The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-13
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Commencement at the University of
Vermont this week. President Buck
ham delivered the baccalaureate on
Sunday.
A lodge of Odd Fellows was insti-
tuted at Masonic hall, WInooski, on
Tuesday evening, by Grand Master
Retting, of BrattIeboro.
The proprietors of the celebrated Fair
fax spring have just completed repair
ing the spring house and fitting up the
adjoining grounds.
Bishop DeGoesbriand administered
the right of confirmation TO forty-one
boys and girls nj ST. Mary's church, st.
Adams, Friday.
The report that Gen. Butler has been
selected TO deliver the Grafton at the
Vermont soldiers reunion ut Brattle-
boro, in August, is denied.
Richard II. Manning, Henry G. Fisk
and Scion T.. Carpenter, of Vermont,
have been appointed TO first class clerk
ships In the patent Office.
Among the horses i'm training for the
Hampden park races, at Springfield,
Mass, is very promising four-years-
old stallion owned by Richard Bradley,
of Brattleboro.
Fred. Chambers attempted to violate
the person of Hattie Hubbard, of Jeri-
cho, last week, but after quite II strug-
gle she escaped from him. Chambers
has disappeared.
Jones Ferris, of Brook field has eloped
with Mrs. Ralph Deity, of Mortified,
hi stciA lnx
debts, wife and two small children.
Winter still fingers in some parts of
the state there are eight inches of solid
ice in the well of G. &. Rollins, at New
port, while at Westfield, n few days
ago, Thomas Trumpass sugared of, and
had plenty of snow TO do it with.
During the storm of Friday after
noon, lightning struck the fence on the
north side of Lake View cemetery,
Burlington. A man who was grinding
scythe in II barn near by received so
severe shock as TO almost PROSTATE
him.
Willard Gorham, who died at Hyde
Park, Mass, last Friday, at the age of
60, was native of Dover, for many
years in business at Wilmington, and
was widely known and esteemed. One
brother, Eleazer Gorham, of Whining
ton, known throughout the state, sur
wives him.
Richard Shinney, workman en-
ployed in the Columbian marble mill,
Rutland, had his hand injured Thurs
day afternoon a gang had just been
| raised and the marble removed from it,
when ii fell on Shinney's left hand,
taking the second finger entirely Oft
and badly bruising the third.
1t is rumored that the action of Dr.
s. 5. Fitch against the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company, in which he
claimed $40, 600 damages for injuries
sustained al the accident at Shushan,
on the Rutland and Washington rail-
road, in March, 1873, has been settled
by the payment of $4,000.
Hon. Asa Reynolds, of Alburgh,
drew about 81 900 from bank, Thurs
day, at st. Adams, and prepared to go
home on the noon train. At the ticket
office he asked for a pen to endorse a
| draft, and ii seems that the amount be-
| ing wrapped in Il newspaper, he forgot
to take it when he turned to go, and
| that was the last seen of ii.
A divorce case of long standing, be-
| tween DIR. William and Catherine How
ard, of West Fairlee, in which over one
hundred witnesses appeared, was ter
minated in the Orange County Court,
Saturday, by Il bill granting Mrs. How
ard the custody of her minor hnnghtar.
900 alimony, and 500 in trust to
| the child.
| During the thunder shower Friday
afternoon, a water spout was seen in
| the lake at Burlington, just outside the
break Ii was estimated to be
about thirty feet in diameter, and
reached from the water to the clouds.
The water spout moved slowly north
ward, and was lost TO view behind
Rock Point.
The survey of the proposed railroad
connecting with the Rutland and Bur.
lington railroad at Mount Holly, and
running to Montpelier. has begun, and
subscription books are circulated with
good success. Wilmington and Jack
sonville pledging $40, 900 in two days
Mr.. Sprague is now surveying in the
town of Granville.
The first full postalcar used on TIL,
Central Vermont railroad has just beef
completed at the company's car-work'
in st. Adams, for the through line be
tween that town and Boston. 1t is Al
feet long, is divided into two compart
ments separated by folding doors, ant
white ash and black walnut.
The Wellesley college for women, a
Northampton, Mass, which Mr.. Henry
+. Durant, of Boston, has founded anl
built at cost of So, 900, 900, will be for
mally opened on Sept. s. Miss Mar,
A. Burnham, for three years past pre-
ceptress of the Rutland high school, il
to be- one of the corps of instructors, ant
there will be at least one Rutlant
r young lady among the students.
AT the late editorial meeting on tn
summit of Mount Mansfield. while AT
kins, of the Argus, was delivering hi
= address, a violent thunder storm visite,
= the mountain, and its almost deafenin
roar obliged Mr.. Atkins to suspend
5 Whereupon Earle, of the Morrisvill
4 Citizen, remarked that ait was not til,
e first time in history that the devil ha
had to surrender when the Almight
: spoke"
Sixty-lhree persons joined the Sout
Congregational church of st. Johns
u bury, Sunday, the 4th inst and thirty
> four united with the North Congrega
u tional church. As u fruit of the recer
revival in that town, 395 persons hav
4 been added to its various churches sine
v January, the Methodist church receiN
o ing 60, the Free Baptist rs, the Mort
: Congregational 40, and the South Con
| prepational l47
s The job of completing the Portlan
and Ogdensburg road east, from Wei
q Concord to the Connecticut river,
. progressing rapidly. The rails are a
o ready bought an | in Boston, and I'll
Il work of laying them down will be b,
e gun very soon. The Portland Poop
q promised to have the bridge done {
n soon as the Vermont division was read
to use il, and IT is expected they will
only too glad to do SO,
Il Tho DWELLING house and Outbulilini