The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24
STATE ITEMS.

Wednesday morning of last week a
house In Ludlow occupied by Hiland
sawyer was burned. Insured.
A North Danville woman has a china
water pitcher which she has had in
constant use for 43 years, and Il is now
as sound as ever.
Chas. Ryder, who escaped from
Windsor prison last October, has been
rccapturcd in Montcalm county, Michi-
gan.
A gay young buck of Ludlow who
will be either 81 or 81 in May, has mar
ried a captivating grass widow of 80
summers.
Anthony Rabiteau, of Benson, died
suddenly of heart disease, the other
day, while working in the woods.
Annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Central- Vermont railroad com
pany, at st. Adams, on Wednesday,
May q.
w. Parker, of Plymouth, twenty
years old, has eloped with Mrs. Ebene-
ger Carlisle, who is old enough to be
his mother.
A broad strip of open water was Wis
ible at Burlington, Sunday, about half
way across the lake, and a good strong
wind is all that is necessary to clear ont
the ice in short metre.
Although the cars have been running
through Hartland for thirty years or
more, there is a woman who has resid-
ed there during the whole time and has
never yet seen them.
Mrs. Austin, an aged and respected
lady residing with her son in the
south part of Cambridge, was fatally
burned Monday, by her clothes taking
fire from a match used to light her
pipe. She fingered in agony till Tues
day afternoon, then she died.
Thomas Grumpy, a young desperate
of Wells River, was arrested Tuesday
evening by High Sheriff John Bailey,
for an assault upon James Leonard with
intent TO kill.
Mrs. Eliza b. Atwater, widow of the
late Rev. William w. Atwater and
mother of Prof. w. O. Atwater, of
| Wesleyan University, died at 3 O'Clock
Monday morning in Burlington.
While a gang of section men were
running a hand car to get out of the
way of a mixed train, in Charlestown
the other day, a bar of iron became en-
tangled in a wheel in such a manner as
to throw the car from the track and
precipitate the occupants to the ground,
injuring one of them severely.
The Boston Herald of April 10 saws
"Bradley Barlow contributed $500 to
the Republican committee toward the
expenses of that party in the electoral
commission contest, and thinks it pretty
hard that the committee should have
sent during the last election Just that
sum into Vermont TO help defeat Mr..
Barlow"
Montpelier was thrown into quite a
fever of excitement Sunday night by
some women residing lei the Central
Vermont railroad depot reporting that
they saw a man jump from the railroad
bridge into the Winooski river, struggle
for a few minutes and then disappear
under the water. No. clue can be OBJ
tanned to whom the party was. The wo-
men are reliable.
Messrs. b. +. & John Hilton, North
Anson, Maine, have recently been look
ing owe the Merino flocks OF Vermont.
and have purchased a car load of sheep
and lambs, chiefly from the flocks OF
A. Il. Perkins Il Sons, Pomfret. The
lambs were most of them sired by the
Perkins Centennial ram "Constitu-
tion," and the car load, as n whole, are
the finest that Vermont has aver vel
sent TO Maine.-TNew England Farmer
Some with more zeal than dis.
erection was about to issue, at South
Royalton, a greenback paper, and had
put in printing material to quite an ex.
tent and presses of improved make fol
the purpose. We understand the I'M.
tial number was to have been published
on Saturday of this week, but fortunate.
ly Tor otherwise) the sheriff has takei
possession and the editor is on the out
s~ide.-[Woodstock Standard.
A boy of II, named Evarts, living
two miles south of st. Adams Bay, shoi
himself Monday afternoon. He was
shooting pickerel in the lake with {
shotgun, which was accidentally dis
charged by striking the stump OF
which the boy was standing, and the
contents entered his abdomen. He fel
into the water, but was dragged ont b,
companions who were near by, and con
veyed to his home. 1t is believed tina
the wound will prove fatal.