Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02

was buried as witch by the British and
the canonizatlon could not proceed till
the present opinion OF the head of the
nation had been ascertained.
The necessity of beginning now to pre-
serve the forests of this and other States
at once, if eyer, is emphasized by the cur
rent statements of the cut of spruce logs
to be made this season in the counties of
Coos, n. H., and Essex, VT. 1t is est-
mated that 200, 100000 feet will go thence
to the mills, principally down the Con-
necticut river.
The Senate is giving the holiday season
to discussion of the elections BILL the
financial situation and other hilarious
subjects. There is not a quorum of the
House on hand, so on Tuesday morning,
after the chaplain had prayed for divine
protection of the land during the coming
year, that honorable body, what there
was of it, adjourned to Friday.
A Massachusetts paper has tried to
ascertain through the medium of postal
cards how the people stand affected ON
the presidential candidate question.
Nearly 10000 are for Blaine, over 81 900
for Harrison and over 10000 for Secre-
tary of Agriculture Rnsk. The Demo-
Gratis give Cleveland y, 900 votes to II 900
for Hill, while Hatch, the Missouri con-
gresham, gets 1000.
President Harrison has appointed Judge
H. B. Brown of Michigan a justice of the
supreme court to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Justice Miller Justice
Brown is a native of Lee, Mass, was a
classmate at Yale of Justice Brewer and
Chauncey NJ. Depew, and has been Judge
of the United States court for the east
ern district of Michigan since 1875 The
nomination is generally commended.
The situation with respect to the sena-
torship in New York grows more strain
ed daily. Hon. Smith NJ. Weed would
not decline the office, but Gov. Hill is
credited with ii desire to keep him out of
it. The New York Herald is booming
Editor Dana of the Sun. Hills friends
want to shclve Cleyeland in the Senate,
and Cleveland's supporters mediate the
same kindness TO Illl The fight prom
ises to be yely pretty one.
New discoveries concerning the school
law are as FREQUENT AS verdcts of guilty
at the curreht session of the county
| ic RI
mans latest: And now it appears that
the rubbish heap, yclept the new school
law makes no provision for ascertaining
and certifying to the State treasurer the
number of school districts in town, and
that official is now querying how he shall
legally distribute the public money"
Undoubtedly the people of this section
are to be cong 'atuated on the fact that
the railroad on which they depend for
transportation is to remain in the hands
of the Central Vermont. 1t has been well
managed by them in all respects, and
with the Improvements provided for in
the lease the line ought to serve the pub
lie better in he future. And, by the
way, a new depot at this station of Mid
dlebury should be high up on the list OF
betterments. The town has patiently en-
dured inadequate station accommodations
in view of the uncertain future of the
road, but now that that is determined
they will begin to howl, and rightly.
The following is the substance of cir
cular sent out by Boston Investment
man, who appears to know what he il
talking about. After urging those whC
have made poor investments ia the Wes
to hold on to them, he says: "There arr
two important factors i'm the situation
that are slowly but surely taking the az
: ricultural problem out of the realm of un
certainty, and lifting it into higher leyel
One is the rapid increase in population
the other is thediminishing area of arabl'
, land. These conditions coming togethe
make for higher prices for land, an,
whatever the land will produce. Com
{ putations recently made go to prove tina
before the close of the century the arabl
land will all be- occupied, and that tn
entire products of the soil will scarcel.
be sufficient to sustain our own popula
ton, leaving nothing for export