The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28
State and Vicinity.

According to the annual report of tn
Masonic grand lodge there are 10l lodge
in the State, with a membership of 1914
While Ed. Renslow of Chelsea was us
ing an iron wedge, a portion of it flew
striking him in the eye, cutting a gasl
in the ball, so that he will lose the sight
George Sawyer st. Johnsbury fish
peddler, had his hand and arm torn of
Thursday night by the bursting of a CUR
he had overloaded In order to celebrate
Cleveland's victory.
Charles Henry of Westford. aged about
30, while butchering fell backward into a
Kettle of boiling water. scalding his back
from his knees to his neck in fearful
manner. The hook pulled out while
drawing the hog on the platform. He
may recover.
The Supreme court has handed down a
decision in the case of Henry b. Stevens
V. Pilisbury and others by giving plain
tiff $500. The case has been in court
since 1867, and involved the title to about
half the business portion of Bradford.
The Rutland Heroh of Monday was
printed on paper made entirely from pulp
obtained from saw dust. The Saw Dust
Pulp and Paper company of Rutland
own the patents for the machinery and
process, which are the invention of a
Glens Falls On. W man.
The trial of DR.. SamI Allen of White
River junction, for the murder of Edwin
A. Hansell of Rockland. Mass. Nav %,
in Boston, has been set down for the
second Monday in December in the Su-
prcme court. B. F. Butler is to be one
OF the counsel for the defense.
Westminster farmers barns have been
burned to a considerable extent during
two years. The origin of the fires was a
mystery. Finally a Boston detective
was employed, who discovered the incen.
diary III the person of John Coombs, a
half-witted young man, who confessed
and was jailed.
The Burlington Free Press SUSPECTS
that the Federal offices of the State will
be distributed after this style: b. 10
Smalley, collector; George Fisk of
Mortified, United States marshal; Mr..
Redington, district attorney; Mr..
Phelps, either judgeship or fol eign mis-
sion; Mr.. Atkins, postmaster at Mont
pelier; (. NJ. Sutton, postmaster of Bur
lington; Editor Maloney, postmaster at
st. Adams, ETC., etc.
"A -hiutl'ocA ildil, WHO has Deen pre-
pairing an exhibit of the forest products
of Vermont for the New Orleans EXpo-
sition, found the following kinds: Sugar
maple, black sugar maple, birdseye ma
pie, soft maple, dwarf maple, striped
maple, yellow birch 1.-TWO pieces, one
rough and one smooth bark, canoe or
paper birch, beech, elm. Eastwood, white
ash, mountain ash, black cherry, bird or
fire cherry, choke cherry, shade tree, lev
erwood, poplar, tree willow, pussy {"
willow, green osier, witch hazel. hazel
nut, hemlock and balsam fir. The sticks
vary in size from two inches through to
over two feet, and weigh from five pounds
to eight hundred pounds. He has also
sent curiosity in the shape of two ma
pies four feet apart at base growing to-
gether ten feet from the ground into one
smooth round trunk. This alone weighs
half ton. He also shows some finished
specimens of wood; spruce gum in lump
and steamed and on section of tree hem
lock gum; Canada balsam, clear and in
bisters, on slab from tree; some curious
growths from trees, and several kinds of
fungi forming shelf-like projections on
trees and stumps.