The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-23
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military institute have the humps.
Work has begun on the Lamollle
valley railroad at Cambridge and Shell
don.
Prof J. w. Churchill reads at Bran
don this evening. He read at Orwell
last evening.
Rutland IL moving for public libra
~ and Is likely to make a success of
the enterprise. .
Lester A, Miller assistant postmaste
at Woodstock for foriy-three years, has
retired on account ofill-health
VIM. Rogers of Topsham lost a horse
last week, valued at $3.50, by her get
ting hung by the halter in the stable.
Gen. George p. Foster, United States
marshal, is confined TO his house In
Burlington by a severe attack of cry.
sipelas.
The diptheria epidemic at South
Vernon has spread to an alarming ex-
tent, and there have already been sew
en- deaths.
One of Rutland's merchants was mis-
taken for tramp al the residence Of
relative, by the servant girl who didn't
know him, last week.
Mrs. w. H. Peck, of st. Adams, was
struck by runaway hack, Monday
night of last week, and so badly In
jured that she died in few minutes.
The Berwick House, Rutland, had n
small fire, Sunday evening, which
would have been large one but for
prompt action on the part Of the fire
companies.
A further reduction in the number
of employees in the Central Vermont
shops at st. Adams Is announced, ow-
ing to the financial embarrassment Of
the management.
The house of Frank E. Cuts, situa-
ted In the east part of Barre, near Or
ange. was burnt the 18th inst, togeth-
err with the shed and several bushels
of oats, which ii contained.
The statement of Robert Fitton,
wooden manufacturer and bankrupt.
of Cavendish, that he had been robbed
of Sl4, 900 while in Montreal, was
ruse. The money was not stolen, and
will be put into his estate.
Miss Eta S. Adams of Pomfret, who
has been teaching at Cambridge for
several years, has accepted an appoint
ment as teacher in the Royal normal
institute in London, England, and
sailed from New York on the 9th.
The important question, whether
the state courts have Jurisdiction of
cases where a national bank i. n party,
came up at Montpelier, Tuesday the
court holding that they had, but the
matter will be carried up TO the su-
preme court.
! General II. H, Baxter and family
left Rutland for New York Friday,
where they are to take up their quar-
ters for the winter. The general has
recently purchased a fine residence on
Fifth avenue, and will, we understand,
take possession of the same at once,
The Central Vermont has just pro-
muIgated stringent order in regard to
passes, or rather, free riding over its
roads. Hereafter no employe of the
road can ride over it without pass.
This order applies to conductors, engi-
neers and station agents, as we'll as to
minor employees.
The Baptists of Vermont have con-
tributed to foreign missions during the
past year $4,000. an average of forty
seven cents to each member, being a
larger average than that of either
Maine, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mich
igan or Wisconsin.
Gfhass sa aad SSng ls4ae iaa
other day. Richardson was hit in the
leg and Chase's hair was parted in the
middle, but neither was seriously in
ured. Richardson ran away, Chase
declines to prosecute, and this proba-
bly, ends the affair.
Reuben GetcheH Of st. Johnsbury
had an educated dog which knew how
to kill sheep. He gave an exposition
of his method in the flock of John Ba-
con End, and Immediately afterwards
the flock inventoried two short. Soon
after he got into the cold lead business,
and that ruined him.
Mr.. Larkin g. Mead, of Brattleboro,
the sculptor, has recently sent to
America the statue of Ethan Allen,
which is the gift of the state of Yer
mont to the Capitol at Washington. A
Florence letter to the New York indie
pendent says it Is considered by ma.
ny Italians to be the best work of its
kind sent across the Atlantic. 1t will
first he exhibited in New York, and
then in Philadelphia. ut the centenni-
al.
merous in Lake Champpiafnn at fPGrSeseht'
and furnish rare attractions to sports
men. Geese are also putting in theil
appearance. In the Adirondacks the
deer are very abundant and are in fine
condition and the hunters are having
a rich harvest, One day last week, q
young hunter sold at Port Henry sixty
dollars worth of venson. the product
of three deer which he had shot q short
time before.
The tragedy in Felchville, some
three months since, when Mrs. Eb
enezer Densmore attempted The muir
der of her three children, will be re
membered by our readers. She soor
after left. and no trace, so far. of hel
wanderings have been known. 1
has since died, and the body is Ell
route for home. No particulars of tn,
cause or manner Of her death hav,
been received.
Curley's wife and little girl are com
. Ing here to visit him early in Deem
her, and will stay till after New Years
They hav6 engaged rooms at tho Cen
trail house. Curley IL very mucl
pleased. The Now York sun had ,
sensational asoount, last week, of Cur
ley's life, in which 1t credited him will
, being worth two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. and being the very
prince of burglars. 1t il believed tina
, Miles friends are at the bottom o
these ridiculous stories, in which u
give people the idea that he was Cur
ley's tool, which Ia "too thin, Mont
: pelier Journal.
l Mics Elizabeth Story OF Fairfax wa
assaulted by negro tramp near Nortl
Georgia, Thursday forenoon, whil'
r walking to the station. She resisted
{ him aud screamed, and Just as he hat
nearly oyerpowered her a neighbo
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