The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-02
STATE ITEMS.

failed,
Typhoid fever is very prevalent at
East Wallingford.
The police of. Rutland have posted
seven more saloons in that village as
public nuisances.
A fair recently held by the Burling-
ton Roman Catholics Melted The hand
some sum of $500.
Harvey Il. Kline has been appointed
postmaster at Waterford, and w. Bates
Nichols at West Braintree.
Rev. III. X. Hastings, Methodist, OF
Han cock who has been very sick with
fever, is now better and slowly improv-
ing.
George w. Mandigo, of Proctors-
Vile, has been fined fifty dollars and
costs, altogether sixty-three dollars, for
violation Of the liquor law.
Ex-Secrctary William NJ. Evarts
spent Thanksgiving at his Windsor
home with his family. He looks hale
and hearty at the age of sxty-three.
A Bennington physician, it is stated,
recently had this inscription on his
slate: 'Gone to the funeral of my
mother-in-law; will be back in half an
hour"
According to the recently-issued CEN
sus bulletin, Vermont has an area of
$500 square miles, the water surface
being 430 and the land surface 9,135
square miles.
j. 2. Williams, of Shrewsbury,
agent of tho state fish commissioners,
has been stocking numerous ponds in
the northern part OF the state with
Oswego, black and rock bass.
The Leland 81 Field cheese factory
at North Springfield has made 10000
pounds of cheese the past season. If,
as expected, n cent pound is returned
the farmers for their milk, they will
realize $4,000.
Governor Farnham has recently been
the recipient of nickcl-plated railroad
spike taken from the track laid to FL
boron cottage, Long Branch, over
which President Garfield was carried.
Dartmouth college seniors will re-
vive class day next year. The Ver-
mont boys who will have parts are E.
IL. Smith of Tunbrdge, oration d. b.
Locke of Corinth, chronicles; A. +.
Rice of Springfield, prophecies.
AT the general term of the supreme
court, held at Montpelier, the court
heard sixty cases, reversed judgment
in ten, affirmed judgments in sixteen
aud held twenty for determination. 1t
adjourned then till May 10th next.
Ex-Lieutenant.G Governor A. b Gard
ner Of Bennington is dead. He had
held the offices of judge-advocate-gen IL
eral, bank examiner, speaker of the
Vermont House OF Representative and
other important state, and town
offices.
Last Wednesday, while excavating
for foundation wall at East Fairfield,
Thomas Collins was buried under a
quantity of earth, and died before he
could be dug out. The body was bad
ly mangled, leg and arm being broken
and the head crushed.
Burlington is vigorously pushing its
project for permanent exhibition
grounds and buildings. More than
half the needed $4,000 capital has
been subscribed, and leading residents
are said to be taking hold with such q
will that success is almost assured.
A few weeks ago O.. F. Woods, OF
Bellows Falls, advertised the loss of a
valuable hound, which has been found,
or rather its body. in chasing game in
the woods, it had run against a stub,
which entered its body eight OF ten in
ches, leaving it impaled, evidently Nil
ling it instantly.
Hammond S. Porter, 20 years old, al
work in Abbott's mills, Fairlee, was
caught by his coat on Thursday and
carried between the belt and cylinder
with great velocity until the mill was
stopped. lie was taken out uncon-
scious, and faint hopes of his recovery
arc entertained.
Charles Squiers of Guilford sowed
the past season u acres of oats, yield
ing upward of GOO bushels, planted 10
acres of corn which produced 1000
bushels of ears, besides devoting sever
al acres to root crops, cut 100 tons of hay
and will winter so head of cattle and
six or eight horses. All this from a
farm which few years ago was con-
sidered worn ont and of little value.
Conductor Titus's express train from
Boston, leaving Bellows Falls at six
O'Clock Tuesday morning, had a mar
row escape from destruction. Two
miles out, near Cold River station, the
engine struck large rock, weighing
over three tons, while running at full
speed. The rock was thrown over
twenty-five feet, damaging the engine
badly, and throwing it from the track.
No one was injured.
Capt. f. b. Rockwell of the steamer
Reindeer, thinks the water of Lake
Champlai is gradually growing shall
lower, year by year, and that it has de-
creased fully a foot in depth, on an av-
erage, during his time. He attributes
this to the clearing up of the forests
formerly covering the watershed,
causing the rains to come down in
the streams and flow of more rapid
ly, and giving increased facility for
evaporation.-[Free Press.
Alexander Crowell shot catamonnt
in Barnard Thursday. lie and another
man with dog hunted the animal for
hours, and finally Mr.. Crowell met il
face to face, and with only rod and a
half intervening. His first shot was
shotgun charge; it took effect in the
creatures breast. The dog engaged
he catamount and Crowell then fired
his rifle ball, it taking effect in the
catamonnt's eye: The animal weighed
1872 pounds and measured seven feet
from nose to tip of tail. 1t was an old
female and very like, in appearance
and size, the best South American
lions exhibitor in menagerios.
The 18th annual reunion of Vermont
officers will be held on Thursday, JAN