The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-10
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sumpsic railroad after September /.
The United States pottery at Ben.
nington has suspended operation in
consequence of the dull times.
Fairbanks & Co., of st. Johnsbury
recently received an order for eighteen
hay scales from the island of Java.
A flock of hens in Fairhaven have
been fed so much raw meat that they
kill and eat all the young chickens that
come among them.
Repairs are going Oh at Burr & Bur-
ton Seminary, and will include new
music rooms. Nearly $4,000 will be ex-
pended this vacation.
n. Munroe's strawberry crop at Bel
lows Falls this season, has been unusu-
ally fine and large, amounting to 1900
boxes, or almost 144 bushels.
r. S. Orne, who boards at the Iras-
burgh House, recently gave party to
the little girls in the village, and up
wards of forty little ones responded.
Daniel X. Bennett, a Montpelier
gunsmith, CO .nmitted suicide by shoot
Ing himself, Tuesday, on account of de-
preston caused by losses in the recent
fires.
Mrs. Col. King, of Bellows Falls, q
guest at the Atlantic house, Narragan-
sett Pier, r. l., while dancing last Sat
urday night, broke one leg In two
places.
Michael c. Hayes, the supposed Rut-
land flre-b bug, who has been in Jail for
the last three months, has been re-
leased on bail, and taken quarters at
the Bates House, Rutland.
Ex-Governor Fletcher, of Cavendish
is making his fortieth annual visit to
Saratoga. DR.. ]. Y. Dewey, of Mont
pelier, has just returned from bis thir-
tieth Wis it to the same resort.
Isaac Fancher, of Sandy Hill, q
prominent Millerite, announces, after
laborious figuring, that the world will
end July 4, 1876. This takes the wind
out of the centennial.
William Dodge, of Shire wsbury, q
brakeman on the Rutland railroad,
was seriously, and perhaps fatally, in
jured at Burlington, Tuesday night, by
falling from the top of the train.
Two burglars, who forced open the
safe of w. q. Elkin's store at North
Troy, Tuesday night, and afterward at
tempted to open the safe at the custom
house, have been arrested and locked
up for trial.
A couple of young ladies, of the
highest responsibility in Woodstock,
were chased to their homes from the
street. one evening last week, by
couple of insurance "drummers'' from
out of town.
Philip Town, of Gaysville, while
driving across the railroad track at
Bethel, the 26th ult was struck by
the cars and had his leg broken, while
his horse was instantly killed and his
wagon shattered
The trestle work al Quechee Gulf, on
the Woodstock railroad, has been COM
pleted and the erection of the bridge Is
up, 1t is said. will he the highest in
New England.
From 1860 to 1870 there was but q
gain of about $500 in the population of
Vermont, and this increase was sup
piled by small number of towns, the
city of Burlington furnishing nearly
one-half.
1t is 2l5 miles from Burlington to the
White Mountains by the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad, and when
the Burlington and Cambridge railroad
is completed it will only be oil miles
via the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad.
Heman NIagoon, eighteen years old,
was visiting his uncle, James Magoon,
of Troy, Orleans county, last week,
when he commenced bleeding a. the
nose. The bleeding continued without
cessation for several days, finally re-
sulting In death.
A fire broke out in barn adjoining
the residence of George II. Cheney, on
Main street, Rutland, Tuesday eve-
ming, consuming the barn and other
out-buildipgs, and damaging Cheney's
residence considerably insured in the
Vermont Mutual.
AT Rutland, where contract for
gravestones for the government ceme-
teres Is being filled, the inscriptions
are cut with sand blast Cast-iron
letters, like stencil plates, are attached
to the smooth slabs, and the blast does
the work so fast that 300 stones a day
are inscribed.
Col, Truman Lamson died in Ben
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was lightweight years old on the 10th
of June last From forty TO fifty years
ago he was the most celebrated rife
shot in America, and was probably
known by more men than any other
man in the country.
The Rutland Railroad Company, by
their solicitors, Simons & Walker, Of
Rutland, have filed bill in chancery
af l,nr 10
Franklin county court, in which they
pray for a recovery of their road and
leased roads from the Central Vermont.
The bill, with accompanying docu-
ments, covers over seventy printed
pages.
The seventh day adventsts of Yer
mont will hold camp meeting at Es-
sex Junction, August 10 to "a. Elder
James White and wife, of California.
will be among the speakers from
abroad. Free return tickets will be
given on the ground to those who come
over railroads controlled by the Central
Vermont, also the Passumpsic and
Southwestern roads.
Rev. Gemont Graves has resigned
the rectorship of st. James parish, Ar
lington, including st. James and Be-
thesda churches, in order to accept a
joint mission in the northern part of
the state. The resignation dates from
September |, and his family will re-
move about the middle of September.
; His new field will embrace the mis-
slons in the counties of Chittenden and
Lamoille, with head quarters near Bur-
lington.
The prizes for the firemen's muster,
to be held at Bennington on the 10th,
are four in number and are as follows
LIST prize. not more than sixty men on
brakes, $500 I'd prize, not more than
forty men on brakes, $3.50; Sd prize,
not more than forty men on brakes
SIS; hose prize, $50. The fire depart
ment of Bennington express their
intention of treating the visiting com
panies in the best possible manner, and
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