The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-08
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The corner stone of the Vermont
Baptist academy has been laid at Sax
on's River.
The Vermont Gairymen's association
lelds 1t annual meeting at Montpelier.
October %, and Prof. y. A. Willard
will be the orator.
4 screnade was given to Hon, Hor-
ice Fairbanks, at ST. Johnsbury, We'd
lesday night, some eight hundred peo-
Die being In attendance.
A Rutland Irishman, hearing of the
attening qualities of lager beer, has or
Tered keg for a pig that refused to get
at OH ordinary swine food.
John G.. SAKE is lying seriously i'll at
lis residence in Brooklyn, and he will
winter. He expresses doubts himself
If his recovery.
George ]. Hayles has sold his inter-
est in the Poultney Journal to his for
ner partner, Mr.. Humphrey, and
ceased his connection with that jour
nal.
The Wallingford graded school, f..
J, Hyde principal, closed Wednesday
with interesting exercises, and an adj
lress by President Hubert of Middle
bury college.
At n meeting of the Rutland reform
club Wednesday evening, Mr.. Nickel
vey addressed the club, and at the con
clusion of the address Z. M. Edgerton
president of the club, presented Mr..
SEQ on behalf of the club.
During recent shower the Baptist
at Saxton's River was struck
by lightning, and some damage was
done. Although several persons were
near where the electric fluid passed no
one was injured.
Bev. William j. Harris, ID. D., for
the past six years rector of Trinity
church, Rutland. has decided to accept
the call of Christ church, Detroit, one
Of the oldest, largest and most desirable
societies Of the West.
A cat in Rutland having killed sew
enteen chickens belonging to physl-
clan, The owner took the creature TO
the doctor to be killed. The animal
bit the doctor so badly that he was laid
up for two days. The cat still lives,
though often under fire of shot guns.
The Fourth at Ludlow was celebrat.
ed by union picnic of the several
Sabbath schools of the town, and prov
ed a success. The rain prevented the
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Rutlanders have not found out that
Chief Justice Pierpoint, in the case of
State vs.. Barron, 37th VT, page GO, in
one of his clear and characteristic opin.
ions, says, in relation 10 malt liquors
'There is no more occasion for requir-
ing affirmative proof that ale is intoxi.
eating than that brandy is intoxicating
or gunpowder explosive"
The Chittenden county republicans
for senators, on Saturday,
Samuel Huntington of Burlington, c.
NJ. Spaulding of Jericho and A. c.
Leayenworth of Charlotte, and G. 5.
Palmer of Jericho for states attorney
George II. Bigelow, one of the Yer.
mont delegates to the Cincinnati con
made a speech, and "yindica
ted the delegation from the charge OF
having been carried in the pocket OF
Judge Poland"
Eugene Page son of Mr.. Samuel Pag,
who lives about mile from Wells
River village, was drowned on Sabbath
evening, in Wells River. He in com.
pany with younger brother and hired
man were bathing in the stream, when
suddenly falling into n deep place and
being unable to swim, as also were the
others, he was drowned before heir
could be procured. He was n young
man about twenty years old, and his
death is much lamented.
The auction sale of marble by the
Rutland Marble company closed the
other day. About four hundred car.
loads of marble were sold, mostly Ia
Wholesale dealers. A part of this was
marble which had lain in the yard fol
some years. The prices ruled low, but
the company expressed their satsfac
tion with the result of the sales. 1t Is
a question among the marble producers
what effect the sale will have on .ht
regular trade.
Prof 4. D. Hager is al Holyoke
Mass. where he will remain about one
month, during which time lie hopes tC
hatch and ship of millions Of young
shad. Fully one-half of the young fry
will be sent 10 Bellows Falls and sri
loose In the Connecticut river there
with The hope that when they are ful
grown and leave the sea to spawn they
will push up over the fishways and {,
the eddy below Bellows Falls, which
was, years ago, n favorite spawnin.
ground for shad,
For ways that are dark the Benning
ton county republican politicians cal
claim distinction, says correspondent
Upon each recurring county convention
of the party for the last dozen years
Silas Mason Of Readsboro, in the "soutl
shire, y had been promised the nomin
alton for state senator. Last Friday
the machine was set in motion at Ar
lington, and when the ballots came gu
Of the hopper, Mason was found to bl
four ahead, though he was not exhiar
atod at the announcement that only
five Of he twenty-n.ne delegates from
his shire had voted for him
The fate of st. Johns has now rallor
upon the village Of st. Johnsbury Cen
ter, being nothing less than the destruc
ton of the entire business portion o
the place. At about noon, Saturday,
fire broke out in the paper mill next t,
the Passumpsic river owned by Messrs
Bacon, Ranney & Co Thence it sprea,
in a southerly direction, sweeping ev
erythlng before it, All the building
on both sides of the streets were burn
ed, embracing all the business portion
of the village. la all some sixty build
ings were destroyed, among them tn,
paper-mill, grist-mill, saw mill, Uni
versalist church, and many stores ant
dwellings. Help was sent from ST
Johnsbury The fire department doinl
promptly much towards checking ant
getting the fire under control. Man,
families were made homeless, havini
lost everything. A great portion o
the furniture and household effects wa
removed from the residences in the lin
of the fire to the middle of the streer
where it was totally consumed.
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