The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-27
STATE ITEMS.

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A stock company has be.sn formed at
White River Junction to engage in the
publishing business.
St.. Albans' credit is not very good.
Its town bonds, 5s. 1920, were quoted
at Boston Saturday at 90.
Tho bridge about TO be built between
Alburgh and Isle La Motto will be
mainly formed of the refuse stone from
the various Island quarries.
James Bixby of Westford was drown
ed near the Lower Falls in Milton last
Saturday night, while fishing. He had
partaken of q mixture of cider and al
| cohol. r4 .-.f
Bakersfield has increased its personal
list from S40,635 In 1880 to $139, 707.
The real estate is $298, 482 against 1882, :
1873 last year. Polls 237, a decrease OF
lis.
The mayor of Burlington, VT, is paid
$500 year, and the liquor agent 5000.
He that ruleth the spirit is more appre-
clated than he who governs the city
-[Harper's Weekly.
A water spout broke on Mount Mans
field, recently, flooding all the streams
below. Several bridges were carried
away, and one road was so completely
ruined that It cannot be repaired.
The rear of the great drive of logs
ON the Connecticut has reached Bellows
Falls. There are 1870 men in the gang,
and so far not man has been drowned.
Two more drives will go down this
summer, the largest in July.
Thirty-one years ago Curtis Barrett,
of Strafford, used a balm of Gilead
sprout to drive home some cattle; when
he got home, no was told that it would
grow If he set 1t out; he did SO, and ii
rooted and grew, aud now measures
eighty-two feet In hight, and line
drawn around it two fee. from the
ground measures eight feet, and from
one of its roots grew q sprout that is
more than sixty feet high. ,.
Ludlow has tree curiosity, maple
that has q clean trunk-growth of fifteen
feet or 90, and then branches into four
nearly equal parts. Into the fork thus
made, the decomposing leaves of pass
ing years have formed quite deposit
of soil, in which q locust seed has
lodged, taken root, and attained a
height of two or three feet. This same
maple tree has yielded sufficient sap to
make ten pounds of sugar this season.
The proprietors of the Champlain
Granite Works, located near Barn Rock
Bay on Lake Champlain, claim to have
discovered q petrified sea serpent of
mammoth proportions, being abo ut
eight inches in diameter and nearly fifty
feet long. The surface of this stone bears
evidence of tho outer skin of large
serpent, while the inner surface shows
the entrails. The proprietors are in
tending soon to begin excavations along
the place where it lies embedded in the
dirt and granite, to ascertain its size.
Judge Ebenezer ii. Weeks of Bran
don died last week. He was the son
of Holland Weeks, and one of the fami-
lyof twelve children, of whom only
one, John Weeks of San Francisco,
CAL, is surviving. From very early
age he was honored almost continuous
ly with some public office, serving for
many years as Town Clerk, represent
ing his town at two different times in
the Legislature. holding the Office of
judge in the Addison County Court,
besides filling other positions of public
trust. lie leaves widow, four child
rem, and three grandchildren by q de-
ceased daughter.