The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-30
STATE ITEMS.

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L.attlcboro is to have new Repub-
lice1 paper. Some fools IN Brattleboro.
A mud turtle has been found in Nor
witch with the date 1916 carved on its
back.
Thomas Grumpy, ayoung man, died
from sunstroke at Wells River the
other day. ..-
Senator Edmunds will deliver the adj
dress OF the Orleans county fair, Sc J.
TENDER 20.
There is strike at the circuit a.
Pinard box and bcdstead factory at st.
Johnsbury.
The colored Republicans of st. Al
bans have organized a Garfield club
with % members.
A heavy hail and rain storm did
much hurt TO crop and roads about Der
by line Last week.
Thirteen suits have been brought
against the directors of the First Ma
tional bank of Brattleboro.
Four liquor dealers were fined at
Groton, recently. Three were farmers
who had been selling cider.
The Castleton correspondent of the
Rutland Herald has seut items to that
paper nearly every week for thirty
years.
The docket of Orleans county court
contains III court and 81 chancery
cases. The session commences Septem-
Der 8.
Charles Purple has been killed
at South Vernon by fall from q
flight of steps, caused by push given
in sport. '.t
Albert L. Campbell of Weston, was
thrown out of bis wagon, recently, sus-
tanning injuries from which he died in
a few days.
AT Wells River, Friday, Miss Alpha
A. chamberlain committed suicide by
hanging herself with a sheet across the
foot of her bed.
A Richford girl was married bare
footed because her husbands folks went
that way, and she did not want to ap-
pear stuck up.
Mr.. Chas. w. Fish, the greatest of
living bareback riders, now connected
with the great London Circus, Is a ma
tive of st. Albans.
Hon. VIM. H..Du Bots, inspector OF
finance, is now making his annual tour
through the state. He reports the saw
ings banks in good condition.
According to the census of Orleans
county, the population Is 22,013, against
81, 032 ten years ago, gain of nearly
per cent. Eleven of the towns show
an increase, while the remaining ones
have decl eased.
The Free Press says that the Lake
Champlain sea-serpent has been seen
again, but this time shorn of his goodly
proportions. He is now only about 16
feet long and not nearly so awe-inspir-
ing as last season.
At Hyde Park the other day little
daughter of James Rock, while at play
in the door yard, accidentally fell into q
eask of rain water and was drowned.
The child had been dead about half an
hour before it was discovered.
A party of three young ladies from
Barton village were riding, the Other
day, when spring brooks and threw
them out, injuring one, Miss Mossman,
so that she di l soon after, and very
seriously injuring Baxter girl, who is
about ten yeas Of age.
A man from Chicago has been lectu :
ing against masonry, etc.. in Orleans
and Caledonia counties. At st. Jobus
bury the hall where be was speaking
was attacked by large mob will
stones. Tin hoi rs were used, and va
rious noises made.
Isaac Farwell of West Dorset, was
born on July IA, 1873, and on the 14tl
inst. celebrated the 10lst anniversary o.
his birthday. A number of residents
and sojourners in the village visited the
, venerable man TO tender congratula
tions, and found him with hale body
, active mind and cordial temper.
The Rutland County National baDl
declared a semi-annual dividend of 4
; per cent. PAYABLE July 5, the Nationa
! Bank of Rutland, q semi-annual diyi
. dend of per cent. payable July 5, and
Baxter National, dividend of 1-2 pei
cent. The Rutland Savings banks
I dividend, payable July l, was 5 pei
, cent.
A little son of James Forest Of South
Barton. about two years of age, was
poisoned to death by drinking colbat
some days since. His mother visited 9
neighbours house, and the little boy
drank from cup of av poison. A
: physician was Immediately called, but
, the boy lived only few hours.
Messrs. j. NJ. Haven Of Rutland, anG
Mr.. Upham of the Sullivan Machine
company of Clarmont, N. H., have
> formed partnership for the quarryine
Of soap stone, at the recently discovered
soap stone deposit in Sherburne, abou
II miles from Rutland. Work has al
ready commenced.
A new pos. OF the Grand Army O
the Republic was organized at Below
Falls recently, under the name of Pos
G. II. Stoughton, No. 81, with l.. M
Read, commander. A delegation
from Post Sedgwick at Brattleboro
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