The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-02-04

There Is q great amount OF sickness
in Windsor county. /.
Potato buyers In L.amoille county
offer forty and fifty cents per bushel.
The Burlington liquor agency during
the year 1880 sold s5,672 worth and
made a profit of s457.
The schoolhouse Mt Lower Water
ford was burned the 10Th. Loss $500.
The fire caught from the stove.
IL is stated that the will of the late
A, G.. Howard, of Townsend. be-
queaths $40 900 to that town for the
support of the poor.
Appropriations of $4,000 for the
harbor at Burlington and $4,000 for
that at Swanton have been agreed up
on by the house commerc committee.
Nearly all the Castleton slate mills
are running night and day. Hugh
Hughes is now working Oh o European
June to fill.
Miss Jennie A. Banister, of Brain
tree, has within the past two years
made a log cabin bed quilt containing
nine thousand pieces. doing all the
work herself.
The st. j. & L.. G.. X. Il. have
engaged one hundied box cars of The
Portland Car Co., which are to be
delivered next month and later as fast
as completed.
The latest story is that Hon. Il. j..
: Phelps was TO have been appointed
: minister to England had Tilden been
, elected president, and supreme court
! Judge had General Hancock been cleo
ted. -TFree Press.
U The hearing in the case of the MUIR
, derer Hayden will be held early this
! month. Hayden's counsel claim to
u have discovered additional evidence,
which will go far in establishing the
grounds upon which they base hopes OF
a new trial.
a We are informed that Mr.. Went
J worth of Minnesota, formerly Of Shafts
bury, who had his ear cut OIL in the re-
cent accident on the Bennington and
, Rutland railway near the State Line,
y has settled with the railroad company
for 81, $780, bennington Banner.
Saturday night, at St. Albans, the
house owned and occupied by e.
Gorom was totally destroyed by fire.
ii It was O story and q half frame build
N ing valued at 81 800, IN which was
he $3.50 insurance in the Fire and Marine
8. of Springfield. The furniture, worth
$500, was insured for $3.50 in the same
It. company.
e. AT the meeting Monday, of creditors
of ID. G. Barber. proprietor of the Var
bS Noea ITorpo Drrlipufnn A n Hmm
II phrey was chosen assignee. About 15l
claims were proved aggregating 1914, 1872
-. OF this amount $40, 600 is covered by
~ mortgage Oh the hotel and $500 by on,
~ on the farm, leaving $14,332 of unse
cured Indebtedness.
ia 1t is rumored, says the Richfort
nc Gazette, that in the spring, steps vii
be taken with a view to the extension
4, of the Montreal, Portland and Bostol
lo' railroad from Frelighsburgh 10 thi
'at place, by way of West Berkshire an,
lo1 Berkshire Center, to connect with tn
". Southeastern, thus affordiDg al Quite
of to Boston for the former road.
a S. G, Bridges, of Manchester, VIII
contracted with the government to fur
,es nish the quota of soldiers tombstone
We desired, has completed the number 70
to all the New England states and New
Ids York, and is now at work upon thos
err of Pennsylvania. One thousand min
re hundred and ninty-eight stone wer
an furnished for New York state.
A hand car, with six section men o.
a board, while running at a rapid pac
". down grade below South Londonderry
A. recently, struck a dog and was throw
IT. off the track into the ditch, and til
he men were promiscuously scattered, j
he being solemnly affirmed that some @
". them were thrown a distance of thirt
SIS feet. One of them landed under th
car.
During the year 1880, there wer
, u taken from, the Fletcher Free Library
"1 Burlington, thirty thousand volumes
nad Of these, sixty-six were prose fiction =
~ a smaller percentage than ever before
u.s. and one which but few popular libra
ries in the country can show. tn
nmS library now numbers about 10 $500 vO
"u umes. About 700 books were given t
it last year.
les Robert Towns, of Richmond, died o
est the Goth of heart disease. Mr.. Town
ri, tUduc ftNcTdl CdliN upOn Hno ntlSuDOi
lie. in the forenoon, and took dinner az II:
nd ual. He then went to the barn, an
ny was gone some half an hour when hi
ere man went INTO tne Darn anu round hit
,ge lying on his face dead. lie was
prominent mason, and was seventy
two years of age.
zen The Montpelier Argus, which ougl
Dr. to be good authority on the subjec
nal says that Mr.. Tilden gave 1925 900 to tn
ed, Democratic campaign fund, last fal
on. and then duplicated it, making 5000
es- in all, accompanying the last subscriI
at ton with words equivalent to sayin
Ter "you must not come again, for l al
not a factor in this fight, and must M
be considered one"
al, Addison Gould of Woodstock, gel
mel orally known as Blind Gould, died IL
lly other day in his sevcnty-irst yea
no Though blind for forty years, he partl
is supported himself by playing on Il
At violin, and had travelled all over Ne
of England, especially in Vermont all
lie, Maine. He also exhibited picture
100 through magnifying lenses, and was
ern wonderful example Of what one can q
di- without sight.
The secretary of state has just disco
ay, cred that owing to careless legislatic
the last session, the law providing for Il
salary and expenses of the superinten'
ons ent of education was abolished. s.
oed perintendent Dart finds himself, no
that he has accepted tho office, Wi
TO prospects of no funds, and unle
I'd somebody guarantees the salary, it
probable the state will be without th
red
My About two weeks ago the little oil
Up; year old son of A. ii. Bowen,
the Bethel, had symptoms of indigestion
A few days ago the point of u need
appeared in the region of the lie
ng- groin. 1t was extracted and found
mt. be a needle about two inches lonl