The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-04
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lied in Woodbury..
One hundred and thirteen males and
ten females is the number of convicts
in the State prison at Windsor.
A large deer was shot by one of the
engineers of the Ogdensburgh railroad
near White Mountain notch, Friday.
The Orange county court granted
nine divorces eight for intolerable Sc
verify and one for refusal to support.
The noxt annual meeting of the Ver-
mont Teachers Association is to be
held in Burlington, February 3, A and
8.
, Sumner Tull of Windsor, one of the
( keepers of the state prison, was tried,
last week, for alleged cruelty to pris-
oners, and convicted.
Sewall Fullam of Ludlow was alb
sent from the last term of the Win!.
sor county court for the first time in
forty years.
A trout was lately drawn from o. w.
Buffers well in Stowe, which had
been there some sixteen years, and
weighed only half n pound.
The annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment of Vermont, will be held at Mont
pelier some time in January.
&. A. Hasleton of Greensboro has
little four-yearo old girl who is growing
all to head, the measurement now be-
ing 269 inches in circumference.
The great revival at Wolcott coutn-
ues one hundred conversions are al
ready reported, and twenty-five joined
he Congregational church last Sun
day.
The governor has appointed Judah
Dana, of Rutlanu, examiner of normal
schools, and John A. Mead, of West
Rutland, member of the Board of Ag
riculture.
William Hewston of Alburgh fell
through the railroad bridge between
hat place and Rouse's Point, Friday
mig lit, while drunk, and his body has
not been found.
George Welcome, who escaped from
the st. Adams jail, Saturday was re-
captured, Monday. by Deputy Sheriff
Bailey across the line in Canada, and
aiken back to st. Adams.
A Pawlet deaf-and-dumb man, on
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down by the roadside to rest and was
so badly frozen that it is necessary to
amputate an arm and leg
Thieves broke into the house of Will
! lam A. Crombe of Burlington, in the
absence of the family, Sunday night,
thoroughly ransacked ii, and carried
off about everything portable of valu e.
+ There are sal to be families living
on the public road between Swanton
7 and st, Adams, who HAD neither bed
nor bed clothes in the house during the
: recent cold snap, but lay uncovered, on
J straw.
Two young women of Bakersfield,
sisters, named Brady, had narrow
escape from death by suffocation, the
other night from gas generated from a
? Kerosene lamp which they had turned
down very low.
Charles w. Howe of Tunbridge, on
Wednesday. was taken to the state
; prison at Windsor, on sentence of
seven years for burglary at Towers
Mills. This is Howe's second term at
f Windsor within five years.
Mr.. Haskins, of Highgate, was Sc
verely injured, last Tuesday, by being
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g.. the tannery. His horses ran into r.
q H. SCOTS team, upset the sleigh and
somewhat injured two men who were
: in it.
] The Pioneer Works at Montpelier
were burned by an incendiary fire,
Monday night; loss $500, insurance
! $4,000 in the Vermont and $1,000 in the
= Union mutual companies. Private
l a.,ts< Loot l.tt ~ nd
: stock.
: +. w. Chase, of Burlington, has eff
e fected compromise with his credi-
< tors, by the terms of which lie is to
n pay and the latter agree to accept 37l
S per cent of his Indebtedness, to be paid
o in six installments, secured by notes
and mortgage of real estate.
+ The coal in The great coal bin of the
. Wooden Mills, at Winoeski, has been
y on fire for several days. There was
:, some eleven hundred tons of coal in
- the coal house. Men have been en-
:. gagged for two or three days in remov-
# ing the coal, to prevent its entire de-
q struction.
n The blanchard explanation Of the
r ct Alhans Charlie Ross story has eX'
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u nr;'.a thoro ,,,is ,oornino ond th.
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n inc mee'inu o. .nt Nvn,n9''I un,ay
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q lard Of the Rural New Yorker. #. s
u Gold. secretary Of the Connecticut ag
u ricnliural hoard. F. w. Stewart of Cor
n nell university, and Col. L. S. Hardin
NJ Kentucky. About one hundred
- Washington county IN. Y dairymer
y are also expected.
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