Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-01

Johnsbury has only three candldates Ior
lieutenant governor. The names of these
wort hies are not divulged.
And now the Boston Journal would
have its city's pet and most distinguished
inhabitant indicted as common brawler.
John l.. has been drunk again.
New Workers are slow in coming for
ward with subscriptions for the worlds
fair of 1892, and, unless they do better,
Chicago will get the big show away from
them.
The sovereign of China explains, in an
edict. that he sis of the opinion that
to make a country powerful railways are
essential and so he permits the con-
struction of the " Grand Trunk from
Honkow to Peking.
DR.. Webb came to Shelburn to buy and
alorn an estate. George w. Vanderbilt
went to Asheville, n. c., where he has
bought five thousand acres, on which he
will erect a mansion with a frontage of
three hundred feet.
Burlngtonians are discussing a pro-
posed city ordinance requiring pedlers to
obtain license. A portion of the mer-
chants think it would benefit them, while
others are equally positive that it would
drive trade from the town.
"There aint no 200 words everything
gone to he'll" was the response of the
'devil' in an up-country Democratic
newspaper office in Washington to dis
patch from city paper requesting 200
words on the result of the election. The
editor was away, but the boy covered the
ground.
Gov. Hill of New York has stirred
up discord in the Democratic camp.
During his recent trip through the South
he made a speech in which be said he
chad left his encyclopedia at home"
Cleveland's friends are mad and Hills
friends are hard at work trying to make
out that he didn't refer to the ex-Pres-
dent at all.
a case that concerns not only the par
ties but the the inhabitants of the State
was argued before the general term of
the supreme court at Montpelier last
week. 1t is that of the Rutland Railroad
Co. against the Central Vermont Rail-
road Co., in which the constitutionality
of the corporation tax law is the real
point at issue.
English syndicates divide with trusts
the honor of stirring up the public Just
now. The Britishers are at present cred
tied with desire to own all the cheese
factories of central and northern New
York. the Touring mills of Minneapolis,
| the granite Quarrics of New lIamp-
shire and all the larger briclimaking es-
Establishments of New England.
President Harrison seems to have
made IA wise choice of pension commits
soner in the person of Gen. Green b.
Raum. He was good soldier, served
in Congress after the war. and from
1876 to 1888 was commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, in which position he did
admirable work OF late he has practic-
ed law in Washington.
Congressman Reed of Maine is to be
the next speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. or else his friends are mis-
taken: in which case Mr.. Mckinley will
be given the Craftsmanship of the ways
and means committee. The Springfield
Republican is quite right when it says
Tariff reform will sleep deep sleep
if Mckinley holds that committee in his
grasp" Mr.. Mckinley isn't that kind of
u ''reformer.'
"There are in Faulk county nearly
5000 inhabitants, the greater majority
farmers, and, as in all new countries,
are, as rule, men of small means.
With long, cold winter before them
many are without means to purchase
fuel, provisions, clothing, or any of the
absolute necessities of life, and unless
help from outside can be procured, there
must of necessity be great suffering be-
tween now and spring" So says rep
resentative of the Faulk county Oak. }
commissioners who has been sent to Chi
cago to solicit aid for the sufferers. Foul
successive dry years have caused the
trouble.