The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
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Rutland has 81 physicians in active
practice.
The mills and quarries at West Rutland
have reduced wages II per cent.
The eight-hour system was adopted
in the Central Vermont railway shops,
Monday.
James Powcll's gun kicked, while he
was hunting in Fairhaven, and broke his
nose in two places.
The Lawrence Brainerd estate on
Bank street, st. Adams, has been sold for
$4,000 to G. G. Noble.
The Windsor county grand jury has
found 80 indictments. There are 50 cases
on the new-entry docket.
r. II. Holbrook. who mysteriously dis
appeared from Springfield some time
ago, has been found in Philadelphia. He
was insane.
There is talk of establishing new bank
| in Rutland, which already has five ma
tional banks, two trust companies and
one savings bank.
The result of the November opera
an ingot weighing SO ounces. worth
J.J. Harvey of Ludlow has peen ar
rested and put under 5000 bonds to an
swer to the charge of stealing turkeys
from Geo. Cheney on the night of Novem-
| Der 10.
The December term of the Orange
county court opened on Tuesday There
are POI cases on the law docket and 33
in chancery. The jury calendar contains
AZ cases.
A 22-months-old son of George Rounds
of East Wallingford recently fell back
wards into a pail of boiling water, and
was so badly scalded that death ensued in
few hours,
Il. O. Sparks of Manchester, Benning-
ton county, senior in Williams college,
has been arrested for stealing a gold
watch and medical case from a fellow
student. He was bailed by relatives.
James Dunn,a Central Vermont brake
man, died at the Mary Fletcher hospi-
tai in Burlington, the other day. His
arm, which had been crushed by cars at
North Williston, was amrutated and he
lived but a few hours after the operation.
The ceremony of blessing the four new
bells of st. Peters Catholic church at
Rutland was performed Sunday by Bish-
OPP De Goesbriand, assisted by all the
Catholic clergymen in the vicinity. The
bells are named and weigh as follow: St.
Peters, 5000 pounds; St.Mary. 1890; st.
Joseph, 800; St. Aloysium, $50,
The January term of the supreme court
for Rutland county begins January n
and will be held by Judges Royce, Ross
Powers and Taft. There are 45 cases on
the docket, 81 of which stand for trial
The most noteworthy of the cases to bt
tried are the famous O'Neil liquor and
seizure cases, growing out of O'Neil's
business. The principal question to be
determined is whether O'Neil,a wholesale
liquor dealer. doing business in Whitehall
n. Y, is guilty of selling liquor in Yer
mont because he sent liquor in jugs by
express G. o. ID. to Rutlanders who order
ed it. The lower courts decided that sucl
acts constituted a sale in Vermont, ant
his fine being $50 for each sale, amounted
to several thousand dollars.
This story is told in an exchange
Years ago an eccentric old chap kept on,
of the hotels at st. Adams. One fine day
he had his rooms remembered, when h,
caused the number to be neatly painted
upon the back of the front door. Afte
; that, when traveller came along whose
; looks he didn't fancy, he would simply
gives the order to his porter, "Show thu
gentleman to No. ~ and, the porter com
plying, the undesii able guest would flint
himself escorted to the front door. Thi
was the same citizen. by the way, wh'
, when dunned by one of his regular board
ers for the value of IN overcoat stolel
|. from the hotel, turned to his clerk, an,
| faI- i'll,
off; I'll be hanged if I'll board and cloth
him both for 81 a week ~