The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-07
STATE ITEMS.

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Chester Allen, of Stratton, lost two fin
gers and had his right arm broken In
two places, so that II had to be ampu-
tatcd.
A Bethel sugar orchard has natural
curiosity. Two rock naples, about
eight inches through, standing three
feet apart, unite in one trunk four feet
from the ground. The union is perfect,
there being no seam visible.
While their parents and neighbors
were attending service, Sunday even
ing, in u neighboring school house, Da-
ma Boyd's two boys, aged five and nine,
who live short distance south of Hart
land Four Corners, played with match
es in the barn, and now Mr.. and Mrs.
: Boyd mourn their youngest son and
escaped.
The daughters of Mr.. j. II. Haynes,
of Middletown, were awakened last
Friday night, by the opening of an out
side cellar door. They called to the
hired man, who sprang through win
dow and around to the door, and en-
countered thief in his stocking feet,
with his boots in his hand, which he
dropped and ran, pursued by the hired
man, but he did not succeed in catching
him, and soon returned, as he had on
nothing but his night clothes. On his
return the hired man encountered
second thief who also got away from
him. A tub of butter, weighing about
sixty pounds, was what the thieves
were trying TO carry off when discov-
cred.
Five prisoners escaped from the Rut-
land county Jail, Monday night, by saw
ing off the iron bars of one of the win
dows. Six cuts were made, two
through q bar of iron five inches wide
by one and one-quarter inches thick,
and four through round bars one and
one-half inches in diameter, and the
breakers must have used fine saw, it
is thought, in cutting their way out.
They were John Foster, of West Rut-
land, p years old, confined for burgla-
ry; Stephen Pike, the Clarendon trout
thief, 2S years old; Hylon Odell, COM
mitted for rape; William Rix, aged "a,
and Addison Murray, held for attempt
to break Jail. All except Rix were
awaiting their trial before the county
court and stood excellent chances for
state prison. A reward of 800 for the
apprehension of the whole gang, or 500
for any one of them, is offered.
A man, who gave the name ofThom-
as Miller, threw himself under the ell
CINE of the 10 A. NJ. train at Arlington,
last Saturday, and both his legs were
so badly broken and mangled that they
were amputated by Drs. Hoskins, Bar
ney and Phillips. He was afterwards
removed from the depot to the school
room under the Town Hall, where he
died at $3.50 p. NJ. His remains were
dressed decently and placed in coffin
by the town authorities, and Sunday
afternoon he was buried in Evergreen
Cemetery, Rev. j. Randall, rector of
st. James church, officiating at the flu
neral. The suicide was an intelligent
looking man, about thirty-five years of
age, and neatly dressed. All that could
be learned of him was that he came
from New York state and worked for
a man named Moore. He said he threw
himself under the engine to get out of
the world, as he hadn't friend i'm it.
Rev. Truman Post, D. d., of st. Lou
is, who, with Prof. Arnold and wife of
that city, is the guest of Mrs. B. f.
Langdon, preached in the Congrega-
tional church, Castleton, last Sunday.
DR.. Post is native of Middlebury, and
after graduating from the college there,
taught the Rutland County Grammar
school at Castleton, one year. In 1884
he went to st. Louis, which was then a
French settlement of some six thousand
people, but did not settle there until
: 1847, having in the meantime been pro-
fessor in the Illinois college at Jackson
vile. He at first accepted the pastorate
, of the Third Presbyterian church,
which after four years became the First
Congregational church of st. Louis, and
has been its pastor ever since. There
are now about seventy Cons regational
churches in Missouri, and DR.. Post is
!, known as their father. He has been,
during the struggles between slavery
and freedom, strong supporter of the
rights of man, and in the war was al
active Unionist. He is distinguished as
preacher and an author, and is a well
come visitor in Castleton.-[H Herald and
Globe.