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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
LINCOLN.

NJ. j. Stearns is painting and otherwise
improving the exterior of his dwelling
house.
Rev. 5. NJ. Wilbur, Methodist. has just
returned from conference and says he is
to stay with us another year.
f. NJ. Whitney has opened a grocery
and feed store at South Lincoln, in the
house owned by George Pope. This
makes four stores in town.
Most of the schools began May 3. Miss
Lena Prime of Bristol teaches at sac
worth" Miss Mary Lee at South Lincoln,
Mrs. Celin Dearborn at the Centre. Miss
Mary Sargent at the Corners" Miss
Mary Austin of Warren in district No. o /;
the other districts are not all heard from.
NJ. \. Cove has been making altera-
tions inside his house, formerly known
as the bee-hive) to render it convenient
as stopping-place for the travelling pub
lie. He is also making improvements in
the grounds belonging to him. He re-
ports satisfactory amount of custom.
We wish him good luck.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
WEST CORNWALL.

Matte Sheldon has lately spent week
with her brother, Frank, in Bartonsville.
Rev. j. II. Bond of Benson was in
town over Friday night, guest of his
son, DR.. G.. W. Bond.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. C.. Walker of Middle
bury visited at NJ. A. Hamilton's in the
early part of the week.
Wool buyers are quite plentiful. Only
low figures are offered, fourteen and fif-
teen cents being the ruling prices.
There was no preaching at the Baptist
church last Sabbath. Elder Smith of
Whiting, who was expected, was sick
and unable to be there.
f. Adams of Panton was in town last
week. He deals in monuments and head
stones, and he will soon put some of his
work in the cemetery at the Fair bridge.
He represents firms dealing in very fine
marble, also granite.
Mary Field has gone to Weybridge to
teach. Her sister, Matte, has gone to
Salisbury, where she has a school. Gus
ia Hamilton will teach in Salisbury the
coming season. School commenced in
No. >. Monday: Hattie Hamilton. teacher
Mary Lee will teach in No. 6.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
General 1leps.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Senate. - The Senate spent most of
Thursday. Friday. Saturday and Monday
in debate over the postotfice appropria-
ton bill. which was finally passed Tues
day.
HouSe.-The House devoted itself on
Thursday and Friday to consideration of
the river and harbor bill.-Mondav the
rules were suspended and a bill passed
providing for the adjustment of land
grants made by Congress to aid in the
construction of railroads in Kansas and
for the forfeiture of unearned lands. The
The roads interested In the bill are the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas, the Atchi-
son. Topeka and Santa Fe. and the Leav-
enwOrth. Lawrence and Galveston. From
lax administration in the interior depart
ment land aggregating 1851 acres had
been certified to the roads to which they
were not entitled. and the bill simply au-
thorized the adjustment of the grant
Tuesday the Campbell-Weaver contested
election case was decided in favor of
Weaver.
NotcS.-Ihe bill to change Inauguration
day to April 30 has been reported favor
ably IN the Senate.-1'he House com
mittee on territories has ordered an adj
verse report on the Senate bill to admit
the southern half of Dakota into the
Union of StateS.-rhe Senate committee
on commerce has voted to report favor
ably on new Atlantic and Pacific ship
railway bill aS Il Stitute for the origi-
nal ship bill. Eads and such Others aS
may be associated with him are created
Il body corporate with the title of the
Atlantic and Pacific ship Railway COM
panY with power to issue capital stock
and bonds not To exceed in the aggregate
500. 1000. The United States obliges
itself To pay the company for period of
five years after the ship railway shall
have been completed and tested. any
sums of money required to make two
thirds of the cOmpanyS net revenues
amount annually To $1,000. 900, provided
that the total liability of the government
shall in no case exceed S7.jOO. O0O.-
The House committee on invalid pensions
have instructed Representative Matson
to call up arrears of pension bill in the
House as soon a. the committee is called
by the speaker. probably in the latter
part of the week. Corporal Tanner,
representing the Grand Army. addressed
crease the pension of those receiving S12
IA month to 500 a month.-Mr. Find
lay of Maryland has introduced in the
House a joint resolution in favor of
abolishing all taxes of every description
on tobacco and on the manufacture and
sale thereof, rather than to reduce the
tariff on imported goods. and Mr.. Bean
of Arizona Il bill authorizing the Presi-
dent to offer reward of 5000 for the
killing or capture of Geronimo.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
WHITING.

