The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-11
STATE ITEMS.
Josh Billings is TO Lecture In Burling-
ton the 18th of this month. -

Josh Billings is to lecture In Burling-
ton the 18th of this month.
Potato bugs have put in an appear
ance i'll some parts of the state.
Pleasant Valley boasts a boy IA years
of age that weighs 209 pounds.
The Baptist Sunday-school at Brat.
tleboro numbers more than 400.
A boy in Montpelier recently threw a
marble through n $50 plate glass win
dow.
Daniel Button, of White River
Junction, fell from n carriage recently
and lies at the point of death.
James Robinson, of st. Johmsbury,
hid his c~ollar-bone broken by a horse
whose legs he was clipping.
A year ago the first week in April
the sugar season was over and the farm
ers were ploughing throughout the
state.
On last Thursday evening, in, New
York city, Norman Taylor, ofthis state,
won the twenty mile foot race, in Oh.
12m. 3Gs.
A Landgrove woman lost the power of
speech several weeks ago, but has now
regained il. This is the second time she
has been thus afflicted.
There is an aged lady in West Rnt-
land whom the sound of music of any
kind paralyzes and renders for the time
being perfectly helpless.
. Thirty million feet of logs are gather.
ed round and about the head waters of
the Connecticut river, and will be run
/, down during the month of Nav.
Henry Whiting, II ofthe candidates
for Regent oftle University of Michigal
, TO be voted for at the coming election
was the colonel of the old Second Yer
mont Regiment.
The will of Charles l.. Jones, of Cam
= bridge, leaves S30,0O0 TO Harvard Col
lege to found six scholarships. Tn,
u Vermont Academy, which Mr.. Jone
founded and endowed, gets $4,000.
NJ The snow-storm Of last week burie,
{ the Portland and Ogdensburg road III
der drifts ten feet deep in the Whit
Mountain Notch, and no trains &c
through for over2 "a hours between Mon
day and Wednesday.
Last year the steamer Williams mad
II her first trip to P%lattsburg OH the first c
II April-which, however, was the earlies
p opening of the lake yer recorded say
o. 1850, when the steamer Saranac crosse
e March 25th.
1; Hon. Geo. w. IIcndee, of Morrisvillt
+, has been appointed bank examiner {
= fill the vacancy caused by the resigns
% ton, recently, of General George "
~, Grandcy, of Ncrgemcs, who has hcl,
the office six years.
The collar and elbow wrestlin
y match for 5000, between Charles Con
y ner of Rutland, and Peter Corners {
n Dublin, o o place at Blocker Hal
b, New York, last Thursday evening. n
d. snlting in Il victory for Connor.
he That well-known Nermonter, lie,
W T.. Luckey, private secretary for Pres
Mt dent Grant during his term of ofiic,
c. and since then secretary of the terrific
n rial government of Utah, has lust II
" signed that position.
IN AT Franklin, the other day, as Will
ID WEIGH, an employe of A. L. Riley, W,
H. putting out a team in the dark, he W,
kicked, the blow coming Oh the for
head, making a hole through the sku
over the left eve. No hopes are ente
tanned of his recovery.
Iy John Geer, of Bellows Falls, a car,
n encr and early fruit producer, livil
f. about two miles from the village, aft,
preparing for church Sunday morniI
in his usual health, fell dead in his &C
nd lar, where he had gone on an crran
IS The deceased was about 80 years
lie age, and unmarried. The cause of h
death was heart disease.
OF A singular case was that at Felc
OF vile, the other day. Mr.. James
Is humphrey, the village hotel keepe
III and his family wife and two childre
IL were Frustrated with diphtheria. c
g. Tuesday last Mr.. humphrey got up a,
Ell dressed himself already for the coli
Us as he said, smoked his pipe, settled h
$ affairs, made arrangements for his fl
neral, went to the barn TO see if all w
s. right there, set the hour for his deaf
\ took his Bible and laid down to Iii
and before night he. went over to IL
ne majority.