Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-08
LOCAL NEWS,


The Hawthorne club will meet with
President BraineId on the evening of
Tuesday next.
The Vermont Merino Sheep Shearing
association will have its annual meeting
at the Addison House next Wednesday
forenoon.
A special communication of Union
lodge. No. ,, f. and a. NJ, will be held
next Monday evening for work on the
F. C.. degree.
a new corn cracker, capable of break
ing corn cobs into small pieces so that
they can be ground readily, has been
added to the outfit of the Star grist
mill.
The best butter is worth 20 cents "A
pound, but Il to Is cents is the more
general price. Eggs have advanced
slightly and sell for 20 cents dozen for
shipment.
Mr.. NJ. +. Hughes of Boston was here
on Wednesday to buy horses, and pur-
chased several. He thinks horse-owners
in this section are inclined to ask more
for their stock than 1t is worth,
Slight falls of snow during the past
week made the sleighing about the viii
lage very fair. Both lorth and south of
us and eastward to the foot of the noun
tains the snow is thin, but Weybridge
and Cornwall ways and thence to the
lake the seighing is fine.
The members of the freshman class of
the college had banquet at Hotel
Brandon in Brandon on Thursday night
of last week. They went down on the
mixed train and came home on the sleep
er Friday morning. Mrs. A. f. Higley
accompanied them as chaperon.
The Masons expect a large attendance
at their ball tonight for the benefit of
Union lodge, No. ,, +. 81 A. NJ. All
Masons are urged to attend and to take
The Howard Opera House orchestra
alone is worth the admission. Admis-
SION to the balcony, - cents. The
grand march will he at s O'Clock.
Col. 7. NJ. Chapman is apprehensive
that his former employee, John frisco.
was among those lost by the wrecking
of the German steamer Elbe. frisco
worked for Mr.. Chapman several years.
but went back last fall to his old home in
Hungary to see his friends. He was to
have sailed from Bremen at about the
time the Elbe left that port.
of granting discharge to the three part
ners in the failed Orwell firm of Ham
mond, Bush 4 Co. was had here on Tues
day before Judge Slade. No decision was
reached and the hearing will be cOntin-
ued on the 26th inst. The evidence Is all
in, but brief arguments will probably be
made at that time. Hon. j. w. Cramton,
the assignee, has this week paid a 10 per
cent dividend on the company claims.
The supreme court last week rendered
decisions in the most of the cases heard
at the January general term. 1t has,
however, failed as vet to reach cOnclu-
sions in the Middlebury Pig pen case,
involving the State board of healths
powers, and in the Cornwall case of
Thrall VS.. Porter, in which the plaintiff
claims damages for being yaccnated.
Ii is surmised that the legal points COW
cred by these actions are of too much
consequence to admit of speedy settle
ment.
The fire department was called out at
o'clock Monday afternoon by an alarm
caused by the discovery of fire i'm the
upper story of Mr.. Wissells house near
the railroad station. Members of the
Battell Hose company heard of the
trouble by telephone before the alarm
sounded and got out their cart at once,
but the other companies were speedily
on hand. There was no need of help,
however, as the fire proved OF small
account. 1t caught from stove-pIpe.
Little damage was done.
Prof. M. II, Sanford of the faculty will
give the next lecture of the college course
on the evening of Friday next, the 18th
inst. His subject will be T" Life in Pom
peii, and the lecture will be Illustrated.
Last Friday evening Rev. DR.. j. l.. Bar
ton of Boston, one of the secretaries of
the American Board, spoke very instruc-
lively of matters and things In the Otto
man empire, giving his hearers clear and
accurate notions of the sultan's domin-
Ions and of the Armenian outrages of
which so much is being said in the public
prints.