The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-11
County News
BRIDPORT.

The farmers have commenced
%shearing their high bloodcd sheep.
\ --Mr.Jesse Crane started to 20 to meet
ing Sunday with II sleigh; he tipped
over and broke his left shoulder.
Mr.. Hull Mars of Crawopoint. has
taken IL farm in the easi pant of the
town.
There Is plenty of mud here ut the
present. The snow is mostly gone.
We hope soon TO have %wagoning.
Geo. Tuwner is to buy
ing butter at the Store of {. n. Muselc,
next Monday.
William u. McAule, iscxpecicd n
t 'wn this week. lie will remain but q
few days, when he will return To Clnl G.
mont. n. IL.
Mrs. l.. Wells was taken sick a few
Mays ago and died in two days. lief
disease was supposed to be ofihe heart.
She was aged about forty five years.
George Howe, of whom We spoke
last week, /; improving under the skill
of our efficient physician, DIR. Blaisdell,
who takes the leading practice of this
place.
Wilbur IIsmilton has sold his farm
to Charles lloldridgc, containing about
one hundred acres of land. 1t is called
one of the best grass farms in town.
The nincty-sixth birthday of Mrs.
Brown, mother of Hon. Joel Randall,
was pleasantly observed by a social
gathering at her home last Wednesday,
April 8.
The season for catching pickerel
with IA hook through the ice is about
over with. A. Hamblin caught with a
hook at the mouth of Dead Creek in
two days last week, $50 pickcrel.
H. Wilkinson had another COW
break through the ice one day last
week, but was pulled out just in time
TO save her. This makes the second
beast that he has had fall through the
ice this spring.
john II. Witherell has commenced
buying butter at the store of ID. II.
Bennett. The first receipts were large
butter ranging from II to 90 cents
eggs IA cents per dox. The trade starts
well for the season. Witherell is one
Of our prominent butter buyers.
Gideon Whitford lost a horse last
week. He was attempting to catch it,
and, in lodging him, it struck its head
against the corner of the barn, killing
it instantly. 1t was valued at a hundred
and twenty-five dollars.
M. 7. Shackctt bought of d. c.
Barbour this week q choice lot of woth-
crs, which he carried 10 the New York
market by way of Crown Point.
Shackett has shipped several car loads
ofsheep to New York via Crownpoint
for several weeks past.
Geo. N. Payne, Of this town had IA
shearing last Saturday. The fleeccs of
sixteen rams less than one year old, av-
eraged IA lbs. IA l-2 o., the lightest
one weighing II lbs, the heaviest 10
lbs. 4 OF. These rams were sired by
Mcssrs. Bushnell IL Cranes ram, Eu-
reka Sd.
-Mcssrs. Fred. and Hartman Faris
started for Colorado the first day OF
April; they expect TO make gold and
silver mining their business. Fred.
went to Kansas some four years ago,
and from thence to Colorado, where he
ainassed quite an amount in gold dig.
ging, but afterwards lost it all in a gold
swindling mining company of Califor
MIA.
AS a double team and driver were
going lengthwise of the lake a few davs
ago, vixen neal Rogers ferry, the,
broke through the ice. Help soon ar
rived and they were rescued, though
with much difficulty and danger. Two
of the men who went TO the rescue
broke through the ice and came ncal
being drowned. They all final,
reached the shore in safety. The ic,
throughout is in a dangerous condition
and great caution should be taken o.
serious accidents will happen.