Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-26
State l1eps.

Sylvester Harrington of Dandy has
shot over 80 foxes this winter.
a man representing a Boston house is
''doing" Vermont with the idea of max
ing a map for wheelmen. The house is
making map to cover all New Eng
land.
"Aunt" Hanna Broughton of Tun-
bridge, who has recently celebrated her
92d birthday, has three children, 10
grandchildren, p great-grandchlldre
and three at-great-grandchildr liv-
ing.
Philip Connolly, whose lifetime was
spent at the Brattleboro retreat and
whose,figure has been familiar to Brat
tleboro people for half century, died
last weeE. He was % years old and had
lived at the asylum since he was %.
Madeline Putnam, an eighteen months
child, of Rutland, accidentally took two
swallows of solution of morphine the
other night and died the next morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Putnam lost a child last
summer by drowning in the mill pond.
WThe first postmaster commissioned
under the new administration was l. R.
Allen of Fair Haven, vice w. F. Howard,
commission expired. The signatures of
the president and Postmaster General
Gary were affixed to the commission
last Friday.
The am ual encampment of the Grand
Army, department of Vermont, will be
held at Bennington June %, % and "a,
and possibly on the 25th. y reunion of
the Vermont veterans will also be held
at the same time and indications point
to one of the largest gatherings of the
kind ever held in Vermont.
\ man from Canada called at Mitch
ellis drug and book store at Richford the
other day and inquired if they had any
indexes for Webster's unabridged die
tionary. His wife, he said, gave him
one for Christmas present, but it was
tarnal slow work hunting up words,
and he thought if he could get an index
it would help him.
The other day, while the mail train on
the Rutland road was rounding curve
between Healdville and Ludlow, wild
deer was seen on the track. The engi-
neer slowed up his train, giving the ami
NAL a chance to escape uniniured. After
going about half a mile the deer lett
the track and ran up the hillside. He
was seen by several of the passengers,
and was a beauty.
a novel craft is being built at Burling-
ton, which will plough the waters OF
Lake Champlain next season. 1t is
termed ny drocyce, and, as its nature i'm.
plies, is distant knsman of the bicycle.
The strange boat is made of two boats,
each one in the neighborhood of Is feet
long, placed side by side and connected.
In the center is the frame of bicycle, on
which the rider sits and pedals, steering
by his handle bars the same as on any
"bike."
The United States customs and post
Office building at St. Adams, which was
destroyed in the cOnflagration of 1885,
while in process of construction, is tC
be rebuilt as soon as spring opens, the
contract having been awarded to Rich
ardson 81 Burgess of Washington, ID. c..
for S437 ,l27, including everything eX
cept the heating apparatus. The inside
brick walls proved not to be seriously
injured and they were fully protected
last autumn after removing the outside
marble walls, which were ruined. Tht
building is to be restored according t
the original plan
An exchange says: AS j. a. Allbe'
and wife and Miss Esther Cook o
Rochester were returning from ball a
Hancock they drove in where the waite
was so deep in the road that the hors
refused to go further. They were nea
the Funnel Brook BRIDGE in Han
cock, and Mr. Allbee had to leave tn
ladies there while he went in quest o
help, having to wade in the water up t
his waist AT last help arrived and al
were got out, pretty badly frightened
but with no injury. Mr.. Allbee was il
and out of the water about an hour be
fore he ct where he could get warn
and dry clothes.
The Est. Adams Foundry compan
completed an order a few days ago 70
the shipment of a of their horse powe
threshers to Siberia. These machine
were ordered through firm in Sa
Francisco and were shipped via tina
port to the Saghalien Island. Thi
island lies of the east coast of Asia, an
was formerly the property of Japar
The foundry company made a shipmer
of few of these machines to the Sas
halien Island about a year ago on tria
They proved so entirely satisfactory thf
tho rpppnt largo sbinmant was ordered