The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-08-12
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A military company has been formed
In Montpelier, called the Pltkln Guards,
In honor of Gen. p. p. Pitkin.
LIP. Foster, proprietor of hotel at
East Coriuih, has absconded, leaving
liabilities amounting to $4,000.
A Rutland Jury decides, for the third
time, that lager won't make a man
drunk.
Straftords pride and JOY Is Mrs.
Reuben Morey who was 100 last Easter
Sunday.
A man named Thos. Tully was
drowned at Brandon, Friday afternoon.
while bathing In Otter Creek. His |
body was recovered without delay.
Patrick Turney of Waterbury, VT,
who went to the Black Hills, some |
time since, Is reported to have been |
killed by the Indians.
,Dr Charles A. Sperry, of West Hart |
ford, was kicked In the face by his |
horse the other day. The right side of
his face was badly lacerated and bis
right eye protruded.
McIndoes Falls has Just built the |
largest lumber mill In New England,
covering nine acres, with loading ca
paeity of forty.five care, and employing
loo hands.
G.. G. Adams, OF Woodstock, was Sc
verely injured few days since by a
colt, which kicked him square In the |
chest with both feet, breaking several |
of his ribs and otherwise injurlpg him.
Snow fell on Mount Mansfield, July |
20, to the depth Of two inches. The |
guests Of the house were treated 10 ma |
pie sugar waxed on snow that fell that |
day
The wood-shed and section Toulouse
of the Passumpsic railroad at Barton |
were burned, last evening; loss FlS,- |
900. Only timely aid from st. Johns !
bury prevented n serious conflagration.
A young man named Courtney, |
while blue berrying In the woods, at
Hyde Park, Sunday, was set upon by |
two tramps. who partially emasculated |
him, when they were frightened off by |
q dog.
A little three.year. old girl in Barnard
is suffering severely from paralysis and
will probably die. The cause OF the at |
tack Is the poison In the coloring of
striped stockings which she has lately |
worn.
William Reynolds, sober old man |
Of Factory Point, had paralytic shock |
while riding to Ludlow, the other day. |
and folks thinking him drunk left him |
in barn all night and he died the next
day from neglect.
Kendall l.. Hall, residing at Wor- |
ces.er. W.. at work in Northfield fell |
down upon load of hay on which he
was at work, and Immediately expired |
of heart disease. He leaves a widow
and children
Willie, son of John Even, of Mont |
peller. was attacked by bull the other
day, while raspberrying up Worcester |
Branch He was badly cut up, and |
would probably have been killed but |
for speedy assistance.
The house of G.. w. Carr, In the out |
skirts of Brandon, was entered one
night last week by person or persons
unknown. and seventy dollars stolen |
from pocket book In the room In |
which Mr.. Carr was sleeping. No
trace of the thieves.
Charles Buck, of Newport, went |
across the line into Canada, few days |
since, and bought two quarts Of rum to !
do his haying with. He met the Gus !
tom house officer on his way home, who |
relieved him of his tangle-foot, a good |
| horse, and new wagon.
An equal taxation, no monopoly and
reform movement. like that which car
| ried the town two years ago. was re-
opened, Saturday evening, at the Brat |
Ieboro town hall, with Charles X.
Field and Charles n. Davenport fol |
held
The several fairs that have been held |
in Waitsheld, Mortified and East
Montpelier, for the last Ave years, will
unite in Washington countyfalr, next
| September, at Montpelier. A new
ground Is being fitted up, with fine
half.mlle trotting track, and is known
as Prospect Park"
At recent meeting of the Cham
plain Regatta Association 1t was voted
that the fleet of the association rendez-
vous at Port Henry, N. Y, Aug. %, for
the annual cruise, for three or four
days. 1t was also voted to arrange for
several pennant races during the cruise.
Several new members were added to
the association.
A digest of Vermont reports Is nearly
ready for the printer, and will probably
be Issued before the winter. 1t will
embrace in one volume Of about 800
two-column pages digest of all the
cases contalnedln the flfty-five volumes
Of the reported decisions Of the Supreme
Court. The whole will be the personal
work of the Hon. Daniel Roberts.
The sixth annual fair of the Chitten.
den county agricultural society will be
held at the grounds In Essex Junction,
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
September 8, Z, and 8. The premiums
are very liberal aud 1t is expected that
the fair will be a grand success. The
orator will be Professor Peter Collier, of
the |. V. NJ.
Moses Baraw and Hollis Morse of
Troy, two young men aged about eight
cen years each, were arrested at North
; Troy, Monday morning. on charge of
stealing wallet containing twelve dol
lars from the pocket of Oliver Bessett,
while Mr.. Bessett was bathing in the
: river at that place the day before. They
were on Monday arraigned before Jus.
tice Grin Dorman for examination and
pleading guilty were ordered TO hnd
bonds in the sum Of 5000 each for their
appearance at the County Court, which
falling to do they were committed to
the County Jail at Irasburgh to await
trial In September.
AT the invitation of the Woman's
Temperance Union, of Burlington, a
large number of members Of the Bur.
lington Reformed Mems Club assem-
bled In City Hall, Wednesday evening.
, and after prayer and singing, and a
season Of pleasant conversation, Miss
! Sarah c. Cole, president of the union,
, with highly appropriate address, pre-
sented the club with an elegant silk