Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-15
State l1erps

at Island Pond.
The Cornerstone for new Catholic
church was laid at Essex Junction the
3D. inst. by Bishop DeGoesbriand.
The exclusive right to cut ice on a
southern Vermont pond for the next five
years has been sold to Albany parties for
$4,000.
Charles f. Edwards, an enterprising
young Chelsea farmer, was instantly
killed while Telling tree in the woods
S Saturday.
The Rutland shirt factory and Howe
scaled works are again running on full
time. The shirt factory employs about
300 women and the scale works about
400 men.
The Holmes cotton mills and Stacks
shoddy mills at Springfield have started
up on full time, also the Proctorsville
wooden mill, which has been shut down
since September.
A majority of the standing committees
of the different dioceses having consented
to the election of Bishop-elect Hall, it
only remains for the several bishops to
vote their consent. after which his con-
secration will take place.
In the Orange county court, Friday,
Eugene Kicker was sentenced to two
years in STATED prison for burglary !;
Edward Staples, to five years in the
reform, school for burglary, and James
Cunningham was fined 500 and costs
for impeding officers.
The museum of the university at Bur-
llngton hassjust received collection of
Australian and South Sea island spears
and war-clubs. The collection formed Il
part of the New South Wales exhibit at
the Worlds fair and was considered a
prize for the purchaser.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army Of Vermont will be held in Bur-
lington, January 30 and 81 next. Gov
ernor Fuller, Commandments Adams
and many other distinguished person
ages will he present. The headquarttr RS
of the department will be held at the
Van Ness House, and grand campfire
will be held in Howard opera house the
evening of the Both. 5Ik
Gov. Greenhagc of Massachusetts will
soon call conference of the Republican
governors of New England, including
Governors Cleaves of Maine. Fuller of
Vermont. Smith of New Hampshire,
Brown of Rhode Island and himself,
to consider the present condition of the
country, and determine what steps. if
any, should be taken to conserve and
advance the interests of the New Eng
land States.
There is no clue to the man who
sand-bagged Agent Thomas Of the
Central Vermont at Richford recently and
robbed him of over 500. Officers have
been searching in every direction, apd
the Central Vermont intends 10 capture
the robber if possible. Station Agent
Thomas Was alone in the office at the
time, but says he saw a man who came
behind him and asked if there was any
freight for him, almost instantly striking
him on the head with sandbag, which
made him unconscious. Mr.. Thomas
describes the man.
Hon. Calvin Page, the incoming Dem
ocratic collector of internal revenue fol
the district of New Hampshire, has APP
pointed Arthur l.. Week of ST. AlbanS
deputy collector. in charge of the Yer
mont division, with headquarters at St
Adams, vice Charles 5. Forbes, whose
four years term of office expired Novem
Der 30. Frederick II. kimball of Bel
lows Falls has been appointed STAMP
deputy, to succeed Geo. A. Weston.
According to the report of the commls
sioner of internal revenue for the tisca
year ending June 30, 1893, Vermont pro
duced during the season of 1892 2,057 ,09t
pounds of maple sugar and on this a
bounty of $50, 225.23 was paid. OF the
whole quantity produced ,065, 99S tested
between so and 30 degrees by the pulari-
scope, while 9l.l02 tested so degrees and
over. The season of 1893 showed very
large increase in the quantity produced
by licensed producers, the figures being
1928, 054 against 2,057 900 IN 1892.
This story is going the rounds: In one
of the smaller towns in Bennington
county, where prohibition evidently doe;
not prohibit, a handsomely fitted up bal
room was nearly cleaned out one nigh
last week in Il peculiar manner. The
owner had been to i rattle during the
evening and won "A large white rooster
Tying Its legs together the owner locked
up the place and left the fowl sole pos
SCISSOR of the room. When his assistant
arrived in the morning, and opened the
door he was dumbfounded at the sigh
that met. his eyes. The rooster had go