The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-22

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L The Caledonia county jail Is nov
\ Without an occupant, kthing that hs
not occurred before fof. many years. |
Rutland has en- organized checker
and chess club for The purpose of.cre
ating Additional interest In the games
The one hundred AID first anniver
lsary of The battle Of BenhingtonT wa
celebrated At that place last Saturday
:. Tho body Iof Capt o,H.sApstin',
boy,lfwho was drowned at Newbort
Aug. lS,fwas found floating after. near.
~ i've dave search.dj 1silss4o,li ~.
Mr. Stephen Dunbar, q WORTHY ant
respected citizen of, Fairfax, sixty wears
Of age, committed suicide Sunday morn.
ing by hanging hiinself in his barn.
Hon. Edward Conant, our supcrin-
tcndent Of education, delivers the adj
dress to the meeting of the Clinton coun-
Y. n; y, teachers, in Plattsburgb, on
the 2Sth inst. I'd -. ~ I'd. I'D. 10y. (
The two-story frame building on
Main street, Hydeville, owned by the
estate of II. d. Billings and occupied
by Parks Il Bamp as a postofficc and
general store, was destroyed by fire
Friday night. Cause offire unknown.
Loss about 81 800 on building and S2,-
500 ON stock. 80 iaa .siusb raai.d'
Messrs. N. A. Litchfieid & CO., slate
manufacturers of Fairhaven, recently
sent a car load of roofing slate to Mon
rovia, Liberia, TO be used In covering 4
Methodist missionary church. The
slate was punched before shipping, and
Is believed to be the first slate sent
from the United States to Africa. '.'.' I
Last Wednesday the new academy at
Bakersfeld, built at cost of nearly ten
thousand and settled with an endow-
ment Of forty thousand, was dedicated
with appropriate exercises. The prin-
cipal addresses were delivered by Rev.
q. f. Wright, of Andover, Mass, and
President Buckham, of the y. v. N. I
Last Saturday afternoon an elegant
dwelling house in course of erection on
.Elmwood- Avenue, darlington, almost
ready for completion, was destroyed by
fire. 1t was insured for the sum Of
three thousand dollars, which will cover
the loss. The fire caught among some
shavings from sparks knocked from a
workman's pipe.
On the 14th inst. Edward Rogers, a
boy fourteen years old, was arrested at
st. Adams for stealing q watch. He
confessed and gave up the property be-
fore reaching Jail and on promising
better conduct was allowed to go home.
since then be stole sum Of money
from his house and ran away, but the
sheriff found him at Burlington and
took him to Jail. A bookstore was
robbed of $40 just ,before he ran away,
and people now think that he is the
culprlt. This youthful crackster has
created suspicion this summer bv
spending money pretty freely and put
tlng ON considerable style, without
showing where his means came from.
On Friday evening, August Is, the
day preceding the enc hundred and
first anniversary of the battle of Ben
nington, the executive committee of the
Bennington Battle Monument Associa-
ton held q meeting at the residence of
Hon. Il. W. Park, in North. Benning-
ton, at which were present ex-Govs.
Prescott of New Hampshire, and Rice
of Massachusetts,, Hons. A. b. Gardner
and Ii. G. Root and ex-Mayor Lincoln
OF Boston. After visiting the various
points of interest q meeting was held at
which general discussion followed as
to the monument and the probability of
sufficient funds being raised to erect
one that would be q credit to the three
states, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire
and Vermont. The result of the con-
sultation renders it certain that the
sum of S40,0O will be secured i'm addi-
ton to the appropriations already made
by the three states. A committee was
appointed to secure the design for the
monument, and then to settle upon u
site for it.