The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-21

Clark is noted horse thiet and has been
in state prison more than once for appro-
priating property to his own use. Mat
hews has followed and arrested him once
or twice before once Tor stealing a
horse in l'otsdam.
The father of Wright, the dciaulting
cashier Of the Bradford Savings Bank
and Trust Company, offered to bail him,
but the young man refused on the ground
that he had committed the crime and de-
served The punishment. 1t seems that
soon after his arrest he attempted to CON-
nit suicide by shooting himself with u
revolver, but it was snatched from his
hand by the officer lie subsequently
took morphine but the dose was too large
to accomplish his object. The first false
entry upon the books was made in July,
1872. At the time Wright left he took
$4,000 in government bonds, $500 in
gold and 81 1875 in currency, all of which
was recovered While at Potsdam he
ohewed up $500 bill and tore up roll
at small bills which he had taken from
the private box of l.. T. Hale, treasurer.
Part of this sum will be recovered by
putting together the shreds and pieces.
--Anson Howard, formerly Of Yves
ton, but latterly of Londonderry, has
been arrested for burning the public
house owned by him, and the residence
of c. w. Sprague, in Weston, in the
- < l,n1
TO Howard for committing the arson Is
TO obtain The insurance ON his own
property, and crafty his hatred of
Sprague. \ ''war widow with whom
he had been con sorting, but had recent
ly dropped for II new deal peached
on him, and he j. now in Jail at Wood
stock. He is the same fellow that stole
4 horse somewhere in Windham coun-
| ty, and sold it on the fair grounds, at
Rutland, during the State fair. hut oh
tanning hail on His arrest has since
been at large.
The Port Henry bridge is so badly
damaged that it is thought the company
will not repair it. A new road. already
partially constructed around Bulwaga
Bay, and to be completed in few months
at iurthest, will do away with this bridge
entirely, and it is deemed .he wiser course
to hurry up the new road instead of vast.
ing the time and money necessary to re-
pair the old trestc sufficiently for even
temporary use. Meatime the little
steamer Molyncux completes the line very
satisfactorily, causing but slight incon
venience or delay - Herald.
Col. Peck has appointed and the
Governor has commissioned Sergeans
Albert d. Tenney, Of the Ransom Guards
of St. Adams, as Adjutant Of the FRS
Regiment Of the National Guard of Yer
mont, with the rank of first lieutenant
vice James f. Batchelder, Of Mortified
resigned. "Chub" Tenney is soldie
and a gentleman, his promotion is vel
deserved, and the appointment canno
fail to be popular one.
Timothy Wheeler OF Waterbury
Center has some remarkable ideas abou
food and drink. He has confined hmsel
: to vegetable diet for 10 years, and
FIVE years ago, he got it into his hea
that people in general drink too much
,, accordingly he went 80 days, the frs
year, without taking any liquids into hi
system, the second year 20 days, tn
: third 1870, the fourth 10, and up t
Thursday of last week, he had gone %
days in the fifth year withon, drinkin
anything whatever.
- Bennington has had an enthusiast
meeting, and has organized club for tn
preservation OF game and fish in thi
. State. 1t is proposed to stock the pond
with black bass, salmon and muskalongC
and the streams with front. II is furthe
> proposed to establish a deer park. Youn
deer :an be procured from P'nnsylvani
at a cost of SO per head. on delivery.
Officer Perkins seized at the ireigh
, depot in Rutland, Tuesday, number o
casks and barrels Of liquor, marked I
parties in Port Henry. "to be left /
/ Rutland till called for This is tn
b largest and most valuable amount OF con
a trabanl secured since the Inauguration c
r the present temperance movement III tina
. place. and has caused much excitomcn
II Mr.. Levi Rice of Rockingham, ha
4, this year made over 800 pounds of mic
+ sugar from SO trees to which he hung 4
q buckets, over pounds to the tree.
Q Mr. l.. W. Adams at Bartonsville, hi
t made over 400 pounds from 500 tree
= or over pounds to the tree, and did nj
, tap but 20 trees at the first run.
The geese in Lake Champaign al
+ having plenty Of fun, nowadays, iloatin
G about on cakes Of ice, when the win
q blows The flows are sometimes lilac
!, with these birds which stick to IL cal
l. until it gets too near shore, and then fl
|. back and light upon another one.
. The Brandon Manufacturing Con
pany recently put Il set of lIowe's ne
Il improved railroad track scales into Il
u works of the Iron Company, at Grow
y Point. \. Y, which were 81 feet lon
:. Of $4,000 pounds capacity, and whi'
! will weigh seven iron cars draft
IT Hon. y. T. Sprague Jr Of BraI
1t don, at the last meeting OF the Farmer
t, and Mechanics Club Of that village. Il
e cared himself in favor Of prohhitio
a He presumed liquors were usually adj
Ie terated, and he was IN favor ct rrstriC
W ing their sale altogether
" Seven furnaces are III full blast
y, the roling-mlls at st Adams, runni
u day and night, and the green hand
u are turning ont about 50 tons Of Ia
r :; per day, while the average daily produ
ID ton of the men who struck, last wint,
u was about GO tons.
IN The chemical works of A. e, Hong
ton, ia Stamford, were destroyed by fl
l.. A.