The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-04-27
STATE ITEMS.


upon him.
Col. IL. ID. Hopkins, of Montpelier.
has been appointed to weigh the United
States mails, between Bellows Falls
and Montpelier.
Thirty persons were received into the
church at Randolph Center, April Is,
on profession of faith. Ten OF these
were members of the Normal school.
Part of the barracks on the old camp
ground, Brattleboro, owned by the
Windham County Park Association,
was burned on Saturday night; loss
slight.
Bennington announces the finding of
woman in that town, named Mrs.
Julia OBrien, who is 102 years old, and
who Is to be exhibited Mt the July CEN,
tennial
In Tunbridge, sheep and young cattle
were on the hills getting their living on
December 8, 1876; and now, after a
lapse of only four months, they are on
the hills again.
Harry Wells of Bellows Falls, Il lad of
some thirteen years, son of NJ. Is. Wells,
was attacked by two dogs, Thursday
afternoon and severely bitten in one leg,
considerably decorating the flesh.
Norwich University is to be supplied
by the United States ordnance depart
ment with one hundred rounds of artil-
| lery cartridges and one thousand rounds
OF rifle cartridges for target practice this
summer.
Ex-Governor Ryland Fletcher has
just contracted for monument of Suth-
erland Falls marble, at q cost of 81 900,
which will be placed over the graves of
his wife and daughter in the cemetery
at Cavendish.
Geo. ). Bowtelle, of Bellows Falls,
an employee on the Cheshire railroad
and son of Geo. Bowtelle, the veteran
engineer on the same road, was caught
between two cars near the depot last
Saturday, and had one hip dislocated.
An old Democrat in Glover. who "salt-
ed down little currency during war
time. has lately concluded that the coun-
try is not going to the "shebang" this
year, and uniies his purse strings. He
lately paid u school tax of $3.50 in
three-cent pieces.
The tairbankies have decided South
Park to the village of St. Johnsbury, on
condition that no buildings shall ever be
erected thereon, no tent for shows, no
ball playing, but that the same shall
always be cared for as an ornamental
park for the village.
The Rutland Globe learns that the
Central Vermont railroad has made q
verbal request to all its engineers to
withdraw from the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, and that il is ru.
mored that most of the engineers will
comply with the request.
The Newport jeweler, Caswell, has
just completed new steamer twenty
feet long, five feet wide, driven by Q
two-horse engine, which will take to the
waters of Magog as soon as the ice
clears. Its name is Blue Glass. Ii will
carry about a dozen persons.
The Southern Vermont railroad
which was leased to the Troy ant
Boston Railroad Company until the com.
pletion of the Hoosac tunnel, has passed
into the control of the State of Massa
chusetts again. The Troy and Boston
company will continue to furnish the
rolling stock for the road.
The shipment of maple sugar from
the express Office at Brattleboro thi,
season amounts to thirty-fivc tons, O
which Boston and Worcester have hat
the lions share. The back-country far
mers are said to be getting discouraged
at the low prices that are prevailing
and are at loss what TO do with tn,
sugar they have made.
Leslie Ormsbce, of Dummcrston. wa
driving spirited horse near w. o. Mil
ler's on Sunday, Sth, on his way HON,
from church, when his horse becam,
manageable and ran, throwing hin
out and leaving his sister, Julia Orms
f bee, in the buggy, who was soon aftel
also thrown out and severely bruised
and received bad wound on her head
Arlington scnsibly feels the reviva
Of business. Several manufactures
are running both night and day, as
result of the exhibits at The Centennia
last year. West y Bros.'s export trade
in chairs is now averaging twenty dozel
daily. A recent order for forty-tw,
dozen chairs from Spain were mad,
from the tree and shipped inside o
eight days.
Warner Townsend, of Grafton, wa
bound over to the Newiane court las
week, for stealing buffalo robe som,
time since. He is a brother of Town
send and brother-in-law of Stone, jus
sentenced to the state prison for arson
His sister, Mrs. Stone, hoping to keeE
one member of the family out of jaif
tried to prove that the theft was com
mitted by the other brother, by letter
which was evidently forged.
An exchange says: "Dr. j. Adams
: Allen, NJ. D., l.. l.. d., one of the mos
eminent physicians in the West, and fol
many years resident in Chicago, hai
been elected to the presidency of Rusl
Medical College, recently vacated by
the death of DR.. Freer. The honor is
mutual one, and it will be equally graft
flying to the many friends of DIR. Aller
and the College" The DR.. Allen here
referred to is brother of DIR. Charles
l.. Allen, of Rutland.
The commissioners chosen TO confirm
the recent vote of the town, granting
$50, 900 10 the Whitehall narrow gauge
railroad by securing subscriptions rep
resenting the larger part of Brattleboro'i
valuation, have already secured half thu
necessary amount, and are confident o
getting the whole. The Estey organ
company have refused to sign. Jamai
ca, Townshend, Londonderry, Winhal
and Peru have already subscribed thcil
: share of the required aid.
1t Is stated that President Hayes ha,
/ invited his uncle, the venerable Austin
Birchard of Fayetteville, who is eighty
one years old, TO make him visit a
the White house, and Mr.. Birchard de
clines on account of his age and physi
cal inhrmity, and also his disinclinatior
to mingle in society on account of tn,
death of his daughter Mary, who wa
killed at Ashtabula; and so the presi
dent will probably visit the old gentle