Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-12-15
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.
Happenings of Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain State.


of the Green Mountain State.
The largest of the four pairs of oxen
recently shipped by 1. and E. I. Benson
of Woodstock to Sturtevant & Haley In
Bos ton, were the largest ever shipped to
market from the vicinity. There weight
on reaching market was $50 pounds, and
their dressed weight was 4125 pounds,
one weighing 2070 and the other 2055.
Their hides weighed 145 pounds each,
making 300 pounds tallow $50 and 300
respectively, aggregating $50; meat 1910
and 1910, aggregating 1856 pounds. Mr..
Benson sold them for about seven cents
a pound, live weight.
The body of Morris Healey was found
in the mill pond of Wright's Underwear
company in Pownal last Thursday morn
ing. A man named Wentworth coming
home saw the feet sticking out of the
water and the authorities soon had the
man out. He had apparently walked into
the pond. He had been drinking for sew
eral days and in his pocket was found a
bottle part full of liquor. He leaves a
| family.
The objection wife had to her hus.
bands mother being in the house is
thought to have led George Dorsett, aged
u.
The family lived in the town of Jamaica,
four miles from South Londonderry
The trouble is said to have grown out of
Dorsetts wife leaving the house when
her mother-in-law came there after leav-
ing DOrsett's father.
Michael Dacre. while cutting lumber
on Plllsbury mountain near Willoughby
lake last week, saw three caribou and six
deer. hv hpt a
peared to understand that the open sea-
son was over and that tn, v had undis-
puted rights to be there. The caribou
must have strayed there from Canada,
probably driven out by hunters and lum-
bermen.
DR.. Herman ii. Symonds of Woodstock
was found dead in bed about o'clock
Friday evening. He had been in appar-
emily robust health. An examination
was made, but no inquest was deemed
necessary. The room was in order and
there was no evidence of any struggle or
that death had not been painless.
The family of Clifton Buxton in ,Jer-
icho narrowly escaped asphyXiation
from breathing escaping gas one night
last week. Mr.. and Mrs Buxton were
both made unconscious and would prob.
ably have died if the milkman had not
burst in the door with an axe early the
next morning.
Levi Hazen, an old and widely known
civil engineer and student of natural
history, is dangerously i'll at his home In
West Hartford. Mr.. Hazen has one of
the finest private museums In New Eng
land. His collections of agate and of
Indian curiosities are remarkably large
and valuable.
While Capt. Dodd is busily engaged in
chasing Filipinos, relentless battle is
being waged against him in the Burling-
ton ,ity court for the price of some ball
bats, which dealer claims members of
the 3Sth cavalry bargained for but did
not take because they were called to duty.
The Vermont Shade Roller company
of Vergennes reports that they have
never been so crowded with orders. The
orders now on the books would keep
them running two months. Two new
machines have been added to the shop
to expedite the filling of orders.
According to the report of the CON-
missioner OF navigation, showing by
states and territories the number and
gross tonnage of registered. enrolled and
licensed vessels of the United States,
Vermont has % vessels with total tom
mage of 1886.