The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-06-15
STATE ITEMS.

Canaua is ually on the increase.
Miss s. A. Guild hasbcen appointed
postmaster in East Rupert.
Summer travel TO the Green Noun
tain state opens earlier than usual.
John c. SAKE, the Vermont poet, is
seriously i'll ut his home in Brooklyn.
Woodstock has raised $500, her pro-
portion for the Bennington centennial
Rev. Charles Redfeld has closed his
labors with the Plainfeld Congregations
nj church.
The Lake Champlain steamers are
now running regularly between Bur-
lington, Pittsburgh and all points on
the lake.
Mrs. Taylor Parker, of Marshfield,
aged about thirty years, hanged herself
with rope, on the 9th inst, in her
husbands barn.
Abial Cole, soldier of the war of
1912, was found dead in his bed at the
Newport House, Monday morning,
aged eighty-four years.
Magoun, the murderer of Streetcr,
near Barre, in October, still languishes
in Montpelier Jail. He is awaiting the
action of the supreme court.
Rev. o. Roys has closed his paslorate
with the Free Baptist church, st.
Johnsbury. Rev. j. S. Burgess of
Maine, will supply The pulpit for the
present.
Governor Fairbanks has appointed
Prof. Torrey of Burlington, delegate
from Vermont to the international Pris-
on Congress at Stockholm, Sweden, in
August next.
A Pawlct man, IT is said, used kero-
scne oil to destroy the potato bugs in
his patch, but succeeded in killing four
teen cows which broke in at night and
apte the well anointed vines.
Woodchucks have taken possession of
the graveyard in Peacham, and PLAYED
resurrectionists by bringing to the sur
face the bones of one of the old citizens.
who was buried some forty years since.
The cighty-seventh annual convention
of the diocese of Vermont opened at
Trinity church. in Rutland, Tuesday
evening. Thirty delegates were present.
Rev. Daniel G. Roberts, of Brandon,
preached the opening sermon.
The Burlington cotton mill company,
property at Winooski, was sold at
auction few days ago TO William p.
Clark, of Lawrence, Mass, for 1927 900,
subject to mortgages of 24,G66. The
original cost was about $4,000.
Tuesday night, while BENJAMIN Nor
gan and his brother-in-law, both some-
what intoxicated, were driving from
Windsor to Springfield, Mass, they
overturned and Morgan's neck was bro
ken. Morgan was formerly hotel
keeper at South Woodstock
Rev. E. D. Hopkins was re-arrested
at st Johnsbory, Wednesday, ON five in.
dictments by the Grand jury, two for
forgery and three for appropriating
moneys. Part of this prosecution, 1t is
alleged, is influenced by parties having
personal spite and interests inimical
to the accused.
The cold war horse" belonging to
Capt. II. X. Ide of st. Johnsbury is
dead. Capt Ide bought the horse in
the South during the war, and rode
him in sixteen engagements, at one of
which Give Forks) the horse was
wounded. The age of this veteran Is
not known, but the captain reckoned
him over twenty-five years.
Chief Justice Pierpoint has called
special term of the full bench of the SUI
preme court to meet on the fourth Tues
day in July, to hear an appeal from the
chancellor's pro .foamo order dismissing
the petition of the Central Vermont
railroad company rs receivers, for an
order of sale of the Vermont Central
and Vermont and Canada railroads to
pay the trust debts.
The investigation by insanity experts
in the case Of Mrs. Young. the child
murderer of Newark, VT, is ended.
The result influenced the grand jury
not to find n bill against her. She was
wrought upon by acts of her husband
and his paramount to insanity, and fear
Ing that her children would be taken
from her by the guilty pair, she killed
them in fit of frenzy with an AK.
While young man named Blow, &C
companied by two young ladies of the
same name, his cousins, and their little
five-year-old brother, was taking walk
east of Bennington village, Monday af-
ternoon, he playfully snapped capped
shot gun, supposed to be unloaded, at
them. II went off, however, hitting
both of the ladies, one in the right
breast and the other in the back. In
one of the wounds, probably fatal, sew
enty shot-holes have been counted,
while the other is slight. r.
The new line of railroad, which has
been purchased by l.. Robinson of
Newport, to connect the southeastern
counties with Montreal, Is rapidly APP
preaching completion and win make a
direct route from Boston to Montreal.
II will be in running order by the last
of July, when fast express trains will
be put on, making the running time be-
tween those cities hour and q half
quicker than at present. The new line
runs from West Farnham to st. LAM
bert and Victoria bridge. The line
will be know as the Montreal, Portland
and Boston Railroad (thlrty-two miles,
The ST. Adams Iron and Steel works
now give employment to some two
hundred and fifty men, and are running
at their full capacity. Six car loads,
amounting to sixty tons per day, of
new puddled-head iron rails are being
turned out for the Central Vermont
railroad. Over fifty tons Of soft coal Is
required each twenty-four hours when
the mill Is In full operation, as at this
time. The new steel works are being
put in, and consistof two Siemens-Mar-
tin furnaces, which are said TO have a
capacity of producing sixty tons of steel
every twenty-four hours. 1t Is expect
ed they will he completed in three
months time.
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