The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-07-27
STATE ITEMS.


Pirates have been plying their voca-
ton on Lake Champlain, and several of
them have come TO grief at Whitehall.
Mr.. George Grow, of Bloomington.
was very severely gashed on one Of his
legs, last week, by n scythe which his
brother was swinging behind him.
Cen. Doubleday is a guest al the
Equinox House, Manchester. Many of
the Vermont boys will remember him,
as they had the honor of fighting under
him nj Gettysburg.
The Rutland papers are Dragging
over a lady of that town who recently
visited Montreal aud Quebec, and re-
turned without smuggling ANYTHING
over the llne--not even pair of gloves
for friend.
There is TO be foot-race--onc hum
dred yards dash-at Rutland, to-mor-
row, for one hundred dollars a side.
One party names a man, fifty years old,
who will run any man in the state. A
Burlington man will compete.
Gerald, thirteen year old son of G.B.
Kirwan, of Brattleboro, was run over
and instantly killed by loaded truck
train last Saturday afternoon. lie was
an only son and one of the brightest
little fellows in the whole village.
Joseph Goodwin. of Burlington, at
tempted suicide, last Saturday, BY
jumping from the steamer A. Williams,
when about midway between the wharf
and the breakwatcr, but q boat was ot
once lowered and his attempt frustrat-
ed.
Last Friday the Catholic church at
East Dorset was entered by some per-
son unknown, and several valuable arti-
cles of furniture stolen and the building
disfigured. The chalicc was stolen. the
tabernacle broken and the sacrament
thrown out. No clue to the perpetra-
tors.
The experiment Of Judge Martin G.
Evarts, of Rutland, in importing mi
gratory quail is proving n success.
They are often seen and heard in the
woods where they have been placed,
and are now raising large number of
young birds, some of the nests having
twelve and fourteen eggs.
Nelson Puffer, of Sheldon, aoed obout
forty years, either accidentally or with
suicidal intent shot himself in the head.
just back of the right ear, with a small
pistol ON Thursday evening of last week,
and lived but ten minutes after reaching
the poorhouse, where part of his fam.
lily are staying. Puffer had no regular
employment, but had tramped good
deal, leaving his family to be supported
by the town.
The grasshoppers are doing great
damage in Franklin county. They
have so far destroyed the feed in some
pastures in st. Adams and vicinity that
the farmers have been obliged to COM
mence feeding their cattle hay. Sew
eral are now moving their oat crop for
fodder or drying it for winter use.
Corn stalks are eaten off by the pests,
and unless wet weather sets in, 1t seems
inevitable that they will destroy most
of the unharvested crops and the fall
feed.
Webb Z. Hayes, son of the President,
arrived at Saratoga, last Thursday, ac-
companied by Secretary Sherman, and
registered at the United States HoteI
The object of his visit Is to make al.
rangements for the removal of the re-
mains of Roger Birchard, his ancestor,
from the Nelson cemetery in that vii
lage, and carry them to the old family
home in Vermont for refinement. Mr..
Birchard died in Saratoga, in 1916,
while guest of Philo Waterbury, one
of the first residents.
Next month there is to be special
chancery sitting of the Vermont SUI
preme court to see if these can be put
together into new and single corpora
ton and taken out Of their fatal receiv-
ership. The plan for doing this is dis.
puted by the Vermont and Canada ill.,
terest, but the result should be achieved
i'll some way, and the scandals of Ver=
mont railroading and Vermont courts
and Vermont politics be abatcd, and
her roads run by those who own them
and who have an interest in their being
managed honestly and economically.S
[Springfield Republican.
DR.. c. D. House, veterinary surgeon,
of New York city, came near losing his
life recently, from slight wound on
the fore finger, received while operat-
ing at Worcester, Mass, on the jaw of
a horse for the removal of an liberated
tooth. The virus soon took effect, iu-
fammation set in, the whole hand began
to swell and became very painful. On
consulting a physician, he was told that
it would prove fatal TO him. He APP
piled caustic, but without relief. Hav-
ing an engagement at Moulton g.
Graves stable, at East Randolph, he
took the cars for that place. His hand
grew more painful, and he made an in
cision in his finger with a knife and
sucked the blood from it for some
hours. He also drank several glasses
of strong whiskey, and painted his wrist
with a strong solution of iodine and
whisky. This treatment allayed the
pain. Arriving at East Randolph, DIR.
House applied to his hand mixture of
glycerine and carbolic acid, and subse-
quently applied spiknard poultice. AT
last accounts he was apparently out Of
danger.