The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-12-17
state News.

"A Six hundred popnd bear was re-
ceatly killed at Moretown, Vt.
The Vermont Senate has. by only
one majority, killed the bill allowing
women to vote at school district meetings.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company issued GAL policies during the
month of November
The winter term OF Burr and Bur-
ton Seminary Manchester, has commenced
with over fifty students, and prospect
for more.
Newport, w., has Que OF the smart
ladies in the person of "aunt" Sally Hor.
ton, II years old, who caught from three
to five hundred pickere last season.
Hosea W. Bingham has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at Sadawga, Vermont,
rice Cyrus Temple, removed. Sadawga
is a village in the town Of Nottingham,
Windham county.
David Mcbride, the popular and
gentlemanly landlord of the Brandon
House, Brandon, has discontinued the
sale Of intoxicating drinks aud will here.
after keep strictly temperance house.
Hon. Charles ". Willard is one of
the Vice.presidents fthe Woman Suffrage
Association, which Col. Albert Clarke,
Of the St. Adams Messenger. is the Yer.
mont member Of the executive commit.
tee.
The resolutions of our State Legis-
lature in reference to civil service reform
and the frauking privilege were present.
ed in the Senate on Friday last by Sena.
tor Morrill,, and in the House of Repre-.
sentatives on Monday by Representative
XWillard
\-The safe OF Frank Felt, at Andover,
was broken open during his absence one
day last week. and $3.50 stolen, BY Jay
Davis, an employe, who fed with his
booty, bn, was subsequently discovered
and arrested at Clarendon with Sl18 OF
the money on his person.
A drunken row occurred Ut Mr. v
b, Bacon's in Sunderland on Sunday
which resulted in breaking of gun over
one fellows head and lodging its content,
ia the door casing Mr.. b. was success.
ful i'll cleaning them out and sending
them home with sore heads. The row.
dies were four frenehmen, two from
East Arlington tno from Manchester.
The Vermont ani Candy railroad
has brought suit in chancery against
the Vermont Central Tor the semiannua
rental Of $4,000, due to the former
} road, December |. aud not yet paid
The Vermont Central sold to the iludsot
+ and Delaware canal its connections across
the southern end, Of Lake Champlan and
has commenced paying vouchers ut the
Ogdcnsburg end, in installment of 20 pei
cent, payable every 90 days.
SrIRlTuALIsr CoNvRNTIoN.-The Yer
mont State Spiritaalist Association viii
: hold quarterly convention in St. AL
} bans, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
/ the 18th, 18th and 10Th of January
, 1873. Able speakers will be in atten
} dance. Free return certificates over tn,
several divisions Of the Vermont Contra
: railroad will he given to those who at
tend the convention aud pay full fare on
> way. Board at the Fremont House 81
9 % per day.
"A queer cas- has just been decided
\ Washington county man built zig "a
rail fence aud his righbor claimed tina
: it trcspassed on his farm because it wa
> not straight fence, and didn't follow tn
: boundary. A fight resulted aud then a
! arrest The court decided as questio
Of law, that the man had lawful RICH
to extend the fence over the line so far q
t was necessary in its construction, and tbs
s the defendant unlawiully resisted its ere,
6 ton to that extent The jury therefore
q found damages.