Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-06
THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Night blooming Cereus Opens at Bur
lington-Saxton's River Academy Gets
Rockefeller's s.15,OOO.
Ben-Taw, the Irish setter owned by
| DR.. G. a. Gale of Rutland, returned Sat
urday from Buffalo, where he took third
prize in the open class for Irish settlers
at the kennel show in connection with
the Pan-Amercan Exposition. The dog
will go to Chatham, Me-, and be entered
in the kennel exhibit of the Columbia
county fair, which will be held there this
week. Next week Ben-Law, with three
other Irish settlers, will be entered by
Dr. Gale at the meeting of the Cham
plain Kennel Club at Burlington.
Mrs. John W. Carroll of Burlington has
been carefully raising night blooming
cereus for the past four years ard her
efforts have been rewarded with two
beautiful blossoms. The first one opened
Tuesday evening of last week, when
about 200 persons called at her house to
see it, and Wednesday night larger
number of people gathered to see the
second blossom. The plant stands about
seven feet in height and the blossoms
were said to be unusually large and
beautiful
The Rev. 5. II. Archibald of Rutland,
one of the trustees of the Vermont
Academy at SaXtons River, saws that
pledges to the amount of SO 900 for the
use of the academy have been secured.
This is the sum necessary to obtain the
Sl5, 900 offered the academy by John u.
Rockefeller providing the conditions
were complied with before Sept. /. The
last pledge was received at 8 80 o'clock
Saturday night.
Humane Officer W. w. Tower, in his
| inspection of the stock train which
passed through Rutland Saturday found
car loaded with five bulls and a num-
Der of calves, with no partition between
them. The calves were being tramped
/ by the bulls. Mr.. Tower had the stock
unloaded and partition put in the car
before reloading It, The owner of the
stock will be obliged to pay the eX-
pense.
States Attorney Franklin ID. Hale of
Essex county recently filed an informa-
tion against Jacob Barnes for killing a
moose at Wenlock some two years since.
The case was presented before the grand
I Jury in 1899, but they reported no bill.
Barnes was arrested and was held in the
sum of 5000 for his appearance at the
approaching term of Essex county court.
Lipman Levinson paid $50 fine in
Burlington for the privilege of abusing
his horse. He was arrested by the
sheriff upon complaint of the humane
society agent. He dashed his horse
while drawing a load of iron twice a.
heavy as should have been attached TO il
until the animal left trail of blood as
it went along.
\ cat belonging to 4. II. Pike of STRAIT
ton brought into the house recently a
dead kitten which was freak of nature.
1t had one head and two front legs, but
back of the head The body divided into
two well-developed bodies, one black and
white, and the other black, white and
yellow. Each body had two hind legs
and tail.
/ United States Marshal Fred A. Field of
Rutland took twenty Cinnamon from
Newfane to Brattleboro Friday. where
they were photographed. They were
then taken to New York and put aboard
a vessel bound for Hong Kong. This is
the first time that Cinnamon have been
photographed before deportation.
Congressman ID. j. Foster has received
from Col. Charles Dick, chairman of the
OHIO Republican committee, an urgent
request that he participate in the cam.
paign in that state. Mr.. Foster will leave
Rrrliputnn -, Ohio nj
there until election day, Nov. ).
During 2er summer vacation Lucy,
eighteen-year-old daughter of John w.
Grant of Lyndon, has picked l25 quarts
of raspberrles, 20 quarts of blueberres,
and pieced up sixteen bed quilts having
from 100 to $50 pieces in quilt.
Miss Bessie Campbell, daughter of
Gabriel Campbell, professor of psychol-
ogy at Dartmouth college, was drowned
in Lake Morey, near Fairlee, last week,
by falling from wharf. Miss Campbell
was about 20 years old.
The Hon. A. ID. Machen, superintend-
ent of the rural free delivery system,
Washington, ID. c., and Mrs. Meachen,
will come to Vermont this week as the
guests of Congressman and Mrs. d. j.
Foster.
large amount of permanent work
has been done on the streets of Fair
Haven this season, and the village i'm
provement society has done much toward
improving the appearance of property.
The Strong Hardware company of
Burlington, which bought out F. II. Foss
of Vergennes in March, has packed and
shipped the stock to Burlington, and
closed the store Saturday night.
Charles Davis and Vernon Clark have
been locked up in the Rutland county
jail for the non-payment of taxes, and the
collector says that the same course will
be pursued in other cases.
Major George A. Dodd, who recently
returned from the Philippines, is at Fort
Ethan Allen with Mrs. Dodd and his
family. The major is home on a several
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