The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
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The first Baptist church of Burling-
ton celebrated its fiftieth anniversary
Friday of last week.
The Rutland railroad company paws
on October its regular dividend to the
stockholders of the Addison railroad.-
Rutldnd Herald.
The Western Vermont Agricultural
society, with State charter and cap
ital of $4,000, has been organized at
Fair Haven for the purpose of holding
fairs there. Their first fair comes DC.
tober Z, and 8.
Thomas G. Underwood and Harmon
S. Graves, both of this city and men,
bers of the high school, have been APP
pointed pages of the Legislature of
Vermont, at its ensuing session.
burlington Free Press.
A State convention of the Prohibition
party of Vermont has been called by
their committee at Montpelier on We'd
nesday, October 10 to nominate electors
to support the nominees of the national
party at the coming presidential cleo.
ton.
An unknown man went into Bas-
CONS drug store, at Montpelier, Thurs
day afternoon of last week, and being
refused liquor, set upon and beat Her.
bert Pitkin, the young clerk who was
alone in the store. Pitkin was discoy-
cred on the floor. His assailant has not
been found.
The potato crop in this section has
been greatly injured by the common
white grub, which devours the tubeIs
and in two or three days, even, BUSH
els of potatoes in the ground are so
eaten as to be practically worthless.
The grubs work the worst on newly
ploughed land Bennington Banner.
Last week Friday evening kerosene
lamp upset in the tenement occupied
by Il. H. Chouinard, St. Johnsbury,
which quickly ignited the rugs and
flooring and the wainscoting. In ex.
ingushing the flames, Mr.. G.. had his
hands burned and his face singed, and
his burning pants had to be torn from
his person.
The Y. NJ. &. A. convention will be
held at Brattleboro October 10 to y.
ID. l.. Moody, Geo. A. Hall, State Sec
rotary of New York, and s. A. Taggart,
State secretary of Pennsylvania, are
expected to be present. Each associa-
ton is entitled to two delegates, and
each evangelical church is invited to
send its pastor and one lay delegate as
a corresponding member OF the conven-
ton.
The supreme court has ordered all
the liquor and seizure cases pending
against John O'Neil of Whitehall, N
y, and growing out of his sending
liquor into Vermont by express, C. o.
d., to be re-argued before the general
term which convenes at Montpelier,
October %. These were the cases that
excited so much interest at the Rutland
county court at the September term in
1888.
The jury in the Rutland county court
have returned verdict for the plaintiff
for SS49 in the old case of James Null
lin against the Vermont Mutual fire in
surance company. This case has been
tried twice before by the county court
and each time the judgment has been
reversed by the supreme court for some
error in law of the county court and
the case ordered to be tried again. 1t
will now 90 up to the supreme court
again.
The Republican candidate for sheriff
In bennington county, James Mccall
OF Rupert, was at first declared elected
by the secretary of State, by 10 MAORI
ty. Afterwards the latter found an er-
ror in his count, making the returns
show tie. Now, the Montpelier ar
gus says that the secretary of State de-
clares that the corrected figures give
John Robinson, the Democratic candi-
date, three majority over Mccall.
The October term of the United
States circuit and district courts for
Vermont before Judge Wheeler will be
held October at Rutland. There are
IL cases on the docket in which the
steam stone-cutter company of Rutland
is party, growing out of the Ward
Williamson merchandising machine
litigation, and II suits brought by the
American diamond rock boring COM
pany against Vermont quarrymen to
recover damages on account of infring-
ment of the Leschot diamond drill pa
tent, which has recently been declared
void by the United States circuit court
of New York.
A fayston correspondent of the Mr.
''or and Farmer says that recently, for
about half an hour, just before sunset.
the air literally swarmed with flying
ants. Tueir winged life was of short
duration however. The air soon be-
came clear and then we noticed the
hens and chickens were very busy
gathering something on the ground,
which proved to be fallen ants. A lit.