The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-24
Addison to,ini,.


The people Of Orwell and Shoreham
seem to have lost faith in the Fairhaven
g. Lake Shore Railroad enterprise.
lightning struck barn belonging to
:. s. Rockwell, of West Cornwall, last
Friday, but did but little damage.
--Rcv. NJ. l.. Severance, Of Orwell
supplied the pulpit Of the Congregational
church in Bridport, last Sabbath, August,
18th
Application will he made to the next
General Assembly for the transfer Of
portion of Ripton to Lincoln.
Salisbury depot has been enlarged
and much improved, recently, made con-
venicnt in arrangement and handsome in
appearance.
The Editor of the Fairhaven JoWpai
in recent trip through Whiting, counted
forty-thrce large stacks of hay in an area
of less than a half mile square.
The only manufacturing interests in
Orwell are those of butter and cheese.
luNIt dIt NNu CHCtSc ldCtbiltS Ill siCCCSS-
full operation, aud all the farmers make
butter. of course.
Saturday, the 18th inst, the schools
in districts Nos. ., and 1, in Leicester,
joined in a picnic in the grove belonging
to the estate of L. Sawyer. 1t was a COM
plcte success and general good time.
---Ripton is picking up her crumbs
Mr.. c. Billings is erecting quite a tasty
house, nearly completed. He is also
building barn and rcftting his sawmill.
Others are also painting and repairing.
Mr.. Nelson Douglas OF Cornwall,
found his best COW dead in his yard, last
Wednesday morning, under circumstances
which excite suspicious offoul play. She
was well as usual the night before. Mr..
Douglas has lost ono COW before. the
present season.
AccEprEp.-Rev. II. p. V. Boguc has
accepted the unanimous call Of the Con-
grcgational church and Society Of Yer
genncs to preside over them as pastor, at
salary Of sl4O0 and the parsonage. He
will not enter upon his dutio. until the
third Sunday in September
David Hopkins, of Orwell, had
twenty-scven swaims ofbees at the begin
ming Of the season. They have produced
one hundred boxes Of honey, the net
weight OF which is about 1900 pounds.
His bees all sprung from single swarm
which he got in 1861
A fine mare, worth $500, belonging
to Deacon Warner of Cornwall, was found
dead in his pasture, last Tuesday morning.
She was apparently well as usual the day
before, and from all appearances she must
have dropped down and died without Il
struggle. 1t is suspected that there was
foul play. Mr.. Warner was much at
tachcd to the animal and would not have
sold her at any price.
Two little daughter. of Norman
Thomas, of Leicester, aged : and . years,
were recently riding ON one horse in the
front yard, and both fell off. Hattie fell
first, and Mary fell upon her right arm,
breaking it in fearful manner. Dr. G.
Backus was called at once, when every Of.
fort was made to save the arm, but gangrenc
commenced its work the day iollowin.
and amputation became necessary above
the elbow.
+, During the thunder shower on Fri
day last, two stacks Of hay in the town Of
Shoreham, were struck by lightning one
owned by Mr.. D. j. Wright, of Rich.
vile, and the other by Mr., Ed Wright
who lives on Five Mile Point. In the
latter case the fire was Immediately ex-
l tinguished by stufing the holo made by
the lightning with wet hay. In the case
, of the former large hole was bored down
through the hay from the top, and the
= fire had burned considerably before il
: was discovered. By tearing down the
stack, part of the hay was saved.
SuIclDE.-Mr. Oryllc Smith OF Shore
ham committed suicide by cutting hi
f., throat with razor last Tuesday. Wher
? found he was lying upon the barn floor an,
alive though he lived but short tim
afterwards. The razor was discovered OF
hay loft from which he must have fallen
The wound did not reach the jugular veil
and it is thought that the agency of thu
: fall had quite as much to do with the
: fatality as the razor cut Mr.. Smith was
: 90 years of age and had become quit
l depressed in spirit since certain pecuniar
+, losses year or two ago. No other caus
j for the act has been assigned. A cores
=, pondent gives the following particulars {
II this lamentablc affair 1t appears that h
e We mt to the topofhis barn, and there cut h
J tn roat with his razor and pitched dow
1t to the hoortwenty-6ve feet, dislocatins HI
r hip and bruising his head in the fall, an
l. he was found at five o'clock p. M.,he ha'
II ing left the house at half past nine, an
Il probably had been beedin. ever since
He died in about three quarters Of al
e hour after he was discovered, withol
= speaking. The doctor counted twenty
IS seven separate gashes inflicted upon ii
" neck.
= We copy the following bit Of Vernon
: History from the Autograph & Remarke
IN Addison county has had one town take
a. off and annexed to another county, viz
n. Warren and two towns and part Of a
70 other added on from other counties, viz
70 Starksboro, from Chittendon count
= and Orwell and part Of what was forme
10 ly the town of Philadelphia, from Ru
O. land county. Versennes was clipped o,
,r for a city plot, from contiguous Fraction
+ Of Ferrisburgh, New Haven, and belie'
II Of Panton also.
4. Chittenden county has had eight tow
IL taken from it, viz Duxbury, Waite
60 bury, Moretown, MiddleseI, Worceste
g Waitsfeld and Fayston, these seven
of help make Washington county, and Man
Q. field afterwards. Richmond was piece
out from parts of New Huntington, ,Iel
co, Bolton and Williston.