The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-04-13
STATE ITEMS,

Bishop Bissell OF burlington is Sc
riously i'll.
Rev. II. Hicks Of Bakersfield has &C.
cepted call to the Alburgh Congrega-
tional church.
The headquarters of the Connecticut
River and Cheshire Railroads are to be
removed from Brattleboro TO Bellows
Falls.
The wife of Geo. Il. Miles, the Barre
bank robber, who Is now confined in the
state prison, has been in Windsor for
the past week and has had several in
terviews with him.
Simeon Blanchard of Corinth put his
pipe in his pocket little sooner than
he should, and in consequence he is mi
nus half an overcoat, half a frock and a
piece of his vest.
j. Gould Il Son, of Gouldsville, have
recently made in two weeks from thir-
ty-four looms, 20, $50 yards flannel the
largest two weeks work ever done in
the state with that number of looms.
A young man named Chauncey AL
fred, of Fairfax, shot himself, Monday
morning, in the cheek with a revolver,
the ball passing into his head. He was
aiiNN at ha0t a'ecuhto, Jul liSchsi1it.
The barns of Martin Murphy, of Ben
nington Centre, with their contents,
were burned by an incendiary fire,
Monday afternoon. Loss, 5000; insur-
ed for 1925 In the Lycoming Mutual.
The will of Commodore Vanderbilt
was admitted to the probate court for
Bennington county on Monday. lie
held $500, 900 mortgage on the Harlem
Extension railroad, which runs through
that county.
John Moore, of Highgate, committed
suicide on Thursday, the 9th inst.
Moore was about 80 years of age, and
had enjoyed the highest respect from
his neighbors and friends for good
many years,
The veteran Judge Asa Keyes, reg
lister of probate for Marlboro District,
ninety years old and long in the service,
threatens to resign. The local papers
hope he won't, as his great age does
not lessen his efficiency.
Lucius Robinson has bought of the
Passumpsic Railroad the Memphrema-
COG House at Newport, with the stable,
land adjoining, furniture and fixtures,
for $4,000. Mr.. Robinson is one of
wv oNh'iS vi tiic eiittu DtdtcS iiOttl,
Boston.
Bennington is excited. She has had
a regular prize-fght, at which the au-
thorities didn't interfere, and of which
the local papers print full particulars;
and finds Mrs. Julia O'Brien, aged l02,
who must be kept at all hazards for the
July centennial.
The trial ofJohn Patton for the murder
of Barney McCue was concluded at Rut-
land Monday, the jury bringing In YER
dict of manslaughter. The case was
ably argued on both sides, States Attor-
ney Fuller appearing for the state, and
Geo. Il. Lawrence and W. G. Veazey
for the defendant. Patton was sentenced
TO twelve years imprisonment at hard
labor at Windsor.
The local papers say that social
events of any magnitude are not so
in Brattleboro that il is strict |
" legitimate to pass one with only a |
word of comment. Acting on this |
principle, one of the editors went TO the |
Brooks House ball, last week, notebook |
in hand, and questioned each lady, ma
ny of whom he had never seen before, as
to the material of her costume. The |
result was an elaborate description off
what forty-nine women wore; but the
other paper was asked by the fair ones
TO condemn" such conduct, which it
did joyously.