The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-09
STATE ITEMS.
The Bates House, Rutland, Is to be
lighted by electricity.

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lighted by electricity.
The Mutual Union TclegraI IN Com.
pany's line will be compile ted from
Montreal to New York on the first of
next month, it is expe cted.
Sayles Hoisington of Roc hester Hol-
low has killed three bears within two
weeks and was In hot pursuit of the
fourth at last accounts
The wilderness between Lowell and
Irasburgh is being ettled. Twenty
six me purchased land there during
the past year at from $3.50 10 81 per
acre and good land for farms.
The Chittenden county jail has eight
inmates-a somewhat larger number
than usual. In the days prior to the
erection of the House of Correction the
number averaged about twento-fve.
Mrs. Henry Wilson, "a crazy North
field woman, wandered away last
Thursday, and after a two days search
was found badly chilled, sitting on a
log in the woods.
Rev. Ii. w. Worthen, Methodist
minister at Northfield, is being inves-
tigated by a council of clergymen, on
q charge of making improper advances
to woman in his flock. His friends
claim it is case Of blackmail.
The Boston Post says: "Vermont is
represented in the Senate precisely as
it was ten years ago, by the same two
men. This can not be said of any other
state" Mr.. Edmunds has been Senator
, for nearly sixteen years and Mr.. Morrill,
for nearly fifteen.
A new local paper is soon to be start
ed at White RIVER Junction, under the
uame of the White River junction Sun,
"provided there is sufficient encourage.
ment given to warrant it." The pro-
jectors are Mr.. Royal Cummings, the
Junction printer, and Mr.. l.. p. ThayeI
t of West Randolph.
A. NJ. Chadwick, a Vermont boy, has
been elected county Judge of Douglass
, county, Nebraska. He was first ap
pointed by the governor to fill avacan
cy, September 5, then was nominated
at the Republican county convention il
}. October and elected by $50 majority il
j. November.
OHDUdlu ID I1OlJ VI tuc StculutI 4hu
g guam takes no stock in the theory tina
). the water in Lake Champlain is dryin.
>, up. He believes that there is just a
u much of it, on an average, as there wa
. fifty years ago, and that no fears nee'
/. be entertained but that it will last on
d time.
c Recently, a little son of Mr.. Wood Q
:. Groton was handling a loaded pistol
n which had been carelessly dropped int
the wood-box by boarder, when it wa
: discharged, the ball passing passin
10 through his mothers's wrist, struck tn
!. steel plate of her corsets and glance
:. off, passing into the side of the house.
t. The 81. Adams "working" temper
IL ancc committee report that two hott
bars, the JVelden and American, hav
voluntarily closed, and that two motor
s. GUS houses of ill-famehave been CLOSED
IS They are collecting evidence for turtle
10 prosecution, and will endeaver to sc
"a 10 it that the work does not unnecessi
=, rily lag.
81 William Merrick, of Brandon, Will
y hunting deer In the Adirondack n
~ Gently, was shot and MORALLY wounde
l. by some unknown person as he we
n cutting of the ears of hound whic
=. he had shot because ii interfered wit
!, his dog. The murderer is supposed
Il be the owner OF the killed dog, and hi
s. not been captured.
A silo belonging TO Mr.. Stebbins {
Vernon was opened last week in pre-
ence of considerable number of Wis
tors. Its capacity was 100 tons, and
a. contained the product of five acres
III fodder corn. The ensilage came out
H. excellent condition, cattle eat it wit
1 relish, and the farmers who were pre-
" ent are reported as enthusiastic ov'
er the success of the experiment.
I'd HON.. Gregory Smith, J.H Brook
t. Freeborn Bell of st. Adams and j.
a. Merrill OF Swanton and others are nal
ID ing arrangements to establish butte
ne and cheese factory at st. Adams Poin
g, near Gov. Smiths place. The plan
re the same as that SO successfully orr.
of mated and worked by Hon. f. s. Gre
,g sey of Stockholm, n. y, which is Il
rs manufacturer of A butter from pul
In cream taken from sweet milk and the
~ converting by new process, the ski
milk into cheese. 1t is proposed
to erect factory capable of working U
e. the milk from six hundred cows.