John O'Neil is working Tor F. d. Doug
las this spring.
A. A. Pond goes to market with two
full carloads of stock this week.
a Miss Gibbs of West Cornwall is
teaching the school on Green Island.
Rob Sheridan has hired to Ed. Baker
for the season, if they are both suited.
DIR. Henry Wright and son were in
town over Sunday, making his father a
short visit
Tip kilburn has taken his horses down
to Rutland to work them on the track
there this season.
Fay Searls has moved into town and is
living in the house formerly owned by
George Saunders.
Miss Geraldine Selden of Orange, New
Jersey, will teach the school at the north.
west part of the town.
Mrs. Ann Simonds Is home for few
days as nurse. She has but few equals
and none better, they say.
Rev. l.. o. Hathaway and family are
staying in town few days, guests OF
Joel b. Quelch and wife.
Mrs. Charles Freeman and Mrs. f. ID
Peck and daughter were guests of Mrs
j. +. Parker over the Sabbath.
Mrs. Sarah Baker will move into the
rooms formerly occupied by Amos Will
son in the old Simonds store in this vii
lage.
Our merchant, Il. ID. Needham, ha,
gone to Boston to buy his spring goods
Joel Quelch deals out the sugar, tea anC
coffee in Mr.. Needham's absence.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07

f. A. Dunton Of st. Adams has bought
the Pavilion at Montpelier Mr.. Dun
ton for many years managed the railroad
restaurant at st. Adams, which has al
ways been regarded as one of the best in
New England.
An Andover blacksmith named George
II. Woods and married, ran off the other
day with Fannie Rounds of that town.17.
sheriff traced the couple into New
\ ork, where he captured the girl but al
lowed Woods to go on his way.
-Four prisoners escaped from Newports
new jail Sunday night. The notorious
Daniel Brown, who has twice before es-
capped from Jail, pounced upon the keep
er and held him till half the prisoners had
got out, among them Brown himself.
John Coyle. son of Martin Coyle of
Bennington, aged about IL years. stole
$40 from his father recently and ran
away. but was captured in Blackington.
He was tried before Judge Mason and
sentenced to the reform school at Yer
gennes for the remainder of his minority.
Sophia Eula, the three-vear-old daugh-
ter of Nelson j. Fountain of Montpelier
Junction, was killed by the cars on the
Central Vermont road at a crossing be-
tween the Junction and Montpelier last
week. She was struck in the head by
the steam-chest of the engine and her
skull broken.
\ st. Adams gardener named NJ.
| O'Lena served with an Illinois regiment
during the war and was wounded in the
leg at the battle of Stone River. some %
years ago. The other day piece of the
bullet about the size of a bean came out
of his leg. having worked its way out af-
ter all these years.
The % Grand Army posts of the State
are generally making preparations to OBJ
serve Memorial day on more extensive
scale than ever. Department Command
er George 1. Childs directs that appro-
pirate religious services be held on Sun
day. the Both. and Monday be observed
as Decoration day.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
SHOREHAM.

This town is brimful of new spring
goods. Another store has been opened
at Larrabee's Point.
Lake Champlain is unusually high.
Mr.. Martin, the steam ferryman, began
ferrying April IL, much earlier than com
mon; and, Mr.. Editor, it is really treat
to take quick, pleasant passage to
York State" with him and be safely
landed on terra .frma, after having been
Obliged to patronize an old scow and be
left to plunge into and wade through
water and mud several rods before reach
ing the shore.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
GOSHEN.

Thomas Cunningham has moved from
II. \. Summers farm to Mrs. Orris Al
lens house.
Augustus Blodgett had colt badly
wire fence.
Mrs. Edison Baird recently had a Sc
we're hemorrhage at the nose and physi-
elan was summoned.
Edison Baird'S axe strayed away from
a stick of wood and went into one of his
feet and caused him to limp some when
walking.
Scott X. Briggs has moved into a house
near the Leicester paint works and is
employed by the paint company. His
mothcr-n-law. Mrs. Orris Allen. has
also gone there.
There was "A special town meeting on
April 30 to choose constable and col
lectOr and see if the town would build Il
house for family to live in who had
asked for some assistance from the over
seer of the poor. j. l.. Jones was chosen
moderator. Ford Capen was elected con-
stable and collector of taxes. 1t was
voted to build house and locate it on
some land that is owned by the town.
Considerable dissatisfaction on the part
of some is now manifested and another
town meeting may be called in the near
future.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
County 11eps.
BRISTOL.

