The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
Sfofe 21eps.

nv D"'NaOioh army mas invaded Brat
tIeboro; and the first act of its leaders
was to ask for police protection
John Welch, deaf mute whose home
is in Arlington was killed on the rail
road at Eagle Bridge, Saturday.
A recent shipment of lumber from
Westheld goes to Africa to build a mis-.
slODary schOol-house.
The States grand list this year for the
collection of 10 cents on 81. is S1,7l2.3 .3g7,
the largest list Vermont ever had.
A revival is in progress at the Rutland
Baptist church. conducted by Rev. Mr..
Pratt and Mr.. Birdsall.
As before announced, the Vermont Off
GERS reunion will be held at Burlington
on January 20. Col. Thos. O. Seayer
will make the address.
The studio of Myron Ward, the artist.
who is now absent in Dakota. has been
broken into at Putney, and several of his
paintings stolen.
The custom officers at st. Albans dur
ing October collected duties to the
amount OF Sl3, 3,493. 13; and free goods to
the value of Sl13.07l were entered.
The Champlain Valley Poultry associ-
alton OF Burlington will hold an exhi-
bitlon next winter, probably some time
IN january. though the exact date has
not yet been fixed.
The lot on which the Vermont Watch
man ut Montpelier stands has been sold
to the Federal government to be used as
site for Federal building. and that pa
per VIII soon move into new quarters.
Smallpox has appeared on the border
again opposite North Troy. in Waterloo.
Seven cases are reported and four deaths
have occurred. Nearly every house in
the village has been exposed
The body of Mrs. Alvord, wife of Gen.
benI. AlVord. paymaster-general of the
army. and native of Rutland. was
brought to that place Monday and buried.
The funeral was held in Washington,
where she died, Sunday.
There were only 10 special" delivery"
letters received at the st. Johnsbury Of
flee during the month of October. and the
local paper says that about half of those
were love letters, and drop letters at
that"
a Burlington man offers to supply tel
ephones at the rate of so to S25 a year
each, and lot of st. Johnsbury people
who are tired of paying the price demand
ed by the local exchange talk of putting
In this mans machines.
Myron Lapman, Pownal's town clerk,
became overburdened with whisky Thurs
day and whipped his babe and struck
and choked his wife. When arrested he
cluded the officers. and cut his throat
with pen-knife. His recovery is doubt
| full.
DIR. Blumner, royal director of music
and conductor of the famous Sing Acade-
mie at Berlin, Germany, has presented
to Prof. Mietzke of Rutland the full Or
chestral score of bis musical compo-
sition for the 2lst Psalm, and it will be
used at the Rutland musical festival
next May.
At recent meeting of the directors of
the Union Mutual Insurance company of
Montpelier, Messrs. w. f. Braman and
+. Hubbard resigned and Messrs. j. H.
Senter and ii. w. Kemp were elected to
fill the vacancies, and were also elected
secretary and treasurer respectively.
. a man in Center Rutland. whose right
leg has troubled him for about twenty
wears, recently had some parts of the
bone removed. A piece of the tibia
about six inches long was removed and
found to be diseased, and one of the
ankle bones was taken out. The opera
ton apparently was success.
Edward Smith, IS years old and a farm
laborer, was arrested at Chester on Fri
day of last week on the charge of steal
ing a registered letter from the postoffice
at Gassett's Station in that town. On be-
ing arragned before Judge Tyler at
Brattleboro ne confessed and was taken
to Burlington, in default of $500 bail, to
await the action of the United States
court at its next session.
The Mugwump st. Johnsbury Caledon-
ian is mOyed to remark: Nermonters of
all political shaues are pretty generally
willing to give Mr.. Cleveland credit for
the good work he has done. But in Yer
mont he seems TO have turned the State
over to Atkins, bag and baggage. 1t is
edgng along toward the time whenDem-
ocrats and Independents, as we'll as Re-
publicans. should begin to look into the
Presidents motive and intent in handing
over whole States to such fellows as At
kins. Four years of such work as is
now going on will make cleveland men"
pretty scarce in Vermont.
The late John p. Howard bequeathed
$500 900 to his sisters, nieces and friends,
including 100000 to his nice, Mrs.
Evans of Paris, 5000 each to Mr.. and
Mrs l.. ). Drew of Burlington. OF the
rest Oh tlle estate, One-llall Is gwen 10
Mrs. Evans and the other half to be di-
vided equally between the association
for the relief of respectable aged and in
digent females in New York the home
for destitute children in Burlington, the
New York society for the relief of rup-
tured and crippled persons, st. Luke's
hospita! in New York, the New York
juvenile asylum, the Children's Aid So
: ciety in New York and the New York
orphan asylum. A codcil gives
S20,0O0 to diocesan school for girls in
Burlington, provided $4,000 additional
is raised for it. The estate will amount
to about 81 100000.