The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-16
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st. Johnsbury Index, has sold out to
John 4. Harris, OF Danville.
In Burlington, during November,
there were twelve marriages, twenty
six births and twenty-one deaths.
On Friday last the steam sawmill at
JefIersonville, of E. w. Peck & Go.
was totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
90 1000; insurance, 81 100.
Among The government estimates
for the next fiscal year are: For i'm
proving Burlington harbor, $4,000 !;
improving Swanton harbor, $4,000.
The Missisquoi road is now laying
steel rails beyond Sheldon. The road
is buying nothing but steel, and will
have the whole track laid in the course
of three years.
Educational meetings are to be held
in Addison county as follows: Addi-
son, December Is; New Haven, De-
cember IA, and at North Ferrisburgh,
December Is.
Christmas and New Years fall upon
Sunday, which makes the Monday fol-
lowing legal holiday; hence all paper
becoming due on those days must be
provided for on Saturday preceding
j. B. Southworth, principal of the
Vermont Seminary and Female college
at Montpelier, 10 reported failed, and
| has called n meeting of MS creditors.
Liabilities, $4,000. He offers forty
cents.
4. II. Wilson, toy manufacturer and
novelty worker at Bellows Falls, for
merly of the Bullock & Wilson manu-.
featuring company, has suspended, and
it is understood that he owes his help
large amount.
A Hermit's Hidden Wealth. Patrick
Downey died recently at Castleton
where he had lived hermit's life fol
25 years. After his death roll o.
$4,000 in bills on the Castleton Mutual
bane was found secreted in his bed
The bank discontinued business in 1869
The report of the treasurer of the
Burlington Home for destitute chill
dren for the two years ended Novem'
Der /, shows receipts from all sources
during the period of $15,898.11, and
disbursements of an equal amount, less
Sal in bank and 5000 on hand toward
building barn.
| One of the paper manufacturing
firms at Turner's Falls, Massachusett
has bought large tract of land in ia
maica on which there is hillside GOV.
cred with poplar, which is to be out OF
and shipped down the narrow guagt
railroad to Brattleboro, and thence tC
the paper mill to be made into pulp.
The Vermont Blanket Company OF
Bellows Falls, which began work las
summer, has stopped operations ane
will close up its business. 1t is under
stood that the business did not pay ant
was poorly managed. F. II. Brown
formerly of the Boston Journal, wal
was treasurer and George w. Monks
superintendent.
AS George Parker and Zeb. Carlisle
of Bridgewater, were out hunting Oh
the same hill recently, without know
ing each others presence, they boil
saw partridge, they being in opposite
directions, and both discharged theil
guns simultaneously. One shot from
Parker's gun passed through young
Carlisle's ear.
Hardwick folks are interested in thu
case of Alice Cross, young woman
who lett Brattleboro three months ago
nearly dead with scrofula, and hai
been cured by bathing in and drinking
the water of a spring, which it nov
appears, has wrought marvellous cure
before. The spring is in rough pas
ture about two miles from the village
and has peculiar taste, something
like gunpowder.
Work has been begun on a branch o
the st. Johnsbury and Lake Champlail
railroad at North Concord. 1t will ex
tend into Victory, and be about tel
miles long. 1t is built in the interes
of the lumbermen, who pay for tn
grading and ties. The road furnishe
the iron. The grading is to be finished
by next July and will cost $12 900.
The panther shot at Barnard recent
", is being exhibited to large crowd
in various parts of the state. A sec
ond pantherpr, obably the mate to tn,
one shot, was seen at Bolton, on Satur
day last, by two men out hunting
The animal was tracked in the snow
and was at one time seen in the dis
lance, but disappeared from sight be
fore the hunters came up to it.
| Diphtheria entered the family o
Isaac A. Hills, of Cabot, and within
forty-eight hours took away two chill
dren-Mary, aged four years, ant
Clara, aged six years and ten months
The unfortunate mother, on seeing tn,
body of Clara brought out of the hons,
to be taken to 1.-The grave, was seizet
with commissions, from which she new
er recovered. She fingered in an un
conscious state for few days ant
died.
Levi Scott, of Craftsbury, who's,
memory embraces nearly everything
he ever knew, says that on Novembe
IA, 1927, snow fell to the depth of two
feet, and that terrible wind followed
which made the roads impossible fol
several days. The weather continued
very cold till January, when warn
weather commenced, which continued
till spring. The sugar was made il
February, and the wheeling was goot
in March, with an early planting sea
son.-[ Monitor.
RESCUED FROM William
COuphlin of SOmeryiile Mass saws