viii MCGEE is working two men in his
marble shop.
N.F. Dunshee returned from market
last Saturday.
There are several cases of whooping-
cough among the children
Mrs. Strong, wife of the Baptist pastor,
has been quite i'll the past week.
Several of our townsmen attended the
road meeting at New Haven, Tuesday
The new Methodist pastor, Mr.. Greg
Dry, preached his first sermon to that
people last Sunday.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore speaks at
Holley hall this friday evening; sub
ject, "The Boy of To-day"
Three new members were voted into
the band last Saturday evening to take
the place of three who resigned.
M. p. Vainey and wife have been in
Middlebury for several days, attending
the sick-bed of their son, a. w. Narney.
The regular communication of Libanus
Lodge, No. Il. +. and A. NJ, comes Mon
day evening, May 10; work on second
degree.
The reading by w. II. Hopkins, last
Friday evening, at Holly hall, was at
tended by fair audience, who were well
satisfied with the entertainment.
We are informed by Prof. Stone, the
principal of the graded school for the
last two years, that he intends to leave
town at the close of the present term,
having had call to new field of labor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
Dom

Professor Charles \. Shepard of New
Haven, Conn.,, a mineralogist of note. is
dead.
Almost the entire business portion of
the town of Keystone. Ia, was destroyed
by fire Thursday night.
An eight-hour meeting in Uuion square.
New York, Saturday night. attracted a
crowd of about $4,000 people.
1t is definitely announced 'that Sec
rotary Manning, although he is recover
ing his health. will not resume the du-
ties of his office His successor is not
vet named.
The boys in the convent school at Bir-
mingham. Ct, becoming dissatisfied be-
cause they are given no recess, notified
the sisters that unless they We're allowed
recess both morning and afternoon
they would strike.
An extraordinary hail-storm visited
BeXar county. Tex, last week, covering
belt two miles wide and many miles in
extent. Every vestige of vegetation was
demolished. In some places the hail COW
cred the ground to the depth of eight
inches.
\ body of strikers for shorter hours at
Grand Rapids, Mich, marched To Fuller
4 Rice's mill outside the city limits. sat
urday. and the leaders ordered the mill
hands to quit work. This they declined
to do. and IA battle ensued which lasted
until the police arrived and drove off the
strikers. The mill hands went quietly
back To work.
The amalgamated association of iron
and steel workers will hold grand tariff
demonstration at Beaver, Pa, saturday,
June ), on the occasion of their annual
reunion. Among the speakers who will
deliver addresses on tariff and labor are
Gov Pattison, Lieut.-Gov. Black, Sam
uel j. Randall, Gen. John \. Logan,
Nathan Gotf, Jr., Congressman William
Mckinley, Jr., I. NJ. Bayne, JAMES >.
Negly, Samuel Griffith. Samuel Miller,
Martin \. Foran. John Jarrett and I, a.
Armstrong.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
WEST ADDISON.

Mrs. Samuel Farmer is very sick.
Mrs. William Moorby Is quite i'll.
William Newman is so as to be out.
Uncle Reuben Eaton has been in poor
health since the death of his son.
Mr.. Elias 5. Storrs of Westport N. Y.
with his wife formerly Miss Jessie
Goodale Of this place. have purchased a
farm of Mr. Gotf, directly north of the
old Wheeler French farm now owned by
James McVealy, where Mr.. Storrs is at
present renting rooms preparatory to
building house on his own place.
Schools have commenced in several
districts. The teachers are as follows /:
Miss Eta HallOck of East Panton teaches
in the school-house near Potash bay; Miss
Nellie Peck of Bridport, near Chimney
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
State o1emS.

There are y children at the Warner
Home in st. Adams.
The Rutland street railway is nearly
completed to its destination in West Rut-
land.
Levi G. White and Rolln Phillips fell
from a staging at Rutland and were Sc
verely hurt.
The public library which Rutland la
dies are getting up has received 22OO
books already.
OF the l04 cases on the docket of the
Windsor county court, ID are divorce and
10 State cases.
Owners of stock in the north part of
the State are paying as high as ST. ton
for pressed hay.
John Teemer and Wallace Ross. the ia
nous oarsmen, will row for a citizens
purse at Newport, June 10.
Superintendent Justus Dart of the
State board of education gives the Memo
rial-day address at Springfield.
The old Castleton medical college build
ing, where was given the first medical
instruction in the State, was burned re-
Gently.
Rev. Homer White has resigned as rec
tor of st. Johns Episcopal church at
West Randolph, and accepted the rector
ship of the Mortified church.
The Salvation army warriors at Rut-
land have lately received achievements
and are making themselves public null
sances according to all accounts.
The State treasurer thinks it will not
be necessary to levy State tax this year.
The amount of such taxes paid in last
year was S200,6S while the tax levied
was only Sl7l,0ll.
The Rutland county fish and game
club, having for its object the enforce
ment of the fish and game laws, has been
organized at Rutland with Gen. w. Y.
W. Ripley as president.
l.. ii. Billings, IS years old manager
of the IL. J.. Billings slate and marble
works at Hydeville, shot himself in the
head Tuesday and died Instantly. No
cause for the act is known.
A house belonging to John McCugo,
near the lime kilns in Colchester, was
burned at about midnight Wednesday
with practically its entire contents. The
family had narrow escape
Dennis Starr was at work getting out
slate at the Sabin quarry, Montpelier,
when Il mass of rocks above him became
detached and fell upon his head, nearly
severing his nose and otherwise badly III
iuring him.
A big hole was eaten out of Irasburg
by fire Thursday evening. George H..
Newland's drug store and barn, F. H..
llolbridge's store occupied by ii. r..
Jones X Co., the old Jail house, tenement
and postotlice and barn owned by the
town. and Thomas Fishers dwelling and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
RIPTON.

