Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-17

Christmas day in the morning, just as
ready to stake bite" as in the balmiest
days of midsummer.
The Rutland Musical association will
hold their next festival the first week in
June for three days, and will give six
concerts. Carl Zerrahn will be conduc-
tor and the Germania orchestra of Bos-
ton has been engaged.
Charles f. Taylor of Middletown
Springs committed suicide the other day
by shooting himself through the head.
Business troubles are supposed to be the
cause. Mr.. Taylor was until recently
merchant and the postmaster at Pawlet.
Justus Billings and Heman Puryea,
day laborers of Rutland, are under arrest
for alleged assault on each other Bill
lings is in precarious condition from
injuries to his skull, and 1t is not unlikely
that Puryea will be obliged to answer to
a charge of murder.
Barre is the booming town IF the State,
The new directory shows that it has 6S
granite dealers, % quarries, polishing
mills, 6S carpenters, 10 contractors and
builders, II masons, % boarding house,
% dressmakers, 0 truckmen and 8 ply
sicians and surgeons.
The Congregational parsonage at st.
Johnsbury East was burned Saturday
night, with barn and outbuildings. The
fire is supposed to have caught from
stove after the workmen who were re-
pairing the building had left. Loss
$1,000; insured for 5000.
Lawyer Edward A. Sowles of st. AL
bans was fined 5000 and costs, in all 5000,
for contempt of court Thursday by Judge
Wheeler in the United States court. The
case arose on the sale by United States
Marshal Robinson of property belonging
to Sowles's wife.
Augustus Patterson has been arrested
at New York on the charge of setting
fire to the hotel which was burned at
Queen City park, Burlington, In October
He was cook at the house, and is sup
posed to have robbed the hotel of its
bedding, etc., and set the fire to conceal
his other crimes.
AT the annual meeting of the corpora
tors of the Burlington Savings bank the
followng-named officers were elected for
ensuing year: President, C. P. Smith !;
vice president. Willard Crane; trustees,
C. F. Ward, C. p Smith, G. w. Wales,
j. L. Barstow, Willard Crane, Henry
Greene and Albert G. PIERCE.
He NdllDudl Lie llsuIdHCc COiuDdHN
of Montpelier has issued 47H policies
during the year ending Jan. !, covering
$12, al 800, and there are in all 1884
policies in force. covering a total of $3s.-
700, 40 insurance. The receipts amount
ed to Sl.7Sl ,795 40, and ledger assets at
par $3.50, 234, %.
Mrs. w. E. Burt's dwelling-house and
millinery store at Enosburg Falls, Burt
@ tI, N
Harvey block were burned Monday. In
the latter building were Rublee Bros
drug store, office and mandatory of the
Kendall company, patent medicines, and
Mrs. Tillotson's tenement. The loss is
quite heavy but the exact amount is I'M
known. The cause of the fire is sup
posed to be the explosion of coal stove
in Mrs. Burt's store. The insurance on
the property burned is $4,000. A shoe
shop adjoining was destroyed to prevent
the spread of the fire.
News has been received at Rutland of
the death of Rev. Carson Parson, former
~ prominent Methodist minister in the
vicinity, having held pastorates at Mid
dlebury, Poultney, Hampton and Rut-
land. He was found dead at Pueblo,
Col, Sunday in saloon. He rose to be
prominent preacher among the Metho-
dists and had held pastorates at Troy
and Albany and finally in New York
city. He was also frequently sought as
an orator on secular occasions. He had
strong tendency to drunkenness, how
ever, which compelled him to leave the
East. Since his arrival in the West he
had frequently reformed and was finally
engaged in successful editorial work,
when he again became an outcast and all
efforts to restrain him proved fruitless.