The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-01-16

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"A little son of Peter Bumblcbce had
his arm accidentally sawed off in Wood
wards repair shop, at Woodstock.
Hon. John Gregory Smith has been
elected President of the Franklin County
Agricultural and Mechanical Society,
Harper Brothers, Of New York
own $4,000 acres of timber land in Glas-
tenbury. and are Interested in the rail-.
road.
REV. Mr.. Gilbert aud wife, former.
ly of Castlcton, have returned, after an
absence Of eleven years in South Amcri-
ca, where he has been II missionary.
Woodstock is to have railroad
The grading is completed and the track
will be laid the coming summer, from
Woodstock to White River Junction.
Judge Poland represented Vermont
at the meeting Of the National Republi
can Committee. in Washington. on
Thursday, in place Of Hon. T. W. Park,
who is absent in Europe.
A little son Of j. a. Graves. of
North Wolcott, 3 years old, one day last
week swallowed penknie with the blade
open, and strange to relate. tho knife
passed in SO hours apparently doing him
no injury.
The Brattleboro people say that Mr..
Fisk, Sen, has always prophesed that
Jim would some day be shot, aud in a
crazy fit now and then was wont to see
strange a1d exciting visions Of blood and
slaughter.
"A new arrangement has been made
on the New London Northern division Of
tho Vermont Central railroad, by which
engineers and trains from New London
now run through directly to Bratteboro
on alternate days.
Mark Mutter of Barton, who was a
selectman during the rebellion, was award
ed by the commissioners to whom it was
referred to pay the sum of 1888 60 for
funds that he is said to have embezzed
while acting as selectman in procuring re-
cruits to fill the quota of said town.
observation-disclosures Allen Reyes, who
killed enc Godfrey in Chelsea about a
year since, was tried for murder at the
recent term Of the Orange County Court.
The arguments were closed on Thursday
The Jury failed to agree being, it is I'M
derstood, niue for verdict of man
slaughter and three for acquital
The examination of Farwell and
Lawrence, for the murder of Maloney,
during the row in their saloon at East
Arlington, Christmas day, is still in pro-
gress All the testimony shows that the
saloon keepers had sore provocation, the
roughs having come there avowedly to
"clean them out, and that the shooting
of Maloney had nothing to do with the
row, and was accidental.
AccIDENT.-Louis Barnard, young
man twenty-five years Of age, was seri
ously injured near Whiting Station, OF
the Rutland q Burlington r. Il. Thurs
day. While attending to his duties OF
the top of a car his head came in contact
with bridge with sufficient force to
knock him off the train. He was found
lying on the trestle work Of the bridge
and carried to Rutland where his injurie.
were attended to by Drs. Pierce and
Pond At latest accounts he was doing
well
Passenger ears are now running OF
that portion of the Portland x Ogdens
burgh railroad extending from Yves
Concord to lardwick, w., a distance o
nearly forty miles. This is the grea
connecting link which, when finished, vii
make an unbroken line Of railroad from
Portland, Maine, to the eastern terminu
Of the Northern Pacific railroad, whicl
will, in II very short time, unite Portland
Maine, toPortland, Oregon, and form
the second line Of railroad across the con
tinent from ocean 20 ocean
BEouEsT TO RUTLAND COUNTY .--lIou
Loyal G. kellogg, by his will, which ha
been proved and allowed b. the Probat
Court for the District Of Fairhaven, be
queathS his law library to the county c
Rutland, to be kept III the County Cour
House, Tor the use Of the Judges an
members of the bar attending court there
The library is a well selected and valuabl
one, and this liberal and timely beque.
will be gratefully appreciated by hi
brethren Of the bench and bar
The ARLINGTON TRAOEpY.-The coul
, of inquiry in reference to the recent fl
tai shooting ARRAY at East Arlington, hi
closed its labors, the justice holdin
Sherrod Farwel and Franklin Lawrenc
guilty of wilful murder, declining to a
low them the benefit Of bail. They wer
taken to Bennington and committed I
Jail, where they will await the action {
the grand jury, which will be in sessio
at Manchester in june, in connectio
with the next term Of the Benningto
County Court The complaint on whic
they are held charges them with ii
murder Of Maloney, alone. No actio
5 has been taken, as yet, with reference
, the shooting of John Hanna, which h,
since resulted fatally, Or Of Frank Buc
and Edward Rafferty,. Both Buck an
Rafferty, are rapidly improving, and al
neither of them confined to the house.
MuTILATEp CuRRENcy.--The Pos
Office Department has agreed, Mt tt
suggest on of the United States TreaSur
to issue a circular to postmasters rcqul,
ing them to receive mutilated currenc,
D under the new regulations, in payiueI
for postage stamps and stamped envelope
on the same terms that il is received /
the officers Of the Treasury D,,partner
70 that is to say at its full face walt
when not more than two iithS Of its orr,
D.. inal proportions are missing. The nut
, lated currency received will not be pal
out again by the postmasters, but may
} forwarded to the Treasury at Washin;
ton at government expense, provided ii
fractional currency be sent in sums
five dollars and upwards. New currene
by express, at the expense of the Depar
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