The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-25
RTPTON.


--Bruiii has evidently concluded 10
rusticate with us the present season,
Ipr0bably unaware of the fact that San.
ford is also here, and that chaps of his
stripe have before this como to an un-
timely end at his hand.
w. J.. Billings has put two two.
horse teams on his stage route, making
close connection with the afternoon
trains, and proposes to iun 10 In the in
tcrest of the public, and make IL pay II
he can, and we think he will succeed.
This arrangement is to continue during
the boarding season.
"A COW of G.. T. Fishers was found
on the goth to have large dose of hea-
Wy shot In her leg, udder and flank, and
upon diligent inquiry evidence was dis
covered, that in the opinion of Grand
Juror Boynton warranted the arrest of
X. e. Denton, and on hearing before
Justice Newton on the 21st, in the judg-
ment of the court II was sufficiently well
enough proved to warrant him in order
ing Denton to find bonds in the sum of
two hundred dollars to answer for his
fun before Judge Pierpoint when called
upon, j. S. Chandler for state and A.
g. Chandler for defence.
Lone of the most heart-rending oc-
cqrrences that ever came to our knowl-
ehge took place here on the 18th inst.
II Seems that on the afternoon i'm ques-
fipn the wife OF j. 4. Goodyear sent
Ptheir two girls, aged respectively about
seven and nine years, 10 a neighbor by
the name of Roberts, a distance by the
rood Of aboxrt n bol r,ho .1,os.,.-
in direct line between the two houses
Is not great, but Mr.. Roberts lives near
a river In a deep valley which is Dense
ly wooded; the hills being so abrupt
that the road descends from Mr.. G's. in
q diagonal manner, and one point forms
an ox-bow, with the two arms close to-
gether and connected by foot path
that saves about half of the distance.
After staying some little time the two
girls started for home about five o'clock,
one, Julia, taking the travelled road,
and the other, Bertha, the foot path,
and climbing the first hill in safety, but
reaching sort of shelf in the hill she by |
mistake stepped aside into logging
Road that intersected the path, and which |
had recently been used by the father
"bobbing" logs, giving some resem-
blance TO the path, and followed it. Jul
liza went home, and upon being ques-
toned by the mother told what she |
knew, and the mother started at once |
and soon found that il was too true, |
that the little one had plunged into the
depths of the forest and could not be |
made to hear calls. Mrs. G. promptly
gave the alarm, and small body of
men that constantly received accessions,
rallied, formed skirnish line, and the
woods were thoroughly searched for
about mile and half with no success
except the finding of her tracks al two
widely separated points. All tho log
ging roads with which the forest
abounded were closely examined, when
darkness put an end to the search for |
few hours. Reinforcements having ar
rived, over hundred menIinvestigatcd |
the woods by lantern light for an hour
or two, but that failing halt was Or
dered until day break. At that time
the number hadeincreased to hundred |
and fifty men, who pushed on determin- |
ed to find the little one. Soon they |
were rewarded by finding tracks fol- |
lowing the North branch of Middlebury |
river, which flows, closely confined by |
steep hills, through rough rocky chasm
that would appaI any but the strongest !
nerves from undertaking its descent.
For about mile and a half she was
tracked, in which distance she crossed
the branch twice, and having reached
the junction of the stream with the
South branch she again crossed the
stream, clambered up high, almost
rock, and wearied by the
excessive exertions of several honrs,
lost her hold and fell thirty feet to the
rocks and river below. crushing in a
small portion of the skull in the upper
part OF her forehead, and being appar-
ontly instantly killed. The body float
ed into an oddly of shallow water where
it was found about $3.50 by the search
ers, and after little delay was taken
to her almost distracted parents. The
gorge which she was following is prob
ably one of the widest in the state
parts of it being absolutely inaccessible
to those that are born and bred among
our hills, being bounded for several miles
by almost perpendicular walls of rock,
in some places hundreds of feet high.
The funeral Of the unfortunate little
one was held on the Goth, attended by
large concourse of people, many of
them from other towns. The Rev. G.
X. Church preached very appropri-
ate sermon from Rom. IL :33: Chow
unsearchable are his judgments, and
his ways past finding out" Much SYM
pathy is felt for the parents 50 awfully
bereaved.