The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-11
,ST.ATE We ITS.

n $. Warner, of Sutherland rails,
took two hundred and twenty-five
pounds of honey from a single hive
week before last.
A night mail service, with agents for
distribution, commenced on the first oil
NAV. between st. Albans and Boston,
via the Central Vermont Railroad.
Out in Wilmington they say that
"the only drawback TO living in Yer
mont is, that we have to drag round on
bare ground about three months in a
year"
Rutland was visited by a very heavy
thunder storm sunday morning last
The lightning struck the marble shop
of Geo. +. White, but did no very seri-
Gus damage.
The bridge over Queechee Gulph on
the Woodstock Railroad will be the
highest in New England. Exact meas
urement from the rocks in the river
bed to the track one hundred and sixty
three feet.
DIR. M. c. Edmunds. state commits
sioner of fisheries, is now engaged in
the work of taking black bass from
Lake Champlain for the purpose of
stocking ponds in the eastern part of
the state.
Geo. L. Walker, of Ludlow, has a
pair of bullet mouths which his grand
father run bullets in at the battle of
Bunker Hill. The moulds are brass,
and have four cavities in them, of diff
ferent size.
Barna A. Clark's store house, in
Brattleboro opposite the freight depot,
gave out Mt the foundation, the other
| day, and some fifty tons of goods went
down the bank among the rocks and
| into the river.
On the 22d, ult., little daughter of
George Miller got II revolver belonging
to her father, and while playing with
1t it was discharged, the ball passing
through the fleshy part of her thigh,
but not doing serious injury.
There is n disorder prevalent among
the cows in Chelsea, that Is causing
much uneasiness, no one seeming to
know what it is or what to do. The
cows have a listless, lifeless way of
moping round, and continually losing
flesh without any apparent reason.
Three children died of smallpox in
Montpelier on the Goth ult., and were
buried in the night following, and two
other members of the same family hay e
it. The authorities have taken measures
to confine it to the house in which it
now is. A woman from Montreal
brought the disease.
Dan Higgins, of Bellows Falls, was
walking outside of some ardent, the
other day, when Officer Phelps under
took to arrest him. Dan resisted stoutly
and struck the officers face, causing
the claret to flow freely from the same.
He was incarcerated long enough TO re-
pent and then let off with n fine of five
dollars and costs.
the ponce court, Rutland, on Tuesday
morning, Tor an attempt to take the life
of John Sullivan, at Lovell's house,
West Rutland, on Sunday evening last,
by shooting Sullivan with q revolver
in drunken row. The court contnu-
ed the case until Monday, May TO- The
bonds were fixed at 81 500, and in de-
fault of bail the prisoner was commit
te to await his trial.
On the 10th ult., Samuel w. Bent,
c. II. Hammond and Alfred Walker,
all of Cavendish, were fined with costs
for selling liquor as follows: Bent $685.
o., Hammond $3.50, Walker $50. so.
several witnesses on this occasion, who
by any of the above named parties, are
threatened with suits for pei Jury. On
the 10Th ult., Hiram Archer paid SIS
AS for drunkenness.
| Mr.. William Page Winslow, assist.
ant editor of the Rutland Herald died
suddenly, Tuesday, of acute consump-
ton. at his fathers house at Pittsford,
at tho upn nf tuantr n;e.i. A. VIM
low was graduate of Williams College
in the class of go, served for Il few
years as teller of the National Bank of
Rutland, and only month or two
since became connected with the Her
aid. He was journalist of fine pro-
mise, and leaves a large circle of friends
to lament his early death.
Samuel Williams, for nearly seven
years treasurer of the Vermont Central
Railroad, is now engaged in large
marble manufacturing business at Cas-
Teton, and drives an extensive trade in
statuary marble, Vermont marble
standing the weather as well as the
finest Italian marble. Mr.. Williams
has large southern trade, and is anxi-
GUS that the marble interests of Yer
mont should he fully represented at the
coming centennial, and is confident
she can make show TO be proud of.
DIR. Branch, of st. Adams, offers a
reward of $4,000 to any person who will
succeed in unearthing the murderer OF
the late Miss MariettaiBall, who has
thus far eluded all efforts at discovery
since the commission of this dreadful
crime in July last. Doctor Branch has
already deposited the money in the
First National Bank, with a specific
statement of his offer. 1t will be re.
membered that the reward offered by
the selectmen is $1,000, which max es
the whole reward now offered SO 900
BURLINGTON. - The hooks in the
Fletcher library now number s, 400
The body of child was found Monday
in the lake, at the north end of the
lumber yard. - The spelling match
Tuesday evening attracted one of the
largest audiences of the season. Mr.
Wyllis Benedict came off first and
Prof. Halsey second. = Hon. Danie
Roberts and Lucius Bigelow have beer
invited by Post Stannard to deliver ad
dresses on Decoration Day.-Burling
ton will pay 5000 for lighting the street
lamps this year. The bids ranged from
this amount to $500.
The Barton Monitor tells of an origi.
maj ana very successful way for land
lord to get rid of a disagreeable tenant
as follows: "A very shiftless and
worthless tenant that occupied the
Paine House for the past winter, haC
help about moving few days ago
Himself and familywere invited out tc
eat sugar, and discovered on their re-
turn that some of their fri .nds' had
taken the trouble TO set their goods out
on the piazza. There was surprise and
not few oaths, but another family was
occupying their tenement, and it was
necessary for them to find new quart
ers."
A man with a lung-tester who ha.
just come forth from his winter quart
ers for the purpose of making an hon.
est penny by testing the wind of the
multitude, came to grief at the depot in
Chester, on Monday. One of the gum
: chewers" from Stratton, with n chest
on him like an emigrant's valse. drew