Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-12
State 11ems.

Barnum's circus is to show in Burling-
ton the 22d inst.
The Bennington battle monument is
now 100 feet high.
Humphrey & Macomber, general trad
ers at Fair Haven, have failed.
The Standard Oil company's new plant
at Rutland is nearly completed.
The Sauveur summer school of langu-
ages at Burlington has over 200 pupils.
Bishop DeGoesbriand confirmed 40
persons at the French Catholic church in
West Rutland Monday evening.
There are 900 children in the Brattle-
boro village district between the ages of
five and 10. There are 4S6 boys and 504
girls.
The residence and other buildings of
Hon. Nj. A. Bingham at Essex Junction
were burned to the ground about o'clock
vanced when discovered. The loss is
covered by insurance.
Miss Charlotte Stark granddaughter
of Gen. John Stark, who died recently at
her home in Dumbarton, N. H., in the
90th year of her age, gave 5000 to the
Bennington Monument association for
ulle llOuuIleHJ u her distinguished All
cestOr
People in the Black River valley are
uneasy oyer the condition of the dams
and reservoirs at the heads of some of
the narrow valleys on that river. At
Plymouth there is dam which is feared
and which would do much damage if it
should burst.
In Richford the other evening a son of
VIM. Wilson had hand blown off by
mammoth dynamite" fire-cracker which
somebody induced him to hold till it was
discharged. Legal proceedings against
the man who sold the dangerous missive
to the lad are limited at
DR.. William b. Clark of the United
States geological survey says that he has
received assurance that two topographic
al engineers will soon begin work for
map of Vermont. Contour lines will be
run every 100 feet as was done for the
Massachusetts map.
The war department have Just sent to
the Fuller light battery at Brattleboro
four steel 2-l0 inch rifles with limbers
and caissons complete. The company
has thus been honored with the first new
standard pattern breech-loading guns
issued to the national guard.
Justin F. Mackenzie, generous citi-
zen of Woodstock, has presented that
village with bronze fountain, which has
been placed in the public square. 1t has
two drinking places. There are also ba-
sins for horses and cattle and smaller
places for dogs to drink from.
Barton Works of st. Johnsbury was
nearly killed by a steer in a pasture in
Concord Wednesday. He was found I'M
conscious on top of a rock. He does not
know whether he crawled there or was
thrown there from the steers horns. His
leg is badly crushed, but he will recover.
Stephen Allen, while hoeng corn on
the old battlefield at Hubbardton the
other day, unearthed two rusty bayo-
nets interlocked, probably relics of the
battle fought on that field July Z, 177.
Four years ago Mr.. Allen found on the
battlefield fragment of a gun barrel
and other parts of a gun. Relics have
been found nearly every year, most of
them not far distant from the monument
erected by the State to mark the battle
field.
Mrs. Baker of Richford went into her
dining room the other day and discover
ed a snake coiled snugly under the table.
She naturally objected to a boarder of
that sort. and securing kettle of boil
ing water proceeded to persuade the
snake to leave. When she approached
his snakeship rebelled against the hot
water treatment and made ready to
spring upon her. But Mrs. Baker, not
ing the snakes open mouth, gave him a
generous dose of the kettles contents
and scalded him to DEATH Messenger.