The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-10
STATE ITEMS.


Ice sixteen inches thick Is being cut
from st. Adams bay.
Brattle boro had twenty-five inches
Of snow last Sunday. Fl
A Womans' Temper ante Union has
been formed at Barton.
The ST. Albums Home for Destitute
Children has four inmates.
About 24,OOO feet of gas is used In
Rutland every.twenty-four hours.
Vermont shows the smallest gain In
population of any state during the last
ten years.
Some of the Charleston farmers are
feeding their cattle cotton seed meal
this winter.
Diphtheria of malignant type 10
raging in Franklin Orleans and Gale
donia counties.
Two soapstone quarries are In full
operation within short distance ofthe
village Of Chester.
There Is a paper published In the
town of Holland called the "Watch-
man in the Barn."
According to the census, of the total
number of Inhabitants of Massachusetts
rs, 1863 are natives of Vermont.
Col. d. Il. Andross of Bradford has
just received $4,000 arrears pension
the largest yet paid TO q Vermont
soldier.
The total shipments of butter from
Franklin county last year foot MP
1902 ,424 pounds, for which S296, Se1
was received, $4,000 more than in
1880.
josh Billings is grandson Of Yer
monts DR.. Samuel Shaw, member
of congress from 1908 to 1918 and o
noted surgeon in the United States
army.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Orr, of Groton,
have been married "a years and dur-
ing that time have never bought but
one barrel of -four, always raising his
own wheat.
An East Hardwick druggist has paid
$500 In settlement of a suit brought by
the husband of a woman who was
nearly killed by poison through the
druggists mistake.
The Central Vernon. Is putting in
its ice along the line. That for stations
as far south as Waterbury is cut at AL.
burgh, varying FROM twelve to fifteen
inches In thickness.
The whole number of gallons of II.
quor sold at the town agencies In Gales
donia county for the past seven months
is 799 gallons, including all used for
mechanical and medical purposes.
Alexander Crowcll, the Barnard
'panther man." has gone to Boston
with dog and gun, to be exhibited
with the panther, for two dollars aud q
half per day-to be absent till springs
work.
A Spirituallst mass convention ia Ito
be held at Waterbury on Friday, Sat.
urday and Sunday, the 10th, 18th and
18th insts. Return checks over the
Central Vermont railroad are adver.
tised.
Mrs. Charlotte, wife of the late
Manasseh Divoll, who died In Rocking
ham lately, aged eighty-cight years,
was the last hut one of fourteen broth
ers and sisters, the mother of large
family of children and grandmother to
eighty.fve grandchildren.
Geo. NJ. Clark, tho we'll known min
strel, who broke bis leg last summer
has since that time been made happy
by new growth of hair upon the top
of his head, which has for years preyi.
Gus been wholly unprotected. George
says If he could break the other leg
his hair would come out curly.
Counterfeit standard dollars of 1880
are reported in circulation about the
state. The coin is of light weight and
of leaden color, otherwise 1t is very
perfect and dangerous counterfeit.
The string" Is good and an impractical
eye will not detect the difference, ex.
cept that the color is considerably like
lead or pewter.
TROUBLE AT RUTLANp.-The trus.
tees of Rutland village have spent more
money during the year than the taxes
amounted to, and have not money
enough to run the village to May /.
At recent village meeting the citizens
refused to grant them more money In
any form and so they have no money
to run the fire department, light the
streets or pay other. expenses for the
next three months,
The snow storm on Saturds1 .nighl
was general throughout New Epgland
and the Middle States, and was every.
where remarkably heavy. At various
points in New England the fall amount.
ed to nearly two feet on levsl, and In
parts Of the Middle States It was still
heavier. The snow drilled badly, and
travel was seriously impeded. Consid.
cradle damage to shipping on the Allan.
tic cost Ia reported. As 1t journeyed
northward the storm fell of in severity,
II seem that the "workingn commit.
tee have been "not dead, but sleep
Ing" Wednesday morning, District At.
torney Rustedt came from Richford
and made out papers against Mr.. 8. i
Stroud, proprietor Of the American
House, for selling liquor. He was
brought before Justice Tenney, plead.
ed guilty to two offences and fined
twenty dollars and costs. An appea
was entered and this case becomes one
OF many, the final disposal of which by