The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-11-18
STATE us.

| Vermont officers was held at Montpel-
Ter on Wednesday. |
John l.. Putnam and wife Of Brattle.
boro had large company Of friends to
help them observe their golden we'd
ding, last week.
The adjourned term Of the Washing.
ton county court convened Tuesday,
Justice Redheld presiding, for the hear
ing Of court cases.
A house aud barn In Newport Gen.
ire, owned by George ID. Percy Of New
port, was burned on Monday night,
Insured for $3.50.
| The selectnen OF Roobeste have an.
pointed Rev. q. 8. Guernsey. town stl-
rerintendent OF schools, In place of DIR.
Albert Richmond, resigned.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Agricultural society and Wool
| Growers Association was held at Bel
lows Falls on Wednesday.
! \ Judson .Rawson of Jamaica had an
Interview with q bear the other day,
and got the best of the argument. The
animal weighed three hundred pounds.
The Sutherland Falls marble COM
pany are building new marble mill,
los by rs feet. two stories, and of stone.
which is to contain twelve gangs OF
saws.
Jefferson p. Kidder, q native Ver-
monter and once lieutenant governor
OF this state, has been reelected dele
| gate TO Congress from Dakota by about
1000 majority.
The vote OF Chittenden county gives
Hayes 1877 majority. The republican
majority In September was 1878, but
the total vote was then nearly three
hundred larger than now.
Seventy.fve bass have been put into
the Winooski river by the fish commits.
sioner. If they are left undisturbed
Tor two or three years, II will be quite
well stocked with them.
Mr.. ]. b. Bowditch, former editor of
the Riehford Sentinel, and who has
for year past been local editor on the
Messenger at st. Adams, has severed
his connection with that paper.
Some BURLINGTON democrats Friday
t...y Su thS 81 AohAy huu IcVOltluR joke
of burying nIuskrat In Green Mount
cemetery, In token of the wished for
burial Of the republican party.
Hartland grange is In prosperous
condition. There Is a great saving by
the members In buying their goods di. !
rect of the manufacturers, and thew are
intending TO buy an agricultural libra.
ry soon.
1t Is rumored In Springfl field that. Hen
~ Gravelin. the alleged murderer of
Herbert o. White, OF Weatbersfield. |
has secured the services of General
Butler to defend him In his trial next
month.
The Montreal day express train over
the Passumpslo road has been discon-
unued, also the. Quebec express and
the accommodation from Stanstead.
No change IN the running time of the
other trains has yet been made.
Thomas Skinner, aged sIghty.two. a
mighty esteemed and influential citi.
Zen or 81. Adams, while seated In his
cnair IN apparently good health, last
scious and died In q few minutes.
Captain Henry E. Foster. of Derby
Line, visited Waitsfield's town over.
seer the other day, and after learning
how much his mother had been assist.
ed by the town during his boyhood.
paid the whole bill, one hundred aud
ten dollars.
Grows 50 cent store In st. Johnsbu.
ry, was entered on Monday night oil
last week. and Jewelry, gloves, shirts,
pistols. etc., were stolen to the
amount of some two hundred dollars. {
At last accounts the burglars had not
been discovered.
Mr.. d. P. Wescott, of Hydeviile. re. 6
,ently had two fingers of his right
iand caught by chain with draw.
ng team attached and the bones bro. /;
Ken into several pieces each. DIR. Car
Denfer removed a portion of the bone, I
out hopes to save the fingers.
James Wilder, cattle dealer, was 9
'ound insensible near his residence at
Lenoxville, this week, witch his 7
head bruised and several knife wounds I
'bout his chest. On reyiving a little
le stated that he had been attacked
md robbed by two men. He will
lie.
Tie democrats had little demon q
tration at Montpelier, Friday evening.
lfter all, but 1t wasn't particularly !
success. A little powder
vas burned and Messrs. A. NJ. pickey,
81. w. HeatOn and George NJ. FIske
'ired their oloquence--Only this and
nothing more. Q
The pupils OF the Burlington hiQh
md grammar schools held "centen. v
Hal tree planting" on the high school 4
Saturday afternoon. Six trees
we're brought to the yard In team Il
decorated with flags and banners, the ii
rees planted aud appropriate exercises !.
Almost another fire occurred the
ther night at Newport, In q house oc- u
upied by tenants. where an attempt q
vas made to extinguish kerosene /
amp by blowing. down the chimney. o
me lamp burst. letting the oil out In 8
very direction. A timely application =.
4 rugs smothered the flames, and pre- O.
'ented what might have easily been a Il
erlous confiagratlon. =.
Hon. Jason Steele, of Windsor. who o.
as voted at every presidential electIon A.
Ince President Madison o second term, ~
n 1873, was at the polls on Tuesday. IL
nd cast vote for the republican tick. A,
!. There 10 but one older voter In ~
Windsor than Mr.. Steele, and that is II
10 Hon. Allen Warner. father Of Mrs. Al
Vim. NJ. Evarts. whose health prevent :.
bis appearance at the polls. d
The state has one OF the best sports.
len associations Ia the country. led by
,eh inteiIigeat and philosophical pI
nd Lawyer Phelps OF BURLINGTON. &c
hey are asking the legislature FOR Oh
loro restrictions on the reckless de.
ruction OF game; for. as Mr.. Phelps VI
'ys, IAN average Kanuck. with a su