The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-04-11
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W. |. Rogers, Il boston drummer,
suicide at Montpelier, with
tuesday night.
Windham county had about two feet
Of snow, Tuesday, and u of the most
binding storms of the season.
Woodford proposes to give IL good
old fashioned celebrations. July 4.
Speakers from abroai will he present.
Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham; Of Water
bury and Col. Redheld Proctor of Rut-
land will be the Decoration day orators
at Burlington.
Bu~rlington's bonded debt is S409, 3I2,
os which S160, 900 consists of bonds is
sued in favor of the Burlington and
Lamoille railroad.
Alvin Woodward of Enosburgh de-
MES that he has committed suicide, but
that Alvah Coburn has, on ac-
count of financial troubles,
There has been quite a revival of
real-estate sales in Rutland county of
late. Farms are selling about rs per
cent less than in good times.
Tue Burlington Free Press thinks
that, after all the talk about other men
for Congress from the third district,
Hendee should be his own successor.
The lecture bureau telegraph that, if
living, Henry Ward Beecher Will de-
liver his lecture on 1.-THE Wastes and
Burdens of Life mt Brattleboro, the
10TH
Mr.. Almont Barnes, a former editor
of the st. Adams Messenger, has been
nominated by the president as chief of
the bureau of statistics in the depart
ment of the treasury.
The bill for the payment by the Uni
ted States government of S2S, $50 to the
First national bank at st. Adams to in
demnify it for the robbery during the
raid of 1864 has become n law.
Pitt w. Hy lie of Castleton, the sub
stitute for Col. Neasey of Rutland was
a delegate to tho Democratic national
convention that nominated Stephen A.
Douglas for president at Baltimore,
Md. in 1860.
A private letter from Jacksonville,
Fla. SAWS that j. $. Adams, of that
HldCtt Is NtlN 3Oh WIN tOiiSuiI PllOIs
This intelligence will be received with
pain by the many friends of Mr.. Ad-
ans in this state.
One of the cases still standing on the
docket of the Chittenden county court
is that of Isaac Nye VS.. Rutland and
Burlington railroad company, entered
at the September term of 1851, just
twenty-five years ago.
"An anxious MOTHER writes to the
Burlington Free Press that three pro-
f%essional gamblers have been ''roping
inn and fleeing people in that town,
all winter, and that the gambling nui-
sance has reached large proportions.
The Brattleboro forest and stream
club, at their recent annual meeting,
elected by DR.. G. +. Gale, president ;
s. NJ. Waite, secretary and treasurer.
They are o to place two thousand
landlocked salmon in the waters in the
vicinity.
Cambridge is having quite a sensa-
ton over the sudden disappearance and
supposed suicide of Ransom Melvin,
driver of the stage from Underhill to
the Boro, Melvin has not been since
SdtuIutN ldSl, anu SulNlhC IL III why
explanation of his disappearance. The
river has been vigorously dragged, but
without success, at latest accounts.
A pair of v~ultures took possession o.
Vulture mountain, n half Il mile north.
east from Gaysville. the other day, and
notified the people to keep a SHARP
lookout on their spring chickens,
These birds raise their young in the
unapproachable lodges of this noun
tain, from whom it takes its name,
Fortunately, only N pair can agree
to inhabit ii at the same time.
The time during which n. Il
Sprague, Jr. OF Brandon may erect the
Vermont building at the centennial has
been extended thirty-five days, and ht
has gone to work on the plans for it
The building is to be entirely of mate
rial from Vermont. Some of Mr.
Sprague's political critics have doubted
his sincerity i'm making this offer, bu
there isn't much doubt now that III
means business.
The Ransom guards. of st. Adams
at their regular meeting, voted to at
tend the centennial exhibition at Phil
adelphia in a body. They expect t,
muster over seventy muskets, will car
ry their own camp equipage and cam
out. They will leave st. Adams Jun
%, and return July s., going via tn
New York and New England raiiroa,
oompany's new through line from Bos
ton to Philadelphia.
A block of the finest staIuary marbl
which the Rutland marble compan,
had carefully prepared and placed upOl
a car ready to be sent TO the c~entenni
al, was spoiled, the other night, b.
some miscreant who poured oil upoI
the side which was lettered. On tn
stone was also placed n notice that,
the company did not raise wages an
employ more men, they had bette
look Il for their mill.
The sale of intoxicating liquors stil
flourishes among the thirty odd ruf
shops at st. Adams, ''arrests" an
prosecutions to the contrary moi
outstanding. The temperance leader
r seem to be at a standstill, notwithstanC
ing the open declaration made at
meeting held December Is last, that !
2 less than sixty days every rumseller {
? st. Adams would be closed up or pro-
ecuted, and the killed and wounded ly
: ing in heaps.
| The remains of William j. Roger
who committed suicide at Montpelie
Wednesday, by taking hydrate of chl'
| raj, were taken to his late residence
E Claremont, n. H., Thursday a~fterool
\ in charge of l.. A. Durant, in who's
: employ he had been on and off sin,
t last June. Previously lie had been
!. dry goods runner for Dean * Brother
: Claremont. He leaves IA widow al
e two children, aged four and two year
He was II son of Abraham Rogers.
q a few years ago, Tho states attOrne
o of a northern county in Vermont, q
n though a man of great legal abilit
was very fond of the bottle. On oil
occasion an important criminal ca
was called on by the clerk, but the q
torney. with owl-like gravity. Ike
his chair. "Mr. Attorney, is the sta
ready to proceed ?" said the jude
"Yes-hic-no-your HONOR star
mered the lawyer "the state is not
d in q state to try this case, to-day Il