The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-03-07

SUicibE.-George Hammond, of West
Wardsboro, committed suicide Saturday
of week before last, by hanging himself.
Mr.. g. G. Cove of Middebury Col
lege has just closed successful term of
school at Marshfeld.
The wife of the suspected Waterbury
Bank robber has deposited the amount Of
his bail in one of the Montpelier banks
and he has been set at liberty.
Tnrfr.-Saturday morning of week be-
fore last, horse was stolen from the
stable ofStephen Higgins, of Fayetteville,
and harness, robe, and sleigh from Mrs
Rowland.
DRUNKEN TEMPERANCE LECTURER
AlonZc A. Butler, of Poutney, a well
known temperance lecturer, was arrested
at Albany, N. Y, last Friday night, in
state Of beastly intoxication.
s.. @. Clapp Of Bethel, took as he
supposed dose of salts, but found he had
taken dose of saltpetre. He then took
quart Of milk, six eggs and an emetic
and survived the whole.
SUIcIDE.-Richard Newton, who resid-
ed with his mother in Bennington, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart with shot gun, Thurs
day evening. He was a single man
about Al years of age. He had been an
invalid for long time.
"A Frenchman named Turel, from
Canada, applied to clergyman in Bethel
to be married to his niece, but the minis
ter refused to tie the knot. They left
and it is understood that they have since
cohabited as husband aud wife.
Don p. Carpenter of Mddlesex, has
been nominated for County Commission
or. George w. Scott OF Mortified, is
also in the field. They have requested to
have all the liquors sold in the county
analysed.
CASUALTIES AT WOODSTOCK. Saturday
of week before last son of Abraham
Dunbar, of Woodstock, broke his leg
while sliding, and Sunday of last week, 0
son Of Nathan G. Clahin met with sim
liar accident in the same way.
Thomas Manning an old man, walk
ing on the railroad below the freight
. house at Brattleboro, on Monday, just
ahead Of the incoming Boston train, wa,
struck by the engine, and his back
shoulder and leg broken, causing hi
death in the evening.
Mr.. Harding,a Jamaica teamster fel
off from his heavily laden wagon, Will
trying to stop his six-horse team, was ru
over, the wheels breaking one ankle an
the bones of the other foot, and in spite Q
all, got up and ran forty rods after tn
team.
The farm Of the Vermont Hors
n Stock Association is to be located i
o Ohitt.uI.a Oo~uty, anu probably oithe
the Mech or Morse farm, in Sholburl
will be bought for that purpose. TIL
committee to purchase the farm are job
4. Chamberlin, Harley M. Hale, Georg
q f. Davis, George Hammond, and Georg
G. Chandler.
}. SALIsBURY.-The saw mill of Fits
y Avery, lately burned down is now run
/, ming, but not completed. The winte
/. has been one Of the most enterprisin
=, and interesting ever known. The |.
of G. IT,, the Y. M. G. A., "Sociables
}. and singing schools have been weekly
T. also many valuable lectures. Februar
27, Mr.. W. II. Utley had "school socii
ble."
ATTEMPT SUrcIDE.-One day week b.
" fore last the wife of Judge Isaac f. Re,
. field, the well known jurist, while labo
e ing under fit of temporary insanity, lie
. her residence on Monument-square, Cha
lestown, Mass, and proceeding to Chefs,
q bridge, jumped overheard. The act b
he ing witnessed by several persons, she W
lg speedily rescued. Mrs. Redfeld was
i I. l.. 2..oh.nssbury lady-a daupter ne "a
One of the bitterly cold days of tt
n, first week in February, George Edwar
re and wife of Mortified, got stuck in
N snow drift. Mr.. Edwards, being unab
s. to extricate his sleigh, wherein was
s. wife, went for assistance. When he r
turned Mrs. Edwards was so near foozt
lie that she could not speak, and in cons
IN quence of the exposure is very i'll wi
a. typhoid fever. If she RECEIVERS it
of thought that amputation of one arm wi
$, be necessary.
I'd RocHEsrER.-The town of Rochester
N with population,by the census of 1877,
Id of 1445, has now living nineteen persol
whose age is over eighty years, seven
lie whom are over eighty-fve years fort,
a. nine whose age is over seventy years an
N one hundred and nine whose age is owe
rs sixty years, Making one hundred an
4, seventy-seven persons in town who al
r above sixty years of age. Whether tn
'e may, or may not, compare favorably wit
el other towns in the State, for longevit,
he the writer knows not, but would /
pleased to see like statements from othe
localities