The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-14
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Bethel has another failure-Samuel
each, n cattle broker and farmer.
The Catholics of Bennington are
bout TO erect IA convent near their
chool building.
S. II. Kellogg OF Pittsford is the vet \
ran town clerk of the state, havingl
ield the Office for fifty years.
President Buckham of the University
If Vermont is reelected To the Bur-
ington school committee.
Fourteen persons united with the
Second Congregational church in
Brook field, last Sabbath, nine of them |
heads of families.
Mr. l.. G. Chaffee, of North Troy, |
has tree on his farm which girts nine
teen feet, and is estimated to he eighty |
orIninety feet high before reaching a
limb.
AT the annual March meeting, Fays
ton, w. b. Por,er was reelected town
clerk, n l,osition which lie has occupied
for twenty eight years to tn. accept
ance of all.
William A. Montgomery, well
known citizen of Boston, has been pre-
scented with a cane, made from II piece
of wood of the old line-of- battles ship
Vermont
George S. Curtis, formerly of North
Montpelier, who has been in the insane
asylum at BrattleborO for year, has
returned with his reason completely
restored.
Rufus George, OF Montpelier, who
was bitten in the arm by horse some
time ago, has had the arm amputated,
being unable TO treat it successfully in
any other way.
Mr.. II. d. Spafiord of Springfield.
has Pine tree shilling, bearing the
date A. d. 1862, which has been hand
ed down by several successive genera
tons of his family.
John A. Moore, clothing dealer in st,
Johnsbury has been closed up. He
owes between 500, 900 and S25, 900, and
has SO 600 worth of goods, and about the
same amount of accounts good and bad
The hearing Oh the petition to the
Court of Chancery to rectify the recent
compromise between the Rutland and
Central Vermont Railroad companies,
commenced at st. Adams, Saturday,
before Chancellor II. II. Powers.
A $500 United States bond that S. b.
Carpenter, of Randolph. lost five years
ago, has just turned up, he having re-
Gently received letter making in
quiries about 1t, to which lie replied
that he would give $50 for It's return.
A new trial has been granted to Capt
Lull, recently convicted of an assault
on a convict In the state prison. 1t Is
understood that the supreme court are
unanimously of the opinion that he
was justified in striking the prisoner.
The stockholders Of the West River
national bank at Jamaica will soon
have n meeting to decide the question
of reducing the capital from 500, 900 to
$4,000 or $4,000. having lost some
$50, 900 by paper that deprecated in
consequence of the big Chicago fire,
The new secretary of war is native
of Vermont, having been born and
raised" at Jamaica, son of Peter r.
Taft, prominent citizen of Windham
county, and the Green Mountain state
takes more pride in him than in her
only other contribution to the cabinet.
Delano.
The March term of the Washington
| county court begins to-day, and will
probably be unusually long. One hun
dred and twenty-six civil cases have
been set for the jury, many of them of
| considerable importance. There is the
case of Miles. the Barre bank burglar,
and some seven or eight minor crimi-
nal trials.
An aspirant for office at Mount Ia
| hOr mazda auaI froa 6tuf ribut;o, ~
whisky, election day, that the meeting
ended in drunken row. A number
of freemen had to be led up to the bal
lot-box, they were so drunk. A good
many carried home black eyes and
bloody noses, and others had to be
logged off.
The post office in West Randolph
has been taken up OH the list of offices
supplied with the farmers Bulletin,
which will hereafter be sent daily from
Boston, and posted up in the office
These reports emanate from the office
of the chief signal officer in Washing.
ton, and will be of great benefit to
farmers in forecasting the weather.
The state has sued Col. f. b. Sawyer
late clerk of the Lamoille county court
for $1,000 alleged to have been embez
zled by him, and has attached the fur
niture and fixture of his hotel at Hyde
Park. He resigned, some time ago
and when his bondsmen proceeded
against him he wasn't to be found. I
is said that the funds he has taken con
sisted Of money paid in on DEGREES, anC
5000 that the auditor had advanced
him.
| The body of victim of small po1
recently found concealed in a car O
bran at White Station, Mich, on it
way to Vermont from Battle Creek
Mich, proves to have been that O
George Edison, formerly of Mortified
whose friends were very anxious to ge
it to his old home. 1t didn't stay bur
led at White Station, but ii arrived a
Mortified, the other day, the coffii
being enveloped in tarred cloth. 1t
advent caused not little excitement.
The cashier ofthe West River nation
al bank at Jamaica, will call meetinj
of the stockholders, March %, to con
slider the proposition to reduce the stool
from its chartered capital of S100, 900 t.
, $75, 900 or $1,000. Tie bank had LOAF
in Chicago at the time of the great fire
J which has been suspended paper eve
siucti Dut HAS Dttii kept along ny vi
directors, who hoped to realize the ful
J amount. Last week, Bank Commits
sioner George w, Grandy, of Vergen
mes, recommended that some $40, 900 c
! doubtful paper be carried to profit an
loss, and that the stockholders eithe
tax themselves with All assessment I
make up the loss or reduce the stock
Some of the stock has changed hand
, since the report OF the losses, but non
has been known to be sold less tina
eighty cents, or twenty cents below pal
An old affair of honor In which tn
T famous Governor Tichenor and Ir
Allen were engaged in 1898, but con
; corning which tradition is almost s.
9 lent, has just been brought to notice b
some searcher among the old paper,
. Ira Allen held several important o.
fees, besides being engaged in severe
: private enterprises, and Tichenor, hay
3 Ing been appointed to examine Allen
' accounts az state treasurer, reported