The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-22
STATE NE VS..

WIN. =. SOutnWOTtI, vi AOuocei lOl-
merly of Bennington is dangerously Ill,
Herman Stannard was found dead in
his bed Saturday, in Colchester.
Henry G.. Boardman, of Albany, is
defaulter, with liabilities amounting to
$4,000.
1t will soon he time for man who
has country seat TO go aud sit down
on it, Boston Post
Castleton is afflicted with five base
ball clubs, and the doctors are promised
a good run of business.
Mrs. Potter, of Leydeu, Mass was
instantly killed by being thrown from
n wagon at Guilford, the other day.
Solomon Eaton, OF Irasburgh, has
probably the largest hop yard in Yer
mont. He has 5000 hills, covering ten
acres.
Charles Goss, of Hardwick, reports
sales of ninety-six dozen of eggs since
March /, being the product of twenty
six hens.
Judge J. p. Bradley. of the United
States Supreme Court, has again leased
the Butler residence, i'm Stowe, for the
summer.
Eliza J. Whitney RECEIVERS $l7S3
damages from the town of Sharon for
injuries received from defective high
way.
Col Joel b. Erhardt, formerly of the
First Vermont cavalry is counsel for III.
b. Claflin g. Co., of New York, in their
great smuggling case.
1t is reported that the negotiations
for the lease of the Montpelier and
Wells River Railroad by the Passump-
sic have been abandoned.
The Bellevue Driving Park Associa-
ton offer $4,000 in premiums, to be
trOtted for on their new grounds in st.
Adams on the 9Th and 9TH of July..next.
John Allen, the Randolph incendia-
ry, was sentenced, Friday in the Or
ange county court, by Judge Powers, to
eighteen years in the state prison.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Randolph National
Bank of West Randolph, with capt.
tai of 100000, TO commence business.
The sum of $40, 900 has been secured
as q permanent fund for the State Nor
NAL School at Randolph, land n good
for the same purpose.
Wool is selling in Caledonia county
at forty cents for prime washed thirty
cents for unwashed. Prime fine comb
ing wool has been sold as high as for
| ty-two cents.
A dangerous counterfeit is reported
in the shape of five-cent nickel pieces.
They are reported to be made of the
genuine metal, and up to the proper
weight.
uA. mipe 81. naUHopGSe lli4h gsc,e,n g! Il,
Field, in Topsham, and good judges
think it valuable find, the state geol-
ogist pronouncing it very pure.
The Washington county and Dog
River Valley fairs will be held Tuesday
and Wednesday at Mortified, Thurs
day and Friday at East Montpelier,
September 2S, %, &c. and October /.
Silas Mason, Esq, of Hartwelville
recently caught, at Little Pond, ten
trout which weighed twenty pounds
One of the number weighed three
pounds and one fourth. Who beats
this?
The Vermont Eclectic Medical Socie-
ty held its tenth annual meeting in
Montpelier. June I'd and Sd. DIR. j.
M. Templeton, of Montpelier, was elect
ed president, and an interesting session
was held.
The Vermont Farmer says: "Mr.
and Mrs. A. E. Rankin aie expected
home early in July. We understand
Mr.. Rankin decides not to accept the
consulship at Messina, preferring YER
mont to Sicily"
The canker-worms are making sad
| Lo--eo viii, apPiU .nL ED,~". ,reeo il,
Franklin county, and'in some places
have collected in such large numbers
on the rails that railroad trains have
been nearly stopped.
The walls of the new Pavilion Hotel
ut Montpelier are finished, and the
Waterman says tive have never seen
"A building more substantially and du-
rably built. The work commands the
admiration of all who examine it,"
The Burlington manufacturing COM
pany have just received from New
York a boat load of Italian marble
blocks. The consignment is said TO be
the largest ever made in this part OF
the country mt one shipment.
All tAClluIlRt says tllat tIleIt is COLI
siderable gossip at Waterbury over the
recent marriage at the reform school
the parties being one of the boys, aged
IS years, and the cook, aged about 40
who has this lad for her third husband
Henry Church, respectable farmer
of Chester, shot himself with revol.
yer, Friday night, probably killing
himself instantly. He made his viii
on Thursday last. Two of his brothers
committed suicide few years ago. He
} was fifty-five years old, unmarried, and
lived alone.
The statement that Senator Ed
munds had given an opinion adverse
TO the Smith party in the Central Yer
{ mont Railway controversy is denied by
, Senator Edmunds rs n malicious false
hood. He was offered a retainer by thu
Page faction, which he declined TO ac
cept.
{ John II. Gates. who died at Benning
( ton on Friday, at the age of 81, afte
2 years of suffering from cancerous tn
: NOR, was native of Newfane, but re
v moved to Bennington in 1912, and has
been ever since one of its most promi
nent citizens, having held nearly al
: the municipal offices, rs well as serveC
u in the Legislature.
The Montpelier Journal says: "W
4 deeply regret to learn Of the decease b,
: his own hand. at Lincoln, Nebraska, O
It George l.. Williams, formerly Quar-
master Sergeant of the 18th Vernon
regiment. Unfortunate business enter
n prises had unsettled his mind, and
l. without doubt, led to the commission G
o the fatal act"
d From the reports submitted at the re
! cent session of the United States Gran
- Lodge of Good Templars, it appears tina
membership in Vermont has largel
decreased during the past year. Til
h order in the United States has now
le total membership of seven hundred an
r thirty-five thousand-a net gain for tn
st year of about seventy thousand.
~ VIM. Putnam, of Newfane, severed
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