The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-02-11
STATE ITEMS.

Montpelier is to have telephone ex-
change.
Poultney Academy students are
troubled with sore throat.
1t is proposed to organize g branch
of the Land League at st. Adams.
There have been ono hundred cases
of measles in Lyndon within week.
With the foreclosure of the mortgage
upon the Missisquoi & Clyde Rivers
railroadi by the Passumpsic railroad,
went the 1928 900 of stock taken by
Troy in the road.
The directors of the state agricultural
land, Tuesday and fixed upon Septem-
Der 10, II, Is and 16 as the date Of the
next fair at Montpelier.
The receipts of the Brattleboro post
Office during 1880 were Gil ,o42, of
which 81 1888 was for 226,369 stamps,
81 ,2S3 for $4,000 envelopes, and 1922 90
for $4,000 postal cards.
The large steam lumber mill owned
by the Merchants National bank of St.
Johnsbury, and operated by L. ID. Ha-
zen, was burned at East Concord,
Wednesday. Damage, $1,000.
Probably t. e young .women. Of Yer
there are more men in the state than
women. This is better than female
suffrage. Ludlow Tribune.
Frank Keller, of Essex Centre,
anpmiffoJ c.,;oi1a Tro,Ic.
by hanging himself in the barn, wher Q
some of the family found him. He
was twcnty-seven years of age.
1t is said that $1,000, 900 feet of lum.
Der will be manufactured in Lamoille
county this season. This will absorb
about three hundred acres of the best
timber land, or rather the timber on it.
a meeting was held at Bellows Falls
Friday night, with a view to the estab-
lishment of public library, and q
committee was appointed to report q
plan of organization at future meet.
ing.
At Underhill, Monday morning, +. f.
Collins committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart, death being
instantaneous. Collins was q young man
twenty-four years of age and was en-
ployed in d. l.. Terrill's store. No
cause is assigned for the rash act.
Charles Scribner jumped from the
train while passing Colchester station
recently, and fell with his head SO near
the track that the wheel showed him
along, though fortunately be was not
injured. He had his ticket for Essex
junction, bat would be nearer home to
stop at Colchester.
The liquor commissioner of Caledo-
MIA county reports that there were l.
4S4 gallons sold by the agents in 1880,
about 200 gallons less than in 1879.
The amount sold in st. Johnsbury has
decreased, but there has been an in
crease in some OF the other towns.
A young man named Starrow, a
brakeman on a freight train, was in
stantly killed Saturday morning at
Roxbury, and terribly mangled, by fall
ling betwean the tender and cars while
passing back from the engine. He had
been on the road only two weeks, and
was from Richford and leaves q wife.
On Sunday of last week the barn of
Asa j. Rogers of Poultney, was des-
troyed by an incendiary fire, with q
lot of hay, farming tools and twenty
three head Of hattie. The criminal,
named John Tenyon, was tracked to
quarry where another small barn was
found destroyed, and thence to another
place where he was arrested.
Rutland has a coal famine. The
Herald says: Saturday night, persons
out of supply found themselves una
BILE to purchase Of any of our dealers,
for the reason that they had none to
sell. At the Columbian mill the stock
of coal gave out Saturday, and this
morning they will begin to use wood
as fuel for their engines. Other manu-.
featuring establishments are short.