The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-02
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Barton is to have water works and
Use the Flanders pump.
Rutland is to have q convent, built
wholly of marble.
Extensive forest fires are burning In
lie mountains at Newark.
The house Of Milton Wilmarth, at
Lyndon. was burned last week loss
about 81 900; no insurance.
Extensive forest fires prevail In Or
leans county. and the drouth IL very
severe.
The ten children of the late Mai. A.
d. Chllds held their annual reunion ut
Monday.
The houses and barns of Capt. Abel
Stacy and II. ]. Ball In Concord, were
burned on Thursday morning.
Thomas Lynch of Barnard Is under
arrest for burning the barn and live
stock of WATSON Newcomb, last week.
Rev. Benjamin Wheeler Of Ran
iolph died very suddenly of heart dis
ease, Friday.
Some of the best horses In the north
ern section of the state are being ship
ped to Lewis Stiles. of Framingham,
Mass.
The centennial celebration of Rox.
bury, on Tuesday, was n most success
full occasion. The address by z. 8.
Stanton was highly commended.
Mrs Annie Winch. of Mortified,
wishes to be remembered for making
The first coat worn In Congress by Dan
lei Webster.
The little affair at st. Adams cost the
Montreal duelists and their seconds
,ver 5000 before they were done with
he sheriff.
William Hodsden, q Boston drum
ner, was recently stopped In North
Troy by two hlghwaymen. and robbed
If fifty dollars.
J, X. Drury & Son, brlckmskers at
Essex Junction, have failed for S42 500.
Several business men of the town are
involved in the failure, having signed
or the broken firm.
Senator Edmunds il sick and has
zone to Canada for two weeks rest,
)ut expects to stump Ohio, Indiana
md Michigan after the Vermont cleo
ion.
Freddie Floyd, aged nine years, was
at Springfield, VT, recently
while bathing. He WAS the youngest
on of the late Col. Floyd of the Third
Vermont Regiment.
Ex-Governor Julius Cow erse Is
quite feeble. He has been troubled
With bad cough for six months and Is
confined to his house at Woodstock
most of the time.
Z. r. Morse, the efficient road mas
er of the Montpelier and Wells River
abroad. has been presented by the
lection men with beautiful gold
watch.
Thomas Hool, an intelligent young
nan of Compton, r. l., has become 30
insane ct ca .np.meetlng In
Milton, from sun-stroke, as to necessi.
ate binding him, hand and foot.
1t ia not officially announced that
Mr. II. NJ. Willard has accepted the
of the Vermont Academy
It Saxton's River. The academy will
pen this autumn at date to be here.
.fter announced.
Loyal Foster, of Williston, claims
he champion crab apple. The tree Is
lutte small and was set this spring.
The apple Is ten Inches In clrcumfer-
'unces.
A Miss Stiles of Troy. died suddenly
he other day. She had arrived only
he day before, and on meeting and |
baking hands with her brother, Mr., |
3enJamin Stiles Of Peru, whom she
lad not seen for long time, tainted. !
nd almost Immediately expired.
Carlos Titus Of Chelsea recently step
,ed on stone and broke both bones Ia
lis leg below the knee; not being In
rearing of any one. he laid there all
light, and in the morning he crawled
bout one.fourth of mile and succeed
d in getting help.
s. l.. Town Of Montpelier recently
net with severe accident. In Jump
ng from beam In his barn to hay
now he lost his balance and fell dis
ance OF seven feet to the floor. AS he
ell backward he struck wagon wheel |
'reaking his collar bone.
In Glover there is tree by the road
ids which Is rare curiosity. The
main part of the tree Is maple, about
me foot In diameter, but on one side O
,eech tree, starting from the same base
las grown into and incorporated itself
With the maple so that 1t Is difficult to |
them apart.
The decision of Judge Wheeler on
he validity of the town bonds issued
n aid of the Lebanon Springs railroad,
which Bennington and other towns re-
used to Pay on the ground Of fraud, Is
rot final and does not cover the whole
,ase, which Is still TO be tried on Its
merits In the United States circuit
,ourt.
A huge Landslide" occurred In the
quarry of Sherman & Willis ms at West
Rutland on Saturday at noon. About
of the roof-the limestone
which was left sloping over the open.
ng when the marble had been removed
fell to the bottom of the quarry. The
allen mass weighs thousands OF tons.
me stone alone weighing 400 tons. No
me was hurt, but considerable damage
vas done to machinery, etc.
The following table of Republican
naiorltles In Vermont, in the elections
,eld since the war, will be OF Interest
It this time;
1686-Governor 1916
l888-Governor 22,s22
l867-Governor eO,83I
lS68-Governor 27'279
86s-PresIdent 32.l22
lS89-Goyernor 2O'353
1s70-Governor 2l.8O5
1S72--Governor 25,Sl9
l672-prAaident an 6AO