The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-02-18

b en- obtained Uf him. He Is a widUwcr
and liveti alone In his house on his farm,
lie took with him in his sleigh to which
was attached gray horse, spare bar
ness and some bedding Fears are entero
tanned that he is Temporarily insane. Any
information respecting him may be sent
to =. t. Bristol, Esq, of ihcoln.
BmsroL.-G. w. Parmelec proposes
to sell ut auction his entire stock of goods,
commencing February 9th, and coniin-
uinc three successive afternoons and even
ings.
FtRE The old Mackenzie homestead
in Waliham was destroyed by fire FRI
day afternoon, the 9TH inst.
pERsoNAL.-UnitedS States Consul Ru
fus Mead is located at Corinto, Nicarag-
ua, instead of San Juan del Sur, as he at
first expected.
Ex Gov. Holbrook Of Bratteboro, has
been appointed Professor and Lecturer on
Agriculture in Cornell University, at
Ithaca, n. Y.
The Second and Third Companies of
Vermont Sharpshooters were in "a bat
ties.
Addison County has had three Lieu
tenant Governors Henry DIN, Silas H.
.Iennison and James NJ. Slade.
ORWELL. DEATHS IN Orwell during
1867, whole No, IS, Males, 8, Females,
5, over 80, 4 between 20 AMI so, 4
between 60 and 20, in middle life, =;
in yoath, l; in infancy, l the oldest
was 81.
NoRrll BENNINGTON "A boy about
Ii years of age, named Burns, was frozen
TO death last Friday night, in d. Hunter
& Co.'S, barn, near that village. He
had gone in there to spend the night, and
the extreme cold weather produced his
death.
The voters of the town of Sheldon
lately met at the Town Hall and voted to
bond the town in the sum of $4,000 to
aid in the construction Of the Lamoile
Valley Railroad.
A child Of Widow Royal Houghton
of Grafton last November caught what
was supposed to be "a cold Soon one of
its eyes became inhamel and finally ran
out, the other became blind, and the child
also became deaf For many weeks there
was no sign of life but spasmodc moves
ments Of the hand, and fortnight since
it died. OF what No doctor can tell.
The ladic: of the Baptist society at
Brattleboro held fair and festival at
the chapel of their new church on Tues
day and Wednesday evenings of this last
week.
--Hydl opath engine company of Brat
tleboro, X. Haskins foreman, will give
their annual ball on the 22d Of this
month.
-Scventy-fve well developed stalks
have sprung from a common white oak
which was planted in Washington, last
spring.
-Four Curtis brothers at Orange Cen,
ter, who assaulted and beat their school
master, recently, were arrested an fined
from 80 to $50 each, and are put under
bonds to answer for private damages
bennington county is literally pros
vided with III justices Of the peace.
A young French woman at Burling
ton named Greenough. about II year,
old, watching with sick person, Friday
night, upset IA kerosene lamp which sci
fire TO her dress and she was so burned
that she lived but few hosrs
The wife CT Dauphin Taylor OF
Springfield attempted to commit suicide
last Tuesday and cut her windpipe, but
will make live of it.
The Vermont House, at Island Pond
was burned Sunday morning
The friends Of Rev f w Olmstea
of East Dorset have presented him with a
donation of Sl65.
ST.. ALBANs. AT St. Albars, on Mon.
day night, Augustus Marango, a board,
ing-house keeper, fatally shot Jane,
dustin, who, with several confederales,
had smashed mis- windows and attempted
to enter his house.
INJUNCTION SERVED. -Frday the til
inst. was the day named in the process fol-
the sale of the Troy and Boston Railroad
property, attached over year ago; bu
on Thursday an injunction was served il
the interest of the Troy AMI Boston, by
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