The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-21

thlns one nunUreu ana tWcnty-Seven
boys and sixteen girls.
Two tramps who lodged In the Hart
Ia the morning without their break fast
rather than saw wood to pay for 1t.
Only one to one hundred and thirty
nine is the ratio of crime between the
women and men In this state, as 1t is
shown by the records of the state pris-
on.
A tramp was arrested at North Troy
for threatening to burn tho building Of
ii. A. Johnson, and was fined fifty dol
lars and costs. He was committed to
Jail in default of payment.
II. II. Upper, of Rochester, was se-
riously injured last week. While at
tempting to kill n COW she crowded him
against the side of the barn, and il was
feared he could not survive.
The Manchester journal says that
Woodford lady was lately taken aback
when her swain got upon his knees be-
fore her and read declaration of his
love which he had neatly written of.
Two of the escaped burglars from
Bennington county Jail, Grace and Per-
kins, were captured at North Hoosick,
n. Y, Saturday evening last. The
third one, Hoaly, has not been heard
from.
Sarah Parks, aged eight years, was
fatally injured at Bellows Falls, on the
14th inst, by being caught and terribly
mangled in the Valley Railroad turn
nj MI Dth
children.
The amount of forgeries of Il. L. Pea
body, of st. Johnsbury, is definitely
fixed at $4,000. Peabody, it Is said,
has no sympathy among his acquaintan-
ces, for he chose as his victims his
most intimate and truest friends. and
had previously ruined his father.
Rev. Silas McKeen, of Bradford, VT.
died at his house, last Monday morning,
at the advanced age of eighty-six years.
DR.. McKeen was for forty-three years
pastor of the Congregational church in
Bradford, and it was with no small
feeling of reluctance that his members
accepted his resignation in 1866.
Mrs. Laura B. Bromley, wife of Hon.
j. b. Bromley of Castleton, died at her
home at IL p. NJ last Sunday, aged for
ty-seven years. She was a daughter of
the late Fitch Clark, ESQ.,. of Pawlet,
and gained the love and respect of all who
came in contact with her, BY her mant
noble qualitiea as wife, mother and
friend.
A pleasant party of friends were pres
ent at the wedding of Mr.. George Rus
/ tnd nd TIL.
Dec. 8, to- contribute to the joys of tho
occasion. A table well laden with
gifts to the bride and groom afforded
testimony to the esteem in which they
are held. The doctor enters on his
profession in Shrewsbury under favor
able auspices, with the hearty wish of
his many friends that he may rival in
skill Esculapius himself.
The arguments in the Gaudett abor-
ton case were concluded Friday after
noon, and the court held DIR. HAYNES
Tor trial at the next term of the county
court, and fixed the bonds at $4,000.
The counsel for Mrs. Titus waived an
examination in her case, and she
recognized in the sum of $500 for her
own appearance at court. In the cases
of DR.. Chase and his mother, Mrs.
Chase, the state entered a noue pros,
and they were discharged.
While several men were at work
blasting in Hollister, Tyrel & Co.'s mar
BILE quarry, at East Dorset, recently,
they were blown up by explosion OF
quite large quantity of giant powder,
one of them having nearly all the flesh
burned and torn from one of his arms,
while the clothing of the others was
burned from their backs, and they were
injured in a shocking manner. DR.
Commons, of Factory Point, attended
the men, and everything possible was
done to alleviate their sufferings.
The other day, Alpha Lodge, knights
of Honor. was instituted in Brattleboro.
This is the first lodge of tho order in
Vermont, and starts off with sixteen
charter members. The order of the
knights of Honor is a secret benevolent
society, having among its objects that
of affording life insurance to all Its
members. The order was established
only four years ago. and has already
spread into nearly all the states of the
Union. There are over one hundred
and twenty lodges in New England.