Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-06

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Salaries of presidential postmasters in
Vermont have lately been readiusted as
follows: Barre, $500 to Sl7OO; Bellows
Falls, $1,000 to $4,000 Bennington, S1700
to $1,000; Bradford, $500 to sl100; Bur-
lington, $500 to s290O; Newport, $1,000
to $500; Mortified, Sl100 to $1,000;
Poultney, S140O to $500; st. Adams,
$1,000 to s22OO; Waterbury, $1,000 to
S1400; West Randolph, s1400 to $500;
White River junction, $1,000 to S1400.
The Windsor county Republican ticket
is: Senators, w. E. johnson of Wood
stock, Marsh O. Perkins of Windsor,
Henry j. Parker of Andover; States at
torney, w. B. C. Stickney of Bethel;
assistant Judges, VIM. Rounds of Ches-
ter, Charles p. Marsh of Woodstock;
sheriff. W. S. Lowell of Springfield;
Judges of probate, T. o. Seaver of Wood
stock, Hugh Henry of Chester; county
commissioner. Geo. o. Henry of Spring
field.
A large blast was made recently at the
Bolger quarry at Hydeyille. Twenty
four holes, three inches in diameter and
each 20 feet in depth, were made. The
rock which was blasted was triangular
in shape, being 80 feet on each side. The
holes were drilled on the Top of the quar-
ry. From this top rock to the bottom of
the quarry it is 80 feet. The blast was
fired by electricity. The great mass of
rock-thousauds of tons-was thrown
from its bed instantaneously into the pit
of the quarry.
An old lady named Congo, aged about
20, living on the shore near st. Adams
Bay, was left alone Sunday evening with
two grandchildren, aged and s years
respectively. She took the children in a
fiat bottom boat with nothing but pad
die with which to control the boat. Quite
a gale was blowing at the time and the
boat was driven out into the bay, cap
sized and all three were drowned. The
old ladv's body was found floating Mon
day morning, but at last accounts the
children's bodies had not been found.
The ticket nominated by the Republi-
cans of Rutland county last week is
Senators, J. w. Cramton of Rutland,
Geo. Briggs of Brandon, A. n. Adams
of Fair Haven, Chas. Ripley of Poult'
ney; assistant judges. John Howe OF
Castleton, a. S. Baker of Dandy; sher
if. Daniel P. Peabody of Rutland; high
bailiff, r. C. Abel of West Haven State;
attorney, Edward Dana of Rutland
county commissioner, f. c. Lewis Of
Rutland: judges of Probate court, Hon
T. G. Robbins of Rutland, Hon. j. B
Bromley of Castleton.
The Vermont Waterman newspaper
and iob-prnting establishment at Mont
pelier was sold Tuesday by d. w
Dixon, the owner for the past six years
to stock company, to be known as thu
Waterman publishing company, ant
comprising several prominent citizens o
Montpelier and vicinity. The deal vii
result in the discontinuance of the Rura
Vermonter, and the merging of its sub
: scription list into that of the Waterman
Arthur Ropes, present editor and mana
ger of the Rural Vermonter, will edit thu
Waterman under the new management
: which took possession Thursday.
The State and citizens are taking activ
steps toward the erection of the five mon
= uments at Gettysburgh, and the State
memorial will stand where Gen. Stan
nard's brigade struck Pickett on its RICH
: flank and Wilcox on the left. 1t Is
close imitation of the Nelson monumen
in Trafalgar square, London, CORN
S THAN column 80 feet high. The othe
o monuments will be placed in other loca
o lions to mark the greatest herosm of tn
Il Vermont soldiers. The State funds rails
n and popular subscription has added $500
:. more.
}, the granite business is fast coming t
it the front among the States iDdustrie
and promises to rival the marble pre-
If duets of Rutland. Recent investigation
If show superior quality of the stone AZ
W cessibly situated in the hills of Hardwic
l. and Woodbury., small towns not ia
from st. Johnsbury. No less than
companies have, within short time, 81
r cured large parts of the land containin
n this stone, and are rapidly preparing fo
l. active operations. The building of
ID railroad is proposed from Hardwick ST
" ton to the quarries, a distance OF fot
II miles. A careful examination revea
eight grades of granite, dark and ligl
in color and fine and coarse in grain.
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