The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-06-01
STATE ITEMS.


The track of the Burlington and La
noble railroad has been laid to Jericho,
and people can now ego TO Jerichov by
rail.
Prof. III. a. p. Torrey, of the Univcr-
sity Of Vermont, sails for England in
two or three weeks. and will spend the
summer In Europe.
DIR. j. Y. Dewey, president of the
National Life Insurance company, of
Montpelier, Vermont, died Tuesday,
aged seventy-six years.
Alonzo Hathaway, of Woodlord. acci-
dentally cut himself with an axe the
other day. and Is now in n critical con-
dition, with symptoms of lockjaw.
The following postmasters have been
appointed in the State: William A.
Perry, Barre Henry T. Hull, Poultney;
George W. Beecher, West Pawlet.
The body of William Maloney of
Burlington, drowned in October last,
OF the return from the Port Henry fire
mans muster, has not been recovered.
Cyrus F. Kenyon, of Stowe, was Sat
urday convicted of assault with intent
to kill Frank Kalc with an x and sem
fenced to five years hard labor at Wind
sor.
The people of st. Adams are now
turning their attention towards liquor
sellers. Several saloon keepers have
been prosecuted, and n number of suits
are pending.
Mr.. Alexander Corbet, of Peru, eigh-
ty-two years old, having lust finished
his Bible for the eightieth time, thinks
he has read his title clear to mansions
in the skies.
The body of Dick Graham, of Swan
ton, who was drowned the fore part of
last April, was found Thursday fore
noon on Carley's Island, a distance of
about two miles down the river.
The late fire at Newport proved 10 the
citizens that their fire engine, which has
been much laughed about, can do ONE
good, as 1t was mainly instrumental in
saving some $4,000 worth of prop
erty.
Admiral L. L. Greene Of Brattleboro
and DIR. Ainsworth of Boston, were
thrown from a carriage on Friday, by
the breaking of a seat, and were severe
ly injured. The collar bone of the lat
ter was fractured.
The will of the late Peter Brigham,
deceased, devotes nearly three-fourths
of his estate to a hospital in Boston for
the sick and poor of Suffolk county.
Twenty-Five years will elapse before the
bequest will be applied, which, besides
other contingent property, will be equal
to three millions. To the town of Ba-
kersfield, VT, $40, 900 is given, three
fourths for school purposes and the res
idue to the town burial ground.
Monday afternoon Michael WEIGH, as
sistant foreman in Sherman & VIII
iams's quarry at West Rutland, was
killed. He was at work near a block of
marble, i'll which was an invisible seam,
aud while his back was turned a piece
weighing about four tons split off, and
falling upon him crushed the whole of
his body below his head, killing him
instantly. He was about fitty-five years
old, and has worked for l.. B. Smith,
foreman of the quarry, for over thirty
years.
Friday night a fire broke out in the
house of Henry G. Tower, near North
Clarendon. The house was entirely
consumed and Two sons of Mr.. Tower,
Clayton Henry Tower, aged twelve, and
Herbert Alden Tower, ten years old,
persisted i'll the flames. Eight persons
were sleeping in the house at the time.
The others escaped with nothing but q
little clothing hurriedly caught up as
they fled. The hired boy, Walter Clark,
aged seventeen, who slept in the room
next to the Tower boys, nearly shared
their fate.