The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-10-28
SITE NE US.

Upward of thousand tickets for
Philadelphia were sold at the Central
Vermont Offices at st, Adams, Monday.
A bill is 10 preparation asking for the
establishment of a new insane asylum,
to be under the exclusive control of the
state.
Windham has had five incendiary
fires, lately, and the selectmen have Of
fered reward of $4,000 for the arrest OF
the incendiaries.
Proctorsville has a cooperative ex-
pertinent, the business being that of
getting out soapstone. Ten carloads
were sold the other day.
Charles Bancroft,a AN old and respected
merchant of Montpelier, died suddenly
at Boston, Tuesday morning, ruptur-
ing blood vessel in fit of coughing.
Col. Joyce arrived home early Satur-
day morning. He Is looking well con-
sidering the hard campaign work be
has been doing in Indiana.
Clark Harris, wealthy citizen of
Wardsboro, was killed recently by fall
ing from bank near his brothers.
house at West Dummerston.
William Maloney of Burlington, aged
twenty-three, fell from the sloop Essex
in Lake Champlain, Friday morning,
and was drowned. The body was not
recovered.
A party of the friends of the late
William Maloney, drowned near the
Cheever ore beds, Friday, went thither
in boat Saturday, to recover his body
If possible.
Mrs. e. P. Gilbert, widow of the late
lamented Rev. E. P. Gilbert, has with
her effects and family of five little girls
moved from Hubbardton to Castleton,
the place of her nativity.
Edward Conant, state superintend-
ent of education, says that he has not
been in school in this state where
arithmetic was as we'll taught as at the
Reform school.
The general term of the supreme
court commenced its session in Mont
pelier Tuesday morning. 1t is expect
ed that the term will be long one,
SO ne fifteen cases having been set for
hearing from Caledonia county alone.
The Bennington desperadoes-C Cole
and Reeves-passed through Rutland
Saturday on their way to Windsor.
They were considered altogether too
desperate to be confined in the Ben
nington Jail.
Bishop Bissell off1ciated at the Holy
Trinity Memorial church, Philadel-
phia, ON Sunday. He was also in at
tendance at the meeting of American
bishops of the Episcopal church, in
Philadelphia on Saturday.
The Vermont Woman's Board of
Missions will hold its annual meeting
at st. Johnsbury on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 25. Mrs. Montgomery, mission
airy from Marash, Turkey, and Mrs. M.
B. Norton of Boston, secretary of the
bureau of exchange, will be present.
Hon. Hiram Bellows, president of
the First national bank Of st. Adams,
died Wednesday afternoon, aged sew
regarded as the wealthiest man in ST.
Adams. He was twice member Of
the Vermont senate, some twenty-five
years ago.
S. s. Gould, q merchant at West
Concord, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy, with liabilities estimated at
about SD, 900 and assets of about $45.-
900, on which but small amount can
be realized, The signing of notes for
the Rev. E. d. Hopkins is alleged to
have been the cause of his suspension.
He has number of creditors, many
of whom Will be ruined financially by
his failure.
DR.. T. H. Hoskins of Newport, nur-
seryman and editor of the agricultural
of the Montpelier Watch
man, is in perilous condition from an
of the glands of the throat
by which he is slowly choking to death
with little hopes of relief. This has been
growing upon him for several months,
until now, we understand, he is con-
fined to his room, and is able to breath
only with difficulty.
While there are twenty-five hundred
common schools in this state, the total
number of graduates from our three
normal schools during the entire nine
years of their existence is only six
hundred 1--WE use round numbers), q
proportion of whom, Of course, did not
enter the business of teaching in this
state, or at all. 1t would follow, then,
that of the two and one-half thousand
teachers in the state, less than one
fourth would be persons of any previ-
Gus training for their vocation.
Somebody suggests that the names
of the oranges in this state indicate
that they very generally regard them
selves as luminaries. There is the Star
Of Sutton. the Shining Star Of Gran
vile, the Rising Star of Bethel, the
Morning Star of Moretown, the East
ern Star of Gaysville, the Evening Star
of Dummerstown, the Guiding Star OF
West Halifax and the Blazing Star of
West Fairlee. Then the South Wood.
stock is the Orion and that at Barre the
Crescent, while Ludlow and Dan.
vile each has Rising Sun lodge.
Some little excitement has been
created in Londonderry by the disap-
pearance of J. V. Albee, who has been
manufacturing spring beds the past
summer in company with one Buxlon.
Albee last week, it is alleged, collected
some $500 belonging to the company
and stole Buxton's bank book showing
deposit OFFS 900 in New York bank
He then went to Boston, and with q
forged power of attorney drew the
money from Boston bank, he being
Unidentified as the person named in the
power Of attorney.
The thirteenth annual reunion o.
Vermont officers will be held at Mont
pelier, on Wednesday, the 10th day Of
November next. The usual business
meeting will be held at the State House
at three o'clock. p. m. The GRAFTON
Will be delivered by Col. RedfelC
Proctor of Rutland, at the hall of the
House of Representatives, In the even
ing. Supper will be served at precise
ly ten O'Clock. p. m. The members o
the society, and all Vermont officers
and non-commissioned officers of tn,
ARMY and NAVY. are cordially invited