The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-02-15
STATE ITEMS.

SLATE ~ EMS
The Montpelier and Wells River rail
roads earnings last year ncttcd s21,
SCI.
Susceptible bachelors are respectfully
ndiii,u that Woodstock has hundred
widow.
The I'D Lake House at Newport was
burned last ilnla,. Defective chine
nrN. nss S.EO.
Ma. llamnio,.h. !hc rCyivalisi, began
her iaif"rs ia thmllnllc. last week. \
large. revival j. expected.
\ number If Lyndon school girls
have been detected III The commission
of larceny from tie teacher and others.
Two men saving up u log in the
Braintrcc woods, the other day. found
it full of the incest honey.
Eghiy-fve of the 2l7 persons who
have died III Chelsea during the last
eight years were over seventy.
Twenty-cight persons in Richiord are
Frustrated with disease by using water
from a certain we'll. Several are dan
gerously i'll.
Governor Fairbanks has pardoned
Joseph Kezhic, an Indian, who was
convicted of rape in the Windsor coun-
ty court, in 1876.
Fairbanks & Co., of ST. Johnsbury,
have been awarded the contract for sup
plying the government postal service
for the present year.
Charles Knapp, who had wife in
Bethlehem, n. H., married another in
st. Johnsbury the other day. Mr..
Knapp is now in jail
The woods in Pomiret are said 10 be
the roosting place of countless crows
this winter. The mild winter i sup
posed to be the cause.
Superintendent Spencer has esiab-
lished an evening school at the state
prison at Windsor, with teachers from
the more advanced convicis
The Hon. Levi Underwood. accom-
panied by two attendants. departed,
February II, from Burlington. for the
insane asylum at Concord. y. II.
Mrs. John Hull, of Ludlow. celebrated
her nincticth birthday on Thursday bv
an old ladies' party, The average age OF
those present being scyeniy-ihrcc years.
Samuel Woods, of Piitslord, VI,
who entered Phillips Academy, Ando-
yer, Mass, in 1906, is supposed to be
the oldest living pupil of that insltu-
ton.
Woodiord might have had an clopc-
mcnt, the other day, if the father of The
girl had not discovered the plot and
bought of the fellow with plug of TO-
bacco.
The woolcn mandatory under the
management of Haywood, Taft 4 Co.,
at Proctorsville, is running to lis full
capacity, finishing 900 yards of cloth
daily.
Another tcacher-in West Randolph
has been relieved of his charge by
the scholars, after threatening Ia
"smash their brains out with the fire
shovel"
The Orleans county court, in session
at Barton, last week, ordered John Je-
rome to pay 1926 and costs for muir
dcrous assault on l.. A. Chase, in Octo-
Der, 1874.
Eli W. Slack, from Wisconsin, who
has been visiting brother in Norwich.
clopcd with his brothers wife. last Sat.
urday, and the pair departed TO parts
unknown.
Angus McCaskcl, of Barton, fell from
a scaifold IN his barn, the other morn
ing, breaking his lantern and setting
the building on fire, which was burned
with its contents.
Ithamar lIadlock, n North Troy liquor
dealer, had $4,000 worth of notes alb.
stractcd from his desk last week. Nc
trace of these has rs yet been discover
cd. Payment of the notes was stopped
II must be that Vice-Presideni
Wheeler never heard of the numerous
decisions of Rutland iurics that lager is
not intoxicating, for he has excluded il
from the Senate restaurant - Herald
and Globe.
The Manchester journal tells n story
of Il Charge flock of robins" which arc
spending the winter in n valley in that
town, near George Barton's, and "mako
the hills resound with their music every
pleasant morning
1t made talk, over in Eas, IIardwick,
the other day, because boy of fifteen
or eighteen was allowed to attend
school with one or two reyolvers and O
bottle of whisky in his pocket, and @
goodly quantity of whisky in bis cpl.
gastrinm.
A little boy sent TO the Reform
School from Waterbury, the other day
for the larceny OF sled, said he com.
mitted the deed in order to get home
lie was motherless and worse than ia.
thcrless, his father being drunkard
and neglecting him.
As George Shurtleil, of East Mont
pelicr, was returning home from Mont.
pelier, he stopped at n neighbours
While there his horse started ON. and
he followed on foot. The cold was so
intense that both his feet were frozen
and ampntation seems unavoidable.
Albert Howard, OF Bennington Falls
recently found in the stump of an old
apple tree seven flinls and n quantity OF
bullets. The near proximity of thi.
tree to the battle ground of Bennington
has led TO the supposiiion that these
may have been hidden there about that
time.
Last Saturday, colorcd gentleman
of Castleion, who had procured some
liquor, was robbed of the same BY q
party of young roughs after struggle
in which lie was severely handled
Two of his assailants were arrested and
fined, but the others could not be
found. The colored brother learned
the important lesson that an nnarmed
man had better not display his liquor.
The closing meeting for the present
season of the Vermont Board of Agri.
culture will be held nj Montpelier
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Feb