Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-22
State l1eros.

The to al amount of sales at the Bur-
llngton liquor agency during the past
year is little over S5S34, or an average
of over GO cents per capita.
The Congregational club of western
! Vermont will hold its 9TH annual meet
ing With the Rutland church on Tuesday
afternoon and evening next.
solomon Milington of SALISBURY is
In jail a. Bennington on the charge of
having shot his brother John on Sunday,
January TO- during drunken quarrel.
Senator Proctor has presented petit
tlon to the senate from the Business
Mems association, Burlington, remon-
strating against any interference by the
United States in the Cuban Spanish war.
Several young ladies at the Troy Con-
ference academy at Poultney were pos-
oned last week by eating verdigris in
canned meat. a physician and a stom-
ach pump were procured and the girls
were soon relieved.
There were GS failures in Vermont in
1896, against 3G in 1895 The liza 1ilities
were, respectively, S37j.7ll and Sl45.-
300. The ratio of failures to the firms
engaged in business was less than per
cent, which was a much better record
than most States made.
\ st. Adams girl lost her pocketbook
and advertised a reward for It. The
| pOcketbook was returned to the ST. AL
bans Messenger. The W ung woman
called, paid for the advertisement and re-
ward and walked calmly out, leaving the
pocketbook and her muff.
\ circle of nonogenarians lives at East
POultney. Gilbert Prndle, 90: Rev.
Calvin Granger. 81, and Mrs. Paul Ross,
%, live within five minutes walk of each
other, and all enjoy remarkable physical
aud mental health. Merritt Clark, o..
lives only mile from the other old peo-
pie.
The West Randolph Herald has the
following editorial paragraph: Col.
George +. Childs Is announced as a can
didate for the ST. Adams postmastership.
This, we suppose, Is withdrawal from
the contest for collector of Burlington.
which plum seems to lie between Col.
Benedict and Col. Mansur.
Hardwick village is in trouble over its
electric lights. The authorities made
recent test of the electric light system
through an electrical expert. The lG
candle power lights In various buildings
in the place showed less than II candle
power when the lights were at their best.
The outside lights would fall of proper
tiOnately.
During the past season there has been
taken from the Fisk quarries, Isle La
Motto. over three and one half miles of
curbing for use in Burlington. All of
this cur bling is from one laver of stone
through the quarry that is Just the right
thickness. By drilling and wedging a
curbstone 20 feet in length is sometimes
taken out.
The town of Mount Tabor. down in
Rutland county, is to be credited with
raising the largest tax ever levied in the
State-SlO on the dollar of the grand
list. Mount Tabors grand list is ST.
O6S, so the tax is practically one-tenth
of the assessed valuation of the town.
Railroad bonding was the cause. The
town has population of 1876. so the per
capita tax is SD.
The st. Johnsbury Shoe company was
organized Monday evening at an enthus-
iastic meeting of 200 stockholders and a
board of seven directors was elected.
The capital stock is $50, 900. A. T.
Stocker will begin the removal of his
machinery from Lynn, Mass, to that
place as soon as a building is obtained
for factory. Mr.. Stocker will be the
manager of the company.
Vermont pensions are now paid
through the agent at Concord. y. II.
\ despatch from that city says: 1T is
generally understood that a strong
effort Will be made by Senator Redfield
Proctor and other Vermont republicans
to induce President Mckinley to give the
position of pension agent for this dis
trict to a man from that State instead of
New Hampshire, and also to remove the
location of the office from Concord to
some place in Vermont.
Joseph G. Willard, an old Vermonter.
died in Washington, Saturday morning.
Mr.. Willard went to the capital with his
two brothers from Albany many years
ago and became owners of Wizards
hotel. Some years since Joseph be-
came sole owner of the hotel property.
Although he was very wealthy and
owned much valuable property in Wash
ingtOn, he had lived as recuse for
many years, and was little known except
by name to the present generation. He
was so years old.
The Moriarty monument. now being
made at Barre, will be ready this month
for shipment TO New Orleans. No pri-
vate monument of greater dimensions
has ever been cut in the United States.
The weight of the granite in the rough
was 400 tons, and it will take a train of
fourteen cars, each capable of carrying
10000 pounds, to transport it. Consider
able difficulty has been experienced in
picking out a route with bridges that
will admit the huge II feet square. The
train of fourteen cars will be kept intact
until its ar rival at New Orleans.
Springfield has an elephant on her
hands In the shape of a partially COM
pleted electric road. The town was
asked to take 100000 OF the stock, the
sale OF Sl000O0 being sufficient to com.
plete the road. Town bonds were not
required until the cars were running.
The town did as agreed and purchased
the 100000. OF the remaining $4,000,
about S25,0 900 has been purchased by
citizens aad others, and now the road is
stalled, no one wishing to invest further.
The latest proposal is that the town
guarantee the interest en- 100000 at
five per cent for twenty years TO finish