The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-22
STATE NE US.


and Lamoille Railroad has arrived at
Burlington.
Peter Alphonse Curley, one of the
Barre bank burglars, Is now hotel
clerk in California.
Several laborers on the Montpelier
n Wells River Railroad were prostrat-
ed by heat last week.
| Henry Condor of Coventry, was fa.
tally overcome with the heat while
harvesting on Friday.
There is now prospect that work
will soon be commenced on the rail-
road up White river.
Henry Wilcox and Burton Doan say
that they saw panther in the woods
near Newport Center day or two. ago.
DIR. l.. Ii. Heminway, of Manches-
ter, has returned from prolonged visit
to the West, with health much i'm
proved.
James p Ladd, of Peacham, has COM
posed and copyrighted hymn, 1.-THE
Christians Battle" music by w. o.
Perkins.
The Soverelgns of Industry haveopen-
ed store in Montpelier. The Grang-
ers talk of doing the same thing In the
same place.
Rev. s. w. Dixie of the Congregation
al church, Randolph, will be absent for
the next succeeding three Sabbaths on
his vacation.
AT a granger picnic in Waterbury,
last week, Mrs. Mary A. Roberts wore
n silk dress 100 years old, and bonnet
fifty years old.
City boarders arrived In quite large
number at Randolph during the heated
term, and are scattered around at the
hotels and at private residences.
Hon. +. p. Walton of Montpelier,
went to Plainfield Springs, Tuesday,
where lie will spend few weeks In
mental labor and writing, as Is his usu-
al custom.
w. II. 5. Whltcomb and ]. B. Hin.
man of Burlington addressed the Re-
formed Mems Club of that place Sun
day evening. One saloon keeper sign
ed the pledge.
A pair of chestnut colts, owned u
year ago by Mr.. Bowman, of Newport,
and sold by him to some one in Con-
necticut, brought twenty-five hundred
dollars the other day.
An excursion party of some six hun
dred from Sutton, p. @. enjoyed boat |
ride through Lake Memphremagog
last Saturday. They were accompan-
led by the Beedle's Band.
summer tourists are very scarce in
Newport. so far this season and the ho-
tells have made up their minds for
dull season. Not one fourth as many
guests as in previous years.
Captain A. Knight, who was in COM
mand of Il vessel between Isle La Mott
and Montreal. has been missing from
his boat for nearly four weeks. He is
about forty-two years of age.
Benjamin II. Leech, aged seventy
three years,a respected resident Of Fair
Gently, breaking several ribs and in
About thirteen hundred cords of
wood were consumed by fire In the
woodshed of the Vermont Central at
East Wallingford, last Monday after
noon. The track was considerably
damaged by the heat.
Gen. w. w, Grout. of Barton. was
dragged some distance on the ground
by runaway horse last week FRIDAY.
but was not seriously injured, The
horse dropped dead after running half
a mile.
A meeting was called for Wednesday
evening at Randolph, FOR the purpose
of organizing society to be known as
the First Baptist church of Randolph.
The erection of new church is soon to
be com menced.
The loss by the recent fire at st.
J ohnsbury Center Is now established |.
at S75, 900. Horace Fairbanks has sent
to the unfortunate village over $500
worth of provisions, to be distributed
among the needy.
G. NJ. Mitchell, of Concord, NH,
and A, H. Libby, of Springfield, will
walk a ten mile match for the champ.
ionship of Vermont, on the grounds of
the Springfield Trotting Park Assocla-
ton, on Friday, July 81.
The streams and springs are lower in |
Vermont nov than for many years,
there having been no continuous rains !
since May. The reservoir that supplies
Randolph village, which is fed by
springs, is wholly insufficient to sup
ply the demand.
The largest man in Montpelier Is b,
NJ. Irish, whose usual weight is 375 lbs. |
He is now little lighter than that,
owing to recent fit of sickness. Miss |
Aldrich, of Barre, an unmarried lady, |
weighs 80 lbs, and she is not the larg-
est of the family, 1t Is said.
A man who gave his name as Prof. |
Clark In one place, and Joseph E. Kert |
In another, and who Is q stout built, |
smooth faced foreigner of some kind, |
and something of musician, has been |
doing" the ,eople of Essex county by |
selling goods which he does not deiiv-
er
Mary Edgley, young lady aged
about twenty years, daughter of Thorn
as Edgoly of Cambridge, attempted to |
commit suicide at her fathers house |
Friday evening by taking quantity
of bed bug poison corrosive sublimate.) |
No cause is assigned for the act. Her
recovery is considered very doubtful.
A Montpelier dispatch to the Boston
Journal, says: When the Pension
Office detectives were set to work last
winter in looking for "crookedness" In |
certain suspected pension claims pre-
sented to that Office by Attorneys
Thomas +. and Benjamin F. Lloyds
of Washington. D. c., they found that
those cases had been worked up by
Samuel Morgan, of Vermont. Detec-
tive Alexander Hull was sent to this
state. who very soon procured suff1-
Client evidence against Morgan to justi-
~ him In arrestlng him and holding
him for trial. When the evidence was
presented before the Grand Jury 1t
found several indictments against Nor
gan for the violation of the pension
laws. The evidence is so clear against
him, 1t is said. that the only defence he
will make will be one of law. He will
claim that the laws that he has brok en-