The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-02
STATE NE TT

The Burlington Sentinel, the only
democratic daily In the state, has sus.
pended.
A barn belonging to George Dean OF
Jay was burned, together with twelve
tons Of hay and his farming tools, Nov.
"a.
Deacon Clark of Barre dropped dead
while building a fire Saturday morn
Ing. lie was apparently In good health
Friday.
David Tower and wife of Clarendon
Springs celebrated their golden we'd
ding, with about one hundred of their
frleDds, q few nights ago.
Charles II. Lozell OF st. Albans, aged
twenty.one, probably fatally shot him
self through the breast. Friday night,
from shame al being intoxicated.
Michael Grace,a butcher at Benning-
ton, has stepped over into New York
with $4,000 that his creditors ought TO
have, aud the stakes of two election
beta.
A brown or gray bear was reported
as shaving been seen on WrIght's Noun
tain in Bradford, q few days since, and
O large party went In search. but was
unable to come up with him.
The custom house officials of Rich
ford made o seizure of fifteen tubs OF
non.pRyment OF duties. The butter Is
valued at about two hundred and twen-
ty-fye dollars.
Charles Peck, a farmers SOL at st.
Johnsbury, twenty-one years old, tried
to kill himself by shooting a pistol
ball through his head, Friday, and al
though. alive at last accounts, his AZ
tempt will probably prove successful.
The store of d. Stewart at East Tops
ham was entered by burglars Saturday
uAght. They only succeeded In get
ting IA small sum of money, which was
In the drawer, as they evidently had
the safe.
J. b. Dearborn, ESQ.,, a prominent
citizen of West Fairlee, died of paraly-
sis Monday. He was for a number OF
years treasurer OF the Vermont Copper
Mining company, and was a promi-
nent member of the Masonic fraternity.
He was buried with Masonic honors
at West Fairlee.
A portion of the members of the CO.
operative industrial works at Spring.
Geld have formed q new company, and
are expecting to again purchase the
buildings aud machinery Of Mr.. AL
ford, who bid them off at the auction,
and who has been running the bust.
ness since that time.
MI. Merrill White, employed In the
shoe peg mandatory of w. and J.. G.
Flint at Arlington, met with q serious
accident last week Thursday. While
running a pointer his hand came IN
contact with the knives, cutting all oil
the fingers on that hand, and splinter
ing the bone of the middle finger. DR.,
Phillips dressed his wounds, and he IL
doing well under his treatment.
A lady in Bennington. Of strong
democratic proclivities, patronizingly
spoke to the hired girl Of the house
next door the other day, saying,'W We'll,
Bridget, we've elected Tilden, haven't
we? and we ought to bless the Irish
for 1t, too.r "Well, I don't know, IRE.
piled Biddy, ST guess the low drunken
Yankees are as much to blame for 1t as
the Irish" The lady subsidized.
Last week ex-Gov. Ryland Fletcher,
Of Proctorsyille, VT, engaged his din.
nsr on q day fixed at Trips Hotel al
that place, with special seats for four
others. He then sent his carriage to
the town farm, inviting the four in
mates Of tho p~vorhvuso " tho luxury
Of O ride and to dine with him. But
The old people there declined the offer.
saying they did not want to be gazed
disappointed in his kind effort to re.
lieve the monotony Of O pauper's life.
The bill to incorporate the second
mortgage bond.holders Of the Vermont
Central railroad was reported adverse
~, and refused a third reading in the
House, Saturday. The bill to allow
the Vermont and Canada railroad Ia
purchase the Vermont Central rail-
road was refused n third reading, as
was also the Senate bill allowing wo.
men to vote In school district meetings.
The bill abollshiDg the Office of railroad
commissioner was refused q third read
Ing in the Senate.
Currency has recently been given to
b0o AolioWiuS stOIy VI COlouel GuWlu
n. Stoughtnn Of the Fourth Vermont
AT a time when rivalry was running
high between his regiment and the
Fifth Vermnnt, an extensive revival
occurred In the division to which both
regiments belonged. One day word
~as brought to Stoughton that twelve
msn belonging to the latter had been
baptized. "Orderly," Immediately ex.
claimed the emulous colonel, ''let fif.
teen men be al ONCE detailed for bap'
tism.n
Several Of the relatives of the late
Hiram Bellows. Of st. Adams, whose
will left large sums for future educa'
tional purposes at st. Adams and Fair.
fax ,because:.they..wer either but slight.
Iy mentioned or were passed over alto.
gether, are to contest the validity Of
the will. They say, moreover, that
State Senator Edward s. Sowles, the
executor, who is the husband Of Mr..
Bellows'a adopted daughter, returns
while II oar be proved 10 be nearly
double that sum, and that he Is trying
to get a bill through the legislature for
his individual benefit as executor OF
this estate.
A remarkable accident happened to
a lad thirteen years old, named Wood
bury, a short time since In Bradford.
BE jumped backwards from a pile of
logs, striking upon the end OF an iron
Der, which was lying with one end up
on q log, the bar tearing out the soro-
ium, and. as was supposed, passing up
under his clothing and breaking one
rib. About ten days after the accident
an aescess had formed In the side and
began to discharge, and the doctor took
frsm the side pieces Of the pants and
drawers. and 1t vas then found that
the bar penetrated the cavity Of the
bowels and passed up back Of the blad-
der until II struck the ribs. The boy
10 recovering rapidly.
eEUnder the amendments 10 Brattlebo-
ro's village charter, passed by the Leg
islature, the village q at any time