Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-01-06


for furnishing liquor. Bourbonnais is "a
practicing physician IN good standing at
keeseville, n. Y. He pays the costs.
The doctor lived in Burlington when he
sinned.
a jew pedlar named Coram Gees, who
makes his home in Bellows Falls and
goes of on trips lasting week or ten
days, has been missing since about
Thanksgiving time. 1t is feared that he
has been murdered. He usually had sew
eral hundred dollars in money on his
person.
j. G. Wood of Cleveland, Ohio, has
written Bradford citizens that he will
soon give that village $4,000 toward es-
tablishiug a new public library and
like sum for new building for the same;
$4,000 toward the erection of new
school building, and an endowment for
the same.
Terence Casey of West Rutland was on
Christmas spree while his people were
at midnight mass, Christmas eve, and
tipping over a table on which was light
ed lamp; the latter fell On his stomach.
setting fire to his clothing. His intes-
tines were fearfully burned. He leaves
a widow and several children.
S. d. Shepard, Rutland agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance company of New
York, has abscunded. He went to New
York December u, saying that lie should
go from there to Boston and be back
Saturday. lie left behind pretty young
wife and about $1,000 of debts. Gambl-
ing is said to have been the ruin of him.
The September term of the Chittenden
county court, which has just closed at
Burlington, lasted 20 days and was the
longest term ever held there. Twenty
four cases were tried by jury and YER
diets we're returned in every case. There
were 319 civil, divorce, chancerv and
State cases brought to the attention of
the cOnrt.
An attempt is to be made to break the
will of the late DR.. Hiram A. Cutting of
Lunenburgh. The effort is In behalf of
a boy legally adopted by the doctor
from the home for destitute children at
Burlington. The great bulk of the
$4,000 that DR.. Cutting left was willed
to persons not in the least related, and
the boy is put of with $500.
Editor Chase of the Lyndon Union
} came near being the lucky man to win
the Boston Globes offer of So a week
for life to the one who should guess the
nearest to Clcveland's and Harrson's
vote in New York. He says that on the
10Th of October he sent IN a guess of
611,902 for Cleveland, which was within
six of the exact vote. But he spoiled
the fun by giving Harrison on the same
coupon ego, 420 or 50,9G1 too many.
At the 23d annual meeting of the Yer
mont Dairymen's association, which Is
to be held ut MorriSvlle January 10. IL
and II, large amount of dairving i'm
plements and machinery will be exhibit
; ed and run by steam power, and butter
will be made on the spot by various pro-
cesses. The association offers cash pre-
miums on butter and cheese, and these
are duplicated or added to by different
manufacturers and persons Interested.
: Mortified is enjoying a regular west
. ern boom according to the News of that
place, which says: "There are nearly
: a hundred men engaged in stone cutting
5 here. Three years ago the chee,y sound
of hammer and drill was unknown to us.
The effect of our granite industry on the
business of the town is noticeable TO
everyone. Within three years, North
field has made a substantial gain in
/ population and taken step in material
. prosperity that gives bright promise for
= the future. There is more business here.
mole money in circulation and more
: value in real estate"
An exchange says that the Billings
farm at Woodstock will do Vermont
farmers proud at the worlds fair. The
Jersey COW, Princess Honora, of the Bill
lingS herd will be the only Vermont rep
rtsrntatlve in the three months COMPETE
tion between picked cows of the various
( breeds AZ the fair. Garcia, the champion
butter COW of Vermont. will go also for
exhibition aud for competition in the test
of Jerseys. Mr.. james Aitkn of the
= Billings farm, who is to have charge of
the Jersey herd in the breed test, has
= already gone to Chicago with his cattle.
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