The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-09-21
STATE VEINS.


went TO law about n little matter of 80
cents, aLu the costs amounted to over
$50.
Lead and strong indications of silver,
have been discovered on several Hart
land farms, and parties are organizing
fir immediate work in developing the
mines.
Horace f. Stoughton, freight agent
on the Central Vermont railroad, was
Knocked from tain by a bridge near
Montpelier, Friday, 10th inst, and in
stantly killed.
Mr.. J. Stnson. formerly proprie-
tor of the old Central House at Rut-
land, dropped dead upon the street
there last Monday night, from apo
plexy.
The chills and fever prevailing in
several towns in Rutland county are
the first known since the first settle
ment, a hundred years ago.
j. Esty & Co., and Hon. Party Star,
of Brattleboro, and o. :. Howard, of
Townshend, are heavy stock holders in
the new bank recently started in Brat
| tleboro with stock ofS100, 900.
Henry Damon of Rutland, sixty-nine
years old, who was sentenced to the
state prison for life in 1889 for killing
his wife, was killed by falling down
stairs in the prison, recently.
Perhaps the only widow of revo-
lu,ionary soldier in the state is Mrs.
Sarah Wilson of Randolph, 03 years
old, whose husband was 80 years her
senior and who is still in good health
and retains her faculties.
Bears begin to show themselves pref
W freely in Stratton. One came with
in thirty rods of Il dwelling two weeks
ago last Sunday, killed a sheep ate
part of it, and carried off the rest of the
carcass the next night.
Frederick Duane Holton, of Ben
nington, has been recommended by
the examining committee for nomina-
ion for the cadetship at the West
Point Military Academy. by Congress
man Joyce of this district.
John Mcmahon, of Rutland, defeat
ed r. Gardiner, of San Francisco, Cal.
in wrestling match in the latter city,
lately, for 81 600 and the champion
ship of America. 1t took an hour and
forty minutes to do it.
1t is reported that Commodore Van
derbilt has sued Trenor w. Park, Of
Bennington, for $500, 600, loaned him
in connection with the Harlem Exten-
sion railroad. and that all of Mr.. Parks
Vermont property has been attached.
The house of Charles Morse, of Roch-
ester Hollow, was entered by burglars
and robbed. on Saturday night, 2lst
ut, of 81, 600 in bonds and 81 $50 in
bills. No clue to the robbers, but
strong suspicious against certain par
ties. ~.
The first gold medal ever awarded by
the Vermont state agricultural society,
in the mechanical department, was
iwarded at the recent state fair, to
lTowe's scales for superiority "in points
md qualities" over any other scales
manufactured
A Inert Campbell of Weston, while
put fishing, lew days ago, saw black
pear swimming across the brook he
.eized cluh and struck it on the nose,
when, to his surprise, il rolled over
stone dead and was afterwards found
20 weigh 400 pounds.
Joseph Mckenzie, of Woodstock, re-
Gently ha | fourteen sheep killed by
James Hagarty's dog. With revolver
! IN his pocket he tracked the miserable
cur home and shot him dead in his
owners barn. This is the second ex
plot of the kind 10y this dog.
Arad Wells. North DanvilIe, has a
very precocious colt. He makes n great
fuss if any one undertakes to curry the
old mare first, crowding himself right
in the way, but after his toilet has been
attended to he is very willing the old
lady should have the next chance.
Geo. Sudbury, of West Concord,
looked down the barrel of a pistol to
see if ii was loaded just in season to see
the ball coming out. 1t glanced around
the socket of his eye and came out, but
it is not certain whether the sight is de-
stroyed or hot.
Amos Emerson, of Worcester, is rails
ing chickens in novel manner. Find
ing partridge's nest last spring, he
removed the eggs and replaced them
with the eggs Of a bantam hen and has
now twelve chickens following the
partridge; they roost regularly near
the place of Matching.
Elijah Dewey while fishing at Ben
nington. the other day, lost $500 dia-
mond, and was much derided thereat
by VIM. E. Hawkes., who went out q
fishing, two days later, and lost $3.50
diamonds that he has lost in the last
eight years.
The Herald hears of a new kind of a
policeman. who rendered valuable as
,istance in keeping good order at the
late state fair. Wherever he saw a
crowd of drunken roughs assembled he
would step up and casually observe
that the police were coming, and they
would decamp.
r. G. Hill, of Gilmore, took $50 in
premiums on his excellent sheep at the
New England fair. He was obliged t.
compete with imported stock, but the
merits of his sheep were so apparent
that the committees were forced to ac
, knowledge them. He also sold five
yearings for 5000.
The Windsor Journal says the story
about the bank bills recently found
there being those taken from the ole
Windsor bank by cashier now dead
is a hoax. The bills were found anC
they are worthless, but there is no evil
. dence that they were stolen or tina
r., cir loss caused the failure ofthe bank
Tuesday evening as James Durham
sexton, and Chariess Northrop' of Cas-
Teton, were drawing iO"" Oh sanu III
10 the cemetery, the bridge IN TIE ce'iI
etery, over which they were passing
broke down, and 10th these men wer.
seriously hurt. Mr. Northrop had his
ankle injured and Mr.. Durham had his
Should er dislocated and his head Sc
verely cut.
Solomon w. Jewett, OF Rutland. has
Two sons in California. One of them
is OF the firm of Jewett & Anderson
proprietors of a five hundred acre
farm near Bakersfield. in southern
California, for which they have quite
recently been offered and refused s4S.-
900. The other is the junior OF Reddy
d Jewett, proprietors of the great Coso
mine, $50 600 of stock in which they
sold in San Francisco the other day.