The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-04
STATE NE VS..

"loh' NhiohlViti IL nOl paying eh-
penseS.
The Vermont Baptists hold semi
centennial services at st. Adams this
week Wednesday and Thursday.
The railroad accounting at ST. Adams
has been adjourned until Oct. 10, when
the arguments will be commenced.
The hearing on the petition of the
Rutland r.. X. Co. for possession of the
road has also been adjourned to Oct. a.
John ID. Miller of st. Johnsbury has
a cannon ball winch was fired from
British vessel at the battle of Bunker
Hill.
An old man named Horace Gludding
committed suicide 10y cutting his throat
while visiting Il nephew at Bristol,
Wednesday.
j. NJ. Burt of Enosburgh Falls has
eloped with young woman, taking
$4,000 collected 10 pay the mortgage on
his farm, and leaving wife and three
children.
Dr. George l.. Walker Is engaged to
supply the pulpit of the Centre Con-
gregalional church, Brutlleboro, for
|
mencc the first of November.
The fair held at Grand Isle on Tues
day and Wednesday was very success
full, considering that 1t was mainly a
local exhibition. Hon. + d. Doug las
Of Whiting delivered the address.
Frederick Billings, of Woodstock,
has been elected one of the directors
of the Northern Pacific railroad He
was nominated for president of the
the hoard, but declined on account of
i'll health.
There Is pear tree in Waterbury
which is over two hundred years old,
having been planted by Mr.. Nash
who came from England i'm 1915, upon
the farm which one of his descendants
still occupies.
The Vermont Baptist Stale Conven-
ton will hold its next session, semi
centennial one,at ST. Albaps, Oct. 6 and
l. Those attending and paying full
fare over the Central Vermont will be
returned free.
Next Thursday is the day for try ing
criminal cases in Washington county
but the Barre bank burglary cases are
| likely to be delayed in consequence Of
Cashier King,ihe principal witness, be-
ing sick with typhoid fever
Mr.. John b. Howard, of West Geor-
gia brought from Minnesota four
years ago two hundred crab apple trees
| (Transcendents and Hyssops), and
this fall he has gathered from them
forty bushels of fruit.
Springfield enjoyed the novelty of a
cyclone on the 18th. 1t swooped the
water out of the river at one point
stopping the flow for nearly minute,
and carried it in cone shape many feet
into the air. no damage nj consequence
was done
The Williston mill colnpany's steam
lumber mills ut Bolton were burned last
week. They originally cost'twenty
i've thousand dollars and were
insured for $4,000, but, since an eflectu-
ii attempt to burn them, few weeks
go, some of the companies are said to
have withdrawn their policies.
The wife of Ehenezer Dunsmore of
a;hersteld poisoned herself and
md three children. Monday afternoon.
last week, during the absence of her
| husband. The youngest child. eight
years old, is dead, but it is thought the
others will r. cover No cause for the
act is known.
Milo Hutchinson and wife, from Con-
cord, were caught the 18th, stealing
GODS at Fairbanks store in st
Johnsbury, and lodged in Jail.
Immediately after. Officers went to their
iome and found 5000 worth of stolen
GODS and small distilery. Many of
The goods were identified by other
merchants in the vicinity.
Drn,toboro had quite little smash
up, III the bridge just north of the ne
| rot, early Thursday morning. The
down express train falling to see the
signals on account of the fog, ran into
4 freight train, smashing the caboose
and throwing the next car. loaded with
cattle, Off the track, The engine.
Gov, Smith, Twas somewhat injured.
Air brakes prevented serious acct
dent
The Woodstock railroad, which runs
from White River Junction to Wood
stock, is fourteen miles long, and was
begun several years ago, but from vari-
Gus causes the completion was delay
I'd until the present season. 1t passes
| through some OF grandest scenery on
the continent, crossing "Quechee Gulf, y
IA yawning chasm-rivaling Watkins
glen and Niagara rlver--in Il suspen-
sion bridge 200 feet above the water.
The capture of George Miles, the last
of the Barre bank robbers, was mainly
due to information given by Peter AL
phonsas, now in Montpelier Jail, and
the first OF the robbers captured, who
turned states evidence and exposed his
haunts and habits to the officers.
Miles was arraigned, Thursday, and
poned till the March term, bail being
fixed at $50, 900.
A Pawlet doctor, who had been pay
ing attentions to an aged spinster of
that town, recently transferred his al
legiance to a young widow, which so
aroused the other that she used to sta
ton herself under the Widows win
dow during the doctor g calls. where
upon the widow waylald her, one night,
and, when she came in sight, assault
ed her with lot OF ancient eggs the
result was lawsuit in which the
spinster recovered damages.
There was Charlie Ross excitement
at Burlington last week, growing out
of the resemblance to the missing child
of boy named Boyle, who had been
watched for some time by detective
The Boyle boy was comparatively un'
known in the town, having but recent
. y come from Montreal, hut the de
Iecive was so sure of his identity tha
: he sent to Mr.. Ross, who came to Bur
lington and was much disappointed
when it proved not to be his child, a
: the resemblance between the two wa.
very striking,
The Keene granite company. who
furnished most of the granite for the
new capitol at Albany, n Y, opened
their new quarry at West DummerstoI
on Tuesday, where they expect to dc
rushing business. This stone will bt
mostly sold in New England. the com
, pany having purchased sixty or seven
~ acres of land on Black mountain
and, should the quarry meet their ex
pectations,a narrow guage railroad vii
be built to it,
A fatal railroad accident occurred a
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