The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-06-22
STATE ITEMS.


The Methodists of Fairhavcn are
building a $4,000 church.
The new Bates House, Rutland, is to
be opened to the public Monday next.
Samuel j. Tilden is expected al the
Bennington celebration as the guest of
Seth B. Hunt.
A young man belonging to party of
tramps was drowned at Perkinsville,
while bathing in the river, on Sunday
afternoon.
William III. Valliquette, of Rutland,
was convicted of selling fermented liq-
uors last Wednesday, and fined $50 and
costs for five offences.
While Mr.. John Il. Stewart, of Cla-
rendon, was mending fences the other
day, a nail flew and struck him in the
eye, entirely destroying the sight.
The store of NJ. c. Huling, of North
Bennington, was entered by burglars
last Saturday night, and S20 in money,
four watches and LOT ofjewelry taken.
Matthew Welch. Patrick Doherty
and John Dinlcy were drowned in the
Passumpsic river, June II, by the up
setting of a boat. All were intoxicated,
having been on spree all night.
The dwelling of Mr.. Albert L. Pratt
in Brandon was entirely consumed by
fire, Saturday morning shortly after
midnight Loss, 81 800; insured ST.
200 ION building 81 1000, balance on
in M
Mrs. Julia C.. Il. Dorr, of Rutland,
has been invited by Gov. Fairbanks to
contribute poem for the centennial
celebration of the one hundredth year
of Vcrmont's existence as q state, at
Bennington. and has accepted the invi-
-tation.
The house of Frank Provost, at Men,
don, was burned, Monday morning, his
children and the school teacher, Miss
Mary White, of Ira, barely escaping
with their lives. Miss White lost
watch, and Mr.. Provost the greater
portion of his furniture. There was an
insurance of 81 900.
A Frcnchman, sixty-fve years old,
named Mason, committed suicide by
hanging himself, Tuesday morning, in
Colchester, using an elm bark rope of
his own manufacture. lie leaves wife
and several grown up children. and
poverty and ill-hcalth are supposed 10
be the causes of the deed.
A fire at Wolcott, "Wednesday morn
ing, destroyed the following property:
Flies store. loss 81, 800, insured for
81 600; Mr.. Holbrook's house, loss 3d.
600, insurance, 81 200; an adjoining
tenement house, loss $4,000, insurance
81 400; a saw-mill, loss $4,000; insur-
ancc 81, 200; Pinney's store and goods,
loss $4,000, insurance 81, 800. All the
lumber in the mill yard was burned,
loss $4,000, no insurance. There is no
doubt that the fire was the work Of IN
incendiary.
An old mau, seventy-fyc years of age,
4 jumped from bont about half mile
above the dam, at Swanton, last week
Wednesday, and was drowned; his
body was recovered Thursday. His
name was Layinc and he had been wan
dering about town half clad, asking for
work for several weeks. No cause for
the act is found, only ne was tired of
life and had no friends or home, and
could not get enough to satisfy hunger,
OF which he Lad been complaining for
some time.
Five tramps were arrested in Rutland,
Wednesday morning, and the officers
are in pursuit of two others of the same
gang. They went TO the house of John
Loring the same morning and demand
ed food. They were refused and there
upon grossly insulted the ladies', who
were alone. They are supposed TO be
members of a regularly organized band
of thieves who have infested Benning-
ton recently, and also suspected of be-
ing parties concerned in the Hoosick
safe burglary. They refuse to give
names or residences.
The anniversary exercises at Troy
Conference Academy will be as follows
Annual sermon by the principal, sun
day, June "a: examinations, Monday
and Tuesday, June 20 and &c; address
before the James Association by Rev.
G.. j. Brown, of Troy, N. Y. Monday
evening, June %; exhibition of the
Newman and Irving societies. Tuesday
evening: exercises of the graduating
class, and address before the Literary
Societies by Rev. X. X. Meredith, of
Boston, Mass. Wednesday, June ~ :
reception ut the academy parlors, We'd
nesday evening. The fall term begins
August 20, 1877,
Friday afternoon, bridge Oh the
Rutland and Washington railroad
about one mile north Of Eagle Bridge
station, was destroyed by fire. On the
| same night construction train was
made up at Centre Rutland, under the
direction of Frederick Uhl, master
bridge builder of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company, which arrived
at the scene of the burning about 4
O'Clock Saturday morning. Within
twelve hours bridge was completed
so that the train leaving Rutland at
ll:30 p. NJ, Saturday, passed over il
without detention. The bridge was
about sixty feet in length.
! A. j. Griffith, Il sewing-machinc
agent. residing at Manchester, was at
tackled an | robbed late Friday night by
two highwaymcn on the Peru turnpike,
near Barnnmyille. His horse having
been found early the next morning al
Barnumyille, and the appearance of his
wagon exciting alarm, immediate
search was made, and the unfortunate
man found in an inscnsible condition,
bruised and bleeding by the wayside
From his appearance and the connect
ing circumstances Il was supposed that
he was knocked insensible and then
hauled out of the wagon. His injury Il
very severe but not necessarily fatal
Two tramps have been arrested on sus'