The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-05-28
state News.

N ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY. -Chauacy DtpI
top, of Brandon, and his wife, one EHcn
Fuller, have been arrested on the charge
Of bigamy, and are now confined in the
Jail at Rutland Denton has wife liv-
ing in Elizabethtewn, n Y, where also
he had three children, the oldest being
some ten years old.
CONVICTED OF Arson u ohm Morrill,,
a well known billiard expert, was con-
victed at P.attsburgh, recently of arson,
and sentenced to seven years imprison.
ment in Clinton Prison. Morrill, was
charged with setting fire to the building
in which was his billiard saloon at Platts.
burgh, two years since.
FIRE IN EAST PouLrNEy The dwell
ling house, shoe shop, taunery and barn
of John Williams in East Poultney, were
consumed by fire on Monday A portion
Of the furniture the tools and the leather
in the shoe shop, and mos. Of the hides
and bark in the tannery were saved. In
sured in the Vermont Mutual.
Mass MEETING.-The Liberal Repub-
lioans will hold State mass meeting in
the new Town Hall, Rutland, Saturday,
June lst at , o'clock in the afternoon,
for the purpose of ratifying the Cincin-
natl nominations Maj, General Judson
Fitzpatrick of New Jersey, and Col. Ethan
Allen of New York, will be present and
address the meeting.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CoNyrNrIoN.-A
Democratic State Convention will be held
at Montpelier on Wednesday, June 10Th,
at | O'Clock a. H., to appoint delegates
and alternates to the Baltimore Conven-
ton. The Convention will be composed
Of one delegate from each town and one
for each fifty votes or the larger fraction
thereof, for the Democratic candidate for
Governor at the last election.
DEATH OF A PmysIcIAN.-Dr. James
NJ. Woodwork, of Bethel, died Tuesday,
the 2lst he was about his business on
Sunday. Cause of his death said to be
heart disease, FASTENED by an overdose of
morphine, taken by himself to relieve the
great pain he was in. DR.. Woodwork
has lived in that immediate vicinity DUR
ing the greater part of his life, and has
had very good success as Il physician, and
many will mourn his loss. He was about
63 years of age. How true it is, that
"By medicines life may be prolonged yet
death will seize the doctor"
RUTLAND IlorEL PoRrIRs FINED.
Saturday morning the hotel porters, en-
gagged in the disturbance at the depot
Friday evening, were brought before
Miner Hiliard Justice of the Peace. on
complaint of Martin G. Eycrls, Grand
Juror, for a breach of the peace and fin
ed as follows Michael llolland, porter
of the Central House, ten dollars and
costs Thomas Pagan, porter oi the Bate,
House, five dollars aud costs They sew.
orally paid their fines aud were discharg.
ed, the officer making the arrest failing
to prefer charge for resisting an officer
TnE WORLDS PEACE JUBILEE RE.
nEARsAL-OPENING OF THE New TowN
HALL.-The grand mass rehearsal of the
various Worlds Peace Jubilee Societies
of Vermont, to be held at the new Towr
Hall, Rutland, VI, June lth and 9TH
bids fair to be complete success.
All but one of the Vernon. societie,
booked for the Jubilee have already ac.
cepted an invitation to be present with a
majority Of their members. One New
York society, that at Granville, has done
the same, while tae society at Troy, n
; Y, have also expressed desire to be
represented here. The exercises of the
first day, Tuesday. June 18th, will be un.
der the direction of the conductors of the
various societies represented, while those
of the second day, "Wednesday, June 9th
and also the concert in the evening will
be under the direction of Carl Xerrahr
of Boston.
Appropriate exercises with reference
to the opening Of the New Town Hal
will also De held at the concert, Wednes.
day evening Governor Stewart, the
president Of the Middlebury Society, will
be invited to deliver a short, appropriate
address ; also Henry Clark, president OF
the Rutland society. The various rail.
roads will carry for fare one way, free
return checks being furnished by the
secretary of the Rutland society.