The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-03
Nawa of the Week.

that while Msssrs. Joseph and Hiram
Ainsworth, were crossing Lake Bomba-
zine. Castleton, with two-horse team
loaded with stone, the sleigh broke
through and went to the bottom. The
horses cleared themselves, but subsequent
ly fell through an air hole and were
drowned. They were valued at $500.
A Jusr DEcIsIoN 1t has been decided
by Judge Closson, of Springfield, who is
Judge of the Windsor Probate District,
that good family news paper is one OF
the necessary articles for the support OF
the family during the settlement of an
insolvent estate; and that the widow has |
the privilege of making her own selection
of what paper she will have, and the ad-
ministraton is doing right In paying for
the Same.
We learn from the telegraph that,
very early in the morning of the 10th
ult., mare owned by Dea. Grant, Of.
East Corinth, and driven by his son on
his return from party, became fright.
ened and escaped. Said mare dashed
through the bolted door of Marian
Blake, ESQ, throug long dining-room
and into bedroom in which we're two beds,
one occupied BY MIR. Blake and little
son,ard the other by Mrs. Blake and two
daughters. The furious animal bestrode
the beds alternately, which we're com.
pletely demolished and the occupants
buried in the ruins. Every article of
furniture was smashed up, but nobody in.
jured beyond the fright.
Tnis ia thought to be the severest at
tack of night.mare Or record.
The Bellows Falls Argus publishes
list of those who "oheat the p,inter."
We learn from the Irgus that Mr..
Chaplin, hotel keeper at Wells River
hung himself with his pocket handkerchief,
on Saturday last, in the barn attached to
his house.
COOP HoKsE AND GOOD PRIcE-We
understand that Mr.. j. Merrill, of Col.
chester, has sold his fast colt, well known
among stock-bresders in this vicinity, tc
gentleman of Montgomery, Alabama
, for the very handsome sum Of tico thou
saad sir hundred doiiars.-- Free Press
VERMONT SuEEp.-George Campbell, %
West Westminster sold ten Spanish Me
rino Bucks to 60 to Buenos Ayres, Soutl
; America. Three years since he solt
I twenty Bucks and ten Ewes to the sam
. individual, and arrangements are nov
e made for future expectations.
!. The Scarlet Fever is very prevalen
e in the vicinity of Brattleboro, and sever
\ al cases have proved fatal.
). The Tribune says the Woodstoc
9 (Vt.) Bank has resumed business.
,. FIRE.-The large two story brio
# school house in STAFFORD upper Villag
h was destroyed by fire on the night of th
If 2lst inst, caused by ashes being left
J, the wood.house, Lose estimated about OIL
d thousand dollars
\ We learn from the Banner that
l. B. Hall, Esq, Of Bennington, at preser
t States Attorney is about TO leave for Ca
II Henry F, Dewey, first Constable, al:
70 goes with the same party,-That Scarl
n Fever is prevailing to some extent in thi
IS village.-That E. Benedict had all h
? eLeep killed by dogs. Re had seve
3 The same dogs killed three for anotht
G. nm The owner refused to kill his do
but paid s5S, damages, and the COSTS
Is Also that somebody entered the store
ie A. B. 0alman by the chamber windo
al and stole some oysters.
ID The Washington Correspondent oftl
le Charleston Mercury, says the sdmissic
e of Kansas under the Lecompton Coustit
N ton is the most pressing question Of Il
es time, and predicts bitter and despera
e' struggle. He says it can be done only ;
the determined support of the administr
y ton and, for this reason, the President h,
been rafferty, gingery ha' died by ii
n' South in tbs Walker affair. lie says Il
detection of Douglas aud those who u
with him 10 in consequence of the Prev
W lence o Freesoil m in the North, that Il
" next House of Representations will
" Black Republican, and that things a
ed drifting to confusion.
G. Jan. 2sth the Steamer Fanny Fel
+ burst her boiler few miles below Cine
natl. Fifteen lives were lost including Il