The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-05-10

| 1910 W. iO"ih NUN iiIc ILUuu, lnat on
Sunday evening, Mrs. s. d. Marsh.
who lives on Elm Street, saw suspicious
looking individual about the premises
She called her husband and both made
due examination and search but discover.
ed no one. When about retiring, Mrs.
Marsh went up stairs to look at the
children who slept there and while there
determined to search the rooms. She
discovered no one until she opened the
closet Of the childrens room when n man
Immediately rushed out with an oath.
blew out the light she was CARRYING and
struck her a blow upon the head. Being
strong woman she caught him and
dragged him nearly to the top of the
stairs, screaming for her husband. He
rushed up stairs and when near them, the
villiFn struck Mrs NJ. violent blow upon
her stomach, causing her to release her
hold upon him, when he escaped.
1--we learn that New York man
10y the name Of Wigham, has recently
commenced working the gold mines near
Woodstock, in this state. He has last
taken to the mines $4,000 worth of
quartz crushing machinery, and the enter
prise promises great success.
....The Newport E'rpics says that
while person in that place was reading
the account Of the murder of the Presi-
dent the other day and the escape of the
assassin on the stage" one of the listen
crs jumped up much excited, and eager
ly inquired, ''why in the world didn't
they stop the stage! Why didn't they
shoot the driver"
....Onc day last week, a little boy
about nine year old, sJn of Geo. Page of
Sheffield, wandered into the woods and
was lost The neighborhool all Turned
out to find him, when, after three DAYS
search, the little fellow was found near
Dry Ponl in Glover
....The Vermont General Convention
of Congregational ministers and churches
will meet at Burlington, Tuesday, June
10Th.
....Mr. Risdon, while fishing the
other day in small stream in DANNY,
caught trout which measured twenty
one inches in length, and weighed about
four pounds.
....The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has decided that losses of prop
erty by robbery or warfare are considered
as losses of capital, which cannot be de-
Quoted from income. This decision affects
many taxpayers of St Adams who SUI
fercd losses by the raid last fall
....Jacob Eaton, of Calais, claims
that in 1921 he caught mud.turtlc,
cutting his name and the year ON its
shell also that in 1888 the same 'ani-
NAL was taken by a second party, who
porr.,"',@l Hho ol',,atium Vn 1t. Une
day last week it was caught by Il third
person soma four miles from where the
second individual found it-torty-one
years after 1t was first captured and mark
cd.
-. Hon. j. X. Parish has resigned
the office of postmaster at Ran lolph and
j. c Fargo, Formerly of Montpelier, }
has been appointed TO the office
49,. Col. Daniel Needham, of Groton,
Mass, formerly of Queechee, Vt, has
been appointed Secretary of the New Eng
land Agricultural Society. in place Of c.
L. Flint, resigned.
ga schooner owned by parties in
Alburgh, and loaded with oats was seized
hy the custom house officers at Rouses
Point Saturday, and ten casks OF SNUG
gbd liquor found on board The vessel
now lies at the dock in Burlington await
ing adjudication on the case
....Cavalrymen Tyler and Atwood of
the Frontier Cavalry, were seriously in
jured Thursday morning while on picket
duty, in St. Adams by the accidental dis
charge Of revolver. The ball passed
through the thigh of Tyler, and struck
under the chin of Atwood, and lodged
in the neck. 1t is hoped that both will
recover.
.... Henry Child, convicted of passing
counterfeit money, and sentenced to five
years in the state prison, escaped from
the Jail at Newfane, Wednesday evening
Martha d. Clark. who was con-
victed at the September term, 1864, of
the Franklin County Court, of man
slaughter, was sentenced by the court to
be confined in the state prison, in Wind
sor, at hard labor, for the term of 7 years,
from the 81 day of May, 1865, and to