The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-04-08
State News.

1T is stated that out Of II students
at Dartmouth, 81 are from Vermont.
This if true, is not very creditable to our
state which has two such excellent coll
legos OF her own. -
\ The grading on the Montpelier and
Wells River Railroad is about complet-
ed. Large gangs Of men are at work
covering bridges and distributing ties.
AS soon os the spring is fairly open the
work Of laying the ties will commence in
earnest.
&C. +. Partridge, formerly Of East
Middlcbury, Vt, has erected on what is
called Jenkins Point one mile south Of
Hague, steam saw-mil, with four circu-
lar saws, for saving white birch into
strips, which are taken TO Vermont and
turned into spools, as the writer UNDER
stands, for Goats spool thread This
mill cuts ten cords every twenty-iour
ours'-OcS Falls Messenger.
The DRowNING OF Mn. AND Mrs.
FIsnER.-A Halifax despatch says that
Mr.. Fisher and wife reached the deck of
the Atlantic and tried to 60 forward.
Mrs. Fisher cried out to a friend near to
"save my husband" The friend, who
was holding door, tried to reach his
hand to Mrs. Fisher. At that moment
wave swept across the ship and husband
and wife were washed off and drowned
We arc sorry to learn by telegram from
Hon. S. NJ. Dorr, who is at Halifax, to
Gen. Ripley, that the body Of Mrs Fisher
has not yet been found.
ST. ALBANs The largest and stormi-
est village meeting ever held here took
place on Wednesday, 1t was in session
from | -, p. m, to 10, p. m, and the crowd
was so great that the meeting was obllg-
ed to adjourn from the Court House to
Academy Hall, first turning out the
schools, which were in session Two
tickets were presented for trustees, Que
the old board" ticket, consisting Of NJ.
&. Elliot, +. S. Stranahap, G. G.. Noble,
S. \. Smith and Henry G. Adams and
the other the economy and reform
ticket, consisting Of Bradley Barlow, Law
renee Braincrd |. j. Crowley, II. II.
Bowman and J.. Bingham. The - old
board was reelected by vote OF 236
to $50. Myron Buck was elected mum.
cipal Judge by three majority over J j
Deayitt; Buck 13l, Deavitt 12S. A
tax Of 100 cents en- the dollar WAS voted
The new municipal court is to be held
in the former office Of Col. Benton, over
SaXc's store.
ACCIDENT on THE RUTLAND RAILROAD
The night express train over this road
for Burlington, Geo. W. Stewart, con,
ductor,) Saturday morning met with q
serious accident just north of Pittsiord
Station. The accident was caused by q
lapd-slide-part of the bank of high
cut sliding off on to the track, taking witt
it the stump of an old tree The loco
motive Brattleboro, Cornelius Moulton
engineer,) struck the stump, showing i
on the track some little distance; bu
the locomotive was finally thrown from
the track, almost Durying itself in tn,
mud of the bank, the baggage car passing
by it and down an embankment at tn,
end of the cut on the opposite side of tn
track from where the locomotive wen
off. The baggage ear was tipped nearl,
over, the trucks Of the car being cleare,
from it. The remainder of the train
three coaches and two sleeping cars
were damaged very little. The locomo
tive is much damaged. 1t was a ne,
one and had only been running a shor
time. The track was cleared as quick
as possible, and passengers taken to Bun
lington by mixed train.