The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-02
State and Vicinity.

There will be trottlng on the ice at Tic
onderoga on Jan. 20, 81, and %.
Waterbury voted Monday to abolish
teaching music in the public schools, the
basis of objection being high taxation.
The number of recorded deaths in the
town Of Bennington for 1884 was 81.
The average age at death was about 30
years.
A st. Adams farmer surprised himself
recently bv catching 100 bullheads at one
stroke. He cut a hole in the ice to water
his cattle and the water overlooked,
bringing up these fish and as many more
that got away.
Mrs. Daniel Eddy of Manchester has
a specimen of lobster-claw cactus bear
ing one hundred n~inety-one buds and
blossoms, the circumference of the plant
being over n hundred thirteen inches,
or nine feet five inches.
A Burlington dentist fireman is one
customer short. He got a woman pa
TENTS mouth all fixed up with tooth-fill-
Ing apparatus recently and then ran off
to nswer a fire-alarm, leaving the wo-
man unable to speak for half an hour.
Little improvement is noted in the o
dition of States Attorney Bates, who
was shot in the street at Bennington on
Thanksgiving night. The right half of
his body Is almost as completely paral-
yzed as it was three weeks ago. The
physician in charge inclines to the belief
that Bates will become a confirmed par
alytic. The assailant has not yet been
arrested.-Herdld.
John Pair, ten years of age, a stepson
of Moses Ross, of Burlington, was the
victim of a shocking accident, on Tues
day morning. With another lad. he was
coasting down King street, near the rail-
road track, and on nearing the track met
a locomotive, whose approach had been
concealed by a lumber pile. The lads
tried to turn out, bat ia doing so Pair
was thrown from the sled in front of the
locomotive, which ran over one leg,
crushing it terribly. The leg was cut off.
Frederick johnson of Clarendon has
been arrested on a charge of man-slaugh-
ter and assault with intent to kill upon
one Lensey Sherman. The complaint,
which is preferred by States Attorney
Kendall, sets up that last August John
son assaulted Sherman and gave him a
blow. from the effects of which Sherman
recently died. 1t is understood that the
whole matter was investigated by the
grand jury last September. while John
Howe was States attorney, and no in
dictment found against johnson.
The exhibit at the New Orleans eXposi-
ton of the specimens of Vermont marble
will be interesting and substantial,
wrought in a tasteful design modelled af.
ter and bearing the appellstion of the
arch of Titus We are informed that
this particular exhibit will compose the
exhibit of the Producers Marble company
of Rutland. All the specimens of the
marble comprising the arch are selected
from the product Of the quarries repre-
sented by that association in all their va.
%rieties of formation and color. The arch
when completed will be eighteen feet
wide and six feet deep. The different
specimens are constructed Of sawed. fin.
ished marble arranged in panel work.
The whole will rest on eight highly pol
ished columns, eight feet in height, with
fifteen keystones forming the arch. The
front bears the inscription ''Vermont.'
There are five carloads of marble in the
structure. the weight of which is fifty
tons, containing 440 cubic feet.
The creditors of the st. Adams Trust
company, who claim to be preferred I'M
der the provisions of the institutions
charter. have brought a petition asking
Chancellor Royce to declare the company
insolvent under the statute and grant
them full payment of their claims as pro-
vided in their charter. The same cred
itOrs made an effort a year ago to secure
a recognition, but the chancellor held
that the trust company was not then in
solvent as contemplated by the statute
and ordered a pro rata distribution of
the assets, The petitioners now claim the
company desperately insolvent and un-
able to recuperate. and that their claims
by virtue of their being married women,
minors or insane, should be paid in full.
If the Supreme court should decide in IA
vor of the petitioners it will seriously af-
feet the general creditors, since "A full
payment to the preferred class of depos-
itors would use up about all the compa-
ny's assets. The bringing up of this
question again now will be likely at least
to delay the payment of a 10 per cent
dividend. which the receiver is preparing