The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
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The wheat on many farms in Orleans
county stands five feet in height.
The total expenses of the State in the
matter of the threatened riot at YER
shire are about $4,000.
P. ID. Percival of North Fcrrisburgh
shipped 60 bushels of Strawberries week
ly during the season.
Gen. w. w. Grout of Barton has ac-
ccptcd the invitation to deliver the ad-
dress ut the fair i'm Rutland. September
>, 6 and Z.
Places for no New York poor chill
eren have been provided in st. Johns
bury and vicinity. They arrived last
week and will remain two weeks.
Burlington's lumber business is boom
ing. one firm having received 5000, 900
feet last week. and l2,000,000 feet thus
far for this season against 10000, 900 feet
for the whole of last.
William Masters, who recently died at
Maidstone, is said to have been born in
Andover. Mass, in 1772, being thus Ill
at.hs death. He had lived in Plainfield
and East Strailord, n. H., where he was
a blacksmith, most of his life.
The new board of directors of the Rut-
land railroad company have elected
Charles Clement president. and j. H..
Williams, the present treasurer, treasurer
pro TEN. 1t is said that DIR. John A..
Mead of Rutland will be the permanent
treasurer.
At meeting of the directors of the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance COM
3 81 per cent. was levied. During the
fol
risks amounting to over $4,000. 600, and
has increased its stock over 100000.
A report is going the rounds of the pa
pcrs that Barre academy would soon be
suspended. but it was started by some
one who was ignorant of the facts. The
school is in tlourishing condition and
bids fair to enjoy many years of pros
perity jPatchmdn.
A petition for special town meeting,
to Oust the present grand jurors and
elect free rum men,wa circulated Mt Bel
lows Falls and received over 100 sigma
lures. The town officers have called a
special town meeting for August o.
Another lot of moonshiners have been
arrested in the mountains, at Tunbridgc
this time, for distlling cider brandy.
Miles ComstOck. an old offender, William
Swan and James Jones have been taken
to Burlington as principals and Lucius
DemmOn as witness.
At meeting of the counsel in the Ely
Cain case. before Judge Rowcll. last
week. the 9th of August was appoin ed
for a hearing on the petition to file new
bond or appoint receiver. the present
bonds not being deemed sufficient. Near
ly all the miners have left, number of
them going to Rutland to work in the
marble quarries.
A fatal accident occurred at the Null
hogan Lumber company's mill in South
Bloomfield, recently. One Bussiere, a
workman, was instantly killed by a
board thrown from the edger, his neck
being nearly severed. The unfortunate
man was II years of age, and came from
Canada, where his remains were sent.
The house owned by Mrs. Holden at
Bellows Falls, and occupied by Theodore
Allen. which had been raised some 3 l-2
feet, and stood insufliciently blocked up,
fell last week while the family were in it,,
making bad wreck of the building.
breaking all the dishes, glass ware and
pictures, besides damaging other things.
The family was not injured, although
badly frightened.
The secured liabilities of j. M. Haven
of Rutland amount to over $l20,000 of
which S75, 900 is secured by pledge of
bank stock, and the balance upon real
estate. The unsecured liabilities. aside
from the claims of the Rutland railroad
company, which Haven disputes, amount
to only about Sl4. 800. With careful
management, it is thought the creditors
can be paid in full.
John c. Stearns, internal revenue col
lector for the district of Vermont, furn-
ishes the following figures, showing the
amount of taxes collected in this State
for the year ending June 30. 1888: On
distilled spirits, S595.5l; special taxes,
SIS. S.502.S5; on cigars and tobacco, SIS
l33.6l on banks and bankers, IS, ,269.l 10 /;
penalties, fines, etc, S56l .0S; total, $l6,-
0G2.27.
George White of Hebron, n. Y, a
farmer, committed suicide by hanging
himself to an apple tree at his BROTH
or's, James White, in Shelburne, Fri
day night. Mr.. White had for eigh
months shown signs of insanity, and his
family and friends had become alarmed
at his condition. His brother James had
invited him to make him IA visit and con-
suit his family physician at Shelburne.
One day last week Milo Goss' cattle
broke into a neighbours pasture, and in
getting home at night one COW made
short cut across lots, and in so doing fell
or jumped from ledge, which Mr.. GOss
says is 30 feet in perpendicular height,
and struck about $50 feet from where
she started. She received some severe
cuts, but was not damaged. She was
able to 90 TO the pasture the next day
and feed as usual.-Beftel Cor.