The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-14
STATE ITEMS.

lncrc Is talk OF DullulnR narrow
gauge railroad from Waterbury to Nor
risvillc through stowe.
1t j. said that there have been over
six hundred cases of diphtheiia ut Bur
lingtuu the present season.
The Congregational church at VOL
colt have voted 10 use water instead of
wine AT their communion table.
AT North Troy, saturday last, George
Morris, aged sixteen, was fatally i'll
jui'ed by II falling tree which he was
chopping.
Col. Potter, of Bennington, owns n
Jersey heifcr, thrce-year-old, which
regularly goes to the pump near the
house and pumps the water she drinks,
using her nose and chin to move the
lever.
A hotel beat, calling himself George
Dewey, swindled the st. Johnsbury and
Avenue hotels, the other evening, bor-
rowing five dollars of the proprietor of
the former and dumping" his supper
bill at the latter house.
The condition of John Whitney, who
was shot at Woodworth's billiard sa-
loon in Bennington, last week, is now
considered critical. Messrs. Ed Me-
Clure and Rollin Smith furnished the
bail of 81 900 required for the release
of Woodwork, and he is now at large.
The late Orville Robinson, of New
port, was such q corpulent man weigh
ing three hundred pounds-that after
his death all efforts to procure a suffi-
ciently largo cosltct for his bodv vvoro
unavailing, and finally large box had
10 be made and covered with broad
cloth, and in this he was buried
There is now living in Coventry an
Englishman by the namo of Putnev, who
fought at Waterloo under Wellington.
lie also served with the British army in
India, and Waterloo was his last battle
OH the Continent, as he was sent to this
country directly after that affair with
those soldiers who served in the war OF
1912.
William Devlin, of Lowell, Mass,
was arrested ut Bellows Falls, Dec. O.
for the murder of his wife and child nj
Lowell, last Saturday. Officers from,
Lowell arrived on the ten o'clock train,
who identified the man and who tool;
him to Lowell on the noon train. He
claims to have been formerly fireman
on the Rutland and Burlington rail.
road.
The Vermont Banks Protective As.
sociation, which was organized two
years since for the purpose of mutually
assisting each other in case of loss by
theft, forgery, robbery, or burglary, in
securing and Furnishing the criminal
and recovering, so far as possible, any
lost property, held a thinly ATTENDED
annual meeting at Burlington, on the
9th inst. The following is list of the
officers elected for the year ensuing
President, John A. Page; vice-presi.
dent, O. p. Chandler; secretary, Svd.
ney w. Rowell; treasurer, Chas. A,
Reed; executive committee, VIM. Y,
w. Ripley, n. 7. Sprague, Ii. Harlow
Geo. May, VIM. II. Dubois.
Mr.. Faycttc Holmes, of Sudbury, has
succumbed TO the pressure of the times
His liabilities are some Sl7, 800. His
assets, besides his farm (Which is heay.
lily mortgaged) are comparatively nom.
inal, will pay twenty-five per cent.
perhaps. His failure has brought down
another farmer connected with him b,
signing as security; also another hcav,
farmer in the same neighborhood stands
in very prccarious situation from the
same cause, and too much unpaid fol
land. II is well for business men these
times to look about and see on what
kind of plank they are standing, wheth.
Ell narrow, rotten or leaky. Mr.
Holmes intends to go West, where most
of his family now reside, as soon as he
can close his business here.
On the night of Dec. 10th, one of the
of tho largest fires ever known in Bethel
ell took place, breaking out from the ROOT
of the tenement building known as the
White River house, owned by j. j. vii.
son. The furniture store of l.. NJ
Welsh; dental Office of II. NJ. Chase
the large brick block owned by G. T.
Graham and occupied by him as q
country store, A. l.. Stcarns and A,
S. Spaulding rs tcnements, and tho
lower offices and the law Office o.
Gilman Il Williams and Huntoon &
Stickney; the livery stable of A. l.
Stearns: the largo new wooden block
owned by g. 4. Graham and occupied
Dy ~. CnauWlck, harness maker, 4
w. Skinner, ioweler, the post Office and
Mrs. f. NJ. Tarbell, milliner, on tho
lower floor, and Mrs. Tarbell and J. G
Sargent rs tenemcnts overhead; the
jewelry store of A. j. Davis and the
dwelling of A. c. Davis were consumed
Much of the furniture and goods wer,
saved. Seven families were made home
less, some losing nearly all. The los
aggregates from forty to fifty thousand
dollars. Most of the parties are par
TALLY or fully insured.