The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-06
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About 200 persons have been converted
at the recent st. Johnsbury revivals con-
Quoted by S. NJ. Sayford.
The Howe Scale companys shops at
Rutland, which have been doing compar-
atively little during the winter. have re-
sumed work on full time.
Charles 4. Walter of tho senior class,
Bates college. and recently connected
with the Lewiston (Me.) Journai, has
been given the position of associate edi-
tor and business manager OF the st.
JOhnsbury Republican.
John Clement of Lyndon is enjoying
new potatoes in mdwinter. When he
was looking over his cellar the other day
he found that some of his potatoes had
become covered with dirt and in spite of
the cold weather had been growing
through the winter. He picked out about
a peck of new potatoes as large as hens
eggs BluIiHgoH Free Press.
1t is shown in the report of Superin-
tedent Wheeler that of the 260O children
in Burlington, about 1900 attend the pub
lie schools, while 1000 are in the Catholic
and private schools. The number of
school children is on the increase, there
being 100 more names on the rolls of the
public schools the first week of the
present term than there We're a year ago,
when a gain of III was reported over
the previous year.
a German who has been in the employ
of C. H. Churchill at North Chittenden
the past year, while at work in the woods
recently, cut the limbs on one side of a
large tree that was lying on the ground;
the tree rolled and caught him between
two limbs, holding him fast in a space of
about inches, doubled completely up
with his foot resting on his brest. He
was unconscious when taken out, and
lived about II hours. He leaves wife
and children in the old country.
Rev. }. ID. Beeman, the Yell-known
principal of the NJ Montpelier Methodist
seminary, has realized some very advan-
tageOuS investments recently. Last year
he purchased a large tr act of land near
Moriah, NY, for the ~, p wood upon it,
and from the sale of chat made hand
some profit, and now II marble quarry
has been discovered on the property. the
product of which finds quick sale at
from Sl2 to SIS per square yard, at the
Port Henry dock. This marble is sus-
ceptble of Il very high polish, and its
variegated colors make it very valuable
for all ornamental work in which marble
is used. 1t is said also that Mrs. Beeman
has recently fallen heir to large for
tune.
The annual school for instruction for
the officers of the Vermont national
guard was held at Burlington, last week
Thursday, with Col. William l.. Green
leaf as commanding officer. Lieut-Col.
Julius j. Estey was detailed as instructor
in company movements, and Maj. c. c.
kinsman as instructor in skirmish drill.
The day was devoted to recitatiOns in
battalion movements, practice in com
pany move ments, and dress-parade by
the University battalion and the drill of
the officers of the National guard. The
reviewing officers were Adiutant-Geueral
T. 5. Peck, Brig-Gen. l.. c.. Kingsley,
Quartermaster-Gener ii. X. lde. Maj.
). III. Wood and Col. \. \. Hall of Gov.
Pingree's staff.
Arthur Ii. Scott and VIM. j. Selfridge,
charged with breaking into the pOstofiice
AT Bellows Falls, were tried by Jury at
the session of the United States court in
Burlington last week; but the jury, after
being out all night, failed to agree. 1t
was shown in the course of the trial that
the respondents registered at Bellows
Falls and vicinity under fictitious names,
had no apparent business and the day be-
fore the burglary Scott visited the black
smith shops in Bellows Falls and on the
morning after both Scott ana Selfridge
rose early and mysteriously disappeared,
leaving hotel bills unpaid. Scott clam
ed to be from North Adams, Mass, and
Selfridge from Salem, n. Y. 1t was sus-
pected at the time of their arrest that
these parties might know something
about the robberies of postotfices in this
town and elsewhere around the State.