The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-26
state News.

state News.
Mr.. G. G. Mayo, of South Hero, is
to be principal Of the Stowe graded school,
the coming term.
Mrs John Page of Sutton, 81 years
of age, has spun FIVE skens day during
the last three weeks.
st. George has post master that
weighs four hundred pounds, and is said
to be one of the latest and jolliest Of
men,.
WIN. Horton, clerk in Shaw's in.
surance Office at St. Johnsbury, is a dc.
faulter to the extent of 5000. and has
disappeared.
There is grand rush to the Iodine
Springs. South Hero. The Spring House,
the Island House, and l.. b. Macomber's
boarding house are all well filed.
Recently Willie Henry Lord, of Wood
stock, aged nearly eighteen, was drowned
while bathing in Bridgewater. He was
the sole reliance of widowed mother
Quite runaway occurred in Bur-
lington last week. A powerful pair of
horses attached to an ice cart dashed
through Church ST., and on the route
smashed in $500 worth of shop windows.
The enterprising firm of Noyes
Brothers. with DR.. Randall, are building
a large and commodious storehouse and
eating saloon, near the depot in Hyde
Park
About six hundred tons of hay have
already been sold in the vicinity of Al.
burgh for shipment to the cities. The
high price of $40 was realized for most
of it.
John Allison of Newbury, while in
liquor, attacked his hired man with a
scythe. cutting bis hip in horrible man.
ner. He tried to follow up the assault
but was prevented by bystanders.
One hundred and ninety million feet
Of lumber was shipped last year from o.
tawa to Lake Champlain ports and over
200,000,000 feet will be forwarded the
present year.
"A son of Edwin Hayes, of Stowe,
about five years old, accidentally fell
down stairs, recently, and struck on a
scythc, cutting fearful cash across his
abdomen, which it is feared will result
fatally.
The hoe and fork manufacturers Of
the United States held secret session at
Rutland recently, it being one of a series
held in different parts Of the Union, for
general interchange of views regarding
the manufacture Of their goods.
job Clements of Bradford was ar.
raigned, recently, on 145 charges of
liquor.selliug, but, owing to the absence
of several witnesses at the trial, he was
allowed to depart, after being fined 500
and costs for ten offenses
Col. Mead, the Chief of the Order
of Good Templars in Vermont is indie.
fatigable in bis labors to promote the in.
terests of the Order, and not less the
common work of the reform, and is grow
ing in popular favor and usefulness.
The amount of premiums to be a.
warded for trotting at the State Fair in
Rutland, September 9, 10, IL and -, il
S1,100 OF this sum $500 is for a sin
gle trot, open to all horses in the United
States and Canada.
An attempt was made to GUST City
Attorney Start of Burlington from Office
on Monday of last week, in the city coun
ell, on charges Of gross immortality anC
malfeasance in Office, bnt the matter wa
finally laid on the table, which is inter
preted as victory for Start.
"A pleasant incident of the Presiden
tal reception at Burlington on Wednes
day was the turning out of the employee
Of Shepard, Davis e. Co., who formed il
. line in front of the planning mill and sa
luted the President, who bowed his ac
acknowledgements as he rode Dy.
"A Bennington daughter, whose do
nestle nature is equal to her natura
simplicity, was invited by an Adven
; exhorter to join his sect, get her whit
robe ready, and prepare to ascend. :
can't the maid replied /: Father an
: mother are 6 ling up, aud somebody mus
stay to see to the cattle
Walter, little son Of S. NJ. Nut
I ting, Of Westminster, two years old, fel
into watering trough recently, an
would have been drowned had it not bee
for the presence Of mind displayed b
his little brother frankie. s years of age
. who on seeing him raised his head abov
I water until help came.
"A lady in Rutland prepared dis
\ Of fly poison, and setting it down. stoppe
Nfrom the room for a moment. On re
d turning she was horror stricken at seem
+ the dish in the hands Of her only chile
&. who had drank its contents. A phys
Il clan being summoned, administered
1 powerful emetic aud the child still live
A course of lectures is being organize
q for Rutland, this Winter, which will il
n clude the Rev. II. Laird Colyer of Chicl
q go, Wendell Phillips Of Boston, the Re,
T. Dewitt Tallmage, the Rev. Henri
A Ward Beecher of Brooklyn, N. Y, th
!. Hon. George w, Grandey of vergenne
the Rev. DR. Lord of Montpelier, Pres
dent Buckbam of Burlington.
Thomas Powers James, the Bra
y tleboro Edwin brood man, has disay
It peared He left suddenly with his faml,
It giving no notice to his employer, an
K leaving no trace Of his course. The GO
k sips are about equally divided as
IS whether he has gone into retirement I
D complete his work, or has been driven 0
g by the recent newspaper exposures of h
i previous life.
{ House. BREAKINa. The house Of G.
d Post on Colchester Avenue Burlington
}, was entered by an individual about
y O'Clock Friday a. IN. He climbed u
5, barefoot, post of the piazza, and got il
:. to the second story through an open vii
d dow, when Mr.. Post was awakened |