Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-24
State VemS.

Rev. B. NJ. Tillotson, the veteran and
widely known Unversalist minister, is
dead at White River Junction,
The sixth annual meeting of the Yer
mont Woman's Suffrage association was
held at Bradford on Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
George w. Wales, Esq, one of the
foremost of the younger lawyers of
Burlington, died on Thursday last, aged
30 years.
Patrons of Craftsbury butter factory
got u cents a pound for their June, July
and August make, which they had held
for higher prices.
Benjamin +. Prescott of New Hamp-
shire was elected president of the Ben
nington Monument association at its
recent annual meeting.
Westminster lately dedicated a new
town hall to- take the place of the old
historic hall which was built in ITO,
and was struck by lightning and des-
troyed June 6, 1888.
The will of the late Mr.. Whitcomb of
Bethel leaves $50, 900 to the graded
school in that town to be known as the
Whitcomb fund, and also $4,000 for
the benefit of the schools at Stock
bridge.
The stockholders of the firm of f. & Il.
Fairbanks & Co., the st. Johnsbury scale
manufacturers, were pleasantly surprised
this week by an extra dividend of S.
share. The directors at recent meet
ing decided that the condition of the
company justified the extra dividend.
Mrs. L. w. Howe of Brattleboro,
president of the State department of the
Woman's Relief corps, has issued the
official programme for the sixth annual
convention at Rutland the 2Sth and
Goth. Headquarters are to be estab-
lished at the Bardwell House and re-
cepton will be given the evening of the
9th.
An attempt was made last week to
poison Edward Foster, who lives two
miles from Washington village, by his
WIG anu NIldTleS bIldsC, Il bdb WIN
whom the woman had been intimate.
Foster felt i'll and suspectng the bread
had been poisoned gave some to dog,
causing his death in a few hours. He
own life. Chase and Mrs. Foster have
been arrested.
Joseph Roy, a st. Johnsbury farmer,
gave employment to man named Small
the 7th, who was a deserter from the
Charlestown navy-yard. Small skipped
on night train going north, taking Roy's
1l-years-old boy, also $50 in money, a
gold watch and an overcoat belonging &c
Roy. The distracted father and an Off
Ger found the boy at Derby Center, 4(
miles from home, after several days
search. Small has not been found.
The Clarendon cave is remarkable
cave on the southwest side of noun
tain. The entrance is two and hall
feet in diameter and 81 feet long, anG
opens into room 20 feet long, - fee
wide and 20 feet high. In the nortl
end of the room is passage 40 feet il
diameter which leads into a room 80 by
20 feet. 1t has not been visited much
of late years, but 1t is remarkable
excavation and the approaches to il
might be made presentable and it would
be made an object of great curiosity tt
travellers as well as to our own citizens
who would visit this strange freak o.
the natural world Poultney Journal.
The headquarters flag of the old FRS
Vermont brigade, which was borne a
the head of the brigade from the clos,
of the Shenandoah campaign of 1864 til
the final muster out, is in the possession
of Major Merritt Barber, U. S. A., witt
was the Acknowledgment of the brigade
during that period of its history. 1t i
Major BARRIERS intention to place thi
among the Vermont colors in the Stat
House at Montpelier, where it will b.
preserved with the flag under which tn
brigade served during the WILDERNESS
campaign, which is now in Montpelie
and is guarded as one of the most preci
Gus relics of the war for the union.-
Free Press.
The State Republican league held
meeting at Burlington last week Thurs
day evening to choose delegates to tn
national convention at Nashville, Tenn
March 4. Col. Julius j. Estey of Bra
tleboro presided, and these delegate
were elected: At large, Col. George I
Childs of st. Adams, Col. Truman {
Fletcher of st. Johnsbury, Gen. j. G