Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-11-11
State 01eps.

A Swede named Ericsson was serious
ly injured at Rutland, last Saturday
night, while attempting to board a freight
train.
\ freight brakeman named Perry was
killed at Alburgh Springs, last Saturday
morning, while attempting to board the
train.
Up to July | last, the United States
government had expended S556. 1921 on
the Burlington brcakwatcr.
A building lot in ST. John>bury was
sold the other day for 81 71.11 Il running
foot. 1t was on the recently burned dis
trict. I.
George Tart, "A section hand in the en-
ploy of the Central Vermont railroad. Wd>
run over at Rutland and killed by an
engine Monday afternoon. Tart wa
about 30 years old. and prominent
member of the local Grand Army post.
lie leaves "A family.
\ chair made of rails taken from the
fence at Gettysburg behind which lay
the old Vermont brigade i on eXhibi-
ton in a store window on fremont street,
Boston. The chair is handsomely up
holstered and trimmed. 1t was made in
Boston, by order of GOV. Fuller. who j.
tleboro.
Rutland officers are on the lookout
for several moonShirers who are in the
habit of furnishing liquor to persons in
that village who cannot buy the liquor
themselves. Several disclosures have
been made on moOnshiners recently. but
they have thus far succeeded in avoiding
detection by the police. 1t has been
Ian h,t h., Ia la I'm u
their liquor IN town. They get it in
Whitehall by the jug full
The 9th inst marked the completion
of the first century of the corporate lfe
of Caledonia county. 1t received its
name from ''Calcdonia,' the ancient Ru-
man name of Scotland. out of courtesy Ia
the numerous emgrants from thar
country who located there. OF the l.
towns in the county, sonly three besides
st. Johnsbury have increased in popuia-
ton in the last half century: the rest
have fallen away.
The biennial report of the State rail-
road commissioners is Just issued from
the press. According to this report no
passenger on the railroads of the State
has been killed during the past TWO
/ years. There have been 1870 accidents.
and II passengers have been Injured
more or less, and 53 employees. Twenty
nine employees have lost their lives in The
service, as against 33 in the two years
previous. There have been in all
Ia individual casualties. The totaI
number of passengers carried upon AL
railroads in the State, by the returns re-
ceived for the year 1891 is l3,4G4, l03
for 1892, l4.S3S.709. The total passen
ger revenue for 1891, is SG,460, 7l2,S2; foi
1892 is S6.939, 232 GA.
c. l.. Heyde. a celebrated painter Of
Vermont scenery, died last week He
had IA very considerable reputation a al
artist, having received several medals fol
his paintings at various exhibitions anc
a diploma for a landscape exhibited al
the New Orleans exposition in 1850 HI
was born in Philadelphia in 1916, auf
was IS years of age at the time of hi
death. In 1854 he married Miss Whit
man, sister of the late poet. Walt Whit
man, in Brooklyn, y. Y. He had beer
invited to exhibit Il picture at the world
fair at Chicago and had the paintirs
completed. when illness aud the partit
loss of his mind neccssitated his remova
TO the asylum at Waterbury only a few
days before his death. His home was il
Burlington.