The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-10-10
State News.

At the recent term of the Rutland
County Court, five persons were fined on
the second conviction CT selling intoxicat-
ing liquor without authority and two
persons on the first conviction.
The fifty.seventh Annual Meeting of
the Vermont Medical Society will be held
at Montpelier, Wednesday and Thursday,
Oct. | / and II, 1871, commencing at i
A. NJ, of Wednesday.
The members will be furnished with Re-
turn Certificates, by the Secretary, over
the roads under the control of the VT.
Central Railroad, provided twenty-five
persons are in attendance,
J. Col. A. p. Blunt, formerly Of the
old 18th Vt. Regiment, and now Capt.
and A. Q. NJ. in the Regulars, is at Fort
Butord, Dakota Territory, helping to cl-.
evate "Lo, the poor Indian" =
PosToFrIcE CmANGEs.-Daniel Shaw
has been appointed postmaster at Bolton,
vice James A. Allen, resigned.
DIR. f. NJ. Kent has been appointed
postmaster at Huntington Centre, in place
of A. II. Lovcland, resigned.
-Jabez P. Colby, son of the late Hon.
Stoddard B. Colby, Of Montpelier, is a
passenger conductor on the Mobile and
New Orleans Railroad, and is soon to be
promoted to the position Of Division SUI
perintendent on the road.
= Lieut.. Frank Heath, Sd L. S. Ar
tillery, son of Rev, A. Heath of Brandon,
has been appointed instructor in mathe-
MATES at the U. S. Military Academy
West Point. Mr.. Heath is a member Of
the graduating class of 1868. 4
Rev. H. p. Gushing, of East Burke
Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars, has issued circular to the
lodges, asking for contributions to erect q
monument over the grave of the late Rev
Pliny II. White, at Westminster.
Lieut.. Salmon F. Dutton, formerly
of the Seventh Vermont Regiment, son
of the late Hon. Salmon +. Dutton O.
Cavendish, and brother-in-aw Of Col
ouel Redfeld Proctor of Rutland, com
mitted suicide in New York city, on Fri.
day night. He was for some month";
Deputy Collector at Richford, bat resign
ed in August last He then went to New
York where he was appointed deput,
by U. S. Marshal Harlow. Financia
difficulties are supposed to have led t.
the commission of the deed. His ag
was % years.
MUSICAL CoNvENrIoN.-Thc Western
Vermont Musical Association will holt
their twenty. frst annual convention a
Brandon for four days, commencing o.
Tuesday October Oath, under the direc
ton of b. f. Baker, Of Boston, the popu
lar author and conductor, and assisted b,
Mrs. Minnie Little and Miss Lizzie San
derson, of Boston, as soloists, and Mr.. s
G. Moore, of Burlington as pianist. Hal
fare upon all the railroads within the Gil
Gle of the organization, and commodiou
Accommodations at reasonable rates, wi
be furnished to members. DIR. c. l.. Case
president of the association at Brandon
or George Q. Day, Secretary, at Rutlan
or Il. A. Doud, Treasurer at New HaveI
will give any information that is needle
upon application.
DEATH OF Hon. JONI i. MARsn.-l
is with sadness that the announcement
made of the death Of Hon. j. l.. Mars
of Clarendon, which took place after
brief illness on Thursday morning.
John l.. Marsh son Of Daniel and Mar
(White) Marsh was born in Clarendon
June 80, 1903. He was the Oldest {
four children, Rodney ", William ID
and Mrs. Ira Button OF Brandon. ii
married Marcia Enos of Leicester, Mare
Is, 1888, who survives him with fou
sons, John 4. and Daniel, who reside
Illinois, William and Frank and tw
daughters Phebe wife of John Davis {
Mortified and Mary A. wife of Willial
II. Proctor of Coldwater, Michigan.
Mr.. Marsh in a rare degree secured I'll
confidence Of his townsmen, who had col
fered upon him many Offices of trust an
responsibility. He held the Office of Justic
of the Peace for series of years, and ;
, trial magistrate he gained an enviab
reputation, as fair minded and impartl'
arbitrator, dispensing justice with abilit,
/ having clear and full comprehension
/ the points presented for decision.
{ He was Senator from Rutland count
, in 1856 and 1857 and was present at ii
extra session for the location and rebuilC
, ing of the State house. At the sessic
of 1857, he took prominent part in s.
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