The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-02-01
STATE ITEMS.

Mortified is troubled with dog poi
soners.
st. Johnsbury IS to have a Catholic
college.
There is n hen IN Pownal that laws
two eggs day.
Burlington lost only about live thou
sand dollars by fire last year.
The doctors say that black silk worn
about the neck will prcvent diphthcria.
Henry Legendre, of Barton. was fatal
ly injured while sliding down hill the
other hay.
The Boston Post says the senator
from Vermont shows that the Bland
bill isn't Morrill,.
The other day Woodstock chap saw
a snake crawling on the snow.-1Ex.
Too much tanglefoot.-[St. Adams
Advertiser.
New England built only one hun
dred and nineteen miles OF road during
the past year, of which Vermont built
thirty-ivc.
Burlington claims To have twenty
five-poundcr cat, while the heaviest
feline in the Boston show weighs bur
seventeen pounds.
Nermonrs centennial day Of 1873
occurs OH March 10, the one huudreth
anniversary of the meeting of the first
state legislature AT Windsor.
a horse belonging to Bliss Haskell.
OF st. Johnsbury, was driven from thar
place 10 Barton village, distance of
thirty miles, in one hour and tifty-liyc
minutes.
Mrs. Ruby Luce, of stowe, aged
cighty-two, walks n distance OF four
miles To and from church each Sunday.
and does The work of M least one .rirl
of the period.
From April 10 January |, lourtceu
hundred and cigthy-ouc cars of hogs, H.
bout 10, 400, passed over The Central and
the same time two thousand four hun
dred and eighty-eight car load, of cat
tie.
William Is. Strong, IL native of Or
leans county and well known in Mont
pclier, has been appointed superinten-
dent OF the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad with asalarv Of sl5,-
600 per year.
The members of the State Associa-
ton for the protection and preserya-
ton Of fish and game, in Rutland and
vicinity, are raising money to buy a
lot of fourteen deer, to he turned ont
on the mountains.
Mrs. Allen Howard, aged seventy
three, of Londonderry, has woven over
three hundred yards of carpeting and
one hundred yards of flannel the past
year on an old-fashioncd loom, besides
doing her regular nousework.
AT CorinIh, the other day, little son
of Sullivan Taplin, while attempting to
cross the path in front of boy who
was coasting, was accidentally knocked
down, and received injuries which
resulted in his death in few days.
At Pittsiord, Sunday morning. Mr..
Israel iIewett died, aged eighty seven
years. He was soldier in the regular
army in the war of 1872, and served
under Generals Dearborn and Wilkin-
son. Since that war he has resided in
Pittsheld, Chittenden and Pittsford.
A man was found frozen to death, in
Alburgh, last Thursday morning. lie
passed through the village Wednesday
evening from Canada, and arrived at
Wind Mill Point in that town after
dark that night. He applied to several
for permission TO stay over night, but
was refused and was found near one OF
the buildings, Thursday morning, dead
He was n soldier from Pittsburgh.
Swanlon has sensation in the mys.
FERROUS disappearance OF Thomas Mel
vile, thriving young druggist. He
came from Canada, and was formerly q
Catholic, and his wish to marry Inc
daughter Of Il prominent citizen wa.
opposed by the girls parent on account
of his religion. Renouncing his church
however, he won the bride, settled in
town and was established in the drug
business by his fathcr-in-law. But
now he has left everything and run
away, writing letter from St. Scbasti
an, i. G., announcing that he must
return to his old religion
Pixley Woodland and his wife, of Ben
son, we'll to do people and hitherto
ti"HHH ~ ~ It-pttthDlt, were
brought before the justice on the Path
OF January, charged with inflicting cru.
elites upon boy about twelve years Of
age, which are cqualled only in the an.
mails o. slavery. 1t was proven that
Woodland had been in the habit of tax.
ing him To the barn and whipping him
with MI OK whip until the neighbors Il
hundred rods away heard the blow.
and the child scream and beg fol
mercy. He had also frequently hung
him up by the neck until, to use the
boys own words, he Ibid not know
anything lie had been deprived OF
his meals time and again until nearly
tamishcd. Woodland had dashed him
upon his bare flesh until he was badly
cut and then washed him in brine and
sent him tn work. Many other as bare
and hcinous crnelties were proven be.
yond n doubt against them, and Justice
Grow foot fined Woodland five dollars
and costs. l. this II sample of Vermont
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