The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-10-10
sTATG ITEMS.


lew bridge and round house at Bellows 4
Falls.
Charles Walker of Swanton, rccciitlH
paid 50 and costs, for getting OH ga
" ~
II. II. Lawrence of, Brattleboro, has
sold span of bay horses TO j. l.. Law
son of Cleveland, o., for $500.
Miss Parmclia Thompson of Bellows
Falls, recently fell and badly sprained
and displaced one of the bones of one
wrist.
The Fall Mountain paper company of
Bellows Falls are cnlarging their canal,
intending to draw the Connecticut river
through 1t.
A little son of RAMA Forth of Yer
which passed over one ankle, severely
bruising it.
Postmaster Bennett of Charleston,
resigns, because of trouble in the man
agemcnt of the Office, which is being
Investigated.
While Alfred Fordham was chopping
wood the other day at Duxbury, Il large |
tree fell upon him. Ills injuries arc of
IA critical nature.
The recent Chittenden county fair
was a financial success, 800 having
been.loft in the society's treasury over
and above all expenses.
Children playing with matches set
fire TO the barn of II. II. Newton, of
Pittsficld, and il was totally destroyed.
Loss 800; fully insured.
Bishop Bisscll has called a convoca-
ton of the Episcopal church OF the
state 10 assemble at Woodstock the
goth, 2lst and 22d of October.
/ A fvc-years-old son of II. G. Allen
of SwantoD, recently fell down shoot
in the barn, distance of twenty feet,
and escaped with slight bruises.
A cleven-ycars-old son of the late
! Seymour Everest OF Addison, recently
/ fell from n tree, while gathering wal
nuts, and broke both bones OF The right
wrist.
Patrick Lynch of Rutland. recently
had jaw dislocatcd, while removing
the ash pan from a locomotive by an
iron bar ilying mp and hitting him in
the jaw.
The GAY svillc Button Company re-
Gently cut ,iown the pay Of ilirir opera
lives without previous notification, hut
the courts dec,'c HAT they had no RIGHT
I, do SO.
Two cars Of an extra freight train
were thrown from HE track at Chester,
last Thursday evening. by break beam
of one of The cars falling upon the
track. No damage was done.
Lonnic Bartlett of Bloomington, was
recently severely injured about the ell
bow. while playing croquct. being acct
dcnlally hit 10y Il mallct, which Slipped
from tie hand OF another player.
Early Monday morning, Edith H.,
darshtcr Of 5. Il. Maynard, of West
Enoshurgh, aged l. Years, committed
suicide by hanging. No cause is as
signed for the act. save. perhaps, ~
health
The Windsor county teachers assoc
citation meets ~ White River viilnlc.
= 'rida! and saturday. Edward Conant
is expected &C. speak. lie begins lee
, lure trip in the southern part of the
State next week.
The carriage shop of George L.
Brown al Bradford, partly occupied hy
f. f.. 4 Nj. a. Davis, blacksmiihs, was
burned Tuesday. Browns loss -, 800:
= insured for Sl,5uO; The Davi-cs lose
SiO0, uninsured.
: A cheering indication of the local re
| vival of business in Burlington is found
in the fact that the Central Vermont
freight Office in that city for iieighls re.
4 ceived i'll September were over 50 GOO
= more than III The same month last wear
In the city court at Burlington, Tues
day, Frank Eoycs, between and It
years old and an inmate of the Homo
for Destitute Children, was found gull
ty of stealing at that institution and wai
sent TO the State reform school for Tho
remainder Of his minority.
There is II current report that Tho
|, Messrs. Fairbanks have bought of tht
I New York Trust Company all thcii
bonds and interest i'll the Portland anC
Ogdonsburg railroad. Vermont division
II so, this gives the Fairbanks cen
Z trolling interest in lie road.
, Harriet Stanley, u years old. Step
f daughter OF Waller Boync Of Newport
and who went On Montreal excursion
with her uncle anii aun, on the 97il
n!t.. could net be found when thC
steamer reached Montreal. is fcarct
2 HAT Size has been Cnticcd away by some
villain.
Montpelier is experiencing Il livcl,
I Time III the way OF Il stir against III,
liquor dealers. Numerous persons have
been summoned before tho grand inr,
. IN session .hcre, Int whether il viii
| amount to anything remains TO he seen
They have had one or Two Z" siirs . down
that way laIcly. but there were no ben
, cGcial results lhcrcitUIn.
The demand Tor Vermont Mcrinc
sheep is now unusually large, aud sale.
c arc made At very good prices. From
a the Isl OF january TO the LIST of Sep.
icmbcr last, there were shipped from
Middlcbury, Tor breeding purposes
twenty-five carloads of Mcrinos, aver
: aging loo head per car, and Of these
5 seven cor loads went 10 Texas and six
TO Ohio.
: The date Of the adjourned Lamoillc
County Fair is Wednesday, Oct. Is
and The exercises viii occupy but ono
= day. The Directors have offered al
G purse of 500 70 the Barnes Hose Co
of burlington TO be present and beat
the time made at Chicago. They onei
: a purse of $50 TO be competed Tor b,
G the st. ,lolinsbury, Swanton and 81. Al
G bans Hose Companies.
! The president of the Champlain Val
I ley fair, recently held at Nergemcs, is
said TO be one of the largest practical
farmers and cattle dealers in Addison