The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-17
Stule News.


The Summit house on Mount Mans
Geld is now open, aud the roads from
Stowe up are free from snow and in a
safe and excellent condition,
A little daughter Of Wesley Brewster
of Huntington, was recently pushed into
a pail Of boiling water by her brother,
and scalded so badly that she is not ex-
pected to live.
Geo. ii. Summer Of Bennington, has
invented an attachment for Kerosene
lamps. The construction is such that a
lamp can be easily filed without unscrew-
ing the top. 1t is estimated that for the
home trade a million Of them will be
wanted the first year.
Decoration day the people of Fair.
haven gathered all the flowers in the
town aud went to n%eighboring villages to
decorate graves. The resting places Of
their own soldiers would have been un-
noticed had not three patriotic young
ladies' gathered wildwood flowers and
scattered them upon the mounds of their
fallen braves.
Such girls show Clear Grit
The Rutland papers, yesterday morn
ing, were filled with the accounts of
Barnum's Show and the details of its con.
comitants, in the form of drunkenness,
free fights, picking Of pockets, burglaries,
swindles, ludicrous incidents and arrivals.
There is no doubt but that at least fifteen
thousand tickets were sold for the three
exhibitions. 1t was estimated that there
mere ten thousand different persons upon
the grounds at once.
FATAL ACADEMIA distressing &C.
cident occurred in Reading on the 9th
inst, resulting in the death of Mrs. NJ
lockwood Of that town. The lady was
going to Felchville accompanied by hel
husband, and while going down a hill
the buggy crowded upon the horse, a
which he kicked furiously, and running
a short distance, threw both violently t.
the ground, Mrs. lockwood having pre-
viously snatched the reins from her hus
bands. Both were injured to some ex
tent, the lady fatally. She remained un
conscious till death ensued-about tive
hours.
A WONDERFUL FEAT IN STONI
CHANNEIINo.-One of Wardell'ssto
channeling machines, manufactured b,
the Steam Stone Cutter Company O
Rutland, cut 172 feet of channel in tel
hours on Monday the Goth, in the San
f ford marble quarry South Dorset. TIL
machine was operated by Mike Nc
Nulla of Middlehury and two helpers
This is the greatest amount of worl
everaccomplished by machinery in cut
ting channels in any n day.
The greatest mount heretofore Gu
by machinery was done on the Rutlan,
Marble Company's quarry at West Rut
land some three years since. when 10
feet of channel was cut in one day @
eleven hours with al old style Ward
well machine.
, AN OLD VERMONT MAsoN.-Apoll
!. Chapter, No As, r A NJ, of Troy, wa
h visited Wednesday evening by the oldes
/, mason in the country, brother Peter Ham
: mond, the father in-law of Mr.. A. Bills
E of that city, and now in his 9Stb yea
He was made a mason in Mount Moria
. Lodge, WardsooIo, in the year 1899, an
n is now consequently in his seventy -fourt
year. During the anti-masonic Juror,
, the lodge, Of which he was master, cease
to exist and he never united with an
other lodge. He afterward removed I
c Genesee, ILL.,, where some FIVE years az
=, he received as a special honor on accour
of his extreme age, the capitular degrt
f in the chapter at that place.
BRIDGE BURNEp.-The railroad bride
|. at Waterbury, on the Vermont Contra
was burned Friday afternoon, and trav,
!. in hat direction is cut off, as there is |
means Of crossing the stream. The ma
l. and sleeping coaches came through v
Rutland last night, and all the freigl
will come this way to-day. Over a hui
bred freight cars will pass over the Ru
Of land road during the day, and mott,
power will come down from St. AlbaI
this morning to run them through and a
the freight for a week or more will ri
D. this way.
N The fire took from a spark from Q
lie engine and burned so rapidly that Il
lie bridge fell in forty-6vo minutes. III
u bridge spanned the Winooski river AT
b. was thirty-three rods long.
re DANGEROUS ASSAULT AT CAMRRIDo
3 Vr.-The Burlington (Vt) free Pre-
g states that on Sunday last Harvey Buk
n OF Cambridge told one James ID, Lot
rope, who had been boarding with hi