Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-22
State 11eps.

The Chittenden county Republican
convention will be held in Burlington
June 6.
The Sunday edition tf the Burlington
Daily News has been discontinued. 1t
did not pay.
A summer school is to be held at
Manchester, beginning July 6 and con-
tinuing two weeks.
Mrs. Charles Perry of Woodstock has
begonia six feet high and nearly nine
feet in circumference.
The Democratic State committee has
issued a call for the State convention at
Montpelier Wednesday, May %.
The second congressional district Re-
publican committee have decided to call
their district convention at Montpelier
June lG.
The store at Bennington Center Oc-
cupied by Charles X. sanford was
burglarized the other night and IA large
amount of goods stolen.
Bennington has a blacksmith who is
healer. James Fox is his name. He
cures rheumatism by rubbing the affected
parts, the same as Bradley Newell.
The Shepard & Morse Lumber Co.
will remain in Burlington, satisfactory
arrangements for the rent of the proper
ty they occupy having been made.
The electric road craze in Vermont
seems to have collapsed with dull thud.
st. Johnsbury and Bellows Falls and
season.
One hundred and fifty State patients
were transferred the 14th from the Brat
tleboro retreat to the Waterbury insane
asylum The transfer was made by
special train.
John, the l0-year-old son of Frank
Williams of West Rutland, fell from a
loaded wagon the other day and was
seriously injured, the wheel of the wagon
passing over his head.
The Kipling- Balester trial at Brattle-
boro last week ending with putting the
defendant under S400 bonds for trial for
assaulting Kipling and under similar
bonds to keep the peace.
Isaac Pratt, the veteran bear hunter of
Bennington, captured his sd black bear
in a trap in the Glastonbury woods
Thursday. Pratt has captured all his
ANIMALS within 20 miles of Bennington.
The voters OF West Rutland have de-
cided to award the contract for lighting
the streets by electricity for five years to
the Vermont Marble company, which
agreed to furnish p lights for five years
at $1,000 year.
The board of review of the National
Trotting association, in session at
Chicago last week, suspended the officers
of the Connecticut River Valley asso-
citation of White River Junction for fail
ing to pay winnings.
Thomas Goodwin, whose State Line
house in Stamford was raided by Yer
mont and Massachusetts officers IA few
days ago, when arraigned pleaded guilty
to 90 first otlenses of selling and one of
keeping. The total fines and costs i'm
posed were S597, which he paid,
Bishop Hall of the Episcopal diocese
of Vermont, who has been unable
through illness to attend to his duties
the last six weeks, has been obliged to
postpone all visitations until after June
l. He improves slo WY, but his physic-
ians refuse to consent to his resuming
his duties at present.
The deer park of l.. 5. IIoughton at
Halifax now contains some excellent
specimens. Forty Virginia deer and
three of the back-taied variety were
placed in the park year ago last May
and the number has now increased to so.
The AngOra goats and the elk are also
Increasing in numbers.
a short time since the Clogston Bros,
extensive farmers at Willamstown. sold
beef to butchers in Mortified. When
the animal was killed it was discovered
that it was diseased with tuberculosis.
Upon beng notified of this fact the
Clogstons Immediately made an exami-
nation of their herd, and out of the 81
cows which they owned 81 were found
to be diseased and were killed.
In the town of Wells is an ever-run-
ming stream of cold water, known for
years as the "cold spring" The spring
bubbles from under the base of steep,
PERCEPTIONS cliff nearly 1900 feet high
and runs thence toward Wells. AL
though the people for miles around the
village have known of its existence and
have moralized over the peculiar taste
afforded by its water, it is now claimed
that in TASTE. cnlnr- etc- thnrn il nnnn-