The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-03-15
STATE ITEMS.

IIard,nd received. last year, 100
framl's. al an expense of $500.
Tie town Of Mortified has M illus
iruicd two hundred and tify page his
tory Ia prcss.
5. " Porter Of Springfield has just
received his thrty-fir>t consecutive
rlect,on rs town clerk.
Geo. Il. lloyt, of Wcstficd, one dav !
last week while out hunting, shot rnb- !
bit aud his dog at one shot.
Patrick Lcahey, OF Brattlcboro went
to bed drunk and died in an hour or
two. Moral, sit up when drunk.
Danial Randall, n Windham man,
seventy-four years old, ended his power
ty and domestic Affections with hemp
Ell rope last week.
Edward o. Leonard, Barre team
ster, is reported TO have run away, lcav-
ing debts to the amount of sc 900 and Il
800 forged note.
On the 2Sth nit, n nest of hali-grown
birds was found at East Concord. They
were of grayish color and looked like
the sparrow family.
Over thirty foxes has been killed in
Weathersficld since Nov. |, and vet
they are so numerous as 10 make poul-
try-raising extremely hazardous.
-Four Glover schoolboys attacked and
expelled their teacher the other day, be-
cause he punished one of their number.
Their tines and costs for assault as dis
turbcrs of the public peace amounted
TO about sixty dollars each.
A North Troy rumscllcr has an ngcn-
ious contrivancc for avoiding the law.
No liquor is kept in sight, but as soon
as piece of money is placed in receipt
ncle, trap door flies open, revealing
the bottle.
Lapage, the murderer of Miss Josie
A. Langmaid of Pembroke, y. H., in
October, 1875, and the probable muir
dercr of Miss Ball at st. Albans, is TO
be executed at the New Hampshire state
prison to-day, March b.
Windsor fired salute of fifteen guns
and flung ont the flags, on Tuesday, in
commcmoration of the centennial ami
versary Of the meeting of the first lcgis-
lature of Vermont, in that town. March
~, l77S.
A Newport business man recently pur-
chased $4,000 in silver and has been
paying the same ont the past week in
business. The coin was purchased at
eight per cent. discounts saving of 2lG0
on the $4,000.
Frank ii. Zottman, Young man
eighteen years old, of Burlington, was
arrested last Monday evening on
charge of burglary, from the store of
Thomas Hayes. lie was held in $500
for trial at county court.
Rev. Mr.. Itch, assisted by the local
clergy and gospel workers from St.
Johnsbury, Newport and Boston, is
holding series of revival meetings at
the Congregational church at Derby
Line, and meeting with good success.
The lowest taxed town in Vermont is
st. George, in Franklin county. which
imposes no town tax, this year. The
highest tax is in Montpelier and Wal
den, two hundred cents on the dollar
of the grand list in each town.
Waltham, Addison county, has neith-
or doctor, lawyer, clergyman, merchant,
postoffice nor pauper. Happy Waltham
the only trouble is that there are only
two hundred and fifty inhabitants to en-
joy all this lnyury.-[St. Adams Adj
vertiscr
An attempt is being made to induce
Governor Fairbanks TO pardon the no.
torious bank robbcr, George Miles,
alias White, alias Bliss, who was SEN
fenced two years ago TO fourteen years
imprisonment in the state prison at
Windsor, for robbing the Barre bank.
The Sixth Annual Convention of the
Essex County Musical Association clos
ed its session at Lunenburg, on Satur-
day, with n grand matinee and concert
in the First Congregational church. A
large delegation of the best amateur
talent in the stale and New Hampshire
was present.
The other day. II Manchester man
brought I'D Il pan of potatoes and set
them by the stove, and was somewhat
surprised short time afterwards to
see sixteen iull-grown potato bugs
walk out of one of them which had been
followed out and which made II snug
home for them.
The Vermont contributors to the
Paris exposition, thus far, are the Fair
banks and Howe scale companies;
Batchclder IL Sons, of Wallingford,
garden and farming tools; j. Estcy &
Co., Brattlcboro, organs: and III.
Devcns, Brattlcboro, automatic screw
machines.
The task of securing majority of the
nf "a nf lah