The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-15
STATE NE WS.
The Burlington trotting association
Ia having 81 spries of trots on the ice


Is having a series of trots on the ice.
Mrs. and Miss Fletcher of Burlington
have added $4,000 to their previous gifts
to the Fletcher library.
Miss Marion Mansfield, now confined |
in the st. Adams Jail for smuggling, is
said to be Miss Mollie Holbrook.
Hon. n. T. Sprague, Jr. of Brandon.
offers to erect u building for headquar-
tiers for Vermont at the centennial.
A. J. Childs, ESD, formerly of Wey-
bridge, has been appointed state agent
of the Patrons of Husbandry in Mis-
souri,.
George II, Newman, of Brattlebore,
has been chosen treasurer of the Will
liston mills corporation AT Easthamp-
ton, Mass.
Messrs. Winslow, of Putney, well
known by the short-horn cattle bred
on their farm, move to Illinois with
their herd in the spring.
NJ. Henry Maynard, Esq, of Mar
quette, Michigan, a son of Rev. u. May
nard of Castleton, has been chosen
grand master OF Masons in Michigan.
On Tuesday last, Henry Bowers, of
Brownsville, near neighbor of Mrs,
Read, who died on the Goth died in his
sleigh while going on a visit TO his
sons.
Rev. G. r. Wilkins, formerly n we'll
known clergy .nau in this vicinity, is
now the popular pastor of the First
Presbyterian church at Lansing, Mich
igan.
It is said that Coy, Smith asks Stowe
and the Central Vermont will do the
rest toward building a railroad from
Waterbury to Morrisvile
A dozen students in the New Hamp-
ton school at Fairfax are in rebellion
because the principal has interfered
with their fun of going home from
prayer-meetings with the girls.
The New York Tribune of Saturday
prints in full the answer filed by its
attorney to Mr.. Il. w. Parks libel suit,
which repeats, and under the protection
given by the New York code, adds to
to the original iibels.
The copreras mine at Copperas Hill
in STAFFORD, which was the first place
in the United States from which the
mineral was taken, seventy years ago,
is still operated, being now owned by
w. II. Foster of Brookline. Mass.
The "leap-year necktie' for gentle
men isuont. We have not seen it, but
susn Itis a young lady's sleeve, with
an Min it,and goes all the way round
theneck. Every enterprising young
gentleman should have one.-[ Adver-
tiser.
Some scamp amused himself the
other night, by pelting the Montreal
express train with stones at Milton
Hollow. One stone broke through the
window of n passenger car and hit q
man in the eye, and another broke a
window of a Pullman car.
The Congregational Church in Rut-
land has accepted the invitation to
participate in the Plymouth Church
advisory council, and will be represent
ed by the pastor, the Rev. J. G. John
itor OF the Rutland Herald.
Mr.. Peter Laro, of Essex, n. Y came
very near being drowned, last Satur-
day, while crossing the lake to Char
lOtte, on the ice with the mail. He sue
eeeded in rescuing himself, however,
and getting on to Sloop Island, where,
it is said, he came near freezing before
he could get help.
The Fall Mountain paper company
at Bellows Falls has been converted
into n stock company, with 100000
capital and William A. Russell of Law
renee, Mass. for president. A new mill
is being built principally to fill con-
tract with firm in Philadelphia to
furnish three tons of dry pulp per day,
for ten years.
At Montpelier, on Tuesday, Chan
cellor Ross signed the court order APP
pointing w. II. H. Bingham and S. S.
Thompson receivers of the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad. The bonds
were fifty thousand dollars each, the
accounts to be accounted for to the
court every six months. The appoint
ment Of these gentlemen as receivers
meets with general app obation.
In the United States senate, Tues
day, Mr.. Wright called up the bill to
pay to the First National Bank of St.
Adams, VT, S2S $3.50, with interest from
October 10, 1859, for United States reg
istered notes belonging to the United
States stolen from the bank by Cana
dian raiders on the 10Th of October,
1864. An amendment striking out the
proviso 10 pay the interest was report
ed by the committee on claims.
Beginning with the present month
the pay car of the Central Vermont
railroad will be discontinued, and in
future, checks from the pay-rolls, ac-
warded to the various and proper
agents by express. All abstracts must
be returned to the paymaster's office
Immediately on obtaining the requisite
signatures, and unclaimed paychecks,
at the expiration of thirty days from
the date of their receipt.
The treasurer of the Vermont State
Bible society reports the contributions
of Rutland county during the past veal
to be SlSl.S5, derived from the follow
r ing sources
Benson, Congregational $40, Metho
dist So, 20 Brandon, Methodist Sl1.28
Castleton. Congregational 500 e5, Meth
odist SO. 10; Clarendon, Congregations
. SIS; Fairhayen, Congregational $40.
"a Middletown, Union SIS. SO; Pawlet
, Methodist 81; Pittsford, Methods
s2.10; Tinmouth Methodist S9.l5
. Wallingford, $3.50; West Rutland
Congregational sal So. Total, $751;. So
Theodore Hutchinson, of Hardwick
. was tried on the lst instant, for inces
. with his laughter. Complaint wa
= made to the grand jury last August Of
|. this matter, by his wife, but upon in
q quiry the daughter said it WAS not true
!, Since that time the family trouble
y have increased until the family left, an
- applied to the town for maintenance
: Upon this, Hutchinson gathered togett
!, err some of the household effects, anG
Il as is supposed, burned them. Then tn
old complaint was renewed. the gil
d testifying to continued incestuous il
h tercourse, and he was bound up in SIC
h bonds. He obtained bail from men fo
l. whom he had worked, they not belie'
z ing in his guilt.
y Tuesday evening. as No. II expires
~ Uaa @ haut a milo aauih Of Million Ef