The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-02-06

The Lamoillc Valley road is now com.
plcted aud running from St. Johusbury to
West Concord. This makes forty.thrce
miles Of the Vermont Division of the Z.
q U. road complete and doing business.
The amount Of the Rutland Railroad
perferred stock is S4,300,000, from
which it is expected a dividend Of l.2
per cent will be declared. This stock
sold in Boston on Saturday at 76.
Wednesday our authori-
ties mado raid on tho illicit liquor trai-
fc in our town and Jed =. Clark was ar
raigued before Justice Il. II. Cleveland
and fined 500 aud costs. The liquor
found on tho premises was seized aud con-
hscated.
VALUABLE PREsENT.--lion Frederick
Billings Of Woodstock has presented the
University Of Vermont copy of Lord
Kiugsborough's Mexican Antiq titles, in
nine volumes. This is one of the rarest
and most costly of English publications,
and the original publication price was
over 500.
"A correspondent from Fairhaven to
the Rutland Herald, says: Since our
trustees have cvinced determination to
have the laws prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors thoroughly executed,
our village has been unusually orderly.
We are not now disgraced by three or
four rumshops, or annoyed by nightly
rows.
The first annual dinner of the Middle
bury College Association, of the city of
New York and vicinity will take place at
Delmonico,s corner of Fifth Avenue and
East Fourteenth Street, on Thursday,
February Sth, 1872, at six o'clock, p IN.
Governor Stewart and f. j. Phelps, Esq;
have signiied their intention Of being
present, and probaly others will attend
from Vermont.
A PRoTRACTED LITIGATION SETTLED.
The lawsuit between o. A. Burton, A.
NJ. Clark and others of st. Albaps, aud
the proceedings in bankruptcy against A.
NJ. Clark, were finally settled, last week,
by the payment of SS2,S40 to Bradley
Barlow and the sale of the Burton prop
erty amounting to $4,000 The estate
amounted to sl61 500, the expenses to
$50 ABB, and the debts to 20S,000 and
the dividends to creditors to 5Sl per
cent.
SHOCKING DEATH OF FORMER RESI-
DENT OF BURLINGTON. On the 23d inst,
man was run over and shockingly man.
gle by heavy freight train of thirty.two
cars, passing over him on the Grand
Trunk railroad, near Byrant's Pond,
Maine. He was crossing bridge and
could not get out of the way, The train
could not be stopped in time to save him.
From papers found on him his name is
supposed 10 be S. NJ. Boynton, of Gouvcr-
neur, St. Lawrence County New York.
He was once n resident of Burlington, Vt
He was killed instantly and horribly mu-
tilatcd. No blame is attached to the
engineer Of the train.
DR.. Cutting, State Geoogist Of
Vermont, said in a paper read before the
Board of Agriculture, that almost every
week brought him parcels of worthless
sand containing yellow or white mica a
white and yellow pyrites, supposed by the
deludcd sendcrs to be precious gold. DR..
Cutting wishes to be distinctly under.
stood that there are no metallic ores in
Vermont which are worth working For
that, the rocks Of the State arc too old
aud compact, or too near connected with
the glacial drift. The yields of marble
and slate, however, are very good. The
next time the reader of this paragraph
is asked TO buy shares in Vermont Gold
Mining Company, he will do well to bear
in mind these statements of Or. Cutting
who appears 10 know what he Is talking
about-N Y. Tribune.
SAD CASE OF DRowNING.-Thc Bur-
liugton Free Press records a sad case of
drowning in that place on Sunday 2Sth
ut. Albert Granger, a lad of thirteen,
with several others were skating on the
lake, on new ice formed where it had
been removed on Saturday The ice cut
tiers had put up no guards and the boy
broke through. His companions raised
the alarm and an old man named John
son threw a rope to him as he struggled
to keep ahoat. The first time the rope
was thrown, the boy missed it. BY the
time it was thrown again he Was becom-
ing thoroughly chilled and benumbed
The little fellow grasped the rope as
tightly as he could with his stiff fingers
and held for a moment. He was some
distance out in the new ice so he could
not be approached closely. He kept his
hold of the rope for few moments when
his grasp gradually loosened and ho sank
to tho bottom. Graphing hooks were
procured and the body soon drawn up,
but life was gone.