The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-30

-lhcIc Is mucu slckucss III l utucy
at present, cankcr rash and lung difficult
ty appear to be prevailing diseases.
John Lynch got one Of his hands
between the rollers in VIM. Robertson's
paper mill, at Putncy tanning it badly.
Mr.. w. NJ. Hobart of Amherst
College has been trying to lecture in
Windham county, but could not get any
body to hear him,
The dwelling house Of George W.
Brown in Poultney, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday Goth. The house was
nearly new. 1t cost some $4,000. and
was insured for $4,000.
The house and barn Of Joseph G..
Fish, near the East Putuey depot, were
totally destroyed by fire last Tuesday
afternoon, together with three or four
hundred dollars worth of personal pro-
Ierty.
A delegation fom Rutland County to
the Cincinnati Convention includes Chas.
Clement, Maj. j. A. Salisbury, S NJ. Dorr,
Charles Sheldon, G. r. Mansfield, John
Landon, lockwood Barrett, Newman
Weeks, Evelyn Pierpoint, Rutland, and
G, l.. Case and s. b. June Of Brandon.
HALE FARE TO THE STATE CONVENTION.
Arrangements have been made with
the Vermont Central railroad by which
the delegates in attendance at the State
Convention at Bellows Falls will be re-
turned free. Return tickets will be sup
piled at Bellows Falls by the secretaries,
of the Convention.
--Shelburne has a peripatctic doctor,
who goes from house to house restoring
broken health, like Il tinker mcndiug
broken pots. lie opens the door and
sings out Anybody in here got the
rheumatism, coughs, colds,s neuralgia,
heart disease, small pox, or. anything
else %" Onrcceiving a negative answer,
he reports, "Glad Oft" hangs the door,
and moves On.
FATRnAvEN.-A brutal assault, was
made upon Wm. Il. Mantling, a police
man, by one John Hogan. Mantlng had
arrested one Patrick Hogan for intoxica-
ton, and while cndeavoring TO han1cuh
him he was struck III the eye BY Il stone
in the hands of John Hogan. Fears wero
entertained at first that H. would lose his
eye, but it is slowly recovering. Hogan
has beeu arrested uIon roD'i T. iut by the
Grand Juror, and put under one Thousand
dollar bonds to appear for trial on the
29th. Hogan was also arrested upon "a
writ for private damages, and required to
give bail in the sum of two thousand
dollars.
BENNINGToN.-The other day, while
one Of our merchants was busily engaged
in weighing some lard, he spoke up to an
old farmer who was standing oy allow
much is half Of three.quarters ?" The old
gent pondered n minute. "Wal, | don't
know but if it was butter | could tell
you in a second"
Ground was broken last Tuesday for
the Glastonbury Railroad. We hope,be
fore next fall, to see the cars running.
Rev. Mr.. Weston, Of North Benning-
ton, oficiated at the Congregational chapel
last Sunday,
A tea party was held at the residence
Of Mrs. F. Hamlin last Saturday evening,
A large number oc her fsmale friends
were present.
p. h. Ball, one of North Benuington's
old and much respected citizens, died last
Sunday morning. He was buried Tues
day afternoon with Masonic honors.
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CRIMINAL Folly ExcusED.-The Yer.
mont papers are vieiug with zach other
IN the attempt 10 see which shall pay
most honor to a man who has just been
detected in robbing the United States oil
nearly $4,000. His generosity, upright.
ness aud m~anliness are praised, and they
unite in saying that his crime was not in.
territorial, only the result of carelessness,