The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-29
STATE NE VS..
Hubbard Hathaway, a farmer, hun
himself at Woodstock. Saturday.

Hon. A N. hlDDhfu OF NOrtu nero,
was Frustrated by sunstroke, the 18th,
while al work In his hay field.
c. II. Ripley of Rutland and Charles
Parker of Nergennes, have left for a
sea trip to Halifax and Newfoundland.
The Burlington wooden company are
building new dam Of stone, cement
and wood 80 feet high, at a cost of Sl5,-
600,
The whistling of steam tug coming |
into port on Sunday evening, caused a |
fire alarm at Burlington, calling ont
the fire department.
a Young Mems republican club has
been organized in Burlington, with G. |
w. Brownell, jr., as president aud w.
q. Reynolds secretary.
a woodshed, containing 200 cords of
wood, supposed to belong to the Central
Vermont Railroad, was burned at Mont
pelier, Thursday evening.
The room of the Hayes and Wheeler
and Tilden and Hendricks clubs of
Burlington, will be open every evening
until the presidential election.
Deacon John Ellis of Huntington,
died of dropsy, July IL, aged 70 years,
He has been q man of great mind and
was one of the pioneers of the town.
During the months of April, May
and June $4,000 hogs went over the
Central Vermont road and II 800 head
of cattle, making both hogs and cattle
1885
About 800 of the Sabbath-school and
congregation of the Baptist church of
Burlington on Wednesday took pic
mic excursion to Westport by the steam
er Vermont
David Macomber of East Milton over
sixty years OF age fell from scaffold In
his barn, few days ago, and striking
on his head, was severely and probably
fatally Injured.
w. f.. Plunkett, who stole horse in
Charlotte, July a, was arrested the eth,
and plead guilty. He was committed
to the Windsor state prison on the 10th
for four years term.
Another destructive fire at Des Re.
vieres station Thursday near st. Johns
on the Central Vermont railroad, de-
stroyed nearly 800 cords of wood be-
longing to the railroad company.
A terrific hurricane and rain storm
passed over Lake Champlain and
Northern New York and Vermont
Thursday afternoon. Considerable
damage was done to telegraph lines
and poles, houses were unroofed and
trees blown down,
A view from Ilillington Peak, some
six or eight miles east of Rutland, is
one of the most inspiring to be found
in the state. The entire length Of Lake
Champlain, the White Mountains, and
other points of interest may be seen un-
der favorable atmospheric conditions.
The disastrous fire at Barton Land
ing on the evening of the 18th, will
prove calamity not only to the losers,
but the surrounding farmers, as the
parties burned out lost heavily. 1t Is
thought by some that the fire was in
cendiary. The circumstances are TO be
thoroughly investigated.
Rev. Allah Sabin delivered an his.
torical address at Georgia on the Fourth
Of July, At the conclusion, Hon. Geo.
A Ballard in behalf of the people pre-
scented to Mr., Sabin a testimonial Of
their gratitude and esteem, and he &C.
companied the gift $3.50 with a very
feeling and eloquent speech.
Miss Alice Chase of White River
Junction was fatally injured on We'd
| nesday last while returning from an ex-
| cursion into the country in company
| with friend in q carriage. The horse
became frightened and ran away ,thow-
| ing Miss Chase violently to the road,
and fracturing her skull. She died on
Saturday night.
Vermont is divided into two equal
parts by the parallel of "A deg. 8 min
north latitude, also by the meridian in
deg. 10 east longitude. These two
| lines intersect each other near the
western line of the town of Mortified
| in Washington county, and about ten
| miles southwesterly from Montpelier
and the point of intersection IL the geo.
graphical center of the state.
Allen Northrup of Flushing, l.. l.,
was the guest of his brother, Doctor J 1.
n. Northrop, at Castleton, over the
Sabbath. He was at Middlebury dur
| ing commencement season last week
where he graduated in the year 1851.
Most Of the time since he has been a
successful and popular proprietor, and
principal of a literary institution in
Flushing. He is looking healthy and
hale as in days of yore.
| Col. Farrand Parker of Castleton re-
ceived q telegram Sunday night of the
| sudden death of his brother Alonzo, on
I that day. at his residence In Brooklyn,
n. Y. Mr.. Parker was q native OF
Castleton, and in the eighty-first year
of his age, and had resided in Brook
Ign thirty years. His wife. the COM
panion of his life for nearly fifty years,
two daughters and his brother Col.
Farrand Parker survive him.
About o'clock Saturday afternoon,
Mrs. Clarinda Ferry. wife of Sylvester
Ferry, living about one mile from
Hydepark, Lamoille county, was pick.
ing raspberries near the house. when
two masked men seized her, dragged
her into corniield near by, where both
the scoundrels outraged her. A neigh
Dor hearing her screams search was
made, and she was found bound gagged
AMI strangled to lnsensibility with
strings tied around her neck her mouth
being filled with small stones, and these
being tied in with her apron strings
: Great numbers ARE searching the wood.
in the vicinity under direction of Sher
if Dwinnell, but no trace of the fiends
has been found. Mrs. Ferry Is badly
injured, aud claims to have been drug
ged but it Is probable that her lnjurle
are not fatal.
The Rutland correspondent of thu
Boston Herald tells this story: "Johi
Z. Huntoon, son of James Huntoon, o
Shrewsbury, and director in the Rut
land Bank, who has always been con
sidered little fast" 1t Is now dlscov
cred ls a first-class rascal. While sup
: porting his real wife, by whom he ha
a four children, at Rutland, he has beef
keeping another woman, who suppose,
: herself his wife, at New York hotel