The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-13
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William Cartwrihgt has begun manu-
featuring matches at North Derby.
broken rail on the Rutland road at
Center Rutland on Saturday, threw three
freight cars off the line. No one was in
iured. but travel was delayed several
hours.
glib young man with a Partisan ac-
cent has been swindling Brattleboro peo-
pie; he engaged to give some of the
cultured young women three French
lessons at 81 each, collected all he could
in advance and left town.
The stock company who negotiated for
the st. JOhnsbury CdledOntdn refuse to
abide by the decision of the referees and
the trade is Off A stock company has
bought the Iuder and wanted to consoli-
date the Cdledonian with it.
A project to found a colony in South
ern California is being agitated consid-
erably. Parties here. in Irasburgh, Lyn-
don and other parts of Vermont purpose
to join the party if inducements prove
satisfactory upon investigation.-Ne,
port Express.
Maj. c. G. Kinsman'of the Vermont
regiment of militia sent in his resigna-
ton December %, but Adutant Green
disapproved of it and sent it to Col.
Greenleaf. He also disapproved and
forwarded it to Gov. Pingree, who refus-
ed to accept it,
A current item says that Hon. Luke
P.Poland has refitted the Poland home
stead in Waterville, and has announced
that he will live there henceforth.
Judge Poland was born in Westtord,
but his father moved to Waterville
when he was quite young, and he lived
there until he was admitted to the bar.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of
Vermont Wednesday last, elected these
officers: G. NJ, 5. G. Putnam of Rut-
land; d. G. NJ, Maj. A. Z. Bowman of
St. yohnsbury; G. S., O. IL. Henderson
of st. Johnsbury; G. T.. l.. r. Robinson
of Derby Line; G.. c.. 5. Ringwood of
Winooski; G.. r., Gen. w. w. Henry of
Burlington.
An uncommon case of mineral poison,
resulting in death, has occurred in Put
ney. Patrick Murphy, man of about
80 years and of good habits, having to
travel about one mile to his work. has
made practice of taking to the mill as
beverage cider in a tin pail the cider
corroding the tin coating Of the pail, thus
acting on the system like lead poison,
attendance AibdHS MESSENGER.
Premiums on Vermont dairy products
were awarded at the New Orleans Expo-
sition as follows: w. L. Chaplin. Essex
Center, second premium of $50 for dairy
butter made in September or October:
+. b. Wood of Barre, third. S25. C.
Miller of Pomfret and W. w. Park of
Montpelier got shares of $1,000, which
diyiHpd hatu
of butter. The Dairy association of
North Pomfret gets second premium.
$3.50, on largest and best display of but
ter. w. ID. Bronson of East Hardwick
gets second premium of $50 for print and
ornamental butter. and G. l.. Wheeler of
Randolph, third, $40. For granulated
butter F. c. Grout of East Concord gets
first premium, $50. For tub butter made
in New England or the Middle States. F.
B. Livingstone of Morrisville gets first
premium of S75; Mr.. Bruce of West
Randolph, second, $50; and F. d. Doug
las of Whiting, third, S25. On cheese,
W. L. Chapln of Essex Center gets
share of $1,000 with some 80 others, and
third premium of $50 for largest and best
display of cheese by individual manu-
facturer.
The latest signal-service scheme is the
INVENTION Oh vermont man ana Is al
ready in operation at Randolph. 1t pro-
poses to make known the weather indi-
cations telegraphed from Mt. Washing
ton daily shortly after midnight by a
code of steam whistle tOots. The dis
patches announcing the probabilities are
DIVIDED into these six classes: |, signi-
flying fair or probably fair weather for
the next II hours; ,, foul or probably
foul weather for the same period; 3, fair
at first and changing to foul before the
end of the term; 1, foul and changing to
fair; ), doubtful, irregularly variable;
6, unreasonable frosts or cold waves in
any season. The engineer of each To-
cality learning the prediction by tele-
graph or telephone, according to arrange
ment, blows his whistle thus at a certain
hour, when the neighboring farmers will
listen. After the first long unbroken
morning blast of the signal whistle there
is pause of five seconds, then, for No.
|, a tiye-secOnd blast; for No. 2. two
such pauses and blasts; three for No. 3,
four for No, 4, five for No. 5. After the
regular signal Zone of the first five) and
another tive-secOnd pause. No. may be
given by five two-second blasts with two
second pauses.