\. G. Chandler. while burning brush
in Il back lot on the afternoon of the 18th
who was as pugnacious a bruins on the
average. The next day he was trying to
capture the little gentleman's mamma.
In the notice of the change of stage
route your correspondent did not tell the
full story. 1t seems that Leroy Pierce
of New Haven was one of the high con-
tracing parties and will drive from Rip
ton to Middlebury. knowing him as we
do, wepredict he will gain hosts of friends
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
VERGENNES.

lnere are three cases OF scarlet FEVER
reported in town.
Vegetation is advancing; apple and
fruit trees are blossoming.
Walter G.. Sprague left Vergennes for
Portland. Maine, Monday evening.
Hon. \. T. Smith has some four hun
dred lambs ON his New Haven farms.
Potatoes of the early variety have had
the assurance to leave out in some
places.
1t is hardly necessary to light the
street lamps with the sun half an hour
high. is it:
Mr.. VIM. Preston has had a set of cans
made. suitable for ten COWS. by Frank T.
McDonough.
Mr.. W. +. Frisbee of Watham has had
McDonough.
Grass i starting finely. and with time
" showers the meadows will be weeks
in advance.
Hon. \. +. Smith is to be the Decora-
tion-day orator for the BOYS in blue at
IIinesburgh.
At the congregational church last sun
day two united with the church on pro-
fc>>ion of faith.
The house occupied by Mr.. y. j. Re
maud is to be painted and it, looks gener-
ally improved.
The large dwelling on Comfort hill,
belonging to Mrs. II. Il. Ward, will no
doubt be to let.
Mr.. j. +. Goodcre, who has been the
guest of his son. Mr.. II. f. Goodere. left
for Clinton. Mass, Tuesday.
Mr.. VIM. Horton has been paying his
sister. Mrs. John Norton, visit. He
left Tuesday He is looking well.
Mr.. f. G. Norton will occupy his new
purchase, the residence vacated by Mr..
Il. Mack, corner School and East streets.
Effort is being made to have the fence,
enclosing the Hanks house, discarded
altogether. 1t would be an Improvement
Bishop Bissell confirmed twenty-five
persons at st. Pauls church, Sunday
morning. He also preached in the even
ing.
We hope the publication committee
did their duty about that nuisance in the
creek. Indeed, we feel quite sure they
did.
Mr.. 4. b. Taber has been offered IN,
contract for painting the Troy House, il
the city of Troy. He is not inclined tC
leave town.
Miss Kate l.. Dolan and Mrs. A. ii
Stone have returned from the spring mil
linery market. and are now ready to NEE
their patrons.
Mr.. Jas. Laduke has moved from Com
fort Hill into the house recently vacated
by Mr.. ID. Renaud, on the high land ives
of the bridge.
ID. c. Smith of West Addison drove 6,
fine-looking sheep, having with them $:
lambs, to New Haven, to be placed on TIN
farm of A. T. Smith.
G. II, Spriggs shipped Friday of las
: week one hundred and twenty veal calve
for Boston market from Nergennes, New
Haven and Middlebury depots.
, The painters are busy changing tn
complexion of the weather-worn bricl
of the \. f. kimball house to NOR
presentable and welcome color.
DIR. p. MaXfields health is very mucl
improved by the change from Vergenne
: to the quiet of life in the country. ii
feels nearly equal to renewal of pro
fessional life.
The shad tree is not common Orna
; mental tree, but NJ. f. Wheeler has on
in his front yard that looks like larg
white bouquet. 1t is loaded with bios
SONS and beautiful to look upon.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07

