The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-02

measles.
Belvidere has centene r;a,-- Me-
Bridget McGookin, aged TO-. years.
Twonty-tive tons Of pisf iron are bc.
ing melted daily at tho scale works a,
st. Johnsbury. :
Joseph Lcmolne, of Iudlow rocen,,,
rel ana aislocatcd hG, shoulder, besides
being injured about tho head.
William Blythe, of St. Albans at
work In the rolling mill, caught his
/ hand in some cog wheels last week
Tuesday, and crushed three fingers.
The annual meeting of the Champlain
Fish Protective Association is to be held
at the Van Ness House, Burlington, on
Thursday, April 10, at two O'Clock p. m.
Martin Gilmartin, Valley trackman,
while lying intoxicated upon the track
at Brattleboro, Wednesday night. had
his left arm so badly mangled by train
that it had TO be Rmputated.
The operatives in the Ludlow wooden
mill have raised nearly 800 for their
fellow laborer William Horton, who
was seriously injured by catching his
hand in a picker machine.
A dispatch from Richmond saws the
measles are raging in Northern Vermont
and Canada. East Berkshire has had
100 cases, and nearly every village
thereaway has many cases.
AT Brattleboro recently, John Austin,
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ture OF both bones of the leg below the
knee, while engaged in friendly scuf.
file with another workman.
AT the sale Of tho Brinley library in
New York, last week, the book entitled
"A Vindication of tho Opposition of the
Inhabitants OF Vermont to tho Govern
ment Of New York." by Ethan Allen,
was sold for Sl15.
The st. Adams Iron and Steel works
are doing rushing business, the aver
age amount of steel rails turned ont at
present being 80 tons per day, i'm place
of GO, which has heretofore been the
maximum.
Charles Douglass, who claims to be-
long In or near Quebec, was arrested at
Georgia, Monday afternoon OH charge
Of stealing harness from Marshal St.
German, Of Fairfield.
Robert Heath, of West Groton, was
recently attacked by hog while attend
ing to litter Of pigs, and was tram
pied upon, his clothes torn and one
hand frightfully chewed. His life was
probably saved by his son-in.law, who
beat the Infatuated animal away,
Mr. r.. H. Pholps, of Burlington, who
was formerly civil engineer OF tho Bur.
iington and Lamoille railroad and has
since been engaged on tho Panama an d
Aspinwall railroad, has been appointed
chief engineer of the Mackinaw divis-
ion of tho Michigan Central railroad.
A meeting of the State Democratic
committee was to be held at the hotel Of
IL. Ii. Bishop, Waterbury, Thursday,
April l, at z O'Clock p. NJ, for the
purpose Of deciding upon time and
place of holding state convention to
elect delegates TO the national conven.
ton at Cincinnati.
Out Of family of four, that of Fred
erick Lothrop OF ST. Johnsbury, three,
viz: the father and two children, died
of scarlet fever last week, leaving the
young wife and mother alone. The
family lived over their meat market
The basement was damp, and. drain
became stopped.
A. B. Rowland, of Westmore, recent
lv broke one of his arms while chop
ping in the woods, a lodged tree COM
ing down, and hitting him on the arm.
The bones were 80 badly crushed that
several pieces protrudcd through the
flesh, and the arm had to be taken of
two inches below the elbow.
A fire at HislIgate Gore last Thurs
day mig ut destroyed the farm house of
S. Manahan, of Swanton, and consider
able grain, which was stored in the
attic. The farm was carried on by the
sons of Mr.. Manaham, and the inmates
barely escaped with their lives. In
sured for 5000.
Rev. A. Chandler, editor the Bratile-
boro Record and Farmer, died Friday
morning after brief attack of pnoumo-
mia at the age of so. He was born In
w OONStoth. W., SIutudttu dt lDc All
dover theological seminary in 1859, and
preached for the Lempstcr IN. H)I
STAFFORD and Dummerston (Vt.o, Con-
gregationalists. The Record, which no
bought in April, 1878, he devoted large
ly to agricultural matters, being an in
fluential member of the state grange.
His good qualities were manifold. and
his death is deeply regretted by the
whole community. lie leaves widow
and three children.-[SpringGcld Re-
publican.
Business is rcviving at Bellows Falls.
Moore II Smith arc TO erect papcr
mill on the site of the foundation erect
cd near the river in 1887, in addition to
their present mill, for the manufacture
of white and MANILA tissue papers.
Tho structure is to be of brick, and Just
north of it Robertson, Moore & Co.
will erect mill for making MANILA
paper. II will be three stories high
and 4Ox90 feet, and another building
near it for the machinery will be ono
story high. Several houses arc proiec-
ted, and there is need Of % tencmcnts in
the village. Near by the sites OF the
new mills is the factory wherein the
Vermont Farm Machine Company Is TO
give employment 10 80 hands, making
crcamers, sugar evaporators, and new
articlo-a churn to run by dog power.
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