The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
state News.

The eighth annual meeting of the
Western Vermont Masonic union will
occur at Bennington on February -.
Abner b. Lowry of Burlington is dead.
He was an old citizen. had held several
offices of trust, and was leader among
the Odd Fellows.
Hon. John Wilder May, graduate of
the University of Vermont and chief JUS
tice of the Boston Municipal court, died
at Boston on Friday.
Cordelia d. Paigc's house in Benning-
ton Center has been burned. 1t was over
century old and one of the landmarks
of Bennington.
Ezra Fisher, aged 73 years, farmer
living near Grafton. was instantly killed
by a falling tree while chopping in It he
woods alone. He leaves widow and two
children.
Ransom II. Perkins of Corinth has
been arrested and lodged in Chelsea Jail
on charge of forging the names of
Stillman Wigans and Ruel Richardson
to note for S765 and passing it on the
First National bank of Chelsea.
Chicago held their fifth annual festival at
the Palmer House on Wednesday evening
of this week. Mr.. f. B. Sherman, gen
tleman well known in this section, is sec
retary of the organization.
The receipts for dog licenses in the
town of Rutland during the year ending
December 81, 1882, were S362.22; the
amount paid out for damages done to
sheep was S26; the expense of appraisers
was So.
A snowy or polar owl was recently
shot in Addison which measured five feet
two inches from tip to tip. 1t is the only
one of the species known to have been
killed in the vicinity fer nearly half q
century.
The Farmers National bank of Yer
gennes has elected the fo'loA ing iresi-
dent, Walter Scranton, vice-president,
NJ. f. Allen; directors, Walter Scranton,
NJ. f. Allen, n. F. Dunshee, c. w. Read,
II. w. Leroy, d. ii. Lewis cashier, ID.
II. Lewis. A semi-annual dividend of 3
per cent has been declared.
The National bank of vergennes ha:
elected the following: Directors, c. r.
Stevens, David Smith, Marshall Smith
Herrick Stevens. Thomas S. Drake. Ed
ward Seymour. X. Il. Bristol; president
c. Il. Stevens; vice-president, DaviC
Smith; cashier, Andrew Ross; assistant
cashier, C. III. Strong.
Mrs. John Welfort, wife of a citizen o
st. Johnsbury, gave birth recently t.
three children-two girls and boy. Tn,
total weight of the three was six pound
and thirteen ounces. The children hav,
been visited and inspected by throngs o
people. One of the babies, a girl. i
dead.
William Gallagher was held at Wind
sor, Saturday, for murderous assault ol
Henry Barrell for 81, 900 and Ed Gafiine,
for $4,000 bail. They were committed t,
Woodstock iail. John McClinton, Franl
McClinton, George Fields and Frank Gal
lagher were each bailed in $4,000. Bar
rell is getting better.
The Fort Cassin Cement company
with works erected near Fort Cassin o.
Lake Champlain, manufacturing hy
, draulic cement from a stone recent
discovered there. has been incorporate
with capital OF 100000. The corpora
tors are +. A. Pond, j. Hinman, f. A
I Morse. Horace White and Francis I
: Wheeler. Nearly $4,000 has alread
? been expended by Mr.. Hinman i'm deve
oping the quarry, and its success is no'
Y assured.
There is submerged spring in st. A
bans bay, directly in the line of trav'
on the ice from Hathaway's Point I
Pearls bay, Grand Isle. When the LAX
first freezes this spring-hole is froze
: over. but the constant action of the watS
bubblin9 up from below wears away Il
!, ice, leaving only thin shell for Il circ
= : of some sixteen feet i'm circumference
| Many persons and teams have br3ien il
9 to this spring-hole in past yea& an
some have been drowned thereR Tn
u winter the dangerous place Ing bee
= marked by ring of brushes, to Trevel
: any one driving or walking uponthe tn
ice.
y The Bennington Battle Monument ass
y citation at its recent annual meeting elec
y ed these officers: President. eX-Go
!. Benjamin F. Prescott of New lIaIhpshir
:, vice-president, eX-Gov. Ililand Hal
y treasurer, Luther X. Graves; reeordin
h secretary, Col. Olin Scott; correspondr
n secretary, Charles NJ. Bliss; director
4 f. j. Phelps, Henry G. Root, j. G.. NJ
n Cullough, Rev. Isaac Jennings, A.
,s Valentine. Samuel b. Sanford. The go
m ernors of Vermont. Massachusetts al
n New Hampshire are ex-ofiicio membe
,@ of the board of direction. John G.. NJ
. Cullough fills the place made vacant
Ia the death of Trenor W. Park.
'e Justice Newman Weeks of Rutland h
" rendered . decision in the celebrat
lug" ease. A quantity of liquors, Sc
70 In jugs from Whitehall to Rutland, W
nd seized. The express company appear
ne as claimants. 1t is held that the liquc
Ill sent to be paid for on delivery are f.
I'd feited, on the ground that the Transact
h was completed in Vermont by the de.
cry of the goods and the receipt of pa
I'd ment here for the goods and expressa:
to 1t is understood the express compa
r. will carry the case to the higher cour