Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-22
State 11epS.


Jail at Newport for attempting to wreck
train.
The Sheldon Marble Co. furnishes
West Rutland 20 arc lamps for its streets
at $1,000 year.
The st. Johnsbury scale works annual.
ly consume about 1000 tons of iron and
5000 tons of coal.
The Vermont Marble Co. paid its men
over 5000 for II months work Friday.
There are 400 of them.
st. Adams claims to have the largest
creamery in the world. About three tons
of butter are made every day.
The annual convention of the diocese
of Vermont is to be held in Trinity
church, Rutland, June Il and Is.
The Lyons Granite Co. of West Dunn
merston has Just quarried a single block
of granite $50 feet long, 30 feet wide and
II feet thick.
The Henry Hayward farm south of the
village of Rutland was sold at auction
last week for S14 SO. 1t contains 225
acres on Otter creek.
The Vermont society of the Sons of the
American Revolution is to appear in the
Bennington celebration as a distinct or
ganization. 1t now numbers 10 mem
bers.
During April 10000 pounds of maple
sugar were shipped from Bethel. This
is said to be the largest shipment from
any town between White River Junction
and St. Adams.
At a meeting of quarrymen at Barre,
Tuesday, their strike was declared ended
and they will return to work. All differ
ences seem now to be settled and boom
in the granite business is hope for.
\ wagon containing four persons was
struck by the cass at Chester the other
night. The wagon was smashed into
kndling wood. The horse was killed,
but the occupants miraculously escaped.
Col. Levi X. Fuller is making an in
teresting experiment at Vermont acad-
envy at SaXton's River. He has given the
institution farm and proposes to run it
on scientific >principles for the instruc-
ton of the youth.
Rev. l.. II. Elliott of Waterbury, secre-
tarv of the Vermont Bible society, re-
ports that the agents of the society last
year visited II 900 homes in this State
and found $50 homes. or one family in
II. without any Bible; there were 1885,
600 people who did not attend church.
James Brennan of Castleton, in look
ing over his ledger few days ago, found
the names of l0l different persons, prom
inent in town affairs, whom he made
charges against from September 20,
1872, to April 20, 1873. No one of the
number is now living.
The Vermont Baptist Sunday school
convention is to be held in Burlington
the first week in June. Mr.. Moody has
consented to be present again this year,
and will probably speak on Tuesday
evening and Wednesday morning. Other
prominent speakers have been secured.
The body of James Clark was found in
a pool of water beside the highway at
Lyndonville, Sunday morning. He was
last seen alive Saturday evening, when
he left his boarding place, which is near
where he was found. He was subject to
fits and probably was taken with one and
fell of the embankment.
The annual statistical record of the
Congregational churches of the State
shows 1879 additions to membership, 4lG
on confession, a net gain of LOG and IA to-
tai of 20.61G. Contributions aggregated
S47.229, decrease from the previous
year, but there was a great gain in leg
acies. 1.S23. OF the l3l pastors 80 are
installed.
The superintendent of the census has
issued bulletin upon the subject of
school finances, which shows that the
number of pupils enrolled in the schools
of Vermont in 1890 was G5.G0S. and the
total expenditure per capita was Sl0.52.
In New Hampshire the number enrolled
was 59.Sl3, and the expenditure per
capita Sl3.G2.
\ correspondent of the Montpelier
Waterman says that there is man in
Caledonia county 20 years old, in good
circumstances, who has never lived over
four miles from where he was born, who
has never taken the freeman's oath,
never cast ballot for national, state,
county or town officers, never was a
member of a religious or secular organi-
cation. or party 10 suit at law.
Col. Cannon of Burlington, vice-presi-
dent of the ID. Il II. Canal Co.. denies
that his road has any idea of building a
road parallel to the New York Central
from Albany to New York. He also
says that the Delaware and Hudson is
opposed to any road building through
the Adirondacks, owing to the desire for
the preservation of the forests as source
of water supply for the Hudson, and also
out of sanitary considerations.