The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-20
State News.


Rutland at her town meeting last
Friday, voted to bond in favor Of the
Woodstock railroad by majority of 141.
Brandon had money in her treasury
and no debt, at the time Of her last annual
meeting.
The number of Select Schools in
Vermont in 1868, were $40, with an at
tendance of 8,755.
The average attendance upon the
public schools in Vermont in 1868, was
1887.
The Republican County Convention
in Grand Isle County is to be held at
North Hero, August I4th.
The population of the town of South
Hero decreased in population lightweight
in the ten years from 1850 to 1860.
There are sixty scholars connected
with the Sabbath school of the Congre
CATION church at Alburgh.
The Newport Erpress will hereafter
be published by d. NJ, Camp, Mr. Gums
mings having retired from the firm.
The original name of Isle La Motto
was "Vineyard, and was changed to its
present name by the Legislature, Nov. 9th
1880.
More than 100000 feet of marble
found On Isle La Motto, have been sold
annually from a single quarry, for sever
al years in succession, and the demand is
increasing,
A tombstone in Fletcher cemetery has
the following sad inscription, dated 1863 +:
Here lies the remains of H. P. Nichols wife,
Who mourned away her natural life,
She mourned herself to death for her man.
While he was in the service oil Uncle sam.
FAIR.-The fourteenth annual fair of
the Connecticut River Valley Agricultural
association will be held at Brattleboro,
from September 9TH to 9th. Prof CIV.
Gushing of Auburndale will deliver an
address on the second day of the fair
Two young men, Stone and McCay,
are in arrest at Rutland, under the charge
ofpassing counterfeit money, They were
to have their examination yesterday be-
fore A. A. Nicholson Esq.
Mrs. Winfield Wright, of South
Londonderry, committed suicide on the
9th by hanging herself to the limb Of a
tree. She had been partially insane for a
number of years, and had previously made
several attempts to destroy her life. She
was about 45 years Of age,
Mrs. Poor, widow aged about fifty
years, and residing with her son in Ar
lington, hung herself in the Glebe wood:
near the railroad in that town, on Sunday
the llth, She had been tor some TINT
low spirited and partially deranged.
LYNX KILLED.-The Burritt Brothers
of Manchester, trapped and killed lynn
on the East Mountain, near the steam mil
! on I've brook, Tuesday oflaSt week. Tit
animal measured feet in length, 20 inche
in highth, and weighed 234 pounds,
"A man named James Cavenaugh wa
blown literally to atoms, through the care
less Management Of fuse he was hand
ling, at one of the quarrles in Poultney
> last week. He put twelve pounds of pow
der in a seam where he should have pu
. one and the fuse being short the powde
took fire before he could escape.
IS The anniversary Of Burr and Burtol
d Seminary occurred July 6 and 7. TIL
n address was delivered by Rev. S. L. Blak
e of Concord, N. H., a graduate of tn
e school, Subject, "Hugh Miller" 1t wa
y a very able production. Number of stu
20 dents at the seminary last year, one hun
g dred and twenty
\ -Ifa dam one thousand feet high wa
\ built across the river at Magog, p. O.
e' the waters of Lake Memphremegog woul
cover not only considerable part {
:, several towns in Canada, but parts of New
j.. port, Coventry, Derby, Salem, Charleston
= Bloomington, Barton, Glover, Irasburl
!, Albany and ftsbury,in Orleans Count,
;" The lower lands in all these towns are
&c the bed of an ancient lake, for such
- barrier did, no doubt, once exist at or nef
- the present outlet of the lake.
r While the patriotism of Young Amer
ID lea was ventilating itself on the Fourth 6
b, Wiliston, in the usual way, one of tn
ID youths more valorous than wise, propose
e, to try the met;e of the gun by wadding
al with sheet lead. The result was, as migl
is have been expected, general bolt II
powder refusing to be led in that way
lg unceremoniously backed out, and in d,
Is, ing so, hurled the breech between III
ce instigator's legs, tearing his pants, an
IS, materially reducing ardor for experiment
I'd OF that kind by copious effusion of boo
g Some of the pieces were blown a distanc
r. of thirty or forty rods.
III In each of the 1873 grants of tow
~ ships within the present limits of Vernon
~ made by Governor Wentworth of Ne
- Hampshire, there was a reservation
m one lot for Glebe for the Church of En-
y; ~ land, and another for the Society for Il
10 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreig
Nv Parts, which offered prospective adva
"a tages which influenced many of the fir
20 settlers to remain here. After several q
81 tempts by different parties to secure Il
III use of the lands for the benefit of 9th