Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-12

trouble at laftSylle, Marcn -. IL
had been a member of the Masonic or
: der for over so years.
The Troy Conference Academy, 10
Gated al Poultney, has just received
gift of 5 ,0G0 to be used in completing
! the equipment of its chemical and ply
steal laboratory. The donor with
+. holds his name.
The receipts of the Burlington post
office for the year ending Marcel
81, were $85,830.53, an increase o
s25, l51.67 over last year, and s45,.
220.l5 over two years ago. This
showing is a very gratifying one.
The Barre Granite Manufacturing
company has received instructions from
the manufacturers department of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago, that it has been allotted three
times as much floor space as first an.
nounced, making 1920 square feet.
David n. Burke of New York nam
ed for consul at Pernambuco, is well
known in Vermont, his family now liv-
ing at Middlebury. He is a graduate
Of Middlebury College, class '67, and
an able campaign speaker. He was
consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela,
1SS6-18SS, and consul at Bahia, Bra
I'll, 1SSS-1S9l. He spoke in Ben
nington during the last campaign.
The Green Mountain horse ranch in
Minnesota, Of which II. +. Fletcher Of
ST. Johnsbury is president, his BROTH
ers and G.. L. Bradley, directors, is in
litigation. VIM. L. Matson of Hart
ford, Conn, one of the stockholders,
brings suit, claiming false entries, waste,
fraud. etc. Fletcher denies absolutely
all the charges, and has also brought
suit against the company for $4,000.
While some Vermont farms seem to
go begging for purchasers, the same
cannot, with truth, be said of the BUSH
ness lots in the principal towns.
Fair Ravens price per running foot
has reached $3.50 within the past
mouth, while St. J~ohnsbury's is SiL0
better or $3.50. There would seem to
be some things worth possessing in
Vermont, and not the least valuable
among them are OWL and city lots.
Col. A. A. Hall OF st. Adams, Hon.
Zed S. Stanton of Roxbury and +. w.
Baldwin of Barton, the committee on
legal history and biography for the
Vermont Bar association, held a meet
ing at Montpelier, Saturday, and made
arrangements to prepare biographies of
all those deceased members OF the as
ISOLATION since 1878, on whom such
papers have not heretofore been made.
The census bureau has issued a bull
letin of the real estate mortgage debt of
Vermont, existing Jan. /, 1890. This
debt is s27, 907,6S7, of which sl9,-l
439,9SS is on acres and SS,467 ,699 on
lots. Rutland county had an existing
debt of S5,964, 1922, and Chittenden
county SO 1913, 1902. Vermont has a
per capita mortgage debt of SS4. The
rate VI lulCitSl VII AnC tAlcNihE 4
mortgage debt is 5.9S per ent
The annual conference OF the Metho-
dist church of Vermont will he held at
Barton, opening April 10 and closing
the 23rd. Bishop Joyce of Chattanoo-
ga will preside, and among the clergy
men expected are Champlain C.C.Mc
Cabe, who will lecture on 1.-The Bright
Side of Libby Prison !" DR.. Payne of
New York, Educational Secretary DIR.
J. B. Hamilton of New York, and DIR.
w. Hamilton of Cincinnati DR..
j. w. Spence, Philadelphia, and DR..
Schell of Chicago.
George Bartlett of Brandon, while
his traps last Friday morning,
Iound an eagle fast in n of them. The
bird carried the trap about a quarter of
a mile. He was of a seal brown color.
with white feathers in the tail and
about the back of the head. The tai
are large, measuring about two
inches, and are extremely powerful and
lis wings have a spread ofnearly seven
eet. The bird is pronounced to be a :
specimen of the American
!,
The postal service this week in Yer ,
mont has added TO the former money 1
facilities fourteen new offices, i
Of which are in Bennington county !
Manchester Depot and Peru. S
70 be able to obtain money orders at Z
hese offices must greatly enhance the q
accommodation of the people. The Z
'ther offices are as follows: Barnet, I
caledonia county; Brookield, Orange I
'ounty +; Colchester, C~hittenden county +; i
Cast Corinth, Orange county East 5
Randolph, Orange county; Green's a
'oro Bend, Orleans county No. Crafts .
Jury, Orleans county No. SPRING
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