The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-29
State Nems.


A class of twelve was graduated from
the Rutland High school. last Friday.
The signal station at Burlington has
been discontinued for the lack of appro-
priatiOns.
In the Caledonia county court, Lewis
Merchant. charged with killing one
Morgan, in Barnet, in 1881, vas acquit-
ted.
1t is reported tn t Il new vein of ore
has been discovered at the bottom of the
shaft in the Ely copper mine, which is
from four to six feet in thickness.
The Sophomore class of Amherst col
lege, 80 strong, arrived at Burlington.
Friday evening, had Il boat ride on the
lake and later in the evening II banquet.
The International Lumber company
have decided to erect at Newport Il mill
10 by 225 feet. and Il boiler house 80 by
80 feet, ia addition to their present build
iugs.
The commencement exercises of the
State Normal school at Randolph took
place last week. There were % gradu-
ates in the first course and six in the
second.
On tue I'd inst. on the place formerly
known as Moses CUurser's mountain
rancho. in Glen Sutton. Il snuw drift about
two feet deep was seen. in the middle OF
which stood Il maple tree in full foliage.
George Leonard of IIincsburyh has in
his possession the trOwel used by Gen
eral Lafayette in laying the cornerstone
of the University OF Vermont. MIR. Van
Rensselaer, Coon, Il grandfather of Mr..
Leonard. owned the implement at the
time.
The Montpelier Waterman came out
recently in Il quarto form. and has large
" increased its mechanical facilities by
adding Il new machine which cuts. fold
m piStes the sheets ut the same
time. The new departure is Il great ini-
provemeut.
This year is the one hundredth ami
versary of the settlement of the town Of
Cabot and its people will hold ii celebra-
ton of The towns centennial on the
Fourth of July. There is to be Il Fourth
of July Celebration at Waterbury. in
which the Grand Army posts of Mont
pelicr, Stowe, Waitstield, Warren, Wor-
cester and Waterbury are to take part.
The directors OF the Canad an Pacific
railway have been looking over Bradley
Barlow's Southeastern road with Il view
TO its possible purchase, al are under
stood TO have il + fusal of the property.
The Southeastern system is 800 miles
long, and the acquisition of the road by
the Canadian Pacific company would
give them New England outlet via
Newport and the Paesunpsic railroad.
In the Windsor county court, last
week, Rochester parties convicted of
iiotous conduct were fined us follows {:
Chan les and Clark W. Jones. $50 each I;
II. A. and ). w. Swan and Walter Carey,
$40 each; John and Robert McGibbon.
50 each; aud cach of the respondents is
to pay onc-sevent of the costs. The
alternative sentence was confinement in
the House # Correction.
A gentleman who was DESTROYS of
knowing how Richmond stood as IL butter
shipping station us compared with st.
Adams, has procured the following fig
urcs in regard To the former place: For
six months in 1882, including June and
November, there were shipped from
Richmond 353. 100 pounds of butter ana
500 500 pounds of checse-;tn average
per month Of IS $3.50 pounds of b tier and
92.SO0 pounds Of -Clipper.
The Con regational church property
in the State is valued ut 81, 900, 900; the
Fairbanks education fund is Sll 900, nine
studests having been helped from the
income last year; the ministerial relief
fund is $40. 800, and the bencficiaries IL;
the home missionary collections for the
year were $l0.395, and the domestic mis-
sionary Si.634: churches 1919, settled pas
tors 40, acling pastors S3, missionary
stations IL there are l19 Sunday schools,
with 20,9ll members.
The Valley railroad company, at their
recent annual meeting, elected these di-
rectors A.. b. Harris of Springfield.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock, John
b. Page of Rutland, Oscar Edwards OF
Northampton. j. III. Williams of Bellows
Falls and Hugh Henry of Chester. The
annual report shows that the floating
debt was decreased $2O,7l7. As COM
pared with the year ending March 81,
1882, there was an increase in the traffic
receipts of S2l ga, and II decrease in the
operating expenses OF . 6,4SS, making an
increase in the net of SIS, 1872. The To-
tai transportation earnings We're Sl70,-
Cos, the operating expenses 500 1916.
A. b. Harris was reelected president.