The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
State News.

ed at IIardwick.
A. b. Valentine will build larger
knitting mill in place of the one burned
at Bennington.
Rev. f. B. Phelpf. pastor of the Con
gregational church of st. Johnsbury. re-
signed last Sunday.
The docket for the coming April term
of Cbittcnden county court contains III
law and ~ ch1nceiy cases.
Deacon Horace Durlkee and wife of
st. .Iohnsbury passed their golden we'd
ding day Il week or two since.
Ludlow has a new steam fire engine.
Among the members of the company are
all the clergyulen in the village.
The day appointed for the execution
of Mrs. Mealier is the Both of March,
and not the 23d. as has been stated.
Rev. NJ. y. Mead. the former we'll
known Methodist presiding elder Of the
Burlington district, has removed to Kan
sas.
Thirty-four births, twelve marriages
and thirty-twO deaths occurred in Yer
gennes between Jan. | 1882 and Jan. |,
1888.
A rolling mill is to be erected at Wi
nOoski, the iron being mined in the Adj
rondacks. 1t is to be worked into horse
nails, for which it is specially adapted.
Louis X. Drew of Grand Isle has been
jailed at Burlington by United States
Marshal Henry, Oh the charge of send
ing obscene matter through the mail.
The roof of Henry kibbee's barn in
Randolph broke in from overweight of
snow Mr.. Kibbee had just stepped out
as it fell in, and thus narrowly escaped
death.
Authority for the organization of the
National bank of Lyndonvlle has been
received. 1t is to start with n capital of
100000, with authority to increase to
Sl50,000.
The Free Press says that ii letter from
Bishop Peck says that he has 50 far re-
covered that he now expects to attend
the Vermont conference at st. Albans,
next month.
The eighteen women who took part in
the "broom drill' at the Kingsley guard
fair at Rutland have organized as the
"household guards" and elected Kate
Royce captain.
Burlington is to have a refrigerator
for the storage of Chicago dressed beef.
Ground is now being broken for the
building, just east of the Burlington and
Lamoille railroad shops.
Henry w. Putnam of Bennington has
entered Il suit against the Eagle Iron
Works of Des Moines, Iowa, claiming
5000 damages for alleged infringe
ment of barbed wire patents.
Lieut.. III. 5. Wood of the Ransom
guard, st. Albans. has received from
| Brigade Commander l.. G.. Kingsley an
appointment rs assistant quartermastei-
general, with the rank of major.
A frame dwelling and barn in Spring
field, owned and occupied by Mrs. Dr.
Sawyer, We're burned Friday. with all the
contents. including furniture, clothing
and two cows. Loss 81 900; insurance
$1,000.
| Edwin Il. Norris. man in the employ
of Samuel kimball of Orange. was seri
ously if not fatally injured by a tree hC
was trying to dislod2e springing back
against him with SO much force that one
side of his face was entirely crushed.
At the annual meeting of the Brattle
boro and Whitehall railroad company i
report of last years business. as received
from the Central Vermont management
showed the earnings to have been S4l :
2S5.5 and the expenses S4l.25l.72.
Mr.. w. b. Hatch of the banking firm
of Hatch d Peters of New York, which
has failed, was for several years presi-
dent of the Burlington and Lamoille
railroad. The failure is due 10 the de
falcat,o1 of their cashier. They will
not resume business.
Hon. Joshua Clapp of Montgomery
died on Wednesday evening, February
rs, OF apoplexy, aged rs years. Mr..
Clspp had held several positions of honor
and trust, having been State Senator in
lS6G-G7 /; at one time town Representative,
and town clerk for about 40 years.
During the communion service at the
Congregational church in Newbury, sun
day, smoke was discovered issuing from
back of the pulpit. The alarm was given
and fire was discovered in the wall, hay
ing caught from the chimney. BY
prompt action il was soon eXtinguishcd
with little damage to the building.
Z. ID. Upham, formerly of the firm OF
Thayer Il Upham, publishers of the
Herald and Nelos, West Randolph, is now
of the firm of Lounsbury & Hidden
wholesale dealers in cabinet hardware
and upholstery materials at Louisville
Ky, Mr.. Upham being secretary OF the
new firm.
DR.. James Lewis of Burlington has
lust returned from Lexington, Ky.
where he has been attendinga meeting of
the State board of dental examiners. The
object of the meeting was to suggest
means and methods by which the vari-
Gus States having law regulating the
practice of dentistry could have u uni
form basis in their examinations. Sis
States were represented; Illinois. lndi
ana, New York, Ohio. Kentucky ant
Vermont. The next meeting is to bt
held in August, at Niagara Falls. when !
permanent organization will be formed
The celebrated case of John O'Neil oi
Whitehall, who was arrested at Rutlant
for selling rum, has been remandet
( from the United States court to the jus
!, tice court at Rutland. On Friday las