The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-03
STATE ITEMS.


vergcnnes is trying to gt,t the Montreal
consnlship, il is said.
Two couples recently walked Is miles
10 Island Pond TO get married, and af.
ter the ceremony started on a 35-mile
wedding tour on foot.
DIR. Hamilton, who was crushed un-
der 9 freight train Al Richford, has had
one limb amputated, and there are
hopes of his recovery.
The heaviest taxpayer in Vermont is
John p. Clark Of Milton, whose proper
ty is assessed at $500, 900. There is not
q millionaire in the state.
The Vermont State Spiritualist asso-
citation will hold their quarterly con.
vention at South Troy, on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, June Sd, 4tl
and 9th, 1881.
The old boys of Castlcton indulped
in game of old fashioned base bali on
Decoration Day. A number of the
players were old men, over sixty and
seventy years old.
The rate of taxation on the grand list
in st. Adams Is as follows: town, Sc
cents; highway, 25 cents; state, IA
cents; county, special, 10 cents; school,
40 cents; corporation, 80 cents.
Owing to the large number of prose-
cutions which have been made lately
and the expectations that the work
will be continued, the proprietors OF
the st. Adams hotels have closed their
bars.
The grand list of Williston for 1880
was as follows: Real estate, $3.50, 842
personal, S40,926. For the year 1881
1t Is as follows: Real estate, 500, 900 ;
personal, $296,665.
The government having appropriated
$4,000 to dredge Otter creek below Yer.
gennes, and small sum remaining
from former appropriation, the work
has been awarded to Whitney of Bur-
lington, who will begin work in Au-
gust.
The Hon. Levi p. Morton of New
York, minister to France, remembers
his Vermont birth in Shorebam and
his New Hampshire start in life by con-
tributing 800 towards the Bennington
Battle Monument.
The case of the Fire Association of
Philadelphia against the Merchants'
bank of st. Johnsbury for the alleged
forgery by Rev. E. d. Hopkins, will
be tried at the June Caledonia county
court. 1t has already been tried twice.
once with a verdict of guilty and again
of not guilty.
West Randolph is to have new brick
passenger station about 80 by GO feet,
with iron passenger sheds extending
along the main track 1870 feet. The
plan is the latest and most improved for
passenger stations, and it is to be lust
like the new depot to be built at Brat
tleboro. Work will be begun right
away. r neser
The st. Adams Messenger made the
sage remark that "About the only good
thing in the revised New Testament Is
the substitution of the Holy Spirit for
Holy Ghost.'" This is exactly one of
the things the revised New Testament
does not contain. Tho American COM
mittee recommended It but the English
men wouldn't cOnsent.-TFree Press.
These postoffices have been establish
cd: Brownington Center, Orange coun-
ty, Charles Wheeler, postmaster: Win
lock, Essex county, James ii. Beattie.
postmaster. Postmasters appointed:
Mckenzie W. Rounds, Ricbford.
Franklin county; Manford l.. wilkins.
south Woodstock, Winsor county; Vic.
tor Richardson, West Corinth, Orange
county.
In Burlington city court, Saturday.
after trial consuming the entire day
and several hours OF the night, II. N.
Coon was convicted under the nuisance
act, fined seventy-five dollars and costs,
and his bar.room adjudged nuisance
and he was given until 8 O'Clock Mon.
day morning to furnish bonds in $500.
according TO the statute, not to here.
after sell furnish or give away intoxi-
eating liquor.
The st. Johnsbury grand list of last
year was 1928, 825.77. This year the LIST
ers think 1t will amount to S33 900 or
over, though the totals have not vet
been footed. Among the heavy tax.
payers are w. B. Fairbanks, who paws
taxes on an assessed valuation of eli.
442; Horace Fairbanks, 1874, O94:
Henry Fairbanks, $37, 900; Franklin
Fairbanks, who pays taxes on an assess.
cd valuation of S11 ,442; Horace Fair
banks, $S4, 094; Henry Fairbanks, $S7, =
700; Franklin Fairbanks, $3I, 800; e.
and 7. Fairbanks & Co., $3.50 ga Fred
Fletcher, $4,000: L. p. Poland, $685.