Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-01
State (1eps.

There are % secret societies in Bellows
Falls having total membership of near
ly 5000.
A picture of the rebel prison at Ander-
sonville is to be hung in the capitol by
the ex-prisoners in the State.
The Knights of Labor are preparing to
put workingmens ticket in the field at
the spring election in Rutland.
The board of the Vermont Baptist
State convention will hold meeting at
Rutland Tuesday, February 5.
Barre folks expect their town to have
10000 inhabitants within five years. The
granite business has given the place
great boom.
Reuben Calvin of Manchester Center
has 100 barrels of cider on hand which he
dares not sell owing to the strictness of
the new liquor law.
During the winter season observation
and statistics show that the cold in YER
mont is more uniform than in any other
New England State.
1t is said that the wooden implement
factories of this State annually turn out
G00000 snow shovels. most of which are
sent out of the State.
There is great competition for the mail
route from Woodstock to Bridgewater
and several bids have been made for it at
one cent compensation.
Staliord's polishing mill at Barre was
burned Friday afternoon; loss. $4,000,
and no insurance. The fire was caused
by defective chimney.
State Treasurer Dubois has Just bor-
rowed $50, 600 in Boston for the State of
Vermont until Sept. l, 1889, paying three
and "A half per cent interest.
The Green Mountain fish hatchery at
Fair Haven has 300, 900 trout eggs in pro-
cess of incubation, POO 900 of which are
for the State fish commissioners.
Rutland's new opera company, which
has been playing the Mikado with great
to Burlington last week, where it was
well received.
Rev. b. NJ. Tillotson of Woodstock has
lately attended the funerals of four per-
sons whose united ages amounted to 81
years. The oldest was SO and the young
est 80; all born, lived and died in Yer
mont.
The town of Fair Haven is enjoying an
unusual degree of prosperity just at this
time, and there is not vacant tenement
in town. There have been 30 new dwell
ings erected in town during the year Just
closed
\ vein of copper from 20 to 60 feet
wide has been uncovered by the Elizabeth
Mining company of South Stanford, and
great things are promised for the little
town. The mine is owned by the Tyson
family of Baltimore, Md.
Henry Bent and Bert Roberts, Jr.
were held at Bennington on saturday on
charge of murder in the second degree
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Roberts in SS000and Bent in $1,000 bonds.
The latter furnished bail.
Officials of the Central Vermont rail-
road were at Hartford last week to select
site for IA big ice-hOuse which the COM
pany intend to build, to hold 5000 cords.
There is talk of laying IA second track
between Hartford and White River June
ton.
L. IL. Smith was probably fatally in
iured near st. Adams, Thursday, by the
falling of large smokestack which he
was helping to raise. His right leg was
broken and his left leg so badly hurt that
it had to be amputated. His head, also,
was badly damned,
George Langdon, who is employed at
the Brandon electric light plant, met
with painful accident while at work the
other evening by getting his right hand
caught in the crank shaft. His hand was
badly smashed and it was found neces-
sary to amputate two of his fingers.
The wife and four children of Pat. Man
gan of Rutland had narrow escape from
suffocation by coal gas Sunday morning.
Mangan walked in the morning and found
the house full of the gas and his wife and
children all unconscious. A physician