The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-29
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Montpelier has 722 school children


,olng.
The Indebtedness of Brattleboro has
,een reduced over $1,000 during the
,ast year.
A. Il. Norris' spool and bohbin shop |
1t Norrisville gives employment to
fifteen hands.
About one-fourth of the scholars of
he Richmond graded school are sick |
with the mumus
The Changers of Washington county |
propose to establish a county grange |
tore and market.
]. w. Wheelock, editor of the Green
Mountain Freeman, died at Montpelier
Wednesday morning.
The new Pavilion hotel at Montpelier
was formally opened on Tuesday even
ing, with a grand ball.
District Z, Greensboro, has had three
teachers thus far this winter, and hopes
TO have more before spring.
Salmon Green, a merchant of Rich
mond, has failed and offered his credi-
tors twenty cents on the dollar.
Nettie Priest of Coventry, has been
sent to Irasburgh Jail for two months
for threatening 10 kill her mother.
F. V. Randall & Co, of Montpelier,
have failed. and are offer
ing thirty per cent. as a compromise to
the creditors.
The Burlington shirt company has
been organized, with George f. Pope
as president, and will begin work in
the factory soon.
The Burr and Burton seminary, at
Manchester, has been closed two weeks
before the regular time on account of
presence of contagious disease.
A man named Grover, living in Sud
bury, committed suicide, Sunday night
of last week, by taking laudanum. He
was found dead in his house, Monday
morning.
The supreme court, at Newfane, Fri
day, decided the celebrated Brattleboro
school case in favor of the school
board. The opinion was delivered by
Judge Barrett.
Considerable sport was made at Brat
tleboro on the 22d, at the expense of
one of the popular landlords. who had
hung out his flag at half-mast in honor
of Washington's birthday.
Dennison Taft, of Montpelier, who
failed recently, offers ten cents on the
dollar of his Indebtedness. His unse-
cured liabilities are $4,000, divided
among twenty-eight creditors.
The Western Vermont Masonic
union, consisting of members of the
order in Addison, Bennington and Rut-
land counties, held its first annual
gathering at Brandon, on Tuesday, and
Pitt w. Hyde was elected president.
A delegation from the Congregation
al church at Norwich, Conn, visited
Rev. George l.. Walker, ID. D., at Brat
tleboro, on Tuesday, in the hope of in
ducing him to become their pastor, but
former engagement with the Murray
Hill society of New York Will probably
prevent his accepting.
The fish commissioners of the state
have now fifty thousand land-locked
salmon Matching, which they ale ready
to distribute gratuitously to parties
desiring them. Persons applying fol
them must state the area and depth o.
the pond and the nature of the water
| These came from the Maine state
Matching house.
Rutland had another incendiary fire
on Saturday. Two barns belonging t.
Gersham Cheney with their content!
were reduced to- ashes, the whole esti
mated at $4,000. Insurance, in th,
Vermont Mutual, $780, Mr.. Cheney
MAS the victim of the fire fiend mum
Der of years ago by the burning of thu
franklin House.
A young lady. daughter of Arthu
Cavanaugh, of Underhill, while trying
10 build n fire out ofdoors, had he
clothes take fire, aud they were nearl.
burned of before the flames were ex
linguished. AT last accounts she wa
barely alive. Her mother aud siste
were badly burned in trying to extin
guish the flames.
Geo. T. LOWELL, Esq, the secretary O
the Planning Mill Defence Association
has removed his Office from Boston I
Burlington, VT. Mr.. Lowell was grad
uated from the University Of Vermont
class of 1878, and from Columbia lay
school class of 1875. He enters upo
the practice of his profession in that, hi
native city, under favorable auspices
Mr.. Heman Johns, of North Hun
ington, is at present afflicted with var
cose veins on his limbs rendering an
putation necessary to the saving of h
/ life, and fears are entertained that tn
3 severe remedy may prove fatal. He hf
E been man of great muscular powe
> having accepted challenge from II
champion wrestler of South Americ
| and, being victorious, Won the belt an
: watch, which are still in his 20
) session.
r The list of names of those Yentleme
who have been proposed as delegates
O. the Cincinnati Convention lengthel
!. very rapidly. Among those gentlemt
q who are thought not to be averse to til
:, honor, not previously mentioned, a
: Colonies Veazey and Proctor, of Ru
. land; Governor Stewart, of Middl
y bury w. c. Smith, of st. Adams ;
q w. Willard, of this village; John
n Flagg of Bennington, and w II Wal
h er, of Ludlow Waterman.
e The Vermont Academy is to be
Saxton's River. The 1926, 900 towar
l. the building fund in addition to t
O. $40, 900 endowment fund is now rails
,e and building committee appointt
m and the work will probably begin
nj once or as soon as spring opens. I
g. board of trustees have refused to acct
Ly the resignation of Rev. VIM. n. Wilt
TO as q financial agent, which he has t.
ar dered to accept similar position
IL connection with Madison university
ge Hamilton, n. V, to which he has
e. ceived an urgent call.
The act Of the last Legislature allie
he ing towns to tax railroads pass
In through their territory, Is likely
il make trouble. The Vermont and Ca
no da road, and the committee Of the +
Ia. mortgage hond-holders of the Cent
n have notified the receivers and ma
sst gers TINT, in their opinion, the tax '
en- Unconstitutional and that, If they p
ast 1t, they would hold them persona
he responsible, and ex-Congressman v
he lard, counsel for the Vermont 1
ca Canada, has secured an injunct
1w against the payment OF the tax.
- Ono evening not long since, as on