Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-02-24
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


More About Vermont Gold Mines-Brat- 4
tIeboro citizens Invite Kipling to Ban
quet-Flotsam and Jetsam.
In a drunken row at Graniteville FRI
day evening John Dyer pulled out a
pocket knife and iabbed a man named
Peter Coffee four times in the face. One
slash cut him in the cheek through to the
cheek bone, leaving an ugly wound, an
other lab took him in the neck as he bent
down. The third cut nearly severed his
ear, and the fourth made gaping cut
over one ear. Coffee was a terrible look
ing sight when rescued. His face was
covered with blood and the first thought
was that he had been horribly butchered.
Dyer escaped and the police by . o'clock
had watchers at all the night trains to
see that he did not escape that way. Two
doctors were called to attend Coffee. The
row took place in one of the rooms in
the Langdon boarding house. Both men
had been drinking hard cider. Coffee
will recover, but be SCARED for life.
A syndicate is endeavoring to buy land
at Plymouth, where there is gold in the
sand. Gold has been found in several
localities in Windsor and Windham
counties, and in one or two cases con-
siderable amounts secured. In small
stream, with crude apparatus, gold has
been taken out, and from a Westminster
brook gold has been panned In paying
quantities. Garnets have been found
near Grafton and the ledge formation is
such as to indicate gold. and several frag
ments have been removed containing
veins of gold ore. At the Plymouth
mines the operations are carefully guard
ed, but as the work has been going on
for number of years and large sums
spent for the most improved mining
machinery, it is evident the work is re-
munerative.
The sentiment of BrattlebOro has been
further shown toward Mr.. kipling in a
strong letter expressing hearty welcome
and the hope that he would soon return
to his Old home and rendering him at his
convenience a banquet at the Brooks
house. The letter was signed by prom
nent people of the town and will be
accompanied by letters from leading
local professional men who will set forth
the popular regard with which the author
is held by the people of Brattleboro.
That there is no sympathy or patience
with any attempt to annoy or eXtOrt
money from Mr.. Kipling was clearly
evinced in the discussion of the story
that Balestier was about to bring suit
against the author for alleged false
arrest.
An English sparrow that has become
ol, hoc adn rod
Shurtleff's drug store at Bennington as
his headquarters. He comes to the back
door of the pharmacy almost every day
and waits for it to be opened to him.
Then he flies in and is fed with bird seed
scattered on the floor. When his repast
is finished he looks over the stock of
physics, carthartics, prophylactics, cor
receives. restOratives, sedatives, cOrrobor-
ants, eliXirs, panaceas, ETC., and then is
ready to go out into the world again and
contemplate the inherent weaknesses of
the human organism, congratulating him
self upon the possession of good di-
gestion that waits on appetite and health
on both.
Vermonters who attended the Home
, Market club dinner in Boston last week
included: Ex-Gov. Carroll S. Page of
Hyde Park, ex-Gov. William p. Dilllng-
ham of Waterbury, Hon. Olin Merrill of
t Enosburgh Falls, Hon. Nelson w. Fisk
, of Isle LaMotte, Judge James l.. Martin
: Gen. Julius j. Estey and DR.. Henry ID.
1olton of BrattleborO, Hon. A. B. Valen-
tine and Hon. Herbert Brainard and
Charles S. Forbes of st. Albans, Ephraim
nf Slaal,
and Hon. Adna Brown of Springfield
Rev. Henry Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury
ang l.. Bart Cross of Montpelier.
: The United States government has in
\ stalled in the navy yard at Washington
one of the largest pairs of Fairbanks
scales in the country. This machine can
outweigh the largest railroad weighing
=, machines by 80 tons, and when it is con
. sidered that its result must be accurate
:, to the weight of a pound, while railroad
scales are considered good if they ap
. proach anything near 80 pounds of being
; correct, it is to be marveled at the ad
, vances made in recent years. The new
. scales are 4S feet long and II feet wild,
= and rest upon cement base built upoI
' long piles.
Hunting fisher cats has become a ia
vorite pastime for the sports about Eas
!, Braintree. The fisher cat is a rare spec
k les, many of the Oldest people never hav
e ing seen one. They inhabit the spruc,
c ridges in Roxbury, burrow in the grount
or live in hollow trees. They are of tn,
!, martin or mink tribe, long, slim ant
+ wonderfully active. They will escap
q dog and man while digging them from
/, the earth. They are very ferocious
IT Their pelts are very valuable, beinl
9 worth from So to $l2. Three of tn
a species have already been captured.
= Damas Quintin, shifter at st. Albans
was instantly killed last Friday morning
while at work in the railroad yard Tn
n accident occurred near Italy," Quintil
Is was on top of a freight car which wa
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