Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-12
State l1eps.

The duties collected at st Adams dur
ing last month amounted to SlS,274 53.
The Salvation Army claim that they
have made 10 converts since they went to
Burlington.
A Troy On. " firm proposes to es-
tablish in Rutland Il shirt factory that
will employ 300 hands.
According to the census just completed
st. ,Johnsbury has 1927 families and a
population of 1862.
The Vermont Methodist conference
will meet April 20, Bishop Hurst pre-
siding.
Malcolm Crawford. a Putney boy, was
thrown against post while coasting and
had a leg broken.
Lyndonville's new board of trustees
say that all billiard and pool rooms must
be closed April |.
The spring term of the St. Johnsbury
academy opened last week with 256 stu
dents.
The whole number of pupils in the
three normal schools is 2l0; whole num-
Der of graduates this term, 26
Rev. Mr. Demeritt, formerly of Pawlet
and Casteton has accepted call as pas
tor of the Congregational church at Der
by.
4 ruler made from a piece of board
taken from the Andersonville dead line
has been presented to Jewett Post, G.. \.
r.. of SwantOn.
The State Dental society will hold their
next annual meeting at Bellows Falls, be-
ginning Wednesday, March Il, and con-
tinuing three days.
Hill Branshaw has been appointed pos
tai clerk on the route from Essex June
ton to Boston He is a Frenchman and
a resident of Rutland.
The expenditures of the city of Bur-
lington for 1856 are estimated by Mayor
Woodbury. at sos. 05S.41. The tax, he
thinks, should be 10 cents.
In Georgia, which has population of
1900. there are living twenty-five octo-
genarians, one of whom, Mrs. Clark, is
over 100 years old.
a case of smallpox has appeared in
Sutton, Que, II miles from the northern
border. Several persons have been eX-
posed.
William Foster, vice-president and
manager of the National bank at Derby
Line. VT. died suddenly from heart dis
ease Sunday morning. aged Is years.
A $4,000 claim against Ely Goddard Il
Cayin, was sold in the auction sale of the
late Smith Ely's effects at West Fairlee for
Sl4, and a 500 claim against the same
parties for 81.
The citizens of RichfOre have petitioned
the governor to prevent, by some means,
the Introduction of smallpox from Can
ada Several deaths occurred last week
Just over the line.
Senator Morrill, and Representative
Grout have called upon the attorney
cannra1 nj no r. thut SiluG NJ Waite
is not to be pardoned: so says the Boston
JoTndTs Washington correspondent.
Brattleboro's ''protective union" of
mechanics. organized three years ago to
buy their own meat, has just declared a
dividend of Is per cent on purchases and
paid per cent on its capital stock.
\ woman in the north part of the State
killed a hen last week and found in its
crop II brass shoe eyelets. Il white button
used ON AN underSkirt. a brass ring. and Il
variety of pins and needles.
The docket for the March term of Wash
ingtOn county court contains DAG cases of
law. and 80 in chancery. OF the former
81 are State cases. l3 being for violations
of the prohibtOry law.
\ st. Adams despatch of Friday says:
At : o'clock.this morning the mercury
stood 2lo below, at st. Adams Bay IS
at Richford BOZ and reported 4O- below
at East Berkshire.
1t is said the Vermont International
Telegraph company, whose line runs from
Lunenburgh to Swanton, 10 miles, Is the
only telegraph company in the United
States that pays dividends on its original
stock.
\ notable feature of the teachers meet
ing at Burlington last week was the alb
hat
has been too marked feature of former
meetings of the ssociation.-MOntpetier
argus.
A. j. Gibbs recently closed out the as
sets of the East Cheese factory ut Ben
son, the balance netting the stockholders
about so cents on each share. This fac
tory was started about II years ago, and
was thought to offer a very promising
vestment.-Rutldnd Herald.
1t is estimated that at Bethel the past
year S35 900 has been spent on buildings,
while several new blocks are to be put
up this year. One of the chief enter
prses of the place is the tannery of ). b.
Alley Il Co.. who use about 2000 cords of
bark IA year.
Principal LeavenwOrth of the Castle
ton normal school has recently received
d finely engraved diploma from the Cot
ton Centennial exposition at New Orle-
ans as an award of merit for papers illus
trative of school work, and for a fine
cabinet of minerals of his own collection
exhibited there during last winter
There is the greatest religious revival
in progress at Peacham ever known, UNI
der the laborS of Rev Mr.. Whittier. One
hundred and seventy-tive have already
been converted and the meetings are
crowded. All church and neighborhood
difficulties have been wiped out and good
feeling rcigns throughout the town.
Caledonia conntys young mems tenn
perance associations met in their 50th an
nual convention at st. Johnsbury the 18th
inst. Progress in the work was general
ly reported. County Commissioner j. Z.
Otis rnnnrtnl salns of Eunnr tlrnulr the