The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-25
STATE ITEMS.


Over in the eastern part of the state
they are complaining bitterly of the
tramp nuisance.
Four sisters of Pawlet were married
in one day, and all went of together for
their wedding tip.
The greatest depth Of water in Lake
Champain Is said to he 500 feet. nearly
opposite Essex, n. Y.
East lIardwick is agilotcd over snow
storm with the unusual accompaniment
of flash of lightning.
Rev. X. ID. Whittcmorc, of Belviderc,
has gathered over 600 pounds of spruce
gum during the past year.
Hon. Horace Spencer Winslow. Judge
of the sixth Judicial district of Iowa,
was born in Piltsford, Vt.
AT Queechy, recently, man and dog
killed sixty-nine rats in his wool room.
Query: Was ii a good day for rats?
Vermont, out ola total of ago students
AT Dartmouth College, contributes M,
New Hampshire contributing but ll9.
A iour-ycar-old son of Albert Gates,
of Ludlow was burned to death, recent
iy, by his clothing coming in contact
with stove.
Jacob Daig, of Sheldon, was struck on
the head by q falling limb, while cutting
wood, last week, and his recovery is
thought impossible.
The Brattleboro boys are organizing
professional nine to contend for the
base ball championship of the Conuecli-
cut valley next season.
John Daily. of Cabot stole $40 of
John Bolton, and in thirty-six hours
was detected, arrested, and lodged in
Jail in default of 81 900 bail.
A man in Barre fell into the river at
Montpelier, the other day, but was fish.
ell out, taken to Jail, and claimed that
he brought his rum with him.
The town of Wolcott raised eighteen
or twenty tons of hops, last year, with
disastrous results, the price obtained
being less than the cost of picking.
DIR. ID. b. St. John Roosa, recently of
the medical department ofthe Universe
ty of Vermont, has just been elected
president of the New York State Medi-
cal Society.
There were 237 deaths at Burlington
last year, l0l from diphtheria, against
li8 in all, and nineteen from diphtheria,
in 1876 The births in 1877 were 2S2,
and in 1875, 263.
The Whitehall Times reports Vcr-
mont girl, eleven years old, whose eyes
change color, varying from medium
blue in pleasant, dry weather, to ''blood-
shot and red in II heavy wind.
There is a young man of North Troy,
thirty-three years of age, who has had
the happiness of counting ninety-nine
girls since his childhood, and is now
looking for another to round of the cen-
fury.
The scholars of district school in
Troy, W., attacked their teacher the
other day and tried to eject him from
the school house, but after severe
struggle the scholars surrendered I'M
condlionally.
Edward Tatro, who murdered Mrs.
Alice Butler, in Highgate, in June,
1876, has just received sentence of death.
He is to be hung on the first Friday in
April, 1880, between the hours of one
O'Clock and three in the afternoon.
The new professor of chemistry of
the University vermont, who succeed
ed Prof. Collier, is not satisfactory to
the medical faculty, who expect to have
Prof. Witthaus of New York city as
their lecturer on chemisiry.-[T Herald
and Globe.
Josephine \. Stone, cOlorcd girl,
who was graduated from the high
school AT Newport, VT, last summer,
took the gold prize for the highest schol-
arship, gave the valedictory, and did
the last two years study in one. She is
the daughter of n cook and supports
herself by her own labor.
Michael Cotiey, of Hubbardton, was
kicked in tho face by horse the other
day. Twcnty-four pieces of bone, some
Of them over an inch long, and three
tablespoonful of brains have been Ia
ken out Ola wound over the eye; the
bones of the face and nose were broken,
and yet Mr.. Coflev bids fair to recover.
Among the speakers at The banquet of
the Vermont reunion at Chicago, on
Thursday evening, the 18th, was Lewis
Meacham, formerly of the editorial
staff of the Rutland Herald, who re-
spondcd to the sentiment, "The YER
mont Press" DR.. Fasset and wife, OF
st. Adams, were also among the invited
guests present.
Eli Royce, of Waterbury, had mar
row escape from death few days ago.
He was working at the bottom of
ditch twelve or fifteen feet deep, when
the embankment caved in upon him,
and he lay buried for over two hours.
1t so happened that the frozen pieces of
earth did not pack together closely, and
he was able to breathe through the space.
Erastus Chamberlain, of Forestdale,
had his right hand badly lacerated by u
circular saw Monday afternoon. He |
was driven rapidly to the village by
Maj. G.. W. Carr, and the wounds were |
dressed by DR.. Dyer. Three fingers
were ampntated, saving the foreflnger
and fhumb. DR.. Dyer was assisted by
Dir. G. :. Boynton.
AT ST. Johnsbury, week ago, while
workmen were Smuggling the north side
of the roof of the Episcopal church,
bracket broke on which the staging rest
ed, and Charles S. Partridge and Elmer
d. Dodge, of Newport,N. H., fell to the
next staging, when this also broke, and
the next and the next, and they were
hurled TO the ground with great vio-
lence, having fallen forty feet. They
were removed to the Avenue House
and surgical aid rendered. Both are do
ing well. There were three men close
together at the time, but the third one,
IL. j. Stockwell, grasped At dormer