The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-12-10
News of the Week.

The State Electoral Colleg Q me, at
Montpelier, on Tuesday week. Law.
renee Brainerd was chosen chairman, and
George W. Strong Secretary. The ven.
orablo w. G. Bradley was selected as
Messenger.
DR.. Orrin Smith and his wife were
thrown off a precipice ncar Williams.
town, with their horse and agsu, on
Tuesday week, Mrs. Smith lodged in a
tree and the wagon tumbled after her
being caught a few feet above her head.
The doctor went down forty feet, and tho
horse spread himself miscellaueously.-
None of the party were injured.
"A young man BY the name of Dana
F. Davis, was injured at Fayston, by tho
falling of a tree. He died soon after.
"A boy of fourteen years, named
Fairbanks, accidentally fell upon his knife,
shrusting the blade through his heart, on
the evening of Tuesday week, at Town.
shend. His body was not found till
Thursday.
DAWN AT LAST The Watchmnn con.
tains a call for a mass meeting of the
citizens of LamoilIe County, who are in
favor of tho application of moral %suasion
to the cause OF temperance.
John l.. Marsh, a Senator in the
late Legislature, from Rutland County,
on Saturday week, had his right arm so
mangled by a thrashing machine, that
amputation above the elbow was render.
ed necessary.
Franklin Slason, of Sudbury, was
drawn into the machinery of a saw mill,
and instantly killed at Brandon, on Sat
urday week. He was alone in the mill
at the time Of the accident.
The Rutland Herald says that DR..
Cook of that place, successfully extract.
ed a cancer, lately, while the patient was
under the influence Of chloroform.
Thu books Of subscription to the
Windham County Bank, chartered this
fall, are now open at Brattloboro,.
The Transcript publishes the petit.
ton, with n large humber Of names at
tached, from the inhabitants of Brandon,
to the late legislature, for the Kansas
appropriation project. 1t is signed by
the best people of that town, and il
would appear that Mr.. Marsh was a very
fit representative of their sentiments.
The TraaacTipt, as such, closes its
last volume this week. 1t il, . be, how
ever enlarged and improved and made
into a Religious Newspaper, representing
the sentiments Of the Methodist demon.
i%nation. We wish it every success.
We are glad to learn that Rev. j.
B Clark is appointed agent of the Yer
mont Bible Society for the year ensuing.
- The Temperance Standard has a
candid article on the reason why lawyers
are, as a class, opposed to the Maine law.
II concludes that their peculiar educa'
tion and habits Of thought furnish tina
causes of the opposition. The same pa
per is in favor of resorting to the old To-
I legitimate weapon Of reform--moral sua'
sion, and asks the press of the State to
go in for the movement
1t is said that the difficulties DO
ttween the Vermont & Canada Railroad
and the Vermont Central are in pros
pect of immediate solution. Hon. JohI
Smith Of St. Adams has succeeded in
fading the solvent.
The Rutland Road is no nearer oul
Of tho woods than it was W. years ago
The income has been expended and 6O0(
dollars added by way Of debt within tn
past fifteen months.
The Woodstock gas w,rls w,ut 10
TO operation last week.