The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-02-23


e. Watts, w, +. 5
H. b. Bascon, W. NJ
NJ, Wilcox, w. o. q.
Miss Hattie Ladd, W. |, G..
800, Income returns must hc made be-
ibro the first day OF March. Gallon the
Assessor. aud save the penalty.
One Of the lady teachers i'll
Burlington has just been prosecuted III
Che city court for inllictins good
sound bs-ting Oh refractory French
boy. The punishment was admitted,
but the cause was held To justify II, ana
the young lady discharged.
Jonathan Powers and Albert Al
lard Of Westmore, came near losing
their lives in consequence Of drinking
currant wine which had been put up in
a bottle formerly used for holding cam
phor
--Perley Stone of st Johnsbury has
q hen with four wings. the two extra
wings growing from the same JOINTS
with the regular ones and turning up
instead of down. The four are about
/ the same size.
A Frenchnan ia the eIn plOy of 81
las Quint, az South Barton, was instsn-
thy killed while 81 work in the woods
by stub falling upon his head and
spcasbing the skull shoekingly
Mrs. Joseph Pepper, Of Bennims
ton, came near losing her lie one day
last week, 10y inhaiing the oinr oi d
compound for poisoning rats, which
she wa. heating on stove. The
timely arrival OF physician =hNed her
life
The ttec Press has Ind hroug lat
into it, Office sort ot .Siahese. TWIN
egg, or rather two hen eggs Connected
by aupck The circumference "f the
larger one Waa seven inches, and OF the
smaller one five inches, and their uni-
ted length was five inches. The hen
which laid this wonder is of the span
lsh breed, and i not ~ lat ~ Queen
Isabella, although quite rs hoPpy
AT Tuttsyillc, recently, the railroad
hand. having II holiday got tipSy, AN"
began 20 impede travel and abuse pass
enger- going that way. Three of them
were thcreupon arrested, fined - each,
snd one Thomas f'iluy $50 for furnish
ing them liquor he went t" jail, bu'
after two or three DAYS concluded Ia pay
up.
The Vermont and ~haftehury Zap
fist Association Va, founded in lS1j,
The Number of Baptist ooinllH-
nicauts in the State at that time Ma.
u .G4D
The number "t ordained ministers
In the Vermont and SALISBURY \s-o
citation is IL; churches, IL ndmis
sions in ISIS by baptism -, by letter
SO; restored, dismissed, 81 name
erased, IL ; excluded, - ; present nnm
Der of members, 1890.
The number of members of the
baptist churches in Vermont il : ,ljj,
The first Baptist state Convention
WAS held al Bethel III le.j Rev. Isaac
, SAWYER was Moderator Rev G. VI ful
Ter Prcs her.
The Bonncr says in reference Il
railroad matters The immcn-r al
% vantacea which will acrue To the entir,
) Western Vermont Valley can hardly
he estimated, placing Us, IL il does, o.
| one Of the first railroad lines in th'
, country. Ere long We shall begin r
p realize the great advantages We have
gained 10y the Lebanon spring. rail
! road
The Green Mountain Central lnsti
, ktute at Barre, under the auspices Of The
. bliberal Christians, Is intended To be- il
loperation on Sep. Let. There have beer
s29, 900 paid toward the erection of th'
building, S47 900 subscribed and "A
= endowment fund OF $50 900 Is resolve,
upon.
4 "A workman nj the Burden or
mines, Bennington, named Meagher
was killed Oh last week Thursday, b,
a heavy mass Of ore from blast strik
ing him on the head. Ills funers
was very largely attended on Saturday
DAvIsTHE NAIL RoBBHR.-Th Bel
lows Falls Times says that in CONVEX
sation with Davis, the mail rohher, il
the Island House at that place, he con
fessed that he first stole package Il
letters on the cars between Claremon
and Bellows Falls on the day of fai
in Keene, y. II e., which would make
\ September or October in 1867. He sal
further that he meant to have LEFT o
stealing last spring but the temptatio
Was too much for him. He felt bad y
being caught. He has u wife and moth
er living at Claremont who are reIpe,
- tably connected. lie spoke with ieelin
= of his wife, on whom this crushin
- blow of his guilt would fall with hcav
- hand. lie was told that if he knew ,