The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-05-20
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Northfield hns reform club with G. |
NJ. Johnson for president. The club IL |
receiving accessiOns every week.
Quite number of medical students
from Burlington intend visiting Au-
sable chasm rs soon as the weather IL
warmer.
George Elkins of Bolton, T. e., was
found dead I'm the woods Monday morn
ing, near North Troy, with nn empty
ram bottle by his side.
j. Estey ~ Co., of Rrnttlehoro. have
sent two competent men to phlladcl-
phia to have charge of their organs
which they sent last week..
The people In the northern part at
the state are complaining that the sca-
son is backward, and the farmers have
done no work yet,
Austin Abbott, of Rcnton. Calitnt-
mia, son of Walter Abbott ot Wrat
Barnet, was accidentally shot white
trying to prevent two women Mum
fighting.
People Of Brattlcboro we're startled
Tuesday night Ivy an alarm ot hr. Ii
occurred near the corner ct Elliot aud
Church streets, and ia supposed e. I've
the act of an incendiary.
From the st. Adams Messenger We
learn that Blakely, the notorious "a
pension agent of Chicago, is u native
of Franklin county. VT, and he once
dabbled In journalism.
The Vermont Baptist sabbath school
will hold its next annual
in Poultney, commencing
Tuesday evening, May 30, and closing
Thursday evening, June LIST.
One day last week fire at Bellows
Falls, supposed to have started from the
firearms of hunters, burned over some
thirty acres of pasturing belonging To
c. u. Allbee, who resides mile above
the village.
st. Johnsbury is in bad way, ac.
cording To the Caledonian. 1t says:
What two years ago was II 81, 500 resi-
dence in this place, will not bring over
So 500 this spring. Reason-taxes; and
no hope of reform.
a man calling himself Rev. J. ia
meson, who collected considerable
amount of money at Rutland, some
weeks ago, which he said was to he
used to complete n church at Chitten-
den, of which he was pastor. has cleared
out. and an officer is after him.
The United States circuit and district
court for Vermont will open its May
session at the United States court house
in Windsor, on Tuesday next. Judge
A. S. Johnson presiding in the circuit
court, and Judge Nathaniel Shipman
of Connecticut in the district court.
Senator Twitchell, who was assassin
ated at Grant parish, Louisiana, was
an officer in Vermont regiment, and
served with distinction all through the
war. King. who was killed with him,
was his brother-in-law. Twitchell's
brother was murdered in the historic
Coushatta massacre in 1874.
Mr.. A. B. Norris, the well-known
manufacturer, of Norrisville, in this
state is forming a stock company on
the principle of the Springfield cooper
alive company, taking about one-third
of the S25, 900 stock himself and giving
workmen an opportunity TO take the
rest.
The State Fair is TO be held at st.
Adams on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Septe .nbcr y, Is and II.
The grounds are to be fitted up with
floral and mechanics hall, each 36xl00
feet 100 box stalls for horses, so open
stalls for horses, lS5 open stalls for cat
tie, 10 open sheep pens, and 20 open
pens for swine.
Real-estate values haven't shrunk
so much in Burlington as elsewhere, it
seems. While in other towns sales are
often made at figures below the asses
sors' valuation, dozen recent sales
there foot up S64, 300, against valua-
ton in 1870 of S5S, 800. 1t is claimed
that really desirable stores and dwellings
have risen steadily in price during the
past five years.
The st. Adams Advertiser makes
formal request to Chief-Justice Pier
point and the other six associate justices
of the supreme court, to summon Albert
Clarke of the Messenger before them
for contempt in accusing that court of
corruption, but Clarke responds that he
can make good every assertion he has
written, and doesn't seem the least bit
scared.
The property known as the Pencil
Mill, and a saw mill connected, about
three miles north of Castleton village,
were burned down Saturday morning
1t Is said that the men we've on strike
and it is thought the fire was set by
some of the strikers. The loss is esti-
mated at about $4,000. The property
was probably insured. This was the
only slate pencil mill in America, and
has been established fifty years.
The tree war which broke out last
fall at Strafford has been renewed again
this spring. A fine little elm was
trapsplanted upon the green opposite
the stone store one day last week, and
during the night was pulled down by
ruthless hands. Nothing daunted,
however, the tree was again put In
position. and fence guard placed
around It for protection, but, 10, and
behold the following morning the fated
elm was found in the mill pond,
There is strong effort being made
by the delegates from the east side of
the mountain to the general conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
now in session at Baltimore, 10 have
that portion of Vermont west of the
Green Mountains now in the Troy
conference set to the Vermont confer
ence. The churches of western Yer
mont are working as earnestly to defeat
this movement, and petitions have
been sent from a number of individual
churches.
Frank ii Sherman of Casllefon, who
had "A job of blasting logs in the woods,
one day recently, found himself all at