The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-27
State NE IFS.

Nelson Spear, nine years old, was
drowned at Burlington while bathing,
Thursday.
The cost of the Burlington criminal
department during the past year was
$4,000 in addition to fines and cost.
The Bennington county union OF
Good Templars viii hold their quarter
ly session with Mystic lodge, at Pow
nal, August %.
The coming freshman class of Yer
mont University, at Burlington, will
probably number about thirty, includ-
ing six young ladies.
G.. IL. Saxby, of johnson, has been
arrested for adultery and for procuring
an abortion on Ella Barnes, of Hyde
Park, who is not expected to live.
A Pomfret man, who has Just been
sent to Jail on an execution, is the only
one who has patronized the institution
from that town for over fifty years.
DIR. James L. Little has been elected
to the chair of surgery in the Universi-
ty of Vermont, made vacant by the
resignation of Prof. Benja Howard.
st. Johnsbury bids fair TO become
the city of churches in Nermont-four
different societies are building edifices,
while fifth is moving in the same di-
rection.
J. b. Bowditch has resigned his posi-
ton as local editor of the Rutland Her
aid, and is succeeded by James f. Her
rick, of the last class in Williams col
lege,
A large number of Bennington coun-
ty soldiers will attend the reunion at
Brattleboro, August II, IS and 10. Ar
lington especially is to be largely rep
resented.
DIR. s. j. Allen, of White River
Junction, formerly surgeon of the 4th
Vermont regiment, has been appointed
medical director of the veteran soldiers
reunion at Brattleboro.
Speaker Blaine has been invited to
deliver the address at the state fair, to
be held i'm Rutland next fall. 1t is not
yet known that he Will accept the in
vitation.
The post office at Milton was entered
by burglars, Thursday night, and rob
bed of about $25 in change and postage
stamps. There is no clue to the rob-
bers.
w. f. Hazen, assistant cashier of
the Woodstock national Bank, is TO be
cashier of the new national bank at st.
Johnsbury, which starts, September ],
with a capital of 100000
OF the two young ladies who gradu-
ated at the University of Vermont, one
was the second in rank in the class,
and the other came out equal with a
voupu man for tbp third plncp
The publication OF the Farmstead,
Mr.. O. =. Bliss, of Georgia, editor and
proprietor, which was announced to
be commenced on the 9th of July, has
been postponed until August |.
George p. Marsh, United States min
lister to Italy, has presented the Uni
versity of Nermont's library valuable
collection of manuscripts of the 18th,
l4th and 18th centuries, some of them
handsomely rubricated.
The Troy Press says; Some of the
leading members of the Congregations
al church at Bennington have pur-
chased an elegant tea-set, ice pitcher,
silver cake basket, ETC., TO present TO
their pastor, Rev. DR.. G. b. Hubert.
The Burlington Sentinel says that
the tramp nuisance is getting to be I'M
bearable in that city. One of these va
grants so annoyed family recently
that they had to send for II policeman
to eject him.
The death of Mary A., only daughter
of +. S. Bracket, which occurred at
Brattleboro, Monday, at the age of
twenty-four years, causes great sorrow
to a large circle of friends, as she was
known and loved by the whole commu-
nifty.
The bankruptcy case of A. NJ. Clark,
of St. Adams, which has been pending
before the courts since February 10,
1870, has been finally concluded, Mr..
Clark liberated from Jail, and the as
signee, Hon. A. j. Samson, of st.
Adams, discharged.
A large barn belonging TO Mr.. Jesse
l.. Billings, of Rutland, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire on Thursday ev-
ening. The barn and its contents were
insured for SS25. While the barn was
burning the house was discovered to
have been set on fire, but was not much
injured.
There was a meeting in Warren, last
Tuesday evening, in the interest of the
Green Mountain Railroad. The route
| has been surveyed and found feasible
| from Wilmington as far as Granville.
| The surveying party worked through
Rochester, the week before, and pro-
nounced it very feasible route.
Four special professorships have been
| established at the University of Yer
mont, and titled as follows: DR.. ID. b.
| st. John Rosa, of New York, diseases
of the eye and ear; DIR. S. NJ. Roberts,
| of New York diseases of children DR..
| r. w. Taylor, of New York, diseases
of the skin DR. A. p. Grinnell, of Bur-
lington, diseases of the heart and lungs.
One of the unsigned notes stolen
from the First National Bank of Barre,
was detected at the redemption bureau
of the treasury department, last week
Monday morning. The signatures of
the bank officers had been affixed
though they were nothing like those
on the genuine notes. The note, which
was of the denomination of $40, was
received from Brooklyn bank.
The eldest son of Mr.. w. G. Walker,
of Rutland, committed suicide in Oak
land California, Tuesday, July 49,
} The young man left Rutland four oil
five weeks ago, and on his journey tC
tne west ms family nave repeatedly
received letters and postal cards repre-.
senting himself as being in perfect
health and keenly alive to the enjoy
ments of travelling in a new country
Temporary insanity was the cause
without doubt.
The petition for reduction of the
bail of Peter Alphonsos, the Barre bank
/, robber, has been denied, and, as it il
feared that, with the assistance of out
side friends, he may break Jail, the
governor has been petitioned to ordel
his removal to the state prison a
Windsor There is a chance that an.
other of the burglars may be captured
/, as the man who hired Montpelier
team, the evening before the robbery
was identified by an old acquaintance
as n German pawnbroker in Boston.
5 A petition was recently brought 10y
the Rutland railroa company to Chan