The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-28
COUNTY NEWS.
NEW HAVEN.

Mr.. Il. A. Smith, of New Haven,
has had to have one Of his fingers ampu-
tated He has had bad hand all sum.
mer and has been a great sufferer.
j. w. Flint, at New Haven Mills,
is doing an extensive business in the
manufacture Of wagons, sleighs, etc. lie
has good workmen and the results are
superior products.
Tho house of Mr.. Byron Pollard,
who lives on what is known as tho "old
Wheeler place." in Fast New Haven, was
totally consumed by fire Wednesday
night, together with large barn and con-
tents and all out.buildiugs. Mr.. Pollard
and wife were away attending a grange
meeting and left little or no fire in the
stove, ana its origin remains a mystery.
they lose all their clothing and furniture
in the house, there being nothing saved
A neighbor ran and liberated the cows,
the only stock saved. Tho barn was a
large one aud was well filled with bay,
which was totally destroyed. Mr.. Pol.
lard will feel tho loss severely, coming,
as it does, in the middle Of winter. The
amount of insurance is estimated at about
$500. \
Died in New Haven, December /,
oil heart disease, Mrs. Mary Hunt, aged
so years and | months. She was born
in Bramford, Conn, January IS, 1795,
and came to Vermont at the ago of
twenty, where she married. two years
later, Harry Hunt, who, after fifty. eight
years of welded life, still survives. She
united with the Congregational church in
Georgia, VT, Rev. Mr.. Dorman, pastor,
and on her removal to New Haven trans.
ferred her relationship to the latter place.
The subject Of this notice was TO the very
last woman Of unusual energy, yivacity
and natural intelligence. She possessed
heart 30 warm, tender and unselfish
that her presence was like the shadow of
a great rock in a weary land To the
poor, sick and afflicted she was like q sis.
ter Of mercy, and none but angelic eyes
Lave witnessed all her acts OF self.forget.
lulness and devotion Genial, benefcent
and with a gracious hospitality, her quiet
sphcic wa, digniiiod 10y devotion to duty
l. hch consccrated every act and renders
hci memory sacred heritage to children
and friends -Four Of her children pre-.
cedcd her, aud of the five remaining one
only, the widowed eldest daughter, was
permitted to minister to the beloved
mother IN her last illness. For sixteen
days aud nights She kept her lonely vigil
With uuremitting devotion, took the last
loving messages to the absent ones, and
watched the spirit plume itself for its up
wasd flight But" said the mother,
with word, Of tender good. bye, lit is all
| right, God knows when to take mo home"
In the presence of life so unsclfsh, so
loyal to duty, to tho right, and her God,
how wealth. power and fame sink into
utter nothnguoss Such are the world S
true hcroincS, who deal with the yerities
OF life and render possible everything
tina; is admirable and Christ like. Those
who loved her know that while the worn
out body sinks TO rost beneath the win.
ter's SHOWS, the purified spirit, ocstatic
with the opening glories Of immortal life
only waits few years at most, to wei.
come them to that eternal home which
she nhabits. For We joyfully know "Oj
'uch il the kingdom of heaven -