The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04
STATE ITEMS.


The anniversary exercises of the
brandon graded school take place June
22.
The Brandon house is being renoya-
ted, papered, painted, etc, for the sum-
mer travel ana boardcrs.
Hon. Henry G.. Root and daughter. of
Bennington, arrived home last week,
after winters sojourn in Florida.
Hon. w. T. Ilorribin, of Cohoes. n.
Y, formerly of Bennington, sailed for
Europe last week in the steamer
Greece.
Rev. George c. Morchouse closed his
lators as pastor of the Methodist Epis-
copal church of Foultney, last Sabbath,
and has removed to Valley Falls, N. Y.
A stage route is to be established
from Brandon to Rochester. The bust
ness men have long been anxious to
have regular communication between
the two places.
Rev. Aldace Walker, ID. D., of Wal
lingford. is again seriously i'll, and his
son, Col. Walker, and his daughter.
Miss Mary Walker, have been sum-
moned to his bedside.
The death of Mr.. Rose, of Hunting
ton, Quebec, father of Sir John Rose,
BART, is announced from Montreal, at
the age of eighty-five. He was one of
the first settlers in that part of the coun-
try.
Thaddeus Fairbanks, of st. Johns
bury, the inventor of the Fairbanks
scales, has received from the bey of Tu-
MS the decoration of Nishrm Ell Ifi-
mar, with the grade of commander, for
his services at the Philadelphia exhibi-
| ton.
AS Nick Gordon, of Huntington, was
driving colt, Sunday last, one of the
reins broke and he was thrown yio-
lently, bruising his head severely. Mon
day morning he was still insensible. The
colt was stopped after running mile
or so.
The Delaware and Hudson canal com
pany intend to run refrigerator cars
from Montreal to New York, the COM
ing summer, for the benefit of those liv-
ing along the line of the road between
here and Montreal who desire to send
butter, fish, game and vegetables to
market.
The long Emma Mine lawsuit which
has been i'll progress for three or four
months, in New York, ended on Satur-
day in verdict for the defendants. Hon.
T. W. Park and Gen. H. III. Baxter.
Their case was very ably managed bv
their counsel, Hon. L. j. PHELPS and
Hon. L. E. Chittenden.
The annual meeting of the Windsor
County Mutual fire insurance company
takes place May 2S. The COMPANY
make an assessment of 8 per cent. for
the year ending March 81. The COM
pany has been doing business thirty
seven years and its assessments have
averaged two and four-fifths per cent.
F. $. Plat of Brandon, who was
admitted to the Rutland county bar at
the last term of court, is soon to COM
mence the practice of law in the office
OF j. Is. Beaman, Esq, of Poultney.
Mr.. Plat is a graduate of Dartmouth
college, and studied the profession in
the office ofOrmsbee & Briggs. of Bran
don.
Mr.. Lewis Z. Thayer, newspaper
publisher at West Randolph, whose of
flee was recently DESTROYED by fire. has
purchased new material and started
business again. He has consolidated
his three papers, the Chelsea Post, the
Vermont News, and the Green Noun
tain Herald, into one paper, under the
title of the Herald ard News.
The house of Patrick Lotus, in Rut.
land, was burned Sunday morning, and
the occupants, Mr.. and Mrs. LOTUS and
three boys, barely escaped with their
lives. MIR: LOTUS passed one boy out
ftbe window, and in attempting to es-
cape with another in his arms, fell head
long down the cellar stairs. He man.
aged to climb up and escape with his
child through window. 1t was then
discovered that one of the children was
still in the burning hnilding, and he
was discovered lying senseless on his
face. The boy could scarcely gasp, and
was laid on the grass for dead In a
short time, however, he revived, and is
pronounced out of danger, though he
was cut about the head and severely in.
jured. Mr.. Lotus was badly bruised
and cut, having long cash in his wrist
The Oldest boy is also considerably hurt,
having a cut about eight inches long on
one ankle and foot. Mrs. LOTUS es-
capped unframed. Mr.. Lotus loss is
about two thousand dollars on house
and furniture; insured for one thousand
two hundred dollars.
The Vermont Centennial Commission
has determined to raise the sum of ten
thousand dollars for the expense of Cen.
tennial week, next August. The com.
mittee appointed for this purpose has
80 far, met with flattering success. This
sum, with the two thousand dollars
which the state appropriated at the last
session of the legislature, il is thought
will ensure the carrying out of the pro,
gramme, at least so far as money is con.
cerned. No definite arrangement OF
programme can be determined on until
the commission, or rather the Benning
ton Battle Monument Association
which is the custodian of the funds Of
the commission, has decided how much
money it has at its disposal for celebra
ton purposes. The moneys raised fol
the monument are not available for the
celebration. Nothing absolutely certain
has yet been done, except to invite The
president Of the United States and a few
other guests to the celebration ofthe 15tl
and 10Th. The legislatures of Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire have beer
invited TO the 10th. The question o.
money determines the rest.
BY the death of W. G.. Brownlow
once so we'll known as ''The Fighting