The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-11-18
STATE ITEMS.

The house of correction has now
more inmates than for long time.
There arc now seventy Ugh, boys and
sixteen girls in the Vcrgennes reform
school
Eight liqnor saloons in Rutland have
been posted by the officers OF the law
as haisanccs.
A young Bratlleboro man awoke at
five o'clock the other morning TO find a |
large rat savagcly guawing at his car.
Henry II. Babcock, president OF the
Chicago Academy of Sciences, is dead
aged sixty-sevcn years. lie was ma
tive of Thetford.
A Scotch lawyer is at Burlington
searching for Hector Shaw, a native Of
the island of Null who falls heir to
SOC, 900 and doesn't know it,
The Isle La Motto bridge is TO be fin
ished ready for business carly next
spring. Farmers on the island say that
the present years crops were the largest
ever raised.
Chauncey Warner, Esq, Of Cam
bridge has given S25 200 to found a
home for destitute children OF st. Al
bans. A house has been bought for
50 200 and ii will be Immediately fitted
up for the home.
Teynon of Poultney, who was con-
victed of arson at the recent term OF
Rutland county court and sentenced to
ten years in the state prison, has been
sent by the prison authorities TO the
insane asylum at BrattlcbOro.
= AT Richford last week Monday even
( ing, while a fourteen-year-ol boy was
foolng with loaded shot gun, it was
: discharged and three shots entered the
face of q young son of Mrs. Charles
Cummings, inflicting painful wounds.
A liquor raid was made at st. Al
= bans last week Tuesday morning, three
establishments being visited. No con
traband goods were found in two oil
the places, but in the third two ioul
: gallon Jugs, one three gallon iug and Q
n bottle of whisky and gin were taken.
J. The executive committee of thc Yer.
k mont Dairymen's Association met Al
:, st. Adams, Saturday, TO see a6ou
- . holding a winter meeting. Oilers fol
u holding the meeting were received iron
:, ST. Adams, Montpelier and Rutland
l. The matter OF getting up the meeting
! will be left to the secretary.
J. A housekeepers' guild has been form
=. ed at Woodstock. The organization i
"to obtain for the use OF the house
u keepers of Woodstock n sufficient sup
Of ply of domestic labor, whether male o
f. female, lin short, to protect them
selves from "servautgGlism.'
2 Hon Trenor w. Park was chose
1t president of the Hudson River Tunnc
le Construction company, which was OF
n gained in Jersey City, Monday, t
3" build the tunnel under the Iludso
Is river between Jersey City and NeN
n York, now under construction. Tia
h capital is 81 100000.
III There was q sad affair at North Fcl
risburgh, Wednesday afternoon. TIL
dwelling of James Laquire was burne
with all its contents. Ills children, on
to of five and one two years old, wei
nt burned in the building. The mothC
had left them alone about iilicc
C. minutes before the discovery of II
re fire.
=. AIcontcst took place in IIuntingto
u" this season between G. A. Baker, !
ell Al. Poet ard NJ. |. Ellis, as to W hC
dc would raise the most potatoes OH ha
n acre The result was that G. ~. Bake
=, raised on 101 rods $50 bushels, y. \
~ Peet on 80 rods 25G bushels, and NJ.
he Ellis OH so rods 2l5 bushels. The va
ng iety was the Burbank Seeding.
Burlington is agitatcd over the cit
's- agency question. The former agci
nd was removed by the comfy commi
ial sioner for alleged malfcasancc in o1liC
N and a new agent appointed. The 70
-, mer agent claims his removal was ill
NJ gal and declines to retire, bcin
We supported BY the aldermen. III
on agency is closed to await development
ps Fred ID. IIazen, who died last sun
dc mer, was for several years and un'
e. his death n trusted clerk of Well
mr. Richardson & Co., wholesale druggis
y in Burlington. 1t now appears that !
OF had been Tor some time stealing goot
ry from the store and carrying them HON
~ Suspicion was aroused by tic fact tn
=, his father had offered for sale to dru
on gists and physicians costly drugs f'
OF much below their market price. Fina
ly the house was searched and thr,
trunks filled with stolen goods we
found, approaching in value $500.