The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-11-25
STATE NE VS..

Vnu Hiu ttlt Ot0 CEtHII0N
hat OF attorney general have passed
he House.
Rev. Walter Mitchell Of Middletown.
Ct, receives unanimous call to the
of Trinity church at Rut.
land.
Daniel Baboock, o well-known resi-
lent of West Dummerstown, fell Into
4, small pond by the roadside, q few
nights ago, and was drowned.
Tho Legislature In joint assembly.
Tuesday, reelected the entire board OF
supreme court Judges, and Edward Co.
uant superintendent of education.
Two daughters of Reuben Haley of
Pownal, aged one and three, were
burned to death. recently, while pIay.
ing with fire, during the Temporary
absence of their parents.
A Gaysville correspondent of the
Montpelier Journal says: "All hopes
Of railroad up the White River valley
are now abandoned. The Central Yer
mont railroad company fails to come TO
line.
Three prisoners, one of them Tstro,
the murderer of Mrs. Butler of High.
gate, made an unsuccessful attempt to
escape from the st. Adams Jail, Satur-
day, by cutting through the ceiling OF
Il cell.
Hon. Elijah cleveland of Coventry
Is In "a very feeble condition, being con-
dned to his bed. Judge Cleaveland Ii
now eighty-two years of age, aud few
men In Vermont have had more use.
full or continuous public and business
life
The Lane manufacturing company
of Montpelier, makers of saw-mIlls,
water-wheels, etc., have received, with.
in week, an order from Germany for
II sixty-foot double mill, besides letters
of inquiry from Norway and the Phil
llppine Islands.
Governor Fairbanks has appointed
the following gentlemen to compose
his staff, with the rank of colonel Z:
John A. Sheldon, Rutland; Julius J j.
Estey, Brattleboro; Albert G. HDb-
bell, Bennington Albert w. Hast
ings, st. Johnsbury.
S. S. Gould of West Concord, whose
failure has already been announced,
has liabilities of Si00, 900 and nominal
assets of $50, 900, only half of which are
good. He has been practically bank
rupt for several years. 1t now appears,
and has been securing loans on false
representations.
Brattleboro complains of the hardest
fintaa for fin rec htrot,,aaa 80 al
kinds is almost at a stand-stiil, idle
men fill the streets, and there Is no
immediate | respect OF Improvement.
The Estey organ factories have been
closed half of the last month, and shut
down again, last week.
Cooper & King, commission mer-
chants, of New York. have failed, In
volving Henry E. Bradford & Co., of
Bennington, TO the amount of $50, 900,
and A. B. Valentine of the same place,
10 the extent of $4,000. Though u
heavy blow to both concerns, IL Ia be-
lieved both will stand firm.
A little three.year.Old son Of Patrick
Saget of West Rutland fell under the
wheels of his fathers wagon, which
was heavily loaded with stone, last
Saturday, and was very seriously. II
not fatally injured. One of the hind
wheels passed over his hip, crushing
The pelvls, and inficting internal inju.
rles.
The Vermont Asylum at Brattleboro
is naturally attracting a great deal OF
attention, 1T is so pleasantly and advan-
tageously located. The superlnteb dent,
DR.. Draper, has made an exhaustive
ans wer to the would-be damaging re.
port of the state commissioner, and the
action of the Legislature Ia awaited
with great interest.
A party of gentlemen claiming to be
manufacturers of powder have rented
or leased of r. a. Hoyt of st. Albans
the right to build magazine for stor-
ing powder. They have commenced
building the same. 1t Is to he situated
In back pasture, about one and half
miles from the village. There are ma
ny comments and surmises about this
powder magazine In consequence Of
the so.called Fenian scare.
At a joint assembly held on Tuesday
afternoon. the following gentlemen
were elected judges of the supreme
court: Hon. John Plerpolnt of Yer
gennes. chief justice. Associate judg.
es, Hon. James Barrett, Woodstock !;
Hon. Hoyt II. Wheeler Jamaica Hon.
Homer E. Royce, st. Adams; Hon
Timothy p. Redfield, Montpelier /;
Hon. Jonathan Ross, st. Johnsbury ;
Hon. Henry II. Powers. Worthwhile
superintendent of Education, Edward
Conant, Randolph.
1t is understood that the report as
special masters in chancery on the Ver-
mont Central railroad accounts, which
Dudley c. Deuison, Gov. Dillingham;
and J. L. Edwards are now preparing,
will now be vindication OF the Cen
trail managers. There Is a report that
the legislative committee on the Yer.
mont centennial have decided on the
appropriation for that state celebration,
advising tho giving OF $l5, 900 for the
monument and $4,000 for general ex-
penses, conditioned on Remington put
ting In S700c.
Mr.. Franklin Fairbanks has been
chosen to fill the vacancy In the COM
mittee to plan the Sunday School les.
Sous for 1878, caused by the death of
NlIs 1lcIl 1ldfCh no
consists OF such men as Or. J. Fl. Vim
cent and Rev. John Hall, OF New
York Warren Randolph. Richard
Newton, a. L. Chaplin, Philip u. Gill;
lett. etc. The committee are empow.
cred to ill all vacancies, and Mr.. Fair.
hanks was their unanimous choice.
The committee had meeting at New
York, November is.
Brandon and Ludlow are having a
sanRuinary newspaper war Mr.. d. C..
Hackett has moved his printing office
from Ludlow to Brandon, and publish
es there the Otter Creek Newb and
Ludlow Gazette, And Mott Brothers
OF the Brandon Union promptly retail
ate by Issuing a paper for Ludlow,
called the Ludlow Tribune. These
personal quarrels and little jealousIes
are the bane Of Vermont Journalism.
Neither OF the papers above mentioned
were at the start any too good, or, APP
narantlv too DYOsDerOlIs: and VET tha