-topped pima.
cles of the belfry. It.ripped of the cor.
ner boards, passed through the roof OF
the church, and thence went down the
front Of the building, ripping of the
clapboards. Wednesday evening, the
18th, began another series of thunder
storms, accompanied with hail, which
raised the streams, carrying off bridges
and flooding dooryards and gardens
Hailstones fell as large as English wal
nuts, and many panes of glass were
broken. At the lower end of the vii.
lage, cellars were filled with water
Between Chelsea and Washington
the road was impossible.