The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-08-16
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

cannot recover from the disease intro
duced into his system.
1.-The sum of 81, 400, 900 has beer
disbursed at burlington to the recent,
mustered-out Vermont troops.
1.-The largest incomes at Benning
ton are: r. W. Park S4O,496, II. T.
Bradford Sl3, 1887, L. II. Graves 81, O6C
I. X. Sexton $40, COG, Thomas McDan
iels $4,000.
....A Mr.. Raridon of Albany los
five children by diptheria last week, anC
sixth cannot recover.
1.-The Montpelier Freeman men.
tons the appearance of large and bril-
liant meteor at that place, few nights
ago, and says mass of soft, jelly-likc
matter, some half-peck IN bulk, and sui
phurous in smell, was found the mex,
morning, which had evidently fallen from
it.
1.-The recent outrage at Bellows
Falls consisted Of the raping of a Scotch
woman by five men named Daniel Shaw,
Larry Mansfield, Alvin J. Parker, Geo.
+. Woods AMI A. L. Kimball, who drug
ged her and then accomplished their pur-
pose. She was both foolish and dissolute.
and told very contradictory story about
the affair. Each of the men has been
placed under 5000 bonds for trial by the
higher court.
go, The address at the next Annual
Fair of the Vermont State Agricultural
Society is to be delivered by Hon. J. w.
Patterson, Professor in Dartmouth Col
lege and a member OF Congress from New
Hampshire.
.'.'Some atrocious villain cut the
throat of a horse owned by Lucios Boyes,
of llydepark. one night last week
....Mr. Levi Pierce of Rutland, was
driving the other day, when the holdbacis
gave way, the horses lun, and Mr.. Pierce
was thrown out, dislocating his thigh.
....The Trustees of the Agricultural
College met at Montpelier on Tuesday
evening, and adjourned for three weeks
thus giving more time to raise tho one
hundred thousand dollar fund
49,. Bailey II. Whiteber, an old resi-
dent of Danny, aged 81 years, was struck
in the neck by the cars at Lockport, n.
Y, last week Tuesday evening, and died
in five minutes thereafter.
....On the evening of Tuesday, Sept.
18th, the first day of the Vermont Agri-
cultural Fair, discussion Is to be had at
the hall of the Junction House. on the
subject of "Morgon llorses,--is it expe-
dent to allow the race of Morgan horses
to become extinct p On Wednesday
evening the discussion will be upon 'what
is the best breed of cattle for Vermont ?"
and Thursday evening sheep breeding will
be discussed. Able speakers are appoint
ed to open the discussions. The annual
address, as we have before announced,
will be delivered on Thursday afternoon,
from the judges stand, by Hon. Prof. J..
w. Patterson, Hanover, who is one of
the best public speakers Of the day.
... William Faulkner, of burlington,
has been committed for trial before the
county court, for the murder of Michael
Conley, on the lst inst. His wife las
been discharged.
80. Montpelier is excited over recent
attempts to ravish respectable young
women who CHANGED to walk alone in the
evening on secluded street,.
go. The United States pottery proper
ty al bennington has been sold 10 Messrs
Carney, who will convert it into cotton
factory.
-. Richard Bond, of Winhall, fell
dead in his barn on the 9th, probably of
heart disease. lie was nearly go years
old.
-. The custom-house officers at Is
land Pond recently seized one Of the en-
gines of the Grand Trunk railroad. 1t
had Struggled liquor slowed away in it,
and the law empowers officers to seize
Struggled goods, together with the vessel
importing the same.
-. Mrs. Congressman Baxter was re-
Gently presented diamond brooch and
ring worth 5000, by the Vermont brig
ade, at Derby Line. She has been I'M
tiriag in her efforts for iheaoldiers.
Forrs Theatre was cleared of all the
theatrical furniture, scenery, &c, and the
floors are being torn up. The entire
lnterior of the building is TO be remodeled
under the direction of the Secretary of
War, preparatory TO the uses of the
Bureau Of Rebel Archives and Relics.