The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-04-15

Diclcle cluo mas beeu organized ~
huntington. W al
The BrattIeboro Insane asyInm has
400 patientsf " " ~ -
Seventeen fine residences in Brattle-
boro are for sale. 1is---se
In Mendon woods the snow is four
feet deep on level. - ~ -
The state-prison now contains $50
convicts, less than for many years.
Strawberries have become SO plenti-
ful that good photograph of a large
one can be obtained for one dollar.
Burlington talks of introducing the
electric Hight. A mill at Winooski has
been lighted by electricity for some
time. i0i vili snSi So eaa1 Pc -
There has been twenty-five deaths in
Montpelier from diptheria, since the
disease became prevalent there in Sep
TENDER. i.
Frank Miner. of West Halifax was
fatally shot the other day by The acci-
dental discharge of gun in the hands
of l.. ii. Ballou.
After fifty years of married life, Mrs.
Currier, of North Trov, wants to be
divorced from husband TO whom she
was married in 1881. az ift H@iia.l y
Hon. e. J. Phelps, of Burlington, is
to deliver course of lectures on medi-
cal Jurisprudence before The medical
school of the University. ~
The selectmen of Bennington have
realized 1926 900 from the sale of the
towns Lebanon Springs bonds, which
were once thought worthless O.. la1
The spiritualists' association of The
state talk of blu ying one of the small is
lands in Lake Champlain, on which to
hold camp meetings in the summer.
Jacob 8. Cilley, the well-known edu-
Gator, has bought the former residence
of Hon. @. M. SpanldiDg at Jericho,
and will shortly open q private school
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The Boston stock exchange has ad.
mitted to the list the st. Johnsbnry
and Lake Champlain railroad com
pany, Incorporated January 81, 1881
under the laws of Vermont. - D. r'
Consumption is said 10 be not nearly
so common in the counties along Lake
Champlain, as i'm tbose along the Con.
necticht river. the weather being more
equable the year through near the lake
I The prizes offered last year by the
University 10 farmers' boys for The
best yields Of corn and potatoes, will be
continued this year, Hon. John Greg
DRY Smith, of st, Adams, furnishing
the requisite funds. on onta'aola fi' %
| At Swanton, the other day, a two
year-old daughter. of Myroh Kidder
while playing on the floor, her mother
being engaged in washing, fell into
pail of boiling water, and was SC. terri
bly, scalded that death soon ensued.
Newton Gage has been appointed
post master at Ascutneyville;T j..
B.. Wescom at Belvidere Corners.
James f. Whalem at Bolton; Carlos
A. Parkeriat Brownington; Robert b
Smith at Greensboro Bend Allen D.
Pease at Hartford. "a
/ A vigorous movement lie OH foot in
the state to raise fund for the perma.
nent support of the bishop of the Epis
copal church Rector Atwell, of Bur.
/ lington thinks he can raise SIS, 900 in
bis parish, which leaves only Sl2 900 te
be provided for by the other churches.
Bakersfield had a lively school meet
ing the other day. One of the commit
tee, q lawyer, was charged with having
appropriated three cords of wood be-
longing to the school, and this led to 9
fight, one of the features of which was
an attempt to bite off the ears of the
i accuser ali = fi-a1l lrl@t.l eAl y
The Champlain fish protective sect
ETY. held its annual meeting in Burl!ng.
ton, Thursday, with good attendance
from all of northern Vermont. Cyrus
M. Spaulding was elected president
aud Warren Gibbs secretary. A fund
was raised for the enforcement of the
game law. '-- H. - si4 ''
Prof. A. ii. Bingham of Meriden
Conn.,, who died at the residence OF
his brother, Prof. b. f. Bingham, in
Brattleboro, on Sunday, April 8, was
born in Cornwall, March 22, 1922, and
had been principal of the high schools
in Westfield, Mass, and -Meriden,
Conn.,; he was also principal of the
academies at Brandon and at Essex
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st. Adams has voted TO adopt plan
which will increase the capacity Of the
reservoirs so zoo, 900 gallons, at an esti
mated cost Of $4,000, and to organize
the fire department on paid system
If the trustees deem advisable. A. A.
Hall was elected trustee. Fiye-sev.
enths Of the funded debt has been re.
funded at five per cent. 7. e. tH1 ~
I, IT is understood that the Central
Vermont and South Eastern railways
have come to an agreement by which
they will in the future pool their gross
earnings at all competitive points,
These roads have been carrying on an
internecine warfare on the Boston and
New England business, and terms OF
some kind were necessary in order To
insure paying business.
Hiram Adams of Ferrisburgh has
sold the Jehiel Hayes farm, comprising
100 acres, TO the Vergennes national
bank for 81, 1000. There 10 on this pro.
pertY about quarter section of the
once famous Barnum race-course for
running horses, which went into. dis.
use when the law was passed TO prevent
this method of trial of speed. John
Randolph of Virginia frequently al.
tended these races. --Springtield Repub-
lican. aaa sI Xxi Fan lrs,sl.i. g..
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