The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-28
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Somebody has been trying to form q
council of the secret order of the Amer
lean Union at Rutland bui with poor
success.
Job Bates, AGED scventy-nine years,
a respected citizen of Chester and suo-
cessful farmer. died on Friday from q
paralytic shock.
The students of the L. V. NJ. have
commenced the publication of BIZ
monthly paper, under the slang title Of
"Winnowings from the Mill"
Rev. :. II. Wheeler, son of Rev. o.
Z. Wheeler,of Grand aisle, has been Or
dained and installed pastor of the Wa
terbury Congregational church.
The next annual fair of the State
Agricultural Society will be held on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
September 10, Is and il, 1876.
East Swanzoy has had an excitement
over the flight of Edward Woodward,
pail manufacturer, with considerable
money and without paying $4,000
bills
Mrs. Laura Barnes, n daughter of the
late Edward Dyer of Rutland, died at
the residence of her son in Fairhaven,
on Friday, at the age Of scvenly-one
wears.
Tho Advertiser understands that
Rev. w. II. Hoyt, formerly of the
Episcopal church, is soon to be or
dained as priest in the Roman Cath
Ollie church.
The university Of Vermont at Bur-
lington has 1873 students, of whom
ninety-one are undergraduates fif-
teen of them ladies' and siXty-two
medical students.
Wood is selling at st. Adams for fif-
ty cents less, this winter, than before
for many years. But this is a decline
OF only nine or ten per cent, while wa
ges have dropped from fifteen TO fifty
per cent
a domestic at taslleton unlocked
paddock and put ii in her mouth, on q
Geld morning, recently, and it took q
good deal of time, warm water and sew
eral. Christian graces before her tongue
was liberated
George q. Hunt, paymaster of the
Central Vermont railroad, who had q
severe operation performed upon q
cancerous cheek, last summer, does
not improve as was expected. and fears
are entertained for his life.
A lamp recently exploded on table
at the Bennington House in Benning-
ton. AS the table began to burn, ii
cracked glass globe Containing wa
ter and n goldfish, which put out the
flames before they were discovered.
The meeting of the Vermont dairy
mems association at the town hall in
Rutland, January 10, 20 and u, prom
lses TO be one of the best ever held.
The programme is an excellent one
and there is good prospect of a large
attendance.
The Sun Shining Mining Company,
of which Rev. DR. Newman of Poult-
ney is president are getting returns
from their Colorado mines. Last
week, S403 bar of gold was received,
produced from the mine known as Spe-
Gle Payment.
The Vermont Register for 1875, pub
lished by the Claremont Manufacture
ing Co., is now in the stores for sale.
1t is well printed and aside from its
business directory, it contains an as
tonishing amount of statistical nfor-
nation for its small price
There Is case, Adams versus War
ner, pending in the Windsor county
court of chancery which was begun in
1911. Heirs have been born into it, and
heirs have died out of it, and LAWYERS
who were retained in the case have
died, and new ones been substituted.
He. Williams of Bradford, a wife.
a hnainu VI rafah norpin1 tIt,,.,c E..
as to get his wife into the insane asy-
lum at Concord, where she was secret
Y confined until some Bradford citi-
zens, learning the facts by accident,
liberated her by legal process, last
week
A young lady of Rutland, not liking
the idea of her fathers spending all
his own and her money for drink, tied
his hands and feet together with bed
cord, and, having considerable muscle,
transported him into an upper cham
Der, where he had twentv-four hours
to mediate.
a team belonging TO Henry Jane
son got into the ice, while crossing
from Windmill Point to Rouse's Point,
on Saturday, the 18th They were in
the water about an hour and were
nearly dead when extrioated. The ice
at that place always fails early if the
water in the lake is high.
OF the four brass cannon captured in
the battle Of Bennington. two are in
the state house at Montpelier; another
is somewhere in New Hampshire, from
which state large number of troops
came with their commander, Stark, to
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follow and capture Burgoyne and his
army a: Saratoga.
The opening of the Portland and Og-
densburg railroad to Johnson was eel
ebrated, last week, by large party
from Portland, who went over the
road, passing the night at st. Johnsbu-
ry. There are now 19l miles of the
road running from Portland, the Bos-
ton, Concord and Montreal track he.
ing used from Fabyan's to SCOTS
Mills.
George Welcome, confined in Jail at
vt. Adams, and who attempted to es-
cape last Thursday, made another at
tempt Saturday and succeeded. He
had been furnished some powerful acid
by outside parties. by means of which
he SO weakened the iron bars of his
window that he was enabled to wrench
them off. He was pursued, but man
aged to get over the Canada line.
The Rutland railroad company hai
petloned for an injunction to restrain
molestation, if it shall repossess it,
road for breach of condition also tc
restrain the Central Vermont from
preventing the Cheshire and Conneo
ticut River railroads from paying
monthly balances according to the
lease also for an order to'compel tn,
Central to give security for arrears o
rent.
Ludlow had heavy liquor seizure
one day last week, the ardent taker
being valued at some six hundred dol
lars. The Ludlow House was the suf
ferer. The seizure was made by
J posse of officers from Plymouth, ant
the Ludlow Gazette plaintively com
plains that 1--WE send n delegation o
the Young Mems Christian Association
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