The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-05-27
STATE NE VS..

The Vermont Homeopathic Medical
Society will hold their annual meeting
at Montpelier on the eth ofneXt month.
Mr.. Nicholson of Tinmouth went to
minister to get married, recently, only
four days after his wife died, but the
dominic wouldn't accommodate him.
Miss Alice NJ. Guernsey of Ran
dolph, gets the gold prize offered by
the New England Journal of Educa-
tion, for the best centennial drama for
schools.
Morillo Noyes, exMayor Blodeett
and b. B. Smalley are among the dele
gates from Burlington to the democra lie
state convention to be held mt Mont
pelier, June /.
Vergennes, which boasts of being the
oldest city in New England, Is going to
have an old fashioned celebration on
the Fourth, and over 5000 has already
been subscribed.
The st. Adams woman's temperance
union are going to give the reform club
several ROOM for permanent quarters,
and among them will be a smoking
room and q resding-room.
The Bennington knitting mills,
owned by II. e. Bradford & Co., will
soon shut down. because there are no
sales of their goods, and probably Geo.
>. Bradford & Sons mills will follow
suit.
New York has republican reform
club of which Col. LeGraud b. Cannon
Is president Among the members are
the following Nermonters: Elliot G..
Cowdon. Dorman Il. Eaton, George
Walker.
The car constructed by the Arlington
Car Manufacturing Company for the
transportation of visitors to and from
the exhibition grounds at Philadelphia
is spoken Of as magnificent piece of
workmanship
a woman named Hannah Johnson
was killed by the Montreal express
while walking upon the railroad track
between SALISBURY and Arlington,
Monday. She was struck by the train
and thrown upon the cowcatcher, and
was dead when the train was stopped. |
Charles Leet of Newbury, who had |
sold horse to a neighbor to be deliver
ed In fortnight, getting enraged with |
it, the other day. pulled out its tongue
apd cut it off. Four days after he took |
the horse to the neighbours barn in the |
latter's absence and left it. He has been |
arrested.
The call of the State Committee for
the State Convention is not yet issued.
1t is generally understood, however,
that 1t is to he called at Montpelier on
the 9th proXimo. 1t Is perhaps need
less to add that 1t promises to be an ex
ceedingly lively affair. The conven-
ton will be held in Trinity Hail.
Capt. and Mrs Hope arrived at Cas-
Teton Saturday. The Captain brought
to Mr.. G.. S. Sherman fine painting,
Rainbow Falls" Watkins Glen, n.
Y, which he has recently produced.
The painting possesses rare merit as
landscape. and displays the ability of
the artist In reproducing rocks and wa
ter upon canvass.
AS the old man said of his boy.
Jake Is not much of grammarer, but
he is buster of an arithmeticker." So
of him of Brallleboro. The other day
a young woman, Miss NIB, called
on him for pass into his shops" and
the Deacon promptly dashed Off with
out even looking into Webster, pass
miss nucum !"-[ Argus.
A mixed train of passenger and
freight cars on the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad was run into at
Montpelier, Tuesday afternoon, by two
loaded gravel cars which had broken
loose and run down grade for I've miles.
A saloon car was smashed and thrown
from the track. and one passenger car
partly overturned. Four men were on
the gravel cars, but beyond bruises, no
one was Injured.
Agents are now travelling through
the country swindling farmers by ap.
pointing them agents for the sale of
clothes line. The farmer Is induced to
sign his name in book purporting to
be reference, but which is really an
order for 1000 feet Of line at five cents
per foot Soon after another swindler
along and presents bill for the
amount, which the farmer pays rather
than go to court.
Last Saturday afternoon the tickle
office at Bellows Falls was entered by
prying open the back door, and tickets
to Concord, y. H.. Burlington and Og-
1ensburg were stolen and stamped with
the office stamp. The conductors were
notified of the numbers of the missing
tickets. On Wednesday, man giving
his name as Henry Lawton was arrest
ed near st. Adams while using one of |
the tickets.
AT st. Johnsbury, Oh Thursday,
Charles Lynch. a section man on the
railroad. while going over the road on a
hand car, was overtaken by train. He {
Jumped from his car and undertook to
ift ii fro n the track, but the locomo-
live struck the car and that hit Lynch, 1
knocking him down the dump and
against the fence, fracturing his skull
slightly, breaking one arm above the {
elbow and bruising him severely. 1t is
feared that he may prove 10 be serious
y hurt internally.
A Disguised wife, when her husband
came home drunk. waited till he sank
into drunken sleep, then took his
only pair of pants from him and made
them over into a pair for their twelve
year old boy She worked nearly all
night to finish them. The husband
awoke about the middle ofthe forenoon
ready to eat breakfast and start out for
another drink, but when last seen was
wrapped in an old skirt, and promised
to Join the reformed mems club. Bur
llngton Sentinel
The new lightning express from the
Crawford House. White Mountains, to {
Lake George Will make the run In six
hours stopping thirty minutes at Mont
peler for dinner. President Smith will
at once enter Into further negotiations
with connecting lines from Rutland for
Saratoga passengers. The table of dis
tances Ia as follows: From Crawford
House to Fabyan House. five miles
Fabyan House to Wing Road ten miles,
Wing Road to Wells River, twenty
seven miles; Wells River to Montpe-
lier, thirty eight miles Montpelier to
Essex Junction, thirty-four miles Es-
sex Junction TO Leicester Junction, via
flfty-three miles Leicester
to Lake George, fifteen miles;
making total distance of ls2 miles.
Jason Cole, farmer in Danville, and
his son Rush, says the st. Johnsbury
had desperate encount-
er with bull last week, In which they
came near losing their lives The I'M II