The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-04-28

notice in another column.
GRADED SCHOOL HousE.-The new
school building which the village of Mid
dlebury voted to erect the present season,
Is in fair way TO be realized G.. w.
Dorm is to build it. A direct tax was
laid, at the last school meeting, en- which
will he realized some over ten thousand
dollars and the remainder will be obtain
ed on loan.
WEST CoRNwALi~-E. w. bingham
has just returned from market with a
fresh supply of goods, and every departs
mcnt OF his store is fully replenished. lie
has better and more complete stock Of
goods than ever before and will sell ut
prices which defy competition. lie mere
IFS the patronage of the community. Mr.
Bingham has also secured an agency for
the sale, in Cornwall, of Wilcox & Gibbs
sewing machines. which are meeting with
n very favorable reception among the
people. On Friday morning a boy about
10 years Of age, named John Donnelly,
was thrown from n wagon and mutilated
badly one wheel running over his head
and neck. On Saturday the boy was
still alive but unconscious. and it was
thought he could not long survive. Drs.
Porter and Eddy are in attendance.
GROrND BROKEN ON THE WoopsToCK
RAuRoAD.-Ground was broken on We'd,
n"sday near Shallie's hill, and the first
shovel full thrown for the Woodstock
Railroad by the President of the company,
Gen L. I. Washburn, in the presence of
the directors, contractors, engineers and
many others. Five hundred laborers are
called for, and the work is to he pushed
on vigorously,
Hon Alexander W Buel. n Vernon
ter graduate of Middebury College in
1880, n cassmatc of Prot William II
Parker died Mt ms residence in Detroit.
Mich, on the 10Th day OF April at the
age of % years His disease was conges-
tion Of the lungs.
OFF ron Wrsr PoiSr Mr.. Thomas
Is. NlcA"ls of rlattsburg \ y, and Mr..
Charlie a. Booth Of N,rlernc-. each
having appointments at the 'nited Sintea
MI'tary Academy At west I.oint, \. Y.
propose 10 tramp ii IRON Ncrgenncs, leay-
ing HAT city Moalny. May llth, going
thence 10 Ticonicroga and down Lake
George 10 Caldwell thence 30 Glcns Falls
and down the West bank of the Hudson.
--Gcorgc " Wales. l3 years old, the
only son of Mayor Vale, Of Burline.
ton, was dangerously wounded, on We'd
nesday, by the accidental discharge OF
revolver, dropped from the hands Of a
| by lander The bali cntpre the bows
right breast. some hopes are entertained
Of his recovery.
"A man in Wesllield has bought "a
farm, to be paid Tor on very easy terms
He has agreed to pay 500 yearly for
ten successive years, $50 for the next
ten ycars, and $3.50 more in 1890. The
seller must have wanted TO sell bad
--Scvcnty-two marriages were solemn.
lied in the village of Montpelier during
the year 1861.
A man driving three horse team,
with load of plank weighing 5000
pounds, broke through bridge at Bel
lows Falls, the other day, and fell % feet
upon the rocks and rolling into deep wat
er, yet only one horse was killed, the man
being hardly scratched.
Frank Hammer sold li' hotel at
Lincoln, ard parted with his wife the
same day, giving her $500 She had
made for II years the reputation and sue
cess of his hotel.
LAKE CHAMrLAIN.-The steamer Mon
treal lett Burlington at -: 80 p. m,
Wednesday, for Whitewall, and reached
there at half-pas 7 O'Clock that evening,
meeting with but little ice, and the regu-
lar line OF boats commenced their trips
Thursday.
COLLISION on THE VIZ CENTRAL A
collision occurred on the Vt Central Rail
road at B; p. m. on Friday last, about
three fourths of a mile north of Bethel,
between the Boston mail train up, Con.
ductor Root, and No. 5 freight train,
Conductor Pierce. Robert Hazard, bag.
gage master of the mail train, was killed,
and egineer Webster, OF the freight engine
severely injured. Expressman c. A.
Evans was also injured so as not to be
able to do duty. Hazard was from Char
lotte about 30 years of age, and married
man.
Rev DIR Cicero $, Hanks, for twenty
four years bishop Of the Episcopal diocese
of St Louis, died, Tuesday, aged So
Bishop Hanks was born at Newborn, n
G. and for seven vaara from 1894 uas