The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-27
State and Vicinity.

The boss" lie now going the rounds
A Woodstock lady froze her nose In bee
during one of the recent cold snaps
The Baldwin Manufacturing company
OF Burlington has been award d a gold
medal at New Orleans on Its dry air re.
frigcrator.
The West Rutland Me.hodists dedicat.
ed their new church on Tuesday. Rev.
Merritt Hulburd of New York city
preached the
A party of New York swells. headed by
a couple Of Vanderbilt's son~s-in-ltw, sur
prised Burlington folks by coming there
last week by special train to coast all one
afternoon.
1t is stated that on the Burlington IL
Latnoille railroad between Essex juno
ton and Essex Center the snow is ten or
twelve feet high on each side of the track
for a mile.
Dyer townsend of Wallingford. 81.
drives a log team In the woods, rides
colts without saddles, and actually does
heavy farm work so fast that a smart
or ndson cannot keep up with him.
RulaHd Herald.
The Genital Vermont railroad reports
for the last six months Of 1884 a total
earning OF Sl.4O2.5 S7 expenses. SSs2 $40;
rents and State taxes. S2O3. S54. leaving a
net of S3l5, 1872, which according to the
auditor of the road will meet the interest
charges for the entire year.
Silas NJ. Waite will oct QUO of the
House Of Correction in about a year from
next July, 1t is rumored. more or less
definitely, that the Massachusetts parties
on Whnm hn Wnrlad Of .,n,, - Ii
paper will put him through when his
present term expires.
a Montreal dispatch says: At the suit
of James O'Halloran, Queens counsel,
against Hon. Bradley Barlow for $4,000,
all the shares of the latter in the South
eastern railway were sold at auction.
u. w.. Hamilton being the purchas-
er. and virtually becomes owner of the
road.
1t is not generally known. we think.
that there is a person in this town over
one hundred years old. Peter Clement
claims that his grandmother, who lives
with him, is lO5 years old; but the old
lady insists that she is l07. She has been
all along smart as a whip."-St. Johns
bury CaledOnion.
A little son of Joseph Ivory of st.
JOhnsbury lost the ends of two fingers
last week Sunday. The lad was holding
kindling wood while his brother chopped
1t. The brothers aim proved a trihe de-
fectlve, and he chopped off the fingers as
neatly as the most skillful surgeon could
%aInputated them.
Additional premiums have been award
ed Vermonters at the New Orleans ex-
position as follows; For best display
sugar of milk, fir-t premium $50 to Al
yah e.. Sabin.of Burlington, For best
package for shipping print butter, medal
and diploma to o. NJ. Tinkham, North
Pomfret. For best package for shipping
butter to hot climates, medal and diploma
to o. NJ. Tinkham, North Pomfret.
The subcommittee appointed to pre-
pare plans for the new State librarc
building at Montpelier has under consid-
three propositions. The first il
to build two wings, one at each end of
the State house, 81 feet in width and ex-
back 20 feet. the second contom-
plates a building separate from the State
house, and the third plan is to extend the
present library oom 20 feet back across
he rear driveway.
Samuel Mexican OF Burlington has lust
information that his brother.
So ~ =
Mexican, who enlisted in the
Massachusetts. and who was
as shot while in North Carolina
a Yankee spy, still lives and is now a
of Salisbury, that State, where
'or some time he was imprisoned. After
obtaining his liberty, preferring that to
being shot. he married Il southern dam
'el and has since made the South his
nome.
Licenses for the sale of these brands of
commercial fertilizers during the year
.sS5 have been issued by State Treasurer
dubois: Soluble Pacific Guano, Bow
ler's Hill and Drill Phosphate, Stock
Manures, Bradley's Y. L. Super
phosphate, Bradley's Patent Phosphate,
3radley's b. d. Sea Fowl Guano, Orig
nal COrs superphusphate, Quinnipiac
Phosphate, Quinnipiac Potato Phosphate,
Bay State SuperphOsphate Of Lime, the
Bay State New Bedford, Buffalo Ammo
liAted Rome SuDrr nhoSnbuta R,F,lo