The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-10
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Hlgh rent ana declining patronage
have caused the closing of the Putnam
House, Bennington.
The students of the medical depart
ment of the University at Burlington
are having "run" of measles.
Hon. George Nichols succeeds the
late Col. f. V. Randall as one of the
vice-presidents of Norwich university.
1t is rumored that Oscar G.. Barron,
the popular White Mountain hotel land
lord, is to become proprietor of the
Pavilion at Montpelier.
Rutland men have subscribed S22,-
900 for the proposed shoe-f factory, and
are busy looking up some one to run
it.
In Burlington 1872 saw the coldest
March IN 90 years, but the records show
that this year the mean average for the
month was 40 degrees below 1872.
Bennington has been having fight
over its schools, but at the meeting last
week it was voted to continue the grad
ed and high schools by majority OF 26,
after an exciting canvass.
The new code of weather indications
seems to find favor in the eastern part
of the State. AT White River Junction
| W. l.. Mclntire ~ Co. have recently
bought a 12x6 inch chime whistle for
giving them to the inhabitants of nine
towns.
Alvin Allen of Wolcott, VT, while
being pursued by an officer and posse
OF men at Munson, Iowa, on Thursday,
! fired four bullets at his pursuers and
the fifth through his own brain, caus-
ing instant death. Allen was trying
to escape arrest on the charge of for
gerry.
The listers of Caledonia county have
fixed the following rates of value for
grand list basis; Oxen l-2 cents per
pound; cattle, three years old, 4 cents:
two years old, SIC; one wear old, So;
cows, S20; sheep, S3; swine, 4 l-2 cents;
bees, 81 per swarm; colts, three. two
and one year oil; 500, S45 and $50, re-
spectively; wool, 10 cents per pound,
hay, $40 per ton.
u DR.. James NJ. Little, professor of sur
fgery in the University OF Vermont
since 1873, died in New York, Satur-
day, aged 40. He served in several
different hospitals during the war, and
was appointed surgeon of the Mary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington in 1879.
lie was professor of clinical surgery in
the University of the city of New York
three years, and was the first surgeon
to puncture the bladder with all aspir-/ /
atOr. 4
The Boston and Lowell railway COM
pany has secured control of the st.
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railway,
] h fot, fh
made, will give that corporation new
line to Montreal. This purchase throws
out all of the st Johnsburv 81 Lake
Champlain officials except Mr., Jewell,
who will remain as division superin-
teadent. Portland Il Ogdensburgh
freights have already begun running
via the Montpelier & Wells River rail-
road.
There are people who always think
they are hit if an item appears which
can by any possibility be construed to
mean them. "A Montpelier Wdtchnt0n
correspondent says: One of our towns
men, who was Widower with several
children, took to himself better-half
some months ago, ana at about that
time we made mention of frugal maid
en- who had adopted five motherless
pigs, aud forthwith our newly-married
townsman was in a great rage, suppos-
ing the item had reference to his mar
riage.
The Highly Sewing Machine COM
pany of Brattleboro has instructed its
directors to sell the stock and machn-
cry and wind up the affairs of the COM
pany as soon as practicable. This is
done because of the protitableness of
the business, owing to the cost of man
utacturing the new machines. The
company was organized about three
years ago with $4,000 capital, about
S24 200 of which has been paid in by
local stockholders. Quite number of
the machines have been made, but not
many have been put on the market.
This Castleton dispatch appears in
'the New York Sun of Saturday: Boil
ger Bros, slate quarrymen, bought
cheap horse last tall for use on the der
ricks. lie proved no good, aud one
evening was harnessed single, and be-
gan pacing. AS soon as the lake was
frozen over he was put to work on the
ice track, aud has paced a mile in 2:0l.
He has been named Hiram Hamilton.
He was sired by Blackstone, he by
Rysdyk's llambletonian dam sired by
Gen. Sherman, he by Columbus good
blood on both sides. This animal was
b ed by IL. Hamilton of Fairhaven.
The horse is tall and handsome.
There seems to be a clergyman down
Ludlow way who doesn't give in cor
rect list, for the Ir'ibuRe of that town
remarks; "In discussing the tax-law,
or any subject, the pulpit has this ad-
vantage over the press; in cold type it
is impossible to distract attention from
or cover up untenable argument or
poor logic by flights of spread -eagle or
atory. The pulpit holds it duty to
preach the law because il is the law,
until better is secured the pulpit pre-
sumably, being the Judge in the case;
yet preaching without practice is of as
little avail as the efforts of bob-tailed
hen at highland as open to criticism"
fHE PRETIIEsT LADY IN MIDDLEBURI-Re.
marked % "A friend other daV thar sha kuau-