The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-15
State NE us.

SONS in Onion river. last Sunday.
Thlrty-two persons united with the
Congregational church at Royalton
Centre at the Inst communion.
The Black River Standard is to take
the place of the Springfield Post, and
Richmond and Foggett are to he local
editors thereof.
By the premature exp losion of a blast
at the Evergreen slate quarry in Poult-
ney, on Saturday last, John Quigley,
one of the workmcn, lost All eye.
Hattie Clark, n child Of Jesse Clark,
of Rutland, was run over n quite Sc
verely injured. on Wales street, about
seven o'clock Saturday evening.
The story of the kidnapping of the
little Rutland boy, recently, is denied,
the little scamp having run away from
home and invented the story to escape
a thrashing.
Mr.. II. G. Greene, of st. Adams, who
was shot by Weeks, is the father of
Luther .. Greene, Esq, of the Wood
stock Standard. He is doing well and
will o o be out again.
Three gentlemen from st. Adams
went fishing the other day up the Ri
der brook. The result of their labors
was n string containing 600 very nice
trout.
A practical mechanic is employed by
the month to watch tho iron bridge
near Waterbury village, who devotes
his time to the business. and examines
1t alter the passing oil every tram.
A pair of hawks over twenty years
old were killed in Brandon. recently.
The male hawk has been dreaded by
the entire neighborhood, and heavy re-
wards have been offered for him.
Mr.. John b. Seymour, whose sudden
death by apopleXy took place in Bur-
lington on Tuesday, was in business for
many years in Canada, in the eastern
townships but for several years past
has resided in Burlington.
One of the Eddy family at Chittcn-
den has accepted the challenge OF the
medium detective, Chapman, toexhibit
their materializations before n disinter-
ested committee, and proposing that
each side shall stake $1,000 Oh the re.
suit.
The new Baptist church at st. Johns
bury is to be 50x60 feet in size, built
with four gables and in the form of an
amphitheatre, with seats built round n
circle, and aisles all convergingito.the
pulpit. The gallery is to be beliindthe
pulpit. The estimated cost is IS, 900,
Jacob Black, of Burlington, commit
ted suicide on the 5th instant, by
drowning, in the Winooski river. 1t
seems that he was out riding with his
brother, and when Just lack of the
grist mill requested him to stop a mo-
ment. He then went directly to the
river and jumped in.
The examination of NJ. {. HAYES.
charged with setting fire to the Rut-
land Opera House. was concluded.
Tuesday, and Hayes was bound over in
the sum of $4,000 to appear for trial at
the County Court in September. In
default of bail the prisoner was COM
mitted to jail.
Orrin Shipman, whom the dawn
Community" now know not, denies
that he has offered Victoria Woodruff
his estate and 'invited her to establish
a community of the right stamp.u
"Vickey," however, thinks seriously
of visiting NalcOur, and perhaps found
ing there Il unitary household.
Mr.. ii. T.. Hibbard, of Boston. for
merly of North Hero, expects to have
completed, about the lst of July, a fine
yacht, which is on the ways at Shell
burn Harbor. Her tonnage is estimated
at thirty tons, and she will carry about
400 yards of sail. Her cost will be
nearly $4,000.
Charles Pomcroy Button, OF Burling.
ton, proprietor of the "Newspaper
Reading Rooms" Union square, New
York, has suspended payment. Liza
bilitics over $40 900. The failure was
caused by the long continued depres-
sion in the oil trade and consequent de-
probation in oil securities.
Monday night some evil-disposcd
persons entered Battery Park, Builinp-
ton, broke down the railing around the
basin, broke the iron hcrons at the
base of the fountain and otherwise dis
figured it. The whole performance
was an act OF objectionable vandalism,
and the guilty parties should b~esevere-
ly punished.
The semi-annual meeting of the Ver-
mont State Medical Society will be
held at Good Templars' Hall, Burlinp-
ton, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June
10 and lG, inst. The programme en-
braces medical papers from DR.. PIatt,
of Shoreham DIR. Allen, of Rutland
obituary of DIR. L. ID. Warner, by DIR.
Butler; obituary of DR.. Hall, by DR.,
Branch, and other interesting papers.
Wednesday, the medical fraternity will
make n trip to Ausablc Chasm.
Hon. w. II. ii. Bingham, of the Mt.
Mansfield Hotel, Stowe, has signified
to the executive committee of the Vt.
Editors n Publishers Association, that
he would be pleased to receive such of
their members as desire to come, on
Thursday, the oath instant. The bill,
from Waterbury to the summit and re-
turn including n day and two nights,
will be only So. Parties intending to
go should notify j. NJ. Poland. secre-
tary pro TEN of the association, Mont
pelier. Circulars with full details will
be issued in n few days.
The Woodstock Standard SAYS that
on Monday, May 81, the wife of N. N.
Barrows, of South Royalton, in a fit of
insanity entered the barn where her
husband was alone shcaring sheep, and
watching her opportunity, gave him q
blow on the back of his head with n
pitchfork that brought him to the floor,
then returning to the house set fire to
it in several places. While the flames
were fast swallowing up the house and
its contents 1t was asccrtained hat she
had gone slyly across the field to the
fence, near the graveyard, and with a
f razor she had secured before leaving the
house, had cut her throat almost from
ear to cal.
Jonathan Gilky, of S%tratford, II Jew
eler, and n man very much rcspectedin
the community, committed suicide on
Friday of week before last. He had
: been thought TO he slightly deranged
for about six weeks, and had an idea
that he had committed n great wrong,
D and that public sentiment was against
S him. He was missed on that morning,
f and n note found in his shop confirmed
2 suspicious of his suicide. Search was
s made, and the body was found at con
t siderable distance from his residence,
G in a thick underground of hemlock,