The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-29
STATE NE HIS.
The present is the greatest strawberr,
season for many years.

season for many years.
Rev. It. e. Ranney, of the Congrega-
tional church at North Troy, resigns.
The people of West Haven deny that
there have been any murders or pois- |
oning cases in that town.
The Eddy humbug Is not yet explod- |
ed, and it is said that Esprit Nalen is
thronged with with credulous pilgrims.
David Palmer has been appointed
postmaster at Jericho, David X. Sim
onds at Manchester, ana a ndrew Lance
at South Woodbury.,
BY the stoppage of the knitting mills
in Bennington it is estimated that more
than four hundred persons will be
thrown out of employment. ~
Miles A. Wyman, of Chester, charged
with rape upon his step-daughter, Adj
die Williams, ten years old, has been
sentenced to twelve years in Windsor
state prison.
The senior class of the Burr & Burten1
Seminary, Manchester, have commence
ed the publication of an eight-page
quarterly paper, called The Seminary
Courant.
r.. l.. Perkins, of Rutland, and Mr.
Daggett, Il California miner, are blast
ing for lead and silver ore, on top of
the mountain between Rutland and
Pittsfeld. They find rich deposit,
Mrs. Park, wife of r. w. Park, of
Bennington, died Monday afternoon, at
Brooklyn, n. Y. Her remains were In
tered in Greenwood Cemetery on
Thursday afternoon.
Notwithstanding the hard times, the
Fairbanks scale works at st. Johns
bury have shipped, since January |,
$500 more scales than for the CORE.
spending five months of last year.
Mr.. o. S. Bliss, of Georgia, announ-
ces n new agricultural paper, to be
printed at Georgia. The first number
is to be issued on the 9th of July, and
is to be called the Vermont Farmstead.
Ex-Governor Page and wife arrived
home at Rutland about ten O'Clock on
Saturday evening. The governor came
in his own carriage from White River
Junction by way of Woodstock.
A very sudden and sad bereavement
has fallen upon the family of Mr.. Hor-
ace Earle, of Wallingford, in the death
of his estimable wife, who died quite
suddenly about one o'clock Saturday
morning.
Col Charles II. Joyce, of Rutland,
has received and accepted an invitation
to deliver the annual Grafton before the
officers reunion society of Vermont,
which holds its anniversary at st. AL
bans some time in the fall.
The Bennington News says that in
rom owing sonao bodies from the cerne-
terry, in that town, the body of Mrs.
Bartlett, buried some twelve years ago,
was found to be petrified, weighing five
hundred pounds.
BRANDoN.-Of course temperance
editor has just as good right to go into
a saloon and come out again as any
other man; but it is of doubtful pro-
priety for him to wipe his mouth as he
comes out upon the street. Better go
through with that ceremony before he
opens the door.
A number of the pupils of Miss
| Mary A. Burnham and the members of
her Sabbath school class gathered at
| the residence of her mother Rutland,
| Saturday. The members of the high
school presented her with an elegantly
bound edition of Thackeray in six vol
umes, on the occasion of her severing
her connection with the high school.
Park Davis, Esq, of St. Adams, and
his wife and daughter, were the guests
during the masonic festival at North
chairman of the states prison board OF
directors. The judge concluded to re-
lease him from custody, and Mr. Davis
returned to st. Adams on Friday
| .>;iA
The st. Adams Messenger says "In
| the case of William Sohier ct al VS., j.
| Gregory Smith ct al, brought i'm the
United States Circuit Court, to test the
validity of the stock issued for the pur-
poses of carrying the last election Of di-
rectors of the Central Vermont Railroad
Company, an Injunction was granted,
restraining the defendant as prayed for
| in the bill:
The "Three-score-and-te society," of
Stowe held its second annual meeting
| at the Univelsalist church, last Thurs
day, Rev. ID. Hall, of Morrisville,
preaching the sermon. AS its name
| implies, all the members, 81 I'm number,
are over 20 years old, one, Mrs. Mona
hon, Is 100, and two are SO and 81 re-
spectivelv.
A countryman purchased new hat
at Burlington store, the other day,
leaving his old one with the merchant
who kicked it under the counter. The
next day the customer came back and,
after polling about among the rubbish,
| found the old hat, and, turning down
the band, took out II $50 bill, quietly
remarking: % came pretty near for
getting where ] put that money"
We have received copy of the new
compiled school law. 1t was prepared
by Mr.. Davis, of Reading, In accord
ance with an act of the last legislature,
| and will prove of great value for the
use Of all school officers throughout the
state. II is put up in Q convenient and
portable form, and il properly distrib-
uted will remove all excuse for igno-
| rance of the school laws. -
Y A young man named Charles Ron
| deau, about twenty years of age, was
drowned in Otter Creek, at Brandon,
about noon, Sunday, while bathing.
| He attempted to swim across the creek,
but when about thirty feet from shore
| it is supposed he became exhausted and
sank. He rose to the surface twice,
making no struggles, His body had
not been recovered at $50 p. NJ.
During the storm of Thursday night
the wind struck strong oak tree near
the Barnes bridge in Pittsford, break
ing it entirely from the stump. Next
il tore about fifty slate from the roof of
the Congregational parsonage. The
unfinished house of a Mr.. Purdy, just
across the street, was twisted on its
| foundations three or four feet A stick
of timber eight inches square and
twelve feet long was lifted into the air
and landed in potato field at some dis
lance. One side of pine tree standing
in a Chimp of trees wGs entirely strip
ped of its branches, while on the other
side every limb remains intact
Vermont boys took the three highest
prizes at ID artmouth college, week be-