Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-02
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Fund-Man Drowned in the Winooski-
Berrying at Neutrality-suspicious.
Gen. +. S. Peck returned last Saturday
night from Ne-ha-sa-ne Park, where he
had been the guest of Or, W. Seward
Webb As he was about to leave DR..
Webb handed him a check for $500 with
explicit instructions to spare no means in
procuring everything necessary for the
comfort of Vermont's sick soldiers, and
when this was exhausted to call on him
or $500 more. This makes $1,000 which
DR.. and Mrs. w Seward Web b
have contributed for the comfort
of the Vermont troops since they started
for Chickamauga. One of the surgeons
of the First Vermont states that one-half
of the medical supplies used by the regi-
mcnt were purchased with a portion OF
the first $500. The kind of thoughtful
generosity will be appreciated by all Yer
monters, and particularly by those who
benefit directly from it.
The blackberry season is at its height
in Bennington county, and owing to the
slackness of work in some of the mills
the number of berry pickers is exceed
ingly numerous. The favorite berry
fields are on the ranges northeast of Ben
nington. Sunday was great day with
the berry pickers and in the afternoon
every west bound car on the Bennington
and Woodford electric railroad brought
IN big loads of the fruit. One man, who
came in on the o'clock car, excited no
little merriment among the passengers,
He had two big tin pals. small lard
pail and his hat full of berries. The hat
rested on his left arm and the pals were
carried by stringing the handles on
short stick.
Joseph Bussiere was drowned in the
Winooski river in the intervale Sunday
while crossing the river on his horse.
The cows which Bussire was after had
swum the river and he started to 60
after them His horse waded out as far
as he could 90 and then. it is surmised,
suddenly came 70 a hole and went down,
throwing Bussiere Off He probably
could not swim and soon went down.
He was in the employ of i. II. Latin on
the Maxwell farm and came from
Canada. lie was - years of age and
was to nave been married soon TO
Elizabeth Lavallee. The river was
dragged with graphing hooks and his
body was found about 10 feet from where
he was drowned.
! Il. l.. j. Clark of Barre met with a
peculiar accident on Saturday afternoon,
but fortunately he was not seriously in
b iured Mr.. Clark was unloading a bar
, rel of cement on Elm street and as he
stood in the wagon and rolled the barrel
out on the ground, his finger ring caught
on a nail and he was thrown into the
= street head first with the cement. His
face was slightly bruised and the skin
on the little finger was cut open about
three-quarters of an inch. Mr.. Clark
| says he never went out of that wagon So
t fast in all his experience.
There is a boulder. weighing about
nine tons, on the farm of b. G. Bates
near Rutland. During the recent thun
/ der storm lightning struck il and cut il
q perpendcularly about three feet and hOr
e izontallv about the same distance, exact
d ly at right angles, detaching bloch
n estimated as weighing two tons, two
d sides of which are at right angles, and a,
,. smoothly cut as though quarried. The
d stone is of the class designated as con
b glomerate grit, with here and there ;
|. flinty pebble, some of which have beer
4 cut in two by the lightning stroke.
}. Oliver ROwell of Company c, Firs
II Vermont Volunteers. is at his home il
D Bennington on a short furlough from
le Camp Olympia. He has with him a reli
IL of the late war, in the shape of a swOr'
X and sheath that he found on the battle
e. field of Chickamauga He was on hi
v way to take a bath in the river, when h
j. discovered the handle sticking out of tn
er ground under lot of underbrush. II
re pulled it out and has kept it ever since
y A southern man who saw it offered hI
t. S25 for it, but he would not take 1t.
t. A relic in the shape of a five dolla
C. bill was sent to a POultney bank froT
- Altamont, n. Y, with view of havin
D. it redeemed The bill was one of tn
lo ~, state bank issues, dated Sept. 4, lSG,
W with NJ. Clark cashier and S. p. Hookt
n' president. The bank issuing the bl
OO was organized in 1856 and continue
eu until it was converted into nations
e. bank In 1865. This particular bill hov
u ever is not redeemable, and its onl
st value is as a souvenir.
~ ~ The Brattleboro Jelly company no
'"' has 5000, 600 cucumbers in its tanks al
is putting in 100000 more every da
These are all raised on 60 acres of Ian
some growers having already harvestc
J 100000 to the acre. The company w
ch not accept cucumbers less than two
ct, more than five and One-half inches
os- length, and growers have to go ov
ie- their vines four times a week. The col
pet pany has room in its tanks for 10000
de, cucumbers.
[. The annual Vermont state holine
led camp opened at Montpelier Tuesda
'ed The meetings are in charge of Rev. |.
by johnson of Douglass, Mass. Mrs. A
an. bic Lawrence of Boston leads the sin
ng Ing. The business manager is Rev.
)ve NJ. Stebbins of Wolcott, secretary of [