The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-16
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plar's Union Is to be held at Northfield
Thursday Sept ID.
Coolcy's cheese factory at Waterbury
Center was burned Monday night.
Loss, q 600 Insured for $4,000
The fnll term OF Warrington county
court commences at Montpelier. on
| Tuesday next
| The Orange county court begins lite
| adjourned session for the hearing of
court issues at Chelsea, Sept. rs.
The st. Albans Republicans fired
salute Tuesday night In honor of the
Maine victory.
A son of Senator Morrill, has just en-.
| tered the Freshman class at the Uni.
verslty of Vermont, at Burlington.
Twenty-one carloads Of passengers
bound for the Centennial passed
through st, Adams In forty eight hours
recently.
The st. Adams district camp meet
ing closed last Monday. 1t has been a
great success, and Is said to be the best
ever held In that part Of the state.
The dwelling house of Joseph NJ.
Fletcher, situated In Chelmsford Gen.
tire, was, with most of Its contents, con-
'umed by fire, Saturday evening. In
sured.
c. & 4. Fairbanks & Co. having
bought Stiles Pond, about three miles
from ST. JohDsbury, are laying pipe
therefrom to connect with their present
water supply.
Ex-Congressman G. w, Willard of
Montpelier, who Is prosrrated by HEM
orrhsge of the lungs. Is better, and In
Ill probability will be out again in
few days,
Ii. X. Bard. of Mortified, who was
wounded in the foot, In the late war, |
submitted, last week, to an amputation |
,boye the ankle, this course being sd.
vlsed as necessary to save his life.
The September term OF the Essex
county court commenced Its session al |
Guildhall, Tuesday, Judge Ross presid-
lng. There are 81 cases on the civil |
and II on the equity docket,
bennington, aided by individual sub
scriptions, Is renovating the old GENE.
terry, where lie buried her soldiers kill.
ed IN the Battle of Bennington This
10 done in view of the Centennial ceIe-
bration Of the battle next year.
An unknown woman was found dead
in one of the cottages on the camp
meeting grounds at Hyde Park, on Sat.
urday last. There were no marks of
violence about her, and 1t IL probable
that she died from starvation.
Geofge Greedy, a freight brakeman of
Brattleboro fell from train near the
depot, last Saturday morning, and had
ais right lsg crushed by the trucks so
badly that 1t was amputated above the
knee.
In Hubbardton, Mr.. l.. Howard and
L. Brockway, In digging for muck ,un-
covered u bed of shell mari. They
have sounded 1t to the depth Of ten
Get and found it filled with various
rare shells.
Mrs. Moses Flanders OF Sharon has
been missing since Sunday morning AT
i've O'Clock. Fears are entertained that
'he has committed suicide. The citi.
lens are now searching the river and
woods for her.
Ihe largest catamount ever captured
u Bennington county was taken Al
last November. 1t Ia being ,
ised rs model by Bartlett, the artist
or his bronze catamount which IA TO {
urmount the Catamount Tavern mon. I
lment at Bennington Center.
Two barns and a shed. with some
1fty tons of hay and six hundred bush.
haln
Wheaton, In Barre were burned Mon. p
lay morning, during the absence OF 7
limself and wife. The neighbors saved q
he house with difficulty, The loss Is n
stlmated at 81 500 Insured for $3.50.
The election Of Paul ]. Dean, Demo.
rat, as representative from Barnard
VIII be contested, on the ground of an
Illeged mistake whereby several votes
or the Republican ticket were put In
he wrong box. The seat of the Dem.
'crotio representative from Roxbury o
Will probobly also be contested on &C. h
cunt of alleged illegal voting
Joseph Mathew and John Dumas. 8
Joys only nine or ten years of age, were
III Monday arrested and placed In lall q
It st. Albaus, for breaking seals on
ocked cars, the penalty for which Is
I've years imprisonment. The boys 4
ay thai they were among the cars on 6
sunday. and took the lead for sInkers
o their fishing limos @
George w. Ely of st. Johnsbury who l
He'd at Philadelphia, Thursday. was
he senior partner Of Ely, Balch & Co.,
and was extensively
inown through New England and the '
~ lob
las been In business In st. Jobusburv 9
wenty-eight years. and was highly ca. I
eemed by all who knew him.
AL the commencement Of the autumn o
ERIN OF tho Bennington graded school.
-one OF the best appointed schools In G
he New England states-the Catholic
'upils were all removed to the Catholic
chcol. No complaint has ever been
made that tho public schools were sec n
arian, but Catholic children are mol
onger allowed to attend them. 1
''clock, MS Nr. Robert Fulton, OF Brad. I
ord. was about retiring for the night +
ne saw that his barn had been set on
Ire. Before he could prevent II the
Ire had spread all over his barn and q
lwelling house, both Of which were de.
troyed. His furniture was mostly E
aved, hut the contents OF the barn were t
ost. Loss $500 .
Asa MagoOn, who is confined In jaIl
{ Montpelier awaiting his trial at the
resent term OF the Washington county '
curt, for the murder of E, Streeter. OF
Sarre. has taken to reading his Bible
ally. and has greatly improved his G
PERSONAL appearance. For several
ears prior to his arrest he had spent
us earnings for strUug drink, and not @
my neglected to care for his family, [
i intoxicatlon, and went ragged and a
Iirty himself. '"' h
r. j.. Porter. who was arrested m u
Monday, for theft of tickets at south
Sewbury, has confessed Tbeyalue ~