The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-04-22
STATE ITEMS.

The pay roll of the Howe Scale Co.,
at Rutland, for the month ending April
Is, was nearly $4,000.
Mortified will start up lite slate mill
TO get out material for the roof OF the
new state prison at Windsor.
The st. Adams Messenger reports
that the prosecution of the oleomargar-
inc dealers seems to hang fire.
At Brattleboro there have been twen-
ty-three snow storms during the winter
and total fall Of eighty-nine inches.
At Burlington, Thursday, William
Parker was fined $500 for intoxication
and Michael Keefe $1,000 for selling
liquor. ,tfr" .mllie -.
Sunday is not a religious day among
the Stowe people. or the 1906 inhabi-
tants of that town, not over 100 attend
church, all told.
Gen. ]. B. Chase of Fairfax has re-
ceived from the pension Office about
$500 back pay, and is to have seven
teen dollars month. rfi al
Z. H. Shaw of Worthwhile, who died
of consumption the other day, was the
last of twelve children, all dying of the
same dread disease.
The house off. II. Lathrop at Coven-
| try, with most of its contents, was
burned on Friday. Loss 5000; in
sured for 800 in the Farmers Mu-
tual. p r1rts ~
Dennis Burns, who was recently ar
rested at Castleton, and lodged In Jail
at Burlington, on charge preferred
by young woman of South Burlington,
was on Thursday released on bail.
The store of d Kern. Jr., at Burling.
ton, was entered by burglars, Thursday
night, who broke open the cash drawer
and made an Intellectual attempt on the
safe. Little of value was carried off.
Lawyers Davenport of Brattleboro
and Eddy of Bellows Falls have issued
circular in which they claim that the
Income of government bonds is taxable
under the new state tax law, but ex,
Judge Barrett holds the opposite opin'
ion. i lift
f. w. Baldwin, late keeper of time
in the freight department at the Cen
trail office at st Albans, has been ap-
pointed and accepted the office of assis.
tant superintendent of the Mexican
Central railroad, with salary of $2,.
500. 't' if
The title to the Pavilion hotel al
Montpelier, is now Mrs. G, wv. Bal
ley's, closing.out any claim that the
subscribers to the fund for building
that hotel may have had. The control
of the properly still remains with T.
o. Bailey.
A Barre woman is troubled because
she expected to get married on the
strength of having few thousand dol.
lars, while the tax law shows that she
has no such sum, and the prospective
husband is likely to back out. She
talks ofsueing the listers. 40.
Daniel DAILY, night shifter at the rail.
road yard, st. Albans, while coupling
q caboose ON train, Tuesday evening,
caught his left arm between the dead.
woods and 1t was badly crushed at the
elbow, 30 that his physician fears that
he may lose the arm. u
Capt. A. F. Leavenworth has pnr-
chased the Castleton Normal School for
$1,000, and will enter upon the duties OF
principal at the beginning of the next
school year. Capt. Leavenworth IL one
of the ablest educators in the state, and
1t Is believed that under his charge the
school will accieve great success.
Anthony Dorman, of Lapeer, Mich,
has been arrested at White River juno.
ton on requisition from Governor
Jerome, of Michigan, and is now on his
way to Lapeer in charge of an officer to
answer 10 a charge of larceny commit
tod not long since, In which crime he
had several accomplices, who are, Il Is
supposed, concealed in this state.
On Saturday last, just after the en-
ployees had passed out for dinner, q
thirteen feet pulley in the Bennington
wooden mills burst and tore up floors
and things generally. This was the
main pnlley, from which the other ma
chinery was belted, and consequently
furnished the power for the whole
mill. A piece Of some five hundred
pounds weight traversed section OF
the rooms, and had the accident occur
red during working hours the danger
to human life would havs been great.
Owing 10 the increased demand and
ready sale of merino sheep throughout
Addison county, the listers In several
towns are appraising them at e15 per
head for entire fiocks, which makes
dissatisfaction among real estate own.
ers, who are we'll aware that these me-
rinoes will sell readily at from 500 TO
$50 per head for entire focks. Single
sheep in some Of these flocks are worth
from $500 to $1,000 each, and the
owners In several instances have re.
fused to dispose of them at those
prices.-[Springfeld Republican.