Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-23
State o1eps.

The customs receipts at Burlington for
June were s1l,775.
Brattleboro' is to have a paid fire de-
partment at an annual expense of about
$1,000.
b. Chase Of Newport, a town pauper
16 years of age, committed suicide recent
ly by taking poison.
The Grand Isle county Republican con-
vention has been has been called for sat
urday, August H.
The post offices at Highgate Centre,
Danville, WolcOtt and Waterbury Centre
have been made money order offices.
The medical department of the univer-
sity of Vermont, Burlington, graduated
class of - at its commencement. Mon
day.
The game of base ball between the
Rutland and Bethel mines at the former
place saturday was won by the Rutlands
10 g.
Arrangements have been made at Fair
haven to accommodate "A carload of chill
dren sent out under the auspices of the
New York 7iiJune fresh-air fund.
Rev DIR. Edward Halves of Burlington
and Col. Franklin Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury will represent the State at the Con-
gregational national council at Chicago.
October %.
1t is believed that the Rutland post
office will soon have free delivery
system with five carriers. \ post office
inspector is understood to have reported
favorably on the question.
The history of Oddfellowship in Yer
mont is being prepared by Henry l..
Still-on Of Bennington and Henry Clark
of Rutland, and the volume will be issued
previous to February |, lSS7.
Major \. b. Valentine and party of
ID ladies and gentlemen of Bennington
have started for Portland. Ore. in ii
palace car of their own. They intend to
60 by steamer from Portland to san
Francisco.
The E>peranza Marble company of
Rutland and the Poultney slate works
have been forced to suspend owing to the
De Rivera failure at New York. De Riv-
era was the principal stakeholder in both
companies.
Jesse \. Warren of Bradford commit
ted suicide Friday morning by stabbing
himself in the heart with fruit knife.
lie had been sick for nearly year, and
dependency caused the act. He was an
old soldier and prominent member of
the Grand Army.
Sewer workmen found ten feet below
the surface ON Battery street in Burling-
ton the other day a rust-eaten cannon ball
weighing about nine pounds. 1t is be-
lieved that the ball was thrown by can
non of one of the hostile fleets which
contended for the supremacy of Lake
Champlain in the second war for indie
pendence.
The Vermont press association. which
went last week on trip to Thousand Is
lands, returned to st. Adams Friday
night At business meeting they elect
ed these officers: President. q. e.. Bene-
dict; vice-presdentS. Warren Gibbs, 4.
ID. McMaSter, ID. NJ. Camp; secretary, c.
=. Forbes; treasurer, c. NJ. Stone; exc
cutive committee, /. O. Greene, Albert
Clarke. ID. Leonard.
The stockholders of the Rutland rail-
road company at the annual meeting at
Rutland, the 18th inst, changed the by
law so rs to allow for the election of Il
vice-president. These directors were
elected: Charles Clement and Percival
W. Clement of Rutland, George Ii. Ball,
Charles G.. White and Silas Pierce of
Boston, John W, Stewart of Middlebury,
William Wells and Bradley b. Smalley
of Burlington, and Charles Amsden of
AmSden. The new members of the board
are White, Pierce and Amsden, who sue
coed G.. NJ. Barnard, j. Il. Coolidge and
j. o. Sargent The directors then or
ganized with the election of Charles
Clement aS president, Z. W. Clement as
yice-president, John \. Mead as treasur-
er and j. c. Barrett AS clerk.
The stable of Mrs. John Cain, in the
northern part of Rutland village, was
struck by lightning during a heavy thun-
der storm sunday, and burned to the
ground before the fire department could
get to the place. The horses, COWS and
pigs were saved. Lightning also struck
Il tenement on East street. Rutland,
owned by Peter Pagan and occupied by
James Dougherty, wrecking the chimney