The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-03-08
STATE ITEMS.

Two young men were recently fined
$50 for disturbing religious meetings in
Newport Centre.
Alma Crockett, of Barre, thirty years
d,reccntly attempted suicide by taking
laudanum, and doctor saved her with
difficulty.
Roswell Corey, of West Fairee,
seventy-eight years of age, recently
walked thirty-six miles in ten hours.
and it was poor walking too.
Early on Friday morning, George II.
burned. Loss estimated at $4,000.
The building and goods were partially
insured.
About nine o'clock Tuesday evening,
shortly after the agent had left the de-
pot at Bartonsville, the building was
discovered to be on fire, and was en-
tirely consumed.
Professor James Fletcher, late princi-
pal of Lawrence Academy, Groton,
Mass, has been appointed principal OF
Burr ard Burton Seminary, and is ex-
pected to enter upon the duties of the
office at the opening of the next AGA
demic year in August.
A fire occurred at Fairhaven, VT,
last thursday morning, burning up the
hardware store of Pitkin Brothers, the
dwelling house of j. w. Parkhurst and
the dwelling house and millinery store
of l.. w. Colline. Tho losses are esti-
mated at S2i 900; insured for Sl4, 600.
Jessie, the six-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Francis Atwell of Eden, who, with
her sister year older, drank water
from the poisonous Richford well
during recent visit, and has been SER
iously i'll at Westfield ever since, is
dead, and the other little girl is re-
covering.
AT the town meeting in Rutland, last
Tuesday, vote was passed that the Sc
lectmen be required to furnish free
transportation by rail for the voters
from West Rutland, Center Rutland,
Double Road Crossing and Sutherland
Falls. Good for the voters, but rough
on the law.
While Lucius Burt, of Lyndon, was
telling trees in the woods, last Friday, a
dead limb fell and crushed his skull,
rendering him insensible, in which con-
dition he was found. He died in a
short time after being taken home. lie
was fOrty-seyen years old. and leaves q
wife and six children.
Bakersfield has voted to accept the
Brigham fund of $4,000 for Il high
school. OF this amount $50, 900, be-
queathed by the late Peter Brigham OF
Boston, will be used in the school sup
port, and the remaining $4,000 has been
given by Mr.. Brigham's sister, Mrs.
Jacobs, and other Boston parties, to
erect the building.
Up TO the present time five deaths
have occurred from the poisoned well at
Richford. Their names are T.. j.
Searle, Sarah p. Mercy, w. ID. Estes,
Alice Button, and Jessie Atwell. Some
of the sick ones, who recovered so as
to be able to walk out of doors, have
been taken with relapse and are again
PROSTATE. Several persons lie in a
critical condition.
The "broad lake. at Burlington has
not been closed this winter SO as to adj
NIT of any crossing, and the rain of last
week has left comparatively little ice to
" SWIM t'Sh ACuho tiiC oiiOitS Ut tiiat
point. This condition of things is very
unusual, as during sixty-two years the
broad lake has only five times escaped
being frozen solid from shore to shore
during the winter. The last time that
the lake was open all winter was in
1850.
Concord is completely bankrupt, and
the holders of the towns bonds will be
fortunate If they realize fifty cents OH
the dollar. The debt created by war
expenses, railroad building, etc., is so
large that the town would not sell for
enough to pay it, and people are remov-
ing their stock and personal property
80 rapidly that the personal property
grand list of the town was but 1920
last year, and will undoubtedly he
much less this year.