The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-10
STATE ITEMS.

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were . marriages, % births and %
D deaths.
A few cases of supposed bloody muir.
! rain have appeared among the cattle on
Putney Hill. Four have died out of one
pasture. tl
A -year-old girl of st. Johnsbury
fell from a window thirty feet to the
ground, but, strange TO say, 10 bones
, were broken.
Tho new scenery in village hall,
Montpelier, cost $500, and was printed
by the scenic artist of Wallack's thea
ire, New York.
w. II. Durkee, of Burke, has a cedar
oil still nearly completed. He intends
to turn out large quantity of oil this
fall and winter.
An East Montpelier NOW contains
hay harvested by Nathaniel CLARK in
1910, and it is said to be AS bright and
green as last June's harvest
A valuable colt belonging to M. G..
Tibbets of North Troy, recently stepped
on n stick which flew up, the end pen
Grating the abdomen and killing him.
One hundred persons were natural
lied at Thursdays session of the Uni
ted States Court in Burlington, last
week and 1875 at " indsor on the previ-
GUS day.
The custom officer seized jug of hu-
nor in transiiu at Newport recently,
when the posscssOr, one Coakely, a
brakeman, threw an iron pin and broke
the jng. lie was arrested and put nm
der 5000 bonds.
Company II of Montpelier has rccei-
we'd an invitation TO become the guests
of the first Connecticut regiment at
Hartford, the visiting company 10 name
the date, and will doubtless accept
sometime in November.
The Burlington Free Press says that
Martin. Coon, n young man 90 years of
age, in the employ of Joel Putnam of
Cambridgeboro', was detected in a con-
temptible act. recently, and through
fear of exposure took his own life by
shooting.
AT Pouliney, August 81, John Wal.
ters met with n serious accident at the
slate quarry of Jones, Brian Il Co. lie
had been working there for while en-
gagged in trimming slate with ma
chine. Early in the morning while at
work, he got his hand too far into the
machine, when the knife came down
upon ii cutting il nearly Off near the
wrist.
w. G.. Il. L. BY an error in the no.
tice of the State Convention of w. G.. |
I. U. TO be held in Montpelier, Sept.
% and 80, the meetings were announced
to be held at the Methodist church. |
The business meetings will be held at
the Unitarian church, and the public |
meetings at the Trinity Methodist
church.
The seventh day OF the Mortified |
Camp Meeting opened last week Thurs
day with fine weather. An interesting |
conference love feast was held, with an |
address and altar service by Rev. Geo. |
Uels of Jvaitsfeld. There was a SER
mon by Rev. j. Sherburne of Groton,
from Ephesians, w., so, and one by
Rev. l.. &. Dickerson from Job XII, Z.
A young converts meeting was held,
great interest being manifested The
meeting closed Friday.
Prof. George A. Smyth, who has oc-
cnpied the chair of chemistry and ply
sizes in the University of Vermont and
State Agricultural College for several
years, resigned that position at the
close of the last term in order to enter
the service of the National Board of
Health. His place has been filled by |
the appointment ofProf. A. II. Sabin,
late of Ripon College, Wisconsin.
Prof. Sabin has for four years been
Professor of Chemistry at Ripon Col
lcgc.
At llinesburgh, says the Free Press,
Daniel Patrick's new dam burst Friday
afternoon and is total wreck. His CT
der mill, saw mill and checse-boX fac
tory are badly damaged. Mr.. Jessie
went down with the dam and was
found some thirty rods below with one
leg broken twice and otherwise injured.
lie had but just recovered from inju-
ries received some three weeks ago bv
the fall of a derrick on the same dam.
The dam was supposed to be substan
tial, being built of stone and one hun
dred barrels of cement having been us
ed in its construction. The cause of
the break was "A fault in the plan, it be-
ing perpendicular dam without prop
or supports. The damage is over one
thousand dollars.
GOOD COMPANY, NUMBER ELEvEN,-
opens with Notes of Travel by Charles
Dudley Warner, at the end of which he
throws the charm of his style about an
account of the immense Chicago stock
yards in way to delight the new Pork
opolis.
An idea of the prevailing Southern
diet and the obstacles to introducing
improved methods in cooking is given
in an account of personal experience by
Mrs. Helen Campbell.
Those familiar with the attractive
grace of f.. ). Gilbert's nature-studies
will not need TO be told that his enid
summer" is pat to the season aud enter
tanning. Scasonable, too, is Dora Read
Goodaie's wildly descriptive poem ga
Snmmer-night Storm" and another
gracefully descriptive bit of verse,
"Sunshine." Mrs. Celeste M. a. Wins
lows's verses, "Border-lands, have
decided MERIT.
Octave Thanet has the "Romance OF
a Medicine Bottle" and there is full
allowance of stories by Ellen w. Olney,
l.. X. Black, Mabel S. Emery and Da-
vid Kor, also contributions from b. f..
DeCosta, Mrs. Edwark Ashley Walker
and j. b. /. Marsh; and several short
er sketches.
Good Introduction.