Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15
State OlepS.

81 years.
st. Johnsbury young men are organ
izing a snow-shoe club for the winter
sports.
Anew 2S-column woman's literary paper,
the Vermont Literary Quarterly, has been
launched at Montpelier.
II. I. Hawley of Waterbury was burned |
about the head Monday, but not seriously, |
in consequence of the upsetting of kero-
sene lamp.
The university of Vermont catalogue
has total of 354 names of students, 1913
being in the academical department and
! l91 in the medical school.
Montpelier hasn't had fire since 1888,
and Engine company No. > of that town
have disbanded believing there is no fur
ther use for their services.
Rev. F. c. COwper, rector of st. Mary's
church in Mortified, has accepted call
to a church at Phillipsburg, Pa. He will
leave Mortified January Is.
Receiver Writers of the First National
bank of st. Adams has received from the
comptroller an order to make a II -
per cent. dividend, amounting to about
$50, 800.
Jedediah Williams of Braintree, re-
Gently injured by runaway, is going to
sue the town of Randolph for damages
because his horse was frightened by a
licensed dog.
Edward Kinney, workman in a Rut-
land marble quarry, 20 years old, was
probably fatally injured Thursday by
small piece of marble from IA blast strk-
ing him in the back.
Gymnastic training is to be given to
the girls in st. .Johnsbury academy and
one young women has gone to Boston for
months instruction to enable her to
through the year.
The Sprague Guards of Brandon have
chosen these officers: Clerk, Ira Lang
don; treasurer, j. w. Symons; finance
committee, f. c. Davids, w. c. Langdon,
J. Germond; standing committee, l.. G..
Barrett. A. j. Dimick, c. b. Mcclellan;
armorer, Ira Langdon.
Rutland again has street lights and
policemen. President Bottum vetoes a
second time the trustees order to shut
down the village machinery, and as the
matter must lie over till a regular month
ly meeting, the people are assured of
! 1i,rIt nd ,,rotaotinn nntn EahruarN
F. NJ. Wood, recently appointed post
master at South Londonderry, has been
deposed on charges reported to the de-
partment by Inspector Lamson, among
= which was that of selling mortgaged
property. Henry Goddard, father of the
Ludlow lawyer, is the new appointee.
} A stock company called the Record
Publishing company has been formed at
Fairhaven and about February first it
, will start new weekly Republican news
paper, called theRutland County Record.
1t is understood that Frank W. Redfeld,
former proprietor of the Fairhaven Era,
will run the new venture.
We are glad to notice that Gov. Robin
son recommends n renewal of the appro-
priation of $500 in aid of the Benning-
ton monument, which lapsed by reason
of failure of conditions. The monument
; projected is to be a worthy one, and Mas
sachusetts should have share in it, as
; she had a large one in the event to be
commemorated.- Boston Herald.
Don A. Barker sold to the Poultney
, Slate works, January 1, the leased lot of
- acres on which their works are situa-
ted, and the pond farm, so called. of 100
acres, for $1,000. This property has
proved to be very valuable. Mr.. Barker
> still owns the home farm of 10 acres,
y on which are two veins of sea green
slate, one leased by Griffith e. Nathaniel
and the other to the Garfield Slate com
pany of Boston.
An old native of Springfield, now in
I Detroit, Mich, suggests the plan of re-
- survey of the old military road twisting
Z over the mountains across the State from
Crown Point to Fort No. 1, now Charles
II town, n. H., and the erection of suitable
: memorials along the route. The roaG
Z was built near the close of the French
" and Indian war and played an important
part in the movement of troops in the
e succeeding Indian wars and the Revolu
;, ton.
k At East Gilmore recently a tramp en-
j. tered Frank Grants barn and killed one
t, of the best cows in a most brutal manner
d driving nine different articles, consisting
II of an iron horse-ralle tooth, a shovel han
: die, and several pieces of board, some o
IT them three feet long, into the abdomen
of the animal. The house was unoccupi
# ed, so he had a good chance to do thu
; mischief. His cane being bloody wa
i: what first led to the discovery by ii. III
m Ramos who has CHARGE of the farm