Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-10-29
State o1ep5.

a wild cat, weighing % pounds, has
been killed in the woods at Marshfield.
There are IS prisoners at the Rutland
House of Correction. eight of whom are
women.
The graded schools of Rutland have
crease over last year.
Another slate mill, to be run by water,
is to be built at Castleton in place of the
one recently burned.
The annual encampment of Vermont
department G.. \. r., will be held in st.
Adams, January 10 and 20. 1857.
Isaac Beck, formerly porter at the Van
Ness House, Burlington, forged check
for $50, the other day, and skipped.
The Eureka slate quarry at Poultney
was sold at auction last week to James
X. Langdon of Montpelier for $4,000.
Every seat in the First Congregational
church of Burlington is taken and the
society are thinking of putting up new
building,
Addison lsham of Williston has MAN.
moth squash that weighs l7G pounds,
measures seven feet one way, six feet six
inches the other
The women of the Rutland missionary
association have Just issued circular
calling public attention TO their work and
asking for cooperation.
f. \. Pond. jr., son of DR.. Pond of
Rutland. has been chosen historian of
the freshman class in the Chandler scien-
titic school at Dartmouth college.
Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock
has lately given $1,000 toward fund of
$4,000 which its friends are raising for
the Vermont academy at SaXton's River.
\ $50 portrait of the late Gen Stannard
has Just been given to his widow at Bur-
lington by subscription. \ similar pOr-
trait will be placed in the State house at
Montpelier.
The Bennington county court docket
for the December term contains one hun
dred and thirty-tive entries. ten of which
are State causes. The chancery docket
has seventeen entries.
Hon. William VI. Evarts has presented
the st. Francis Catholic church of Wind
sor with bell for their church. The
hnh In, Il ,,,,l
weighs about 200 pounds.
The Corona Marble company has been
organized with capital of sl5O,0OO to
quarry and manufacture marble in Rut-
land, Pittsford and Brandon. New \ ork
capitalists make up the company.
The Burlington coasting club of 300
members have decided to have another
coasting carnival this winter. More than
800 tobaggans are owned in the city and
100 traverses or double-runners.
The old church at STAFFORD, which has
been used as a town-house for some
years. was broken into by rutfans recent
ly, who tore out the pulpit and sounding
board. The church is said to be l06
years old.
1t is proposed to light the Congrega-
tional church at Rutland with incande-
scent electric lights. The plan is to light
/ the audience-room with four lights of l25
candle-power each, and the yestibule and
halls with lights of II candle-power each.
\ little girl in Burlington, VT, had in
herited so good memory of an uncle
whose funeral had been attended by her
mother not long before this little girls
birth that she could give a full descrip-
tiou of him, and knew his picture ut once
the first time she saw it Popular
Science Monthly.
Rev. James Buckham, father of Presi-
dent Buckham of the University of Yer
mont, died in Burlington on Friday last.
He was born at letholm, Scotland, on
the border line between Scotland and
England, near Kelso, January 1, 1895, land
was ordained at IIinckley, Leicestershire,
England, in April, 1924.
\ horse driven by Curt Harvey of Pas
sumpsic became unmanageableI at st.
Johnsbury the other day and tried to
cross the Portland-st. crossing in front
of moving freight train. Harvey ran
the horse against large sign-post, kill
ing the horse and throwing out the men
but breaking no bones.
The animal meetino of the StOckhold-
ers of the Addison railroad was held at
Rutland on Friday, and these directors