The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-27
State NE US.


Montpelier. A meeting of the direct
ors is called for April %.
Twenty-seven hundred dozens of
straw hats passed through st. Adams,
in bond, Friday, from Montreal, con-
signed to firm in New York.
Since October last, tweity-seven
funerals have been held in Stock bridge.
Nearly all the deaths were occasioned
by pneumonia and scarlet fever.
Dyer Leflingwel has been appoint.
ed postmaster at Middletown, VI. l..
NJ. Lewis at North DuXbury, and L.J.
Benjamin at South Woodbury..
A sad accident occurred in Dandy on
the Sth inst. Mr.. Abner Tarbell was
crushed 10y falling tree, while chop
ping, and lived but few hours.
The New York Sun, in its account
of the Concord celebration, speaks of
st. Adams crack company as the
magnificent Ransom Rangers"
Mr.. II. j. Hinckley crossed the
Lake on the ice, last Wednesday, from
Essex, n. V, to Charlotte, with six
passengers. The ice was in good con-
dition.
An unoccupied house, corner of
Pearl and North streets, Rutland, own
| ed by John Hynes ami valued at 81, 900
was destroyed by fire last week Mon
| day night
The Springfield Republican says :
| St. Adams parties are negotiating for
| the purchase of the Burlington Free
| Press and Times, with view TO change
| the editor.
The National Bank and Savings In
stitution at Bellows Falls are about to
commence the erection of large three
story biick block for the accommodate
ton of their business.
A Brandon boy, named Grover, re-
Gently tried to initiate William Tell in
his famous apple-bow- and-arrow scene,
but failed of success and sent the arrow
INTO Whitmore boys eye.
The sporting element of Burlington
contemplate grand shooting match
near the city the coming summer.
Handsome prizes will be offered, and
an interesting time may he expected.
| The sons and daughters of Vermont
in Fitchburg, Mass, are soon to hold a
meeting to perfect an organization
similar to the one in Worcester. The
number already registered is sixty
eight.
Flair, the Rutland murderer, i.
kept in a cell eight ~ four feet in size
and all the exercise he gets is when Il,
is taken to the barber-shop, once 6
week, to be shaved. He thinks it''
hard luck
The books of the law library asso
citation at Burlington are To he PLACED
in the same building with the Fletcher
public library, and, possibly, Gov
Peck may deposit his valuable law
library there.
Judge Royce, on the occasion of tn,
recent admission of two young gentle
men to the Franklin county bar, re
marked to them when they prcsenteC
themselves, that they had started OF
the road to poverty
The listers of Worcester took tn,
census of The town while taking til,
list, this spring, and found Il gain o
seventeen since the last United State
census-there now being seven hund
red and ninety-two inhabitants.
| More than seventy persons, abou
half of whom are heads of families
have been converted during the reviva
at Royalton. The religious interes
manifested there recently has beer
greater than has teen known for years
Fairfax was iiGoialyS u@ P{f25lsn MIL 81 a
Monday afternoon of last week, whicl
caught from the accidental bleaking O
81 900 TO 5000, partially covered by
insurance in Atlas and Vermont Nh
tual.
A serious, and it is feared, fatal acct
dent, befell Mr.. Frank II. Winchester
of Pawlet, Sunday morning, April II
He fell from hay loft, it is reported
on the tines of a pitchfOrk, which pene
trated his abdomen. The attending
physician gives no encouragement thai
he will recover.
Cora Green, a sweet tempered miss
of st. Johnsbury, fourteen years old
got huffy the other day, because hel
parents insisted on her knitting when
she didn't want to, and made two at
tempts to become an angel by taking
croton oil. The proper remedies were
applied and she is still in this world OF
knitting and sorrow,
A three year old son of David John.
son, of Tunbridge, fell into deep well
the other day, but lodged on the bucket
which was partially lowered. The
mother attempted to draw him up, tel
ling him to cling on, but when almost
within her reach the little fellows
strength gave out, and falling to the
bottom, thirty feet, he was killed.
VIM. Lapeer, of East Enosburg, went
TO his brother-inlaw' house in the
night, while he was away, and tied his
(the brother-in-law's wife's hands and
outraged her person. For week she
carried the marks of his abusive treat
ment on her wrists and arms When
| charged with the crime, lie did not
deny it, but gave his brother-in- law
| gave bill of his horse. harness. &C..
for security Richford Sentinel.
In view of the Both day of April be-
ing fixed upon as a day of fasting and
prayer by the friends of temperance in
England, the Womans' National Chris
ton Temperance Union unite with
them to observe the Goth of April as n
day of humiliation, fasting and prayer,
in behalf of temperance in our land.
Societies are requested TO observe the
day by holding all-day prayer meetings
and mass meetings, and ty doing such
other work as the Spirit may prompt.
Miss Mary Clancy. n domestic in
the employ of DIR. J. Y Dewey, of
Montpelier, committed suicide in the
residence of the latter, about noon, on
| Wednesday of last week, by hanging.
She was about thirty years of age, and
had lived n number of years in that
village, where she had many friends.
She was a worthy. respected girl, and
no cause, unless depression occasioned
by religious excitement. can he assign
ed for the rash act. Her family live in
the Coke Brook nelghhOrhood, in More
town. \
The death of Miss Carrie T., Hitch,
| cock, of Brandon, aged sixteen years, is
an affective event which has called
forth much sympathy and has made a
profound impression upon her young
friends and schoolmates. She died on
Sunday afternoon after painful illness
of three months which she hOra with