The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-20
STATE ITEMS.

NC DhTh anu SncuS oil ID. ~. Harfls,
If Braltlcboro, were burned last week,
with three horses.
John w. Walsh, All employee at the
Arlington chair shop, cnt one hand
badly on circular saw last Monday.
The house of John Dodge, of Wal
liugford, was burned last week Tues
day, with two barns, and other build
ings.
Fred Smith, OF Drownington, recent
~ lost three fingers while at work
with circular saw In a mill at Evans
Vile.
The new shadc-roller factory at Ver-
genncs, larger structure than the
burned predecessor, is nearly ready for
its machinery.
Fred Jones, an employee of the Cen
teal Vermont railroad, recently had his
hand severely bruised al st. Adams,
while coupling cars.
A catamount that is thought TO weigh
some sixty pounds was seen in Hard
wick recently. 1t escaped the subse-
qucnt search of hunters.
The wife of Rev. George f. Lewis,
of West Springfield, recently slipped
and fell, injuring herself so badly
that her recovery in doubtful.
Elroy Abby, of Wallingford, recently
stuck the small blade of q pocket-kniie
into one hand more than All inch,
where the thumb joins the hand.
The carr iage mandatory of George
w. Davis of Chester, was burned last
Saturday evening, with the machinery,
stock, and tools. Loss $4,000; no insur-
ance.
Isaac Farwell of Dorset will celebrate
his one hundredth bin thday in few
weeks. lie was born July IA, 1879,
and has used tobacco for eighty years.
II will kill him some day.
AT Grand Isle last Thursday, as three
men were at work for John A. Cham
berlain, stroke of lightning killed
their horses, and Knocked the men sense
less.
Because of trouble with his fourth
and recently married young wife, Be-
najah Potter, of Bennington. gashed his
leg terribly, with suicidal intent, Sat
urday.
Monday the rolling mill at st. Adams
commenced filling an order for steel
rails for the Metropolitan steel railroad
of Boston, and everything in the mill
now works superbly.
While Mitchell Seymour, of East
Dorset, was at at work near circular
saw the other day, one foot came in
contact with the saw, and was split
from the toes TO the instep.
On account of disappointment in 8
vile girl attempted suicide by taking
chloroform the other day. The act was
discovered in time TO save her life.
George Fay, young man of Sharon
while foOling with revolver, Monday
accidentally discharged it, the ball en-
tcring his side. The surgeon was un.
able to find il and the case is critical
one.
In the Orange County Court, Tues.
day, Stewart Harvey, lawyer of Brad
ford, was found guilty of assault on
Sheriff Bailey, and was sentenced to
ninety days hard labor in the House .oi
! Correction.
Ex-Governor Frederick IIo,brook
Nermont's war governor, has been fol
forty-eight years member of the Brat
tleboro Congregational choir, and fol
most of the time choristcr, and he sings
now with no trembling in his voice.
At Sutton, while funeral procession
was on its way to the grave few days
since, conveying the remains of Mrs
John Barber for interment, the hcarst
broke through a bridge, swapping botl
thills and doing other slight damage.
The late Gen. Alonzo Jackman lef
his property for the benefit of the Episcc
pal church in Vermont, and IL has beer
decided to make it the beginning of {
fund for the benefit of the widows anG
orphans of the clergymen of the do.
cese.
At Bloomington, while George
White and Riley Smith were at worl
on the road, they got into quarrel anC
Smith struck White with the edge of {
shovel with such force as to cut the cal
in two, cleaving the flesh from the skull
Smith, has been arrested and lodged
in Irasburgh jail White is still alive
but lies in n very critical condition
Mrs. Ephraim Fairbanks. who hat
been taking care of some of the sicl
children at Newark and caught the dis
case from them, has died from diphthe
aaa,,s, Chonor ,ho man r'hn hod l h,,, !!
;eJ lie horse nenr thn schonIN homs,
hrooL and n comnia;nt ia sa;d 10 bav,
baon made aoo;mst him a. Tho Gran,
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The advance guard of the drive o
logs coming. down the Connection
river from the forests near the head
quartersI of that stream, had reached
Brattleboro last week, and on Saturda.
there was a jam just above the Brattlc
boro bridge and sturdy and sunbrown
ed lumbermen were "tugging away
with hooks and pixies to start then
agoing down the river.