The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-08-19
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Montpelier, Sept. Is and l6.
A SO, 900 fire took place in Newbury
last Sunday afternoon. Small boy and
was the cause.
An insane woman has been about
Montpelier for several days, sometimes
sleeping in open sheds and sometimes
in the fields.
The Democracy of Burlington, had a
an address by Hon. A, o. Brewster
of Boston, Tuesday evening.
The st. Adams correspondent Of the
Boston Journal thinks that Vermont
will give Fairbanks q majority ranging
from 5000 to 10000.
Prof. G. X. Adams recent excellent
Grafton before the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety of the University of Vermont has
been published by the society.
The delegation of French workmen
selected by the government to visit the
exhibition embarked from
Paris for Philadelphia Saturday.
Charles McDougall of st. Adams,
aged fifteen, while camping out was
accidentally shot In the left cheek, near
the eye. by Robert Buck, one Of bis
Capt. Bradford l.. Rand, an old and
respected citizen of Morristown, while
at work chopplng had both bis legs
broken just above the ankle joint, by
the falling of a tree upon him.
Ii seems to be settled that Proctor
Knott was drunk when he made that
Blaine speech the other day. His
friends have concluded that this Is the
best excuse they can make for him, and
that Isn't very good one.
The stables and car house of the cit.
liens street railroad company, Indian
gpolls, Ind, were burned Sunday with
fifty horses, twenty-five cars and much
other property. One man was killed
at the fire. Loss estimated at $50, 900.
The regatta of the Lake Champlaln
Association comes Off at Port
Henry on Tuesday next next. There
are already large number of entries
and 1t promises to be the most success.
full regatta yet held By the association,
Ii Is said that ]. X. Osgood and John
W. Drew, the well-known temperance
reformers. have organized 125 reformed
mems clubs, with q total membership
Of so, 900, and that 1900 drinking men
have signed the pledge through their
efforts
1hc City Fathers Of Buffalo don't be.
lieyo guDpowder political enthusiasm,
and have prohibited the firing Of ean-
non in that city at political celebrations
on the ground that 1t Is "useless waste
of money, a nuisance, and of no use to
either rarty''
Luman Carer of Derby was wound.
ed by the premature discharge of q
pocket pistol on Wednesday. The ball
entered his leg just above the knee and
passed nearly through. It was extract.
ed, but it IL feared that amputation of
the leg will be necessary.
The sunday schools of several towns
in Franklin county had an excursion
on Thursday last, to Essex, n. Y.
Twenty-Five carloads came down over
the Central Vermont and the Vermont
was loaded to her utmost capacity.
Large numbers, unable to find room on
the steamer, spent the day in Burling-
ton.
A Piltsheld recently, Rufus Holt,
while loading hay. fell In such q man.
ner that sharp pointed stake, over an
Inch In thickness, passed into his body
and out at the shoulder. He will re-.
cover. On the same day and In the
same town, Thomas L. Parmenter fell
from u load Of hay and broke his left
shoulder
The Industrial Works Company, Of
Springfield, manufacturers of muslin
flags, pressed leather goods and child.
rens toys. lhave suspended payment.
Their Indebtedness Is largely In town.
They claim that they have assets In ex-
cess of their liabilities. Tue stopping
Of their works would throw sixty men
out Of employment.
A young man hired a team Of Mr.,
Smith. the liveryman at West Rutland
to go to Tlnmouth, on Sunday. He
drove to Tinmouth. from thence to
Middletown. Poultney and Castleton In
the midst of the Intense heat Of the
day. When near Matthew Ames, "a few
miles from West Rutland, the horse
dropped dead in the road.
Mrs. Mary Fletcher, the widow Of
Hon. Thaddsus X. Fletcher, and one of
the founders of the Free Library al
Burlington, died Of apoplexy last Bat.
urday morning. The library Is draped
with mourning, and will be closed I'm.
Ill Wednesday out Of respect to the
memory of deceased, The announce
ment of her death was received with
deep pain In the community.
Edward $. Stokes complains bitterly
Of his treatment In the Auburn State
prison. He claims that his time ex.
pires on Sept. 8, by reason of forty-flye
days Communication while he was under
sentence Of death. The warden says
he shall hold him until Oct. %. Stokes
said his counsel would apply for a writ
Of discharge Sept 8. He has been
coaxlng to lei hls whlskers grow.
The Directors of The Lamoille Valley
railroad have just completed contract
with the Portland Rolling Mills for g..
500 tons Of rails. sufficient to complete
their road from johnson TO Swanton.
The rails are to be delivered soon, and
the work Of laying them will be begun
at both ends. and pressed forward until
the road Is completed. 10 Ia expected
now that the road will be open through
TO Lake Champlain this fall.
II has always been thought boat
could not 60 over the falls in Connect.
cut River at Bellows Falls and remain
uninjured, but the feat was accomplish.
ed early Thursday morning OF last
week, by five different boats belonging
to Ross d Leavitt's gang Of log drivers.
Each boat was manned by two Of the
log men, each handling a single oar.
Three OF the boats dipped some water,
but the other two went over high and
dry. The river Is 80 low that it render.
ed the undertaking very hazardous.
This Ia the first time the feat was ever
performed successfully.
The gold mining of Worcester is fast
becoming an important branch of in.
dustry. A large steam engine ia being