The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-04-12

Il West Pawlot probably sends off
morespotatoes in year than any railroad
station in the country, the amount some
years reaching 100, 900 bushels. They
are sent in lined freight cars heated bv
stoves The yield last year was from
200 to 100 bushels of marketable pota-
toes per acre, and the average price has
been. 20 cents.
1--WE learn that the American Tel
egraph Company is opening several new
offices on the line of the Rutland & Bur-
lington II. II. One at New Haven il
now ready for business and will be open
ed IN Il few days.
....lhe Brattleboro Rccod reports
that an old lady in Wilmington, over 90
years of age, lives by herself in a small
house where she was put by her son n
wealthy farmer, who lives near by. and
who took his fathers property few
years ago, on the supposition that he was
to take care of the old folks. She has
had but one dress for winter wear for ten
years. She has only green wood to burn,
and corn bread and milk for food, and
during the last " inter was forced TO lie
in bed TO keep warm. 1t is hard
case.
+ The death Of 1t. James NJ. Read
ison of Hon. David Read of BURLINGTON.
we are panied TO see announced. lie
was MORALLY wounded in the late bloody
battles before Petersburg. He was grad
uated at the University of Vermont in
1888, and was an accomplished scholar
and writer. lie enlisted as private on
the breaking out of the rebellion, and
has most Of the time since, until his
death, served faithfully and bravely in
the army, being engaged in many of the
hardest fought battles of the war. His
fine talents had attracted the attention of
distinguished officers, and had his life
been longer spared, he would doubtless
have risen to much higher rank in the
service.
UNIrNHt>N CoNyrNrIoN.-A Nation
al Unitarian Convention commenced its
sessions in New York city on Wejncs lay.
The following are among the delegates
elect from this State:
But'og'o.-Rcv. L. G. Ware, John
\. Pomcroy. J. ). Adams. Substitutes,
Henry LOOMS, Harvey burnett
BuH1Jw0-Rev. Frederick Frotllnr-
ham. Rev. Addison Brown, George New
man.
80. One day last week, as Mr.. Tru-
man LcRay, of Scarsburg, had Just COM
pleted the tapping of Il maple, and was
about leaving it, his attention was at
tractcd to II hollow at the roots, by some
hair adhcring to the sides Of the entranc
He proceeded therefore, to make an cx-
animation, to discover, if possible the
cause. Thrusting hi- hand into the hul-
low, its progress was arrested by an i'm
mediate contact with an incarcerated
brain. Procuring help, he found that he
had trapped an old bear and her two
young. The Old one was dispatched by
bullets and blows, and the cubs taken
alive.
GEN. l.. \. GRANr-Ihc TifJnes
correspondent says Brig. Gen. l.. A.
Grant was wounded severely in the head
by Il fragment Of a shell, while preparing
his command for the charge an hour be-
fore daylight on Sunday Lieut.-Co
Tracy Of the ID Vermont took command
of the brigade.
NAVIGATION on LAKE CnAMPLAIN
OrEN.-Ihe broad lake being open, the
steamer Montreal, Capt. Henry Mayo,
will leave this port this A. NJ. at 0 o.
clock, for Port Kent, Port jackson and
Plattsburgh. Returning leave Platts-
burgh at , o'clock p NJ, arriving here
at ) o'clock.
On Monday, the Montreal will leave
Pittsburgh for Whitehall at I O'Clock,
\. NJ, and burlington at $50, making
the usual railroad connections south and
west. Returning, leave Whitehall at 0
p. NJ, on arrival of trains from Troy and
Albany. Times.
The VIZ. BRiGADE.-Thc Vt, Brig
ode, as usual, bore an honorable part in
the great battles before Richmond. The
81 Division of the 9th Corps, to which
the Brigade belongs, took two large forts
on the line of the Petersburg and Lynch
burg (Southside) Railroad in the fighting
of Sunday. The 9th corps was the first
to seize the railroad and swept down to
the Appomatiax river, taking the whole
rebel line of works, with 2000 prisoners