The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
State News.


The Passumpsc railroad company has
declared semi-annual dividend Of three
per cent.
Fred Hutchinson of Tunbridge broke
his collar bone while wrestling with
friend.
DR.. Grow Of st. Johnsbury found
live baby In box on his front door steps
the other morning.
Philip Brinn of Ludlow, aged %, a
brakeman on the Connecticut River road,
was struck by bridge at Putney and
killed.
The Episcopal society of Richford have
raised nearly a thousand dollars towards
the expense of building church.
Many of the small islands In the north
ern part of the lake are being purchased
by camping and fishing parties, and sum-
mer houses are being built upon them.
The town of Peru, with a population CT
600, has neither doctor, druggist, lawyer.
minister, blacksmith, miller, cooper nor
hotel-keeper, and only one shoemaker.
The snow and ice were so bad on the
Missisquoi railroad the first of last week
ming from st. Albans to Richford, 2S
miles.
| The future meetings of the Vermont
board of agriculture for the benefit of
the farmers are as follows: Cabot. Feb.
20 and 81; Middlesex, Feb. 81 and ~ !;
Berlin, Feb. %; Washington, Feb. -
and % Putney, Feb. p and IS; Windsor
March l and 2; Passumpsic Village,
yN,Io I I'D
Glover, March 10 and l6.
Fred Dodge. who has lately been in the
employ of J. II. Donnelly, u Vergennes
tailor, committed suicide at Keene, n. H.,
last week. His wife was a native of
Vergennes and daughter of the late NJ.
ID. Hall and sister of NJ. f. Hall, an at
torney of that place.
A Barre dispatch of Monday says.
The worst wind storm Of this season pre-
vailed today. Roads over the hills are
impossible and travel is everywhere i'm
peded. There Is over three feet of snow
on the level and it is drifted in many
places to immense depths. Great incOn-
venience exists on account of lack of
water, there having been no appreciable
rains since October and no thaw this
winter.
The Hazard Slate company was Or
ganized at Fairhaven the 1st Of January
with an authorized capital of $4,000,
with James Pottle for president and SUI
perintendent. and Samuel l.. Hazard, sec
retary and TREASURER. The directors are
Samuel l.. Hazard. James Petite. r. n.
Ellis, Clark Smith and s. l.. Hazard, jr.
Ibis company own about nine acres on
scotch Hill" upon which they have
developed IA fine quarry.
The report of the fish commissioners
contains list of over four hundred Ver-
mont ponds and lakes. of All area of from
80 to 10000 acres each. The thousands
of rivers and creeks and brooks and
small ponds make up the fishing grounds
of the State. There have been put into
waters of the State since 1873, l,0S0,0 900
no wall-eyed pike, $4,000 Oswego bass,
$40 rock bass, $50 Potomac bass, 1,175,-
000 shad, $50 white fish, 100 smelt, $50
yellow perch.
A young gentleman of Bennington
stepped into store I'm that village and
asked the proprietor if he might use his
telephone. Consent being given, he
called for the central office to put him In
communication with his own home at
the other end of the village. The con-
versation began by the young man say
ing, "Mamma, don't want to call there
tonight; I'd rather not won't 1t do
some other Dlghtl" The mother seemed
to insist upon his making the call, where
upon the young man became quite ex-
cited, and pushing back the skirt of his
coat with one hand shouted with entire
sincerity, "Why, mamma, l can't 60.
Just look at my pants. ."-lTroy Press.
At the annual session of the Grand
Lodge, l. o. o. F., at Bennington, last
week, Gen. William w. Henry Of Bur-
lington was elected Grand Master; II. l..
Stillson of Bennington was elected Depu-
ty Grand Master; S. q. Putnam, Rut-
land, Grand Warden; Henry Nj. Currier,
Brattleboro, Grand Secretary; l.. h.
Robinson, Derby Line, Grand Treasurer !;
Samuel BigwoOd, Yinooski. Grand Chap
lain; Hon. George II. Bigelow, Burling.
ton, Grand Representative. The order
has made net gain the past year In the
encampment branch of 97, Grand Lodge
department so, and the latter now num-
bers l,SOO, with 80 lodges. The Grand
Encampment elected these officers: G.
w. G., ii. j. Retting; G. ii. p, j. A.
Parker; G. D. W., Thomas Failcy of
Burlington; Grand Scribe, j. X. Egerton
Treasurer, +. II. Thayer; G.. w. j.. II.
f. Randall.
The annual pastoral letter of Bishop
De GOesbriand, which has been trans
mitted to the clergy of this diocese, en-
bodies helpful instruction to the parents
of children In the church and to teachers,
urging upon them the necessity of In
culcating in the minds of the youth Chris
tian knowledge, penitence, patience, alb
staining from wOrldliness and seusuality,
the habit of prayer and of frequenting
the sacraments. The congregations of
worshippers are warned against con-
formity with the spirit of the world,
against schisms In the church and unholy
alliances. The bishop exhorts the faith
full throughout his diocese to observe
punctually the holy laws of fast and
abstinence during the season of Lent, and
to be faithful in prayer, according to the
practice Of all good Catholics.
The famous jug train into Rutland
from Whitehall. n. Y, has been put far