Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-20
State 11epS.
Two Bennington men are taking the
Kelley treatment for drunkenness.

President Harrison has written a let
ter of coincidence to Mrs. j. Gregory
Smith of st. Albans.
Giles :. Appleton, for many thes tation
agent at Burlington, died suddenly last
week of heart failure.
Elmer Bean of Milton recently shot
an eagle that measured over eight feet
from tip to tip of wings.
Daniel L. Paris, the prominent Troy
On. " stove maker, who died last week,
was Il native of this State, having been
born in Dandy in 1885.
The stock in the store of II bankrupt
Rutland merchant was inventoried at
500. Sheriff Peabody, the assignee,
got 1919 by the sale of it.
Frank Kirk, while uncoupling passen-
ger ears at st. Adams. fell head-first from
the platform to the ground, striking on
his head and dying instantly.
The 18th annual convention of the
Young Mems Christian associations of
the State opened at Rutland yesterday
and will continue over Sunday.
OF 10 people, all oyer 20 years of age.
who had gathering at Barnumville, Ben
nington county, Nov. 6, 1890, 9S were still
living at the same date of the present
year.
John O'Donald. a farmer in Hampton,
y. y, Just across the line from Pout-
new. has been swndled out of $4,000 by
the gold brick trick. The swindler is
in Jail at Albany.
The new hospital for the Vernon
Soldiers home at Bennington was com
pleted October - and is now in use, and
six members of the home are occupying
it. The home has 50 inmates.
A portion of the old Constitution house
at Windsor, in which the declaration of
Independence of the republic of Vermont
was drawn up in III. is being con-
verified into a wheelwright shop.
St. Johnsbury has expended $1,000 this
season for repairs on the machinery of
its pumping station, but during the dry
weather of late the supply has been too
small for the needs of the place, and now
it is proposed to Ego to Stiles pond for
larger supply.
The supreme court has Just decided, in
the Washington county case of State vs..
Henry Camp, who gave man some Ii
y quor in corn barn, that Camp had no
n right to give it outside of his own house.
l. and sentenced him to pay fine OF $50
and a large bill of costs.
A floating island in Sadawga pond
T. which is about a mile in length. neal
;. jacksonville, covers about one-third OF
= the surface and is about two feet il
thickness. 1t bears cranberries and il
Z drifts from one part of the pond to an
other, according to the direction of the
wind.
| The Fall Mountain Paper company il
now reducing over 2OO,OOO feet of woot
" to pulp at Bellows Falls each week
nearly | .000,000 feet each year. The
IS past summer they bought 100000 fee
- of the Connecticut River Lumber com
pany's drive, and brought about fiv'
a million feet from their own lands alons
j the headwatcrs of the Ammonoosu
\ river in the White Mountain region.
i Robert Wright. a l4-year-old boy. sol
of the widow Bradford Wright of swan
ton. accidentally shot himself the othe
forenoon while hunting at Maqnall
Bay. He was sitting upon the dock am
undertook to draw his gun. a - repeat
ing rifle. to him by the muzZle, when tn
hammer caught, exploding the charg
and the ball entered his side. paSsin!
through his liver and lodged in hi
spine.
The State Teachers association at it
recent meeting in Montpelier chose theS
officers: Pre-, dent, Principal +. IL. De
wart, st. Adams; secretary, Princp;
+. X. Graves, SWanton: treasurer. Prli
cipal 6. W. kennedy. Fair Haven; e>
!. ccutive ommittee-Princpal a. |
Campbell of Johnson, Principal \. {
ID Ferrin of Manchester, Principal j.
Simpson of Bellows Falls: together wit
a vce-p president from each county, Pro
c. b. Wright of Middlebury being electe
for this county.
Sylvester II. Bell, the Fairfax wifi
murderer, was brought before Judge
Taft and Thompson of the supreme cou
at Montpelier the other day on writ {
habeas corpus, because of an error in Il
sentence given by Judge Rowell at Il
September, 1890, term of the frankie
county court He was sentenced to 81
months solitary confinement before e
ecution instead of three as provided
law. The lawyers argued that Il
whole sentence was void because of Il
error. Judge Taft decided that the >e
tence might have been erroneous, b
not void or imperative, and Bell "
hang the first Friday in January, ls9
William Wilson, who lives in We'
more, near the town line, has Just be
y building Il barn - by IL feet. When N
Wilson moved on to is farm 30 yea
ago. there was not Il rod of it cleart
He first bought 60 acres of land. and =
him up log house, in which they Inv
fourteen years. He has from time
time bought more land, so that now
has about 230 acres in the home far
with over 100 acres of it cleared. y
- Wilson now has - sheep, 30 head
q cattle and six horses; and cuts all of
~ hay with machine. lie has IA nice
of farm buildings, and, moreover, he |
his farm and stock. Dllt |
money at interest He has been one
- those kind of men who have made far
-. ing pay Newport Express.
The United States fish commissi
planted $500 California or Chinook :
mon in the head waters of the Battenl
river in Bennington county recent
The commission proposes to stock Ii
Champlain with the same fish. 1t is
lnsire of the rnmnlis sinn In hnll Ile :