The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-08-05
News Of the Week.

We learn from tho Bellows Falls
Argus that A lad named Holt, son Of
widow Holt, Of Sberburne. who has been
living with his uncle at North Springfield
fell into the stream near the Baptisis
meeting house at that, place, on Saturday
last, and was drowned.
PEARLS Since the noise about fish
ing for pearls in New Jersey, attention
has been directed to the New Eogland
clans, and not without success. Very
beautiful pearls have been found in the
clans which abound in the Winooski
and its branches in Montpelier and its
vicinity - Watchman.
In the Orange County Court an
interesting case was lately tried. It
was an action based upon the statute Of
1853, prohibiting nuisances by placing
dead animal substance on premises near
ones dwolling-house. 1t seems that the
women folks of two neighboring families
made up faces at each other, and finally
resorted to the expedient of throwing
disappointed eggs. The chief point
in the case was demurrer to that por.
tion of the complaint which set up those
eggs as animal substance Learned ar.
guments were made relative to the pre-.
vious condition Of said eggs,,heir impreg.
nation, DC. The demurrer was sus.
tanned by the court, as it was not shown
by government that the eggs ever con.
tanned the germ Of animal life.-Phenix.
During tho last two weeks one man
has been fined ten dollars for obtaining
Rum undor false pretenoe another Eve
dollars for drunkenness; and still auo,h.
sr fifty dollars, for selling rum aud ruin
contrary to law, in Castleton.
In DURANoE.-3eversl casks of liquor
have been seized a, Chester Depot, upon
writ issued by Justice Ducan. belong.
ing 10 various Individuals in that town,
Andover, and Londonderry. AS yet no
one has laid claim to them, and WHISTLER
it will poison the earth, or be drank by
men who appear to desire to be poisoned
is yet question of considerable anxiety
to the lovers of the adulteratea in that
vicinity.-Argns.
A NOVEL Liquor While Mr..
Abrsm Houghton Of Lyndon was at
work in field on the old Kathan place
few days since, his attention was d.
verted from his labor by a squirrel
which ran into an old stump. Mr..
Houghton walked up to the stump and
gave it violent kick, which, as the
stump was old and rotton, completely
upturned it; when To- and behold what
should meet his astonished gaze but a
gallon jug, Mr.. Houghton took the
jug, removed the cork, applied his nasal
organ first, end afterwards his lips, and
then pronounced the contents potato
sohiskey. The fact that pot alto whisky
is commodity that has been long since
unknown in these parts, would afford a
topic for conjecture how this jug came
there; but Mr.. Houghton's memory
came to bis assistance, aud he remem
bered that forty gears ago this summer
while at work in this same field, will
Mr.. Kathan, he placed a gallon Jug o.
potato whisky in q hollow stump and
when he returned from dinner was 10
able to fnd the identical stump where
in was the hid treasure. We hav,
not learned whether the liquor hai
been spilled, but presume that in thes,
days of manufactured" aud drugged
liquors, this forty .ycsrs-old whiskey vii
be preserved as relic Of better liquors
in by'gons days Caledonia