The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-04-18
STATE NE VS..

l. HlOn, has SOU OUT his Insurance. Dubl-
ness to {. ii. Forbes.
North Clarendon has voted that there |
shall be no prayihg or reading of the
Bible in its schools for year.
c. G, Howe, master mechanic at the |
Passumpsic railroad shops at Lyndon |
vile, has rendered his resignation.
Farm laboreis are engaging them
selves at fifteen dollars month and
board where last year twenty-five dol |
lars was paid.
George n. Dale, of Island Pond, who
has been mentioned as n good man to |
succeed Congressman Hendee, declines
to be candidate.
There are i'm the town of Hincsburgh
hfty-three men and women aged seven
ty-five years and upward; seven or
eight are over ninety
BERTHE Mcknight, boy about eight
Mcknight of East Wallingford, was
drowned at that place Friday morning.
A Bennington man has captured one
hundred aud sixty hawks and no end
of other birds in the past ten years, in
a trap set on the top of lole set up in
his field.
North Bennington pond is TO be
stocked with twelve thousand salmon
trout from Maine, and the mountain
ponds in town will he supplied with
black bass.
The Castleion seminary and state
normal school at Castleton have been
united, and hereafter will together
form normal school. There are
ninety pupils.
Lake Champlain is free from ice as
far north as Benson Landing. The
steamer Eddy, Captain George b 4lden,
made a trial trip on Saturday as far
north as TicOnderoga.
Betsey Hewitt and another woman
were arrested at Rutland, Wednesday,
for passing some of the counterfeit five
dollar bills on the Merchants National
Bank of New Bedford, Mass.
Major Valentines mill, at Benning-
ton, has been shipping ladies' knit
goods TO Europe for some weeks past,
and they are said to be the first ever
sent from this country to Europe.
\ washout occurred two miles this
side of Bellows Falls, Saturday, which
it was feared would prove serious. A
construction train was kept at work
Sunday and the damage was repaired.
Having dragged most of the rivers in
the region the friends of Ransom Mel
yin, the Cambridge stage driver, find
that he didn't commit suicide at all
but only went to Boston for good
time,
c. L. Huntoon, of Rutland, who has
passed the winter in California, has
started home on horseback and will
probably reach home before the close
Of the Centennial year if he has good
luck.
An alarm of fire was raised in Bur.
lington, Friday, caused by the catching
fire of bed in the house of one William
Mahar. William WAS taking lazy
little smoke in bed, and that is the way
the fire caught
The directors of the state prison have
made Il contract with Mawhinney
Co. to continue business, employing
convict labor, for one year from thu
first of next August, when the presen
contract expires.
Hezekah Corliss, Il helpless cripple
who has obtained II livelihood for sew
eral years past by smuggling liquo
from Canada and retailing it by thu
bottle or glass, has just been arrested il
Montgomery, convicted of forty sever
oflenscs aud sent to Jail.
rhe action of Cashier King agains
Peter Alphonsos Curey, one of tn
Barre bank robbers, is for breaking in
to his house, but King is considerabl.
blamed for not allowing Curley's re
lease under the agreement by which II
became states evidence.
The wife of General Butler, who die
on the Slh inst, was formerly resi-
dent in Dandy and Weston. She wa
formerly an actress and made her dc
but at the Park thcater, New York, i
1887 She left the stage in 1912, an
| Twas soon after married to Gen. Butler
. The latest from the Lamoille Vale
. railroad is, that the Hogans. contract
ors for the part between Cambridg
and Johnson, have failed disastrously
/ i'm spite of the dcniuls: that work Ia
! been entirely suspended, and most {
I the employs have gone trampin
without a cent of money.
Rutland has gained such bad repu
tation for fires that the Franklin IN
, German American insurance compt
= MES have cancelled all their policies i
1, town, while the Fire and Marine
n Springfield, Mass. the Royal of Lon
: don, the insurance company of Mort
., America, and the Pennsy lVania al
letting their policies run ont.
;.I.
l. the head of that wicked democrat, Nj
rillo Noyes, of Burlington. He W,
- but recently defeated as candidate t,
, mayor, and now several brass kettl,
>, nave been Glen from him by thr,
Il boys. The boys started COR rhilade
, phia with the money they got for Il
II. kettles, but have been arrested
II The jewelry store OF #. y. Squire,
IL Bennington, was entered on Monds
night of last week by burglar, wi
stole about five hundred dollars wort
of plated ware, pocket knives, ct
4 Bradley's iewelry store was also e.
II tered and about two hundred dollar
~ worth of goods taken. The thief is d
N scribed rs about twenty-five years oil
70 smooth face, weak eyes, dark bll
II clothes, soft hat. The village offers oil
10 hundred dollars for his ARE I.
W There were ten marriages, fort
y seven births and forty deaths report,
II in Manchester last year. The numb
of deaths was unusually large and
o follows; two over ninety years of ag
Il two between eighty and ninety, sew,
" between seventy and eighty, one /
40 tween sixty and seventy, eight bctwe'
N fifty and sixty, two between forty al
If fifty, none between thirty and fort
w three bet Eeen twenty aud thirty, o.
- between ten and twenty, and fourte
~ under ten. OF the births, ninete
~ were males and tweniy-eight females
AT 1t was an interesting way some of t
freemen of Sheffield adopted al Il toy
-, meeting the other day to carry n vol
le1 When division of the house W
~, called for some of the strong men seiz
'c!el the weaker ones and trotted them oN
hn to their side, and the confusion IL
~ followed made ii rs hard to count I
- | VOTERS aS il WAS TO count the fame