Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-06-28
State o1eps.

Sfdte l(erpS.
DIR. 6. Spoford has been appointed
pension examiner at Bellows Fails.
The death of Hon. Jonn L. Mason Of
Richmond on Wednesday is announced.
Hiram Atkins and wife of Montpelier
are soon to celebrate their silver wedding.
II. ;. Robinson of Springfield has be-
come insane over the death of his son by
varioloid.
The estate of Lee S. Houghton. a
Rutland bankrupt, paid half a cent on
the dollar.
The Vermont railroad commissioners
begin their annual inspection of the rail-
roads next Monday.
a dispatch from Barre states that
there is no danger of contagion from the
case of smallpox at Williamstown.
The commencement exercises of the
Troy Conference academy at Poultnev
were held Friday. Fourteen graduated.
The four-years-old son of Mrs. Hap
good OF Norwich was instantly killed
Thursday by a runaway horse which
dashed into the yard where the child was
at play.
1t is stated by well-known clergyman
in that part of the State that there are
five Illicit distileries in the town of
Stanford.
The civil engineer who examined the
Sadawga dam in Nottingham. which has
an outlet in the Deertield river. pro-
nounces it unsafe.
j. l.. Winchel of the Green Mountain
kennel of Fair Haven has imported from
England pair of full-blooded English
blood-hounds for which he paid $1,000
each.
An attempt is being made to break I'D
the gang of moOnshiners in Orange
county and Jeff Flint and Nathan Car
penter have been arrested at Stanford for
distilling cider brandy.
The alumni of St. Johnsbury academy
have chosen these officers. all of st.
Johnsbury: President W. P. Stafford;
vice-president, p. f. Blodgett: secretary
and treasurer, Arthur F. Stone.
The steam mill of 5. L. Griffith in Peru
was burned Wednesday night. There
was an insurance on the mill and ma
chlnery of $1,000, and the loss on mill,
machinery and lumber will be about
$4,000.
The State cattle commission discovered
two more cases of CHAMBERS at Montgom-
cry and had the animals killed. Iester-
day the members of the commission were
AT North Bennington to investigate a
disease among the cattle.
Misses Griffith, Morse and Haskins,
while riding in covered buggy at
waterbury, Tuesday, met team on
bridge, and their horse in backing tipped
them down high bank into the stream.
All were soon rescued without serious
injury.
Greenleaf kimball Sykes, an academy
student at st. Johnsbury in the class of
80, died Friday evening of acute periton-
tits. June 10 he and 10 other young
people ate something which poisoned
them. The Others have all recovered.
Sykes lived in Dorset.
Elmer Glow and VIM. Trumbull, charg-
ed with burglary in SALISBURY, escaped
from the jail at Manchester Tuesday
morning. They sawed around the stove
pipe hole and got into the attic through
hole about by Il inches. They then
opened door and jumped to the ground
and got away without being seen.
At the Vermont board of trade in Bur-
lington on Friday 1920 pounds of but.
ter were offered. Ten thousand pounds
sold at 10 cents and 1000 pounds at Is
cents. \ bid of Is cents for 10000
pounds was refused, as cold storage will
soon be ready. Twenty-three thousand
pounds of cheese refused bids of 5 to So
cents per pound.
The jury in the case of Bent and Ro-
berts, charged with the murder of Louis
Wilder, at Woodford last December,
which was tried at Manchester last week,
disagreed and were discharged. Both
respondents were admitted to bail in
$500 each. Bent gave bonds and is at
liberty. This case will be tried at Benn-
ington again at the December term.
The cadets of Norwich university are
now in camp on the parade ground North
field, and the encampment will continue
through commencement, ending June 20.
The corps were recently inspected by
Col. r. p. Hughes on the staff of the
inspector general, United States army,
who expressed himself as finding the
corps very finely drilled.
Ordination services were held at St.
Paul's Episcopal church in Burlington,
Sunday morning, by Bishop Bissell, as
sisted by Rev. DR.. Bliss, the rector, Rev.
A. b. Flanders of st. Luke's church, st.
Adams, and Rev. DR.. SWEET of Highgate.
Messrs. Geo. b. Stone, Edward 5. Stone
and c. o. Scoville were ordained deacons.
The ordination sermon was preached by
Rev. A. b. Flanders of st. Adams.
Ernest 4. Griswold of Bennington,
colonel of the State division of Sons of
Veterans, announces these staff appoint
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