The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
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parsonage during the summer.
Quite a number who went West from
Orange county this spring have returned
disguised with the country.
1t Is said that J. j. r. Randall will
succeed A. ii. Tuttle as postmaster at
Rutland. But Mr.. Tuttlc isn't out of
Office yet.
Lightning struck house in Rochester
recently i'll which were nine persons. A
lady received Il shock, but the others
were nninjured.
The town of Fair Haven seems to be
growing. The grand list this year rep.
resented valuation of 81 .069, ,396; an
increase of S252, 923 over that of last
year.
Great rains have fallen in eastern Yer
mont and the crops are saved from dis
astrous failure. The hay crop in Orange
and Windsor counties will be light, as
the rain was too late
The Woman Suffrage association has
engaged Rev. Annie +. Shaw of Boston
to come to Vermont to speak on "Wo-
mans Eniranchsement. She will make
addresses only y in the eastern part of the
State.
The four years contract of Mr. Foster
of Sudbury for carry ing the mail from
Castleton to East IIubbardton, Hubbard
ton, Hortonville and Sudbury to Brandon
ended tJune 30. His successor is Mr..
Slason of Sudbury.
Mr.. James ID. Parmenters horse be-
came frightened as he was driving down
a hill road near Pittsiield and ran, throw
ing Mr.. Parmenter over an embankment
INTO brook, badly injuring him. He is
doing well, however.
f. w. Baldwin of Barton is preparing
Il biography of the members of the Or
leans county bar from 1900 to the pres
ent time. The list comprises about 160
names. The book will contain eugrav-
ings of the prominent members.
AT st. Johnsbury, the other day, Thos.
w. Hamilton was struck on the head bv
Il falling timber and so severely injured
that he died soon after. He was Il mem
Der of the Acme Iron Works company,
and had been married only two weeks.
| 7. J. Mcknight discharged revolver
at W. II. Clarke, IL air-dresser, at Nor
risyille, Friday night Mcknight fired
through window, but the shot did not
take effect. The cause of the attempted
shooting is the alleged intimacy between
Clarke and Meningitis wife.
Winooski is the latest place to find
that 1t needs water supply. A village
meeting has been called for July 13, to
bond the village for 20 years to raise
! So0, 900 to get Il supply of water for fire
and domestic purposes, water to be
brought from Colchester pond.
AT Rutland, the ith. lad named
Powers picked up fire-cracker which
fell III front of him that had been lighted
and seemed to have gone ont, when
the thing exploded and injured one of
his eyes. 1t was feared at first that the
sight was destroyed, but he may recover
his sight.
Landlockcd salmon have been put in
Vermont waters this season us follows
Memphremagog lake, 2j,O00 Willough-
by lake. 5000; Island pond, Brighton,
5000; Meals pond, LmenbUg 5000
: Halls pond, Newbury, 2OOO; Fairlee
lake, Farlec, 5000; pond in Brattlcboro,
5000; River salmon: Nulheghan river,
1000; Passlmpsic river, $4,000; Wells
river, 5000; Waits river, 5000; White
river, 1000; Black river, 5000; SaXton's
river, 50O0; West river, 10000. The
commission is now trying to perfect ar
rangements SO as to stock many streams
with trout the coming year and hope to
supply more salmon of both species. The
carp will be supplied this fall They
will thrive i'll muddy waters and com
paratively stagnant ponds where there
are no other fish.
Rum is still to he had in Rutland APP
parently. The Herad of Monday says
The most common remark of visit
ors to the Rutland fair grounds Satur-
day was i'll regard to the drunkenness
There was Il great deal of it; upon every
hand men We're to he seen by the dozen
more or less affected by rum, and the
number grossly intoxicated was very
large. The report is that a great quan-
tity of lager beer was sold openly, that
the selling continued practically all day,
and that there was substantially no at
tempt made to stop the traffic OF course
not all the drunkenness was caused 10y
beer, but the law applies to lager as
much as to whiskey, and the exhibition
there rs Il whole was hardly creditable.
and seemed especially strange in town
winch lau WITHIN lew days sought to
crush the liquor traffic by raiding lead
ing hotels and Il drug store
In field east of the bennington and
Rutland railroad, half mile or SO above
the station at East Dorset, are two
springs not more than 30 feet apart. One
of these springs is the source of the Bat
tenkill creek and the other is the source
of the Otter creek. The Otter flows
northward and within few miles be
comes quite a river, and finally enters
Lake Champlaln and thence of course its
waters are discharged throgh the st.
Lawrence river into 1.-THE ocean. The
Battenkill runs westward, and its waters
finally flow into the Hudson river and
thence into the ocean at New York 1900
or 2OOO miles from the place where the
waters of the Otter creek find the ocean.
1t Is said that not far from these springs