The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-07
STATE ITEMS.
Smallpox still lipgers in Holland.

smallpox still iingers In Holland.
S. u. Rounds of Chicago. the newly.
appointed government printer, i Yer
mont boy.
Some 10 or 20 ladies' attended the
school meeting al Bellows Falls and
participated ~ voting.
A few days ago five persons left AL
burgh Springs for Manitoba aud ten or
twelve are going soon.
The Central Vermont is some 20, 900
cords short of its usual wood supply
this spring, owing to The scauty snow
of the past season.
The Poland newspaper property ct
Montpelier sold for Sl5 900. Itincludes
the Waterman and journal and the
the Vermont Chronical.
Seventy-ilvc genuine whistling quails
were received by ecu. Ripley and
Judge Everts from Texas, to be used in
stocking the game preserve around
Rutland.
A goose fight was one of the sensa-
tons at Bellows Falls, the other day,
The police broke up the affair and the
spectators, all OF whom were women,
were fined.
Rev. Samuel Fish, 81, and Aunt
Sally Stockwell, 1902, oldest residents of
Brattleboro, are reported "as lively as
crickcts.' Aunt Sally celebrates her
10Sd birthday this month.
1t is said that Mrs. Meaker, the con-
demned murderess of Alics Meaker,
is attempting the insanity dodge at
Windsor, and lately made II savage a.
tack on q prison warden.
The st. Adams Messenger is informed
that there are ten seinea In use in the lake
near Alburgh, aud that the average
daily result of this wholesale fish siaug-
ter is about 80 barrels, mostly pike.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roswell Ford are both
dead with smallpox at Braintree.
They took the disease from their son, a
brakeman on the Central Vermont
railroad, who went home i'll with it
from st. Adams, and recovered.
Burglars entered tho residence of
Mrs. John S. Robinson at Center Ben
uington, Thursday night, and took S95
and draft for S400 from the pantaloons
OF Reuben +. Stamford, Mrs. II ,bin.
sons brother. Mr.. Stamford was visit.
Ing on his way to Virginia from his home
in Burlington.
A correspondent says that Boston
capitalists have engaged an experienced
miner to make assays from the gold aud
SILVER ores found along the western
shores OF Lake Champlain, and ma
chinery Will be placed on the claim and
shaft sunk. II is said that surface
gravel from the Benson mine has Weld
ed $50 to $40 per ton.
One ofthe Vermoniers who have made
great fortunes in New York ia Mr..
Henry L. Powers, formerly of the Grand
Central Hotel. Some two years ago
he bought four lots on Fifth avenue, for
5000, 900. 1t Is now announced that Mr..
Powers has sold the property to w. II.
Vanderbilt for $500, 000-this being the
largest price ever paid for like amount
of ground on the avenue.
A man named levin fell out of his
team and was killed in Plainfeld, N.
IL, as the result of drinking liquor
bought Of Hurd 4 Blodgett at White
River Junction. A suit for $500 dam.
ages was brought against them under
the civil damage act. They sold their
stock to one Perrin and he moved 1t
across the river into New Hampshire.
Blodgett was arrested and put under
$4,000 bonds, while Hurd has abscoud.
ed.
A young man from CastletOn had q
narrow escape near Center Rutland,
last Monday. Attempting TO cross the
track in buggy, he was alarmed at
the sudden appearance of train close
upon him. He jumped from the-bugqy,
but caught his foot In the robe, and fell
on his face directly in front of the
engine. lie was pushed from the track
by the pilot, and escaped with a few
pad cuts and the loss of boot, which
was as neatly peeled from his left foot
as though it had been done by an Cleo
tic boot.jack. Hc lives to tell the
story to his shoemaker.