The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-06

Uncle Daniel Curtis of Dorset, 81
years old, is the oldest postmaster in the
State, having been in office over 40
years.
Wilmington is the banner town Of New
England for the manufacture of maple
sugar, having record Of 1877 tons in one
scaaon.
Major A. B. Valentine Of Benning,
ton has given $4,000 to the school fund,
to provide additional teachers and appa-
ratus for the schools
Clifford IIeseton of Weston, accus-
cd of killing his newborn child, has been
examined and committed for murder, for
trial before the county court.
The post office at Castlcton has been
in the hands of the Moutons for the past
So years, Samuel having held it 80 years,
Cullen 10, and William, the present in.
cumbent, Is.
E. B. Batchelder, of West Randolph,
is in trouble. He was a widower and
woood and won widow, and then anoth-
or, and, still again, a third, whom he fin-
ally married. And now widows l and 2
arc after him with breach of promise suits
for $4,000 and SIC, 1000 damages, respec-
lively. while rumors hint at third. also
deceived, who will bring suit if the 9TH
ers recover.
The n1w Catholic school house on
Walnut street, Brattlcboro, will be ready
for occupancy by the middle Of May. 1t
is "a feet by 60, and two stories high.
The priest is pushing its completion with
vigor, though it is generally understood
that many Of the parents are averso to
to his policy, preferring that their chill
dren should attend the public schools.
DR.. All King, a young Chinaman,
said to be a son Of one of the richest tea
merchants in Pekin, who has been doing
a thriving business as a doctor in the viii
lago of Lansingburgh, N. Y, was arrest.
ed at Rutland last Saturday night, for
being too much married, he being the
fortunate possessor Of the undivided af-
fections of two "Melican" ladies.
"A young man named Gilbert got on
a tear at West Randolph, the other night,
turned his family out of doors, and fol-
lowed them up with the furniture, keep
ing off the neighbors who tried to inter-
fere with double-barreled shot gun.
Next day he bought six-sh ooter, and,
after bullying the town for several hours,
took the cars for Chicago.
Rutland is excited over case of
small pox which has appeared in its midst
John w. Champion, proprietor Of the
Bardwell House. was recently taken i'll,
his disease being pronounced scarlet
fever. 1t was afterwards discovered to
be small pox. and stampede from the
infested house was the result. The other
hotels refused to accommodate the
frightened boardcrs, and they we're
obliged to domicilc in Offices, stores, etc.
M. A. Hitchcock, who recently do.
faulted his bail before the Rutland county
court, became violently insane, the other
day, and attacked his family with razor.
They managed to escape from him, when
NC udIucsbCu HIS uUTbc W d WdROu uiu
started on q run to Brandon, followed by
two men, who captured him just as he
was rushing into his daughters house
with the razor. He is now in jail, and
will be taken to the Brattleboro insane
hospital.
MIR. Henry Fassett, of West Enos-
burgh, has sold during the past season of
eleven months, from dairy of eleven ma.
tive COWS, 2,346 lbs. Of butter, besides
supplying family Of four persons all the
time, and five persons five months Of the
time with milk and butter. This dairy,
two of which were heifers Of the first
years milking, were fed no grain in the
summer and none in the fall until the
grass was nearly gone, then feeding about
two quarts of meal per COW until they
were dried off. His dairy Melted him
GELS, being q fraction ovor ga per COW.
So much for natives, which we think is
hard to be beaten even where there is
sprinkllng Of that famous Jersey blood,