The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-23
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ram superintendent, v nj wort forty
n fifty men this season
Vermont has ESQ schoo, .,;s,,;o,s
owns support gre dc schools.
j. J. Saltsry has bought about 1850
icres Oh iahu ' t Pittsfield and is build
ing an iron = drnacc.
IL IS rep ,rted that the Republican OBJ
server, " wv published'at White River
JuncuV Il, is to be removed to Keene,
N.mes Eagan had one arm badly hurt
by getting IL caught in the crank of a
pand car, at White River Junction.
NClark Warden of Felchyille, while at
work in his saw-mill lately, was knock
ed senseless by an iron bar left in the
way of the moving machinery.
The Democratic caucus in Montpelier
elected six delegates to the Democratic
state convention, and instructed them
for Hancock.
Willerd Graves, u well-known citizen
of W~allingford, committed suicide
Monday afternoon by hanging. No
cause for the deed is assigned.
Ducks arc said to be plenty now in
the bays and inlets of Lake Champlain,
but complaint is made that they are
very wild, ailording but little sport.
Hon. Frederick Billings is building a
memorial chapel to the Congregational
church at Woodstock, in memory of
bis mother, the late Mrs. Gel Billings.
Calvin Fay of Sharon has lost a heifer
by starvation, caused by the fact that
the teeth on the upper jaw grew SO as to
shut oyer those of the lower jaw, entire
ly preventing the chewing of cud.
The bazaar recently held at Burling-
ton for the benefit of the Sherman band
of that city proved a financial success.
The managers are confident that the
net proceeds will not be less than
$4,000.
For the term of the Lamoille county
court commencing Tuesday, the 9th
inst, only sixteen civil cases are as
signed to the jury. About an equal
number of state cases stand on the
docket.
On Saturday, March 81, Ebenezer
Ross, residing in Salisbury Hollow,
fell from his wagon in White Creek, N.
Y, breaking his neck and killing him
almost instantly.
Some 100000 trout have been placed
In the streams of Bennington and vicin-
ity, the result of private subscriptions
towards this object. 1t is hoped that
enough will be raised to enlarge the
number to 0 $1,000 trout.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tatro, the mother of
Edward Tatro, who was executed April
I'D, has received from Franklin Barney,
of Springfield, VT, a present of a suita-
BILE tombstone 10 be erected over her
sons grave.
Mr.. George W. Hibbard, the head
clerk of the general passenger and tick
ct department of the Central. Vermont
railroad, has terminated his connection
with that corporation.
Mr.. Leonard johnson, of Peacham,
who is nearly SO years old, has in the
last month sawed, split and put into
the shed ten cords of maple wood. Mr..
johnson is a brother OF Oliver johnson,
the journalist.
Three hundred and fifty dollars have
been raised by private subscription at
Jacksonville, to dcfray the expenses of
' the approaching centennial celebration
of the organization of the town of
Nottingham.
Col. George M. Hooker, department
commander of the Grand Army of Yer
mont, orders May 20 to be observed ms
Memorial Day, and asks that the graves
of all soldiers in the in the state be dec
grated.
In consequence of litigation between
Hon. Baadley Barlow and James O'Hal.
loran, the latter has resigned the vice.
presidency ofthe Southeastern railroad,
and Nathaniel Pettis of Knowlton has
been chosen in his stead.
Freeman SpauldiDg, a farmer liy'r
in the south part of Morrisville, com.
mitt ID suicide on Saturday evening,
by taking Paris green. He previously
filed out the family register in the
Bible, with his death written in.
A clergyman at Bellows Falls recent
ly prnounced, before his sermon, an iu-
IGNITION of marriage, and then gave as
his text, "In the resurrection, therefore,
when they shall rise, whose wife shall
she be?"
The directors of the Connecticut
River railroad have passed an order in
sl acting the superintendent to "sum-
marily dismiss any employe on any
trein who is known to use Intoxicating
liquors while on duty, or who is known
to have been intoxicated while on
duty"
Maria Pinard of st. Johnsbury, has
been fined $40 and costs for selling
liquor. Michael Carr, an accomplish,
was fined S23. On the premises four
two-gallon jugs were found by the
police; two under Carr's bed, one in a
closet, and N down stairs under the
dining room table, with a brass kettle
turned bottom side up over it.