Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
State OepS.

A 14-years-old Jamaica boy has cap
tured four foxes within a few days.
The %Champlain Valley Poultry associ-
alton will hold an exhibition in Burling-
tor Dec. lib.
Within a week Brandon expects to
have both arc and i%ncandescent electric
lights in full blaze.
Mrs. L. a. Wood of Rutland died on
Friday. She was the daughter of the
first white child born in Brandon.
Robbins Miller of Fairhaven, a post
master under Buchanan, died on Friday,
the anniversary of his wedding and birth
day.
Rev. Charles Steinmater of Winchen-
don, Mass, began his p%astorate in the
Second Congregational church at Ben
nington Sunday.
Brakeman Blakely, on the Rutland
railroad, had his right hand taken off in
the railroad-yard at Bellows Falls while
coupling cars Friday.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Historical society will be held at the
State House, in Montpelier, on the 10Th
of October at : p. M, for the election of
officers.
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State legislature from various towns ask
ing to have the town system of schools
abolished and the district system re-es-
tablished.
The annual Rebekah convention of the
State of Vermont l. O. O. F., will be
held in st. Johnsbury November 6. The
official call will be issued in a few days
by Grand Master Hall.
Co1 Eral L Cn,;tb nf No,tcol;o, o,o
of the trustees of the Vermont Episco-
pal Institute at Burlington, has contrib
uted the inscription ton for Bishop
Hopkins Hall at Burlington.
A st. Johnsbury dispatch says: There
is an unusually large amount of typhoid
fever in this and surrounding towns.
Every day brings reports of new cases,
but as yet the mortality has not been
great.
Three Rutland young men had a pain
full experience with a skunk on Monday
night, and the Herald says they are yet
undecided whether to hold a union burial
service over their clothes or give them
away to somebody who does not object
to that kind of fragrance.
The dedicatory exercises of the new
general school building of the Vermont
dIaUtllN At aAio ItlNtl WI lltlbA
Tuesday with an address by Rev. DIR.
Judson of New York. The building is
of brick, four stories high, substantially
built. lately furnished, cost about $4,000
and is the third large similar building,
the others being used as a boys dormit-
DRY and a girls dormitory.
The continued WEI weather has played
havoc with the potatoes in the north part
OF the State. So badly have the tubers
rotted that in Alburgh and some other
places a number of farmers will not dig
them at all. One Alburgh farmer, who
dug his potatoes and got them into the
cellar before the last spell of wet weather,
has carried out therefrom about l0C
bushels that had rotted in the cellar.
Burglars blew open the safes in two
stores at Barton Landing Monday and
got little and the same night at North
Troy blew open the safe in L. p. Seav-
er's store and the postOffice and secured
$50. The American Express %coWpany's
safe in w. f. Young's store was also
drilled. The burglars were frightened
away before it could be exploded. Post
master Seaver, who lives a few feet from
the store, was aroused by the explosion
and in going toward it was shot at by one
of the gang, who escaped.
The mortuary statistics for the yeal
1887 in Vermont contain these facts: The
deaths by consumption are 65l, or l2.l4
per cent of the whole number; old age,
i43, or 500 per cent; heart disease, 439
or S.l5 per cent; pneumonia, 423, or 7.ss
per cent; paralysis, 229, or 4.5l per cent
cancer, POS, or $50 per cent; d%iphtheria
1856, or 1856 per cent; cholera infantum
l43, or 1855 per cent; typhoid fever, l22
or 2.67 per cent. Total number of deaths
for the year, $3.50; total number wher'
cause of death was reported, 5l77, witt
1872 cases where cause of death was un
known.