The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-12-16

The people OF Benson were alarmed
by the discovery Of fire on tho evening
Of December 9th in the old Joy store
It was extiuguished by pailful of water
-Silas L. Griffith of Dandy has now
twenty. three Finlandcrs engaged as wood.
choppers. Only two Of the Fins can
speak English. They are honest, tenn.
pcratc. and quiet lot Of men.
Iron ore Of good quality is found in
Chittenden in abundance also manganese.
Chittenden is undoubtedly the most inter.
esting town 10 Rutland on account of its
minerals, which would be produced large.
" If it had railway facilities.
--Corbin Wilcox, son of Jaber Wilcox
of Benson, met with a serious accident
on Friday of last week, while choppiDg
in the woods. He struck a blow with
his axe, severing one toe and cutting Sc
we're cash on one foot.
The Benson fur company have killed
eleven foxes this season which they esti-
mate as worth S77 as follows: ii pelts
at SO each, S22 eleven days free fun,
2 men including the privilege Of wading
through deep snow, and standing around
on stone wall at SIS per day, SOB.
Rev. Enos Bliss was the first settled
minister of the Congregational church in
Brandon in 1892. Rev. franklin Tux
bury, the present pastor, was ordained to
the ministry July 18th, 1857, and com.
menced his ministry in Brandon in 1865,
The church has a membership Of 204,
(69 males 1856 females.) forty of whom
are non. resident.
The town Of Fairhaven originally com.
prised within its limits what is now the
town of West Haven. During the rev.
dictionary war it was wild, unsettled
tract of country lying along Poultney
River and East Bay on the east Of Lake
Champlain, which had been cut off and
left south of Orwell and between the
towns of Hubbardton. Casleton and
Poultney and on the east and the Lake on
the west, when those towns were incor.
poratcd by the government Of New
Hampshire.
-Hubbardton was chartered June 18th,
1854, to Isaac Searles, Esq, and his asso-
ciates, and now contains about $4,000
acres. But in consequence of prior
charters and surveys some of the north
part was held by Sudbury aud gore on
the cas-. by Pittsford. The towns in the
south part Of the State being surv eyed
FIRST, and most of them larger then the
chartered limits. Several Of the towns
in that vicinity were consequently con-
tracted to less than what their charters
allowed, and one whole town chartered
by the name Of Dunbar, was entirely run
out, there being no place left to locate
it.
DR.. VIM. NJ. Huntington, of Roches'
ter, has got his name up for remarkable
surgical skill. A year or two ago he
made over two hideously deformed mouths
one in Vermont. and the other coming to
him from Massachusetts,. The operations
we're entirely successful. Last week
Mial Pinney, of Pitts6eld, while climbing
in the barn. suddenly ruptured himself
producing what proved to be strangula.
led hernia. Persistent efforts we're made
during the night to replace it but with
out success. The next morning, all Other
means having failed. and as this was the
only hope Of prolongiug life beyond few
hours. Mr.. Huntington. assisted by Drs
Brigham and Richmond, operated by cut
ting down upon the tumor through the
walls of the abdomen, enlargiug the open
ing through which the intestine had escap
ed and replaced it. The operation, which
was di6cult and dangerous one, lasted
nearly an hour, but was entirely success
full, and Mr.. pinney seems in fair way
of recovery.