The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12
State and Vicinity.

w. c. Landon's $500 span ran away
in Rutland on Sunday and both horses
were fatally injured.
The Rutland musical festival was not
a financial success, the members of the
guarantee fund being assessed 81 each to
make up the deficit.
Edward p. Butler, superintendent of
the Vermont Marble company at Proctor.
was run over by the cars Saturday morn
ing and lost an arm.
At Bennington, the other night, Pedro
Perrault had his skull broken with fry
ing-pan, and Frank Baker is held in $500
bonds to answer for the crime.
The State Woman's Christian Temper
ance union will hold normal institute of
heredity and hygiene at Bellows Falls
the 18th and 10Th. There will be address,
es and papers by prominent State educa-
tors.
At the recent term of Windsor county
court Charles b. Wood was convicted of
forging document purporting to be the
will of Silas Ingraham. late of Royalton.
but took his case to the Supreme court.
The Rutland grand list figures are
Polls, 1881; valuation of first-class real
estate, S5,7l3,604; second class-lots of
over 10 acres-Sl ,0l2 800; personal prop
erty. S2,S99.S70; total valuation, includ-
ing polls, Sl0,302 ,601. This is Sl45. SIG
more than last year.
The appointment of these postmasters
is announced: Francis Richardson at
Willoughby. i'll place of f. +. Richard
son, resigned Flora j. Peake at Orange,
in place of Henry j. Curtis. resigned
al I'd II
place of +. B. Bissell. resigned: S. B. H.
Stuillebean at Sheldon, in place of ID. ID.
Wead, resigned; Alonzo A. Curtis at
Londonderry, in place of F. M. Leonard,
removed.
Work on the burnt district at West
Randolph has progressed rapidly since it
began in April. Charles Thurston's block
is nearly none; those of w. +. Lamson.
Dubois Il Gay, w. II. Dubois, and DR..
III. III. Mcintyre are three stories high.
All are of brick, the smallest 30 by 80
feet, and the largest 20 by 100. Almost
the enlire business of the town will be
done in these blocks when completed.
The Standard Oil company are about
to make Burlington distributing point
for their oils for the State of Vermont.
Ground has been surveyed near the tun-
mel ana large tanks are to be erected for
the oil. A side track will be run from
the main line of the Central Vermont
railroad track to the tanks. The oil will
be shipped to Burlington in tank cars
constructed especially for this purpose
and will be put in barrels then ready for
shipment.
This is the programme of the Slst COM
mencement of the University of YER
mont, Burlington: Sunday, June 2Sth,
3 p. M, baccalaureate by President Buck
ham; 80 p. M, anniversary of the Y g.
NJ. c, A. with address by Rev. j. H..
Van Dyke, ir., d. D.. of New York !,
Monday, 8 p. m, medical college com
mencement with address by Hon. John
w. Stewart of Middlebury; Tuesday,
meeting Phi Beta Kappa society and ded-
ication of Marsh memorial window in
the forenoon; dedication of the new
Billings library at 3 p. IN. and junior ex-
hibition in the evening; Wednesday, ex-
ercises of the graduating class at IL a.
M, followed by corporation dinner at the
Van Ness House and commencement
levee at the Billings library.