The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-05-23
County News
VERGENNES.


F. X. Haven has 5-cent counter.
Henry d. Woodbridge is at home
Oh visit.
The adjourned union temperance
meeting came of on Wednesday eve
ming.
Capt. Hoffinagle looks very pleas
ant these days in being possessed of q
fine boy.
The young people ct. B.'s) had q
picnic in Woodbridge's woods OH Wed
nesday last.
Saturday there was a grand rush for
Vergennes, and no vacant hitchinQ
place to be found.
The Scent. counters are all the 90
here now, and no less than five are al
ready in full blast.
Mrs. Julia Adams started for Mad
ison, Wis, last Monday afternoon on a
visit to her daughter there.
Miss Julia Ryan seems to be doing
the leading business in the millinery
line, and has one Of the finest stocks of
goods in town.
Mr.. William Bixby, who lately re-
turned from Florida, brought small
alligator and has it in his garden in a
miniature lake. 1t is about ten inches
long and something over year old.
Captain Motifs boat, B. F. Goss,
arrived on Thursday evening loaded
with merchandise, and has also on
board several hundred bushels of salt
for F. X. Haven Of all kinds, dairy, etc
Mr.. John N. Norton, son of N. G.!
Norton, starts for the west next Monday,
morning. He will be much missed here
by his many friends, and Vergernes
loses one of her finest young men. He
goes to Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Hayes have
both been sick with typhoid pneumonia
for two weeks past, and Mrs. Hayes
died on Tuesday morning. Mr.. Hayes
Is somewhat better. The funeral of
Mrs. Hayes was held on Thursday at
her late residence, Rev. Chprles Hib-
bard officiating.
The Middlebury College Dramatjf
Club, which played here last Frid%
evening, is highly spoken of, and Mis-
hoped that at no distant period tho en-
tertainment may be repeated here, and
to full house, to which they are so
we'll entitled. 1t is also hoped that the
members may not get discouraged, but
persevere.
AT the regular annual assembly of
VergenEes Council No. 2, held at Ma
sonic hall, Monday evening, May 10,
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year and duly installed: ii.
Ii. Ross, Il. !. q. M; G. A. Smith, ID.
!. G. NJ. s. A. futile, P. G. of W.; NJ.
t. Bristol, treasurer; w. w. Booth, re-
corder; g. F. o. Kimball, captain OF
the guard; +. A. Goss, conductor OF
council M, G, Healey, marshal; ii. ii.
Burge, steward S. j. Allen, sentinel
Rev. f. 5. Fisher was appointed chap
lain.
AT the regular annual convocation
of Jerusalem Chapter No. 9, of Yer.
gennes, held at Masonic hall. Monday
evening, May 10, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year and
duly installed: F. A. Goss, NJ. E. III
p; Ii. II. Ross, L. X; ii. ii. Burge
E. s.; G. W. Ross, treasurer; w. w
Booth, secretary; r. r. O'Bryan, q. ii.
G.. A. Smith, p. s.. A. b. Taber, r. A
c.; s. A. futile, G.. N. of Sd Vail; Nj
C. Healey, G. M. of I'd Vail: w. l.
Berry, G.. M. of LIST Vail. The follow
ing appointments were made, viz.
Rev. f. 8. Fisher, chaplain; NJ. T
Bristol, G. F. o. Kimball, stewards; S
j. Allen, tyler.
The wife of Scion 4. Burroughs
while returning Monday afterT5bl
from Bridport, whittier she had bkel
with her three-year old daughter I,
visit her father, who is declining il
health, met with serious accident
While driving past stone quarry a
Addison, near the residence of Geo
, Waldron, a large rock rolled down from
an elevation, breaking plank, an,
, making considerable noise and fright
ening the horse, which ran away
throwing Mrs. Burroughs and he
child out of the vehicle. The head o
, the lady struck against The ends of
} pile of boards breaking some of tn
. bones of the face below the eyes, he
cheek bone, and driving her upper teetl
, into her throat. Her lower Jaw wa
also badly bruised. She was carrie,
. into Mr.. Waldron's, where she receive,
the kindest attention, as also iron
, neighhors Clark and Morrison an,
, their wives. Mrs. Burroughs is nov
In = critical condition, having lost sey
eral quarts of blood. The little daugh
: ter escaped without scratch or brpise
Mrs. Burroughs has the sympathy O
the community in her affiiction.