The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
STATE ITEMS.

clses vi lIpnolu FEVER, utle TO bad sew
eragc.
The best apples. fall and winter. are
selling in Grand Isle ut $3.50 To So Der
barrel. The crop is large.
Two women were arrested in Ben
nington last week, for drunkenness. and
taken TO Jail in wheebarrows.
Captain Manville. who was cnptain of
the steamer Montreal when She was
burned at Swanton, now has command
of the Grand Isle.
The third annual fair of the Union
Agricultural society of Tunbridoe. clos
ed Oct. 1. The entries of stock and
other articles for the exhibition have
as usual been very successful.
The plans of the new North church at
st. Johnsbury contemplate brick or
stone cdifice one hundred and fifty feet
long by eighty wide. accommodating
about one thousand persons. and con-
tanning all the modern improvements.
at II cost ofnearly 100000.
The railroad commissioners have end
ell the dispute between the Central Yer
mont and Woodstock railroads. about
the latter road crossing the Ccntral's
track at White River Junction. by
awarding the Central road 81 600 dam
ages.
The trial of Airing, for completely in
the murder with Lewis, already convic-
ted i'll Windham county, commences ot
Ncwfanc. next week. Some startling
developments are expected, as Airing
has confessed having sworn falsely
against Lewis, and duplicates some
officers and Boston detectives.
{. 5. kinslcy, editor of the Clipper.
was assaulted by A. n. Merchant, editor
of the Democrat, while standing on the
sidewalk i'll front of the Allen House.
ut Burlington. Friday evening. and Il
rough and tumble fight ensucd. Cause
of gricvancc-an item in II recent num-
Der of the Clipper, slurling ona men,
Der of Merchants family.
An old man arrived at st. Adams,
Thursday night, on train from Bratie-
boro, very weak and exhausted, and
was taken TO the st. Adams House by a
policeman. In the morning he was
found dead i'll his bed. Papers found
on his person identify him az Porter
Scott of East Berkshire. aged siXtv-live
years. The cause of his death was con-
sumption.
| The meeting of the American Board.
at Providence. Wednesday, was attend
ded with unusual interest. At meet
ing of nearly 5000 persons in Music
Hall, movement was inaugurated and
pushed through by Gov. Page, BY which
the Boards debt of $4,000 was paid
Gov Page subscribed 5000, the Fair
banks. $1,000, G. f. Thompson of
Brattlcboro, 81 900. Vermont paid inst
one fourth of the whole amount. The
result was announced about 10 j.. NJ.
amid the greatest enthusiasm. ladies
and gentlemen standing in their seats.
cheering and waving their handkcr-
chiefs and hats.
SHOCKING CASUALTY AT READING
Pascal Merrill, of Reading. came to his
death the other day, under the following
somewhat singular circumstances: In
falling, n small tree near the roadside
lodged against the tops of some other
trees. In order to bring it down-the
tree being comparatively small-sizcd-
Mr.. Merrill placed his shoulder under
meath TO dislodgc it from the stump, and.
in doing so, the butt Immediately shot
backwards, carrying Mr.. Merrill's head
on to the stump, where il was caught
between the body of the tree and the
stump, and there held until life became
extinct. How long he lived in this ter
rible situation can never be learned as
the body was not discovered until late
in the afternoon of the day on which
the accident occurred.
Mcssrs. Cushman, Rogers and Stone.
commissioners to assess damages
against the Woodstock railroad company
in favor ofthe Vermont Central railroad
company, for land taken in crossing the
track at White River junction, held an
adjourned meeting Friday. President
Dewey and other officials of the Wood
stock road were present. Mr.. Tinker
appeared in behalf of the Central road,
and entered Il protest against the cross
ing i'll the Central yard. The commits
sioncrs have other cases TO adjust. and
reserve their decisions on all until the
conclusion of their labors. The protest
made by the Central road does not i'm
ply determination to exclude the
Woodstock road from the requisite
privileges of entering the yard, but de-
sires To prevent II crossing Of all the
Central tracks on cross-irogs.
THE ANNUAL MEETING ofthc Vermont
Sunday-school Association and Teach
crs Institute will be held in the Congrc-
gational church, ut Bennington, Oct.
%, "a and %, 1877, commencing Tues
day at 2:3O PM, and closing Thursday
at | / 80 AM. The annual meeting of
the Association for the transaction of
business will be held on Thursday at 9
AM. Prof W. +. Shcrwin, of New
Jersey, has been secured as conductor
of the institute. Rev. Lyman Abbott,
ID. d., OF New York, will be present
and assist in the exercises. Each Sun
day school in the state is entitled TO
send two delegates. In order to meet
the expenses incurred during the year,
the executive committee have directed
the treasurer to ask the schools in the
state to take up II collection on or be-
fore the second Sunday in October.
Prof. Noah Crcssey, veterinarian, has
been to Ronscs Point to investigate the
cattle disease. Having returned to Bur
lington, he is reported as having found
that Twenty-Five cows of residents there
had died from the disease, and more
than fifty animals in the vicinity had
been affected with it, almost all fatally.
The cattle that have had it at liouses
Point have all died and been buried.
Prof Greasy had no opportunity to see
n case of il, but he obtained sufficient
evidence OF the symptoms TO satisfy him
that it was the Texas cattle disease
which is the yellow fever in cattle
brought and disseminated by the cattle
brought over the Ogdensburg road, and
which had been taken out of the cars at
Rouses Point. All the cows Affected
had, on their way to pasture, crossed
the place where some Texas cattle were
unloadcd from the ears, and had thus
caught the conlagion. The disease has
crossed the Canada line, and is prevail
inc severely at Malone, Bangor, and