Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-04
State Oeps.

St. JOnnsDufy mas nau the Tree delivery
of mail since Oct. l.
The hosiery mills at Bennington are
all running on full time.
Work on the new State Insane asylum
building at Waterbury has been begun.
Norwich university has opened with
the largest freshman class it has had in
years.
j. r. & E. r. Hughes, dealers in gener-
al merchandise, Fair Haven, have as
signed.
Arthur Lathrop of Burlington has
been arrested for criminally assaulting
his step-daughter.
Steps are being taken to form stock
company for the purpose of working the
Highgate granite quarry.
The Central Vermont Stockholders
association was organized at Northfield
last week with William B. Mayo as
president.
The suit of W. F. Dillon of Springfield
against the Central Vermont railroad
COMPANY for the death of his son, Z. +.
Dillon, a Dartmouth student, in the
Hartford bridge disaster, has been settled.
Fifteen Chinese merchants and as many
laborers passed through Richford Friday
They obtained permits at the Richford
custom-house to return within a year.
A saw mill at Putney, owned by F. L.
Pierce, was burned Monday night, with
its contents. Loss $500; insurance
$1,000 Norman Cops blacksmith shop
adjoining was burned also. No in
surance.
The State board of trade, which has
H., linz 1ac sold
nearly all the cheese of the factories this
summer. Sales were very numerous last
week, and only little of the September
make remains on hand.
Langdon j. Davis of Montpelier has
sued Gardner Hatch for $1,000 damages
for enticing away his wife, Sarah f.
Davis. in the fall of 1887. Hatch and
Mrs. Davis are, it is alleged, now living
together as man and wife in Canada.
The Bennington battle monument is
now trifle higher (224 feet than Bun
ker Hill monument. Bad weather has
delayed more rapid construction, and the
II feet additional altitude will hardly be
finished before winter stops the work.
The First Congregational church of
Chelsea celebrated its centennial Satur-
day and Sunday. Reminiscent and his
torical addresses were delivered by
former pastors and many old-time men,
bers from other States attended the eXer-
cises.
Some one entered one of the barns of
Frederick Billings of Woodstock Thurs
day and mutlated his fine-blooded mare,
kentucky Belle. Though severely in
jured, the animal will survive. Mr.. Bill
lings has published notices Offering $500
for conviction of the scoundrel.
II. NJ. Stevens has been appointed re-
ceiver of the defunct st. Adams Trust
company, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of c. W. Rich. His bond was
fixed at $4,000. 1t is anticipated that
only one more dividend of 10 per cent.
will be realized, making 62t in all.
The citizens of Grand Isle. at a special
town-meeting last week, voted $1,000
more for the new bridge from Grand Isle
to North Hero. The question of building
the bridge had haunted the Legislature
for several sessions, when the people
took the matter in hand and voted Sl0,-
600 for the building.
The State university at Burlington has
received the gift of 800 volumes of val
liable classical books from the library of
the late Prof. John II. Wheeler of the
clude several choice Greek and Latin
works. His widow, formerly Miss
johnson of Newbury, made the gift.
Fire at Wright's mills, three miles
north of Montpelier. the other evening
destroyed the pattern-shop of Medad
Wright & Son, manufacturers of planning,
shingle and granite polishing machinery,
with contents, two dwelling-houses, a
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