A beautiful day, a full house and a
very fine discourse at the Congregational
church last Sunday. The text was the
parable of the ninety and nine sheep.
The funeral of Max Wyatt was well at
tended at the house of Emerson Mayo,
Rev. Mr.. Tilley of Brandon officiating.
The remains were buried in sudbury,
near his home.
Ed. Baker has just received pair of
prairie dogs by express from his brother,
Fred who is located at carbon, Wyom-
ing Territory. The little fellows came
through all safe and are as lively as can
he.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07

North Ferrisburgh has one of the best
built blocks in the county. 1t is owned
and occupied by NJ. +. Allen & Bro.
Although our friend NJ. F. A. was absent
at market, we made a cursory eXamina-
ton of the structure a few days since.
1t is 54X54, three stories, surmounted by
a large cupola. The first floor is devoted
one store to dry goods, boots and shoes,
and a neatly-arranged pOst-oflice. the
other to groceries, etc. the second floor to
clothing; and it has public hall, 30X54,
capable of seating large audience. y
large cellar under the whole has a fur
mace, capaciOus water tank, and is to
have force pump for protection in case
of fire. The large section of country of
which this is the centre finds here every
article suitable to their wants, and
Messrs. VI. F. Allen & Bro. cannot fail,
with their business foresight, of realiz-
ing a steady and profitable trade.
Capt. II. n. White of Panton, for a
long series of years a justly prominent
man in his town, was found dead in his
bed. Tuesday morning last. Capt. White
in early life had charge of a vessel on
Lake Champlain. lie married the daugh-
ter of Friend Adams. settled in Panton,
and became one of the substantial citi-
zens of the place, and was honored by
his fellow-towasmen with nearly if not
quite all of the public positions within
their gift. He represented Panton in the
General Assembly at Montpelier in 1853
and we believe in 1854. Capt. White
was a man of positive convictions, firm
! friend of good order, morality and re-
| ligiOn. He leaves widow (his second
wife), two sons. VIM. f. White. Esq. OF
Panton and another son. Friend White
who is West; two daughters, Mrs. Miner
Mitchell of Panton. and Mrs. Mda:
eighty-fourth year of his age. He wa'
widely known and will be sincerely re
GREETED.
Tree-planting and ground-ornamenta
ton is an art, sometimes an enviable gift
There is a gentleman in Nergennes. ant
for forty-two years a resident. who ha
lived in six different dwellings, and bull
and owned four of them, who invariably
left evidences of taste in the planting o
fruit and ornamental trees. tending t,
improve the looks and enhance the valu
of each piece of property owned, Their
are three hundred trees, and any numbe
of grape vines and arbor plants, Twin;
and growing monuments of his taste an,
good sense. In the town he left in Con
necticut to come here, is home witt
fruit and shade trees. numbering nearly
three hundred. which owe their presenc
to his forethought and care. DR.. F. W
Coe built the house now owned by Mrs
Prof. Smith. Main street: also the dwell
ling owned by \. Wetherbee. Esq. whicl
is one of the best built and most cOnven
lent residences in the place. He built tn
house on Elbow street. in which he lives
and if you desire to know what multul
IN porro means. when applied to tn
home culture of fruits. etc. give him
call. and he will enlighten you on tn
possibilities of a small area devoted I
fruit. The doctors taste in the mat
ter of locating trees and the cultivatio
of fruit is wel-nigh perfect.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
EAST MIDDLEBURY.

Mrs. II. G.. Sessions, not her husband.
is the one sick with pneumonia.
The proprieters of Prospect cemetery,
East Middlebury, are notified to meet at
the office of II. d. Maynard on Monday,
May Il, at O'Clock p. M, for the election
of officers and other business. A, ii.
Matthews. secretary.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07
CORNWALL,

Mrs. j. l.. Perkins of st. JOhnsbury.
president of the Vermont w. c. L. L.,
will speak i'm the town hall in Cornwall
Saturday evening, May S, at 80 o'clock.
Mrs. Perkins is very interesting speak
er, and it is hoped she will be greeted
with full house.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07

Point; Miss Daisy Harris of Panton, in
the Vanderhoof district; Miss Flora
Peck of Bridport, in Elisha Smiths dis
trict.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-12
Gin propsrtn for Sale.

"A A.-FINE RESIDENCES FOR SALE IN
1A' THE MOST SELECT LOCATIONS
Maenihoep, foot mansion " T. Of Msdsonave
and eeth.st : highest point of Lenox Hill
Elegant houses and styles now finishing
corner Of adsonave 7Sdst including choice corner
and two threeroom houses
Very Desirable Little House. No % East slst ST hand
sogney decorated
Houses always open. Apply premises or to
CHAs Buck co, Architects.
800 Madison