The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-21
STATE ITEMS.

under sentence OF death, works dill
gently at the shoe trade in Windsor
prison.
Tyler Waite, Esq, of Wardsboro,
aged cighty-one, and Mrs. Ashville |
kidder, aged eighty, were married on
the goth Of August.
John 7. Phair Is kept locked up in
his cell at the state prison. One OF the |
prison directors says he will be put to
work October |.
The September term of the Chitten-
den county court commenced in Bur-
lington, Monday morning, Chief JUS
tice Pierpoint presiding.
Thursday, Henry Falcon struck Asa
Hogan, at Randolph, while the latter
was asleep, probably fatal blow with
beer bottle. The parties had been
fighting previously and separated.
Rev. II. f. Austin, of Greenwich, n.
Y, n former pastor of the Rutland
Methodist church, occupied the pulpit
last Sunday morning, the pastor preach
ing in the evening.
A Stowe Democrat has made nice
political discrimination. lie owns q
farm through which a trout stream
runs, and has put up the notice: "No
Republican allowed TO fish on this
land"
Talro, the lIighgatc murderer, who
has made two or three Intellectual at
tempts to escape, is still confined in the
St. Adams Jail, idling away months at
the states expense, awaiting action in
his ease by the supreme court.
Hon. jed. u. Ladd, state auditor of
accounts, has been prosecuting, through
an agent at Washington, some of Yer
monts suspended war claims. lie has
obtained an allowance Of 81 $50 and
has prospect of more from time to
| time.
The negotiations between Gov. Page
and Col. Spraguc with reference to the
transfer of the Howe scale companv's
stock have been completed and the
work on the new buildings TO be
erected at Rutland is being rapidly push
ed.
There is said to be marked mortality
among the fish in Lake Bomoseen, their
putrid remains being noticeable along
the shores. The cause of this unusual
fatality is alleged TO be paris green
washed from potato vines by the rain
and thence into the water, producing
the above effect.
A story and II half dwelling house
owned by John Fitzgerald, on the first
cross road east of East street, Rutland
was burned, last Friday, giving the fire
department an excellent opportunity tC
exercise their lungs and limbs. The
loss is estimated at from 81 800 TO 80,
900; partly insured.
The Loan Collection of paintings at the
Park Gallery of Art, Burlington, CLOSED
Saturday, the number of visitors, which
has been large during the whole time o
the exhibition, increasing TO Il throne
during the last ewdays. About thirty.
five out of the hundred pictures exhibit
ed have been sold, the prices aggregat
ing nearly four thousand dollars.
Rutland is agitated by an athletic so
cial scandal, in which the leading
drdmotiS persona were an aged ant
wealthy husband, young and hand
{ some wife, gallant, gay Lothario anC
detective. The lovely woman stoop
ed to folly, and the details include
|
turn of the !. W. TO her venerable hus
band.
Rev. c. E. Ferrin, who is one of TIN
| strongest preachers and most faithful
ministers of his denomination, as wei
, as one of the oldest in pastoral servic
in this state, has closed his pastorate o
: TWENTY-FIVE years with the Congrega
tional church of Hinesburgh. TIL
! severance of relations of such strength
| and duration must be serious trial t.
: both church and pastor.
The Proctorsville mills, which hav
stood still for year and half, hay
just been put in operation under tn
auspices of Hayward, Taft e Co., tn
: two former being of the ''solid men" @
: UXbridge, Mass, and the "Co." consis
! ting of A. S. Burbank, Esq, of Proc
4. torsville, so long the successful super
intendent for Geo. l.. Balloon, who or
Grated these mills for many years.
The Vermont Central excursion t
f Montreal met with even better success
= than was anticipated. Twenty-Five cal
: loads of people went from points be
| tween Rutland and Essex Junction
a Tuesday, and the sale of tickets at sta
! tons between Rutland and Burlington
n not including either of the terminf
= points, We're oil. Between Rutlan,
c and Bellows Falls but few tickets wer
4 sold.
=, Last Friday, at Richford, some on
= had shot and wounded crane. A
q the bird was fluttering and endeavol
y ing to escape, several started in pursuit
The first to arrive was Delmere A
:, Patch, second son of Mr.. A. c. Patel
!, when instantly the crane turned upol
him and with its bill struck one ey
! with such violence as to destroy it,
: is hoped that no further injury will 4,
q sult.-[St. Adams Messenger.
: Friday night, at about twelve O'Clock
i the large barn in the rear of the wooC
t shed of William Miller, of Willistor
L was discovered to he on fire. An alarI
n was given and the citizens turned OF
I promptly; but the fire had made sue
d progress that in spite of all efforts til
c barn, house and woodshed were col
: sumed. A portion of the contents wer
G saved. The lire is supposed to hay
|, been the work of an incendiary. ~
F/Luther p. Blodgett, we'll know
Citizen of Vermont, was buried at L:
sex junction on Monday. lie wa
s. born in 1910 at Rochester, and in earl
c life engaged in mercantile business a
d Jericho. lie was an active wing, an
IS in 1916 was elected sheriff of Glitter
l. don county and was reelected in 1871
l. During his occupancy of this Office h
e removed his residence TO Burlington
j. In lS49 he was appointed postmaster &
IS Burlington under Mr.. Fillmore, an
Y held the Office four years. In the latte
II part of 1861, Mr.. Blodgett went I
Is Washington, where he received an al
g pointment on the capitol police, whic
o position he occupied for two years. |
l. 1868 he was appointed United State
e consul at st. Johns, =. G., and hel
Ie that Office about six years, when he n
d turned TO Burlington to reside.