The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-28
STATE ITEMS.


the Derby Line aud Stanstead Congre-
gational church.
Fred Fields, of Barton, died in the
Littleton, N. H.. lookup, Tuesday night, |
from the effects of debauch.
Paschal S. Merrill was killed while
chopping alone in the woods of South
Reading, last Friday afternoon, his head |
'bcing crushed.
The eighth annual meeting of the |
Vermont Pharmaceutical Association
will take place in Rutland, commencing
Oct "A, and continue two days.
Edgar George, ofStowe, was drowned
the other day while trying to save Frank
Ceislinsky, cook at Mt. Mansfield no.
tel, who had tumblcd into the river.
The eleventh state convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Vermont will be held at Cambridge. |
October 8, 10, IL.
A new weekly is to be published at
Rutland, the initial number appearing
to-day. The infant is not yet baptized, |
but thriving career is predicted for it,
The Prospect Park races at Montpo-
lier, for 81 100. October and 3, and |
the Bethel races for similar purses. are
given up because the entries cannot be |
filled.
George l.. Austin, of Walden, VT,
committed suicide in n. Y. city. Sept. |
II, by cutting his throat. The cause
was dependency, he having been long
without employment.
A tipsy Frcnchman, who arrived in
Rutland from Montreal, Saturday even
ing, dropped three out of half Il dozen
bottles concealed about his person, and |
the depot platform was moistcncd with |
Struggled liquor.
A Pleasant street, Rutland. resident
has Il shoat given to milking the cow.
If piggie happens TO be in the BARNARD |
when "Brindle' is driven home he
quietly raises himself on his launches
under her bag and sucks it dry.
There are two persons now confined |
in the state prison - VIM Butterfly |
and Thomas Busham-sentenced some
eight years since from Rutland. for
arson, who will be released the last of |
October, having cancelled nearly two
years each by good behavior.
The medical department of the Uni
versity of Vermont will open on Thurs
day, November /, and continue until |
the following March. Daily lectures |
and recitations in the several branches |
of medical science will be conducted bv |
a corps of instructors from the medical |
faculty.
The closing of the south division of
the Harlem Extension railroad, extend |
ing fifty-tive miles from Bennington, |
VT, and terminating at Chatham, n. Y,
threatens to seriously cripple, if not
ruin, the coal and lumber interests of
Western Vermont, besides seriously |
affecting all business interests along its
line.
AT the Rutland hose tournament, |
Friday, thirteen hose companies entered |
for the running prizes. The Shermans,
of Port Henry, n. y, won the first
prize in l :25 1-2; and the Bretts. of !
Whitehall, the second in / ~ Ii. The
comparatively slow time is of course at |
tributable to the rainy weather and con-
sequent bad track.
Three barns and several sheds be-
longing TO Charles II. Miner, about
three miles from Highgate, were burned |
on Thursday night, with siXty-fivc tons
of hay, some farming tools, and about
| 200 bushels of oats. Nelson johnson.
living about mile and half from Mi
ner's, was suspected of setting the fire.
He was arrested and held in 81 900 bail |
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