The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-11


1t Woodstock August 3, 6 a. z.
The state ,air is b. be held al Mont
rclicr this year. Sept. 9,lO aud H. \
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Dean of Monk
Ion celebrated their silver wedding June
q.
A passing train fatally hit q supposed
tramp 1T North Pownal, last r'ridav
night.
Mr.. Eaton of Danville had Is sheep |
killed 10y one stroke of lightning the
other day.
A newspaper is soon TO be started Mt
Barre, making ten newspapers in Wash
ington county.
II cost William and Martin Bulger
SOB in fines TO get drunk in Rutland |
last Saturday.
Rev. George +. Martin was ordained
pastor OF the Centre Congregational
church at Brattlcboro, on Wednesday |
last.
AT Williams college commencement,
last week, the general prize for good
speaking was awarded to f. II. Rowe
of Poulincy, Vt.
Some miscrcant stole about 800 trout
from Il private fish pond or tank be-
longing to William Z. johnson, few
nights since.
The First National nank and the
Merchants National Bank of Rutland
have each declared semi-annual divi-
dcnd of SO on a share.
Fairfax is having furious fight
among its citizens over the removal of
the post Office from its present location
TO another part of the town.
An clcvcn-ycar-old daughter OF James
Reilly, who works in the mills of the
Rutland Marble Company, was drown
ed at Centre Rutland on Monday. The
girl went TO the race-way back of the
grist mill with pail after water and
fell in.
The annual convention of the Yer
mont editors was held in Rutland Tues
day evening, and Wednesday the journ
alists spent the forenoon in looking
about Rutland, and at two O'Clock left
by special train for New York, intend
ing TO take supper at Troy and proceed
to New York, thence TO Brighton Beach
and Concy Island.
Alexander Stewart of Proctorsvillc,
the would-be hcil TO The New York
Stewards estate, has just returned from
New \ ork Gin funds" The Standard
says that from the best information
afoat, Alexander has 10 this date re-
ceived about eight months entertain
mcnt at the Metropolitan Hotel, with
the freedom of the city, and $1,000 in
cash, besides transportation free TO and
from New York two or three times.
Brandon has new railroad depot
| 1t was opened last Friday. The people
Justly feel very proud of il. The build
ing is Of brick, twcnty-six by sixty feet,
with a tower fifty feet in height. II is
also great architectural beauty, and is
nicely fitted up throughout. Brandon
people know how to appreciate clean,
commodious depot, having been COM
PEELED TO use the poorest old shell on
the road for a depot for many years
past. II is n valuable addition TO tho
fine structures of Brandon, and reflects
credit on the railroad company and
Brandon citizens.
The Central Vermont now employs
~ locomotive engineers, and GO con-
duclors, station agents and baggage
masters. IL has 12O locomotives. 1O4
passenger cars and 1850 freight cars;
this does not include the green cars of
the National Despatch line, of which
there are more than thousand, and
which carry nearly all the through
freight. The new trains that are put
on this summer, Just for the accommo-
mediation OF summer travel, are run by
this road fully $50 miles n day Free
Press.
The other day on the line of the Brat
tlcboro and Whitehall railroad. about n
mile and half above Fayetteville.
while James Burns, an Irishman 80
years old from Connecticut, was at
work with pickaxe on n high bank
the qnicksand under the bank gave
away and as he stepped foot forward
10 escape he was buried up to his chin
by the falling earth, his legs spread
apart, and n crcvicc split in his body
two inches deep, and five inches for
ward from the mouth of the anus. lie
was dug ont as soon as possible by his
companions, and the wound was found
TO be filled with sand, causing him ex
cruciaiing agony when ii was cleaned
out. At the latest accounts there was
hope Of saving his life.