The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-26
STATE ITEMS.

Grafton HIS 10-ycer-old girl weigh
ing $50 pounds.
Swantop dealers are paying S12 ton
for hay and $14 Tor straw.
A child :, Rutland was fatally burned
last Saturday q kerosene lamp acct
dent.
Mr. and Mrs. Eben Jones fist. Johns
bury celebrated tho" gold Wedding
Nov. Is.
Eben Woodward, an aged citizen of
South Rova'ton, committed suicide the
other day by choking himself with a
handkerchief.
The gold 'digeings at Plymouth Five
Corners employ two mca at present,
who are working in the brook mines,
and pay well.
George Barker's :. xe caught in limb
while he was chopping wood at Goshen,
the other day, and fa''ing, cut severe
cash in his head.
The adjourned term of the Washing
ton county court begins Monday, Nov.
% The oaso of the btato against Meak-
ers will be the first and only important
case tried.
N. Lovejov of North Thetford, whose
hand was injurered by corn-husker
three weeks since, and the hand ampu-
tated at the wrist on the 9Th, died of
lockjaw on the 10th inst.
Erastus W. Stone, who was put in the
Washington county Jail by the town of
Worcester, last February, for the nom
payment of tax of $3.50, was released
recently, the town having abated the
tax and paid its own costs
A sawmill in West Bradford owned
by ID. X. Cummings was burned Satur-
day night, the 18th inst, with consider
with no insurance. The fire is supposed
TO have been ircendiary.
The belfry and spire of the London.
derry Methodist church were blown to
the ground recently by a high wind
Twenty or thirty people were inside re.
hearsing for Sunday school concert
but were not injured. Damage, about
$500.
Frie1y,t the 18th inst, Charles Hanks
of Warren, while cutting logs for the
Parker Brothers, was badly cut Oh the
outside of the knee in consequence OF
the ey of fellow workman catching
on a twig as he was striking blow and
turr 'rg IN the direction of his AK.
A little Ryegate boy the other Sunday
repeated bis verse Ia Sunday School,
and the teacher, to illustrate the princi-
Pile involved, asked him what he should
think if he should SC a man on the street
drunk, noisy and quarrelseme. 81
should think he was Democrat" re-
sponded the knowing little fellow.
Thomas Hughes, who drives team
for the Fall Mountain Paper Company,
Bellows Falls, was brown from his
load the other day, and the wheels pas
sed over his shoulder and one leg, us.
ing him up badly. One arm was bro
ken. and there were numerous gashes
on different parts of the body.
On Monday, Lewis Aimon Meakei
and Emeline Meaker, his mother, were
arraie ned for the murder of little Alice
Meaker, by poisoning, last spring
Lewis pleaded guilty OF murder in the
first degree. This was intended IL
shut out the testimony of the officer t
whom he made confession implica
ting his mothe". Without this evi
dence counsel think IL impossible t
} convict Mrs. Meaker.
Solomon Bradley, whose dea.h tool
place at Fairfax, the 7th inst, agel
eighty-three years, was veteran o
! 812. At the execution of the negro
Luther Virginia, in st. Adams, Janu
ary IA, 1920, for the murder of Ruff
w. jackson, Mr.. Bradley, who was
: member of the militia played the fune
raj march from the Jail, which stood oil
1.-THE corner now occupied by the Episco
: pal church, to the h'll near the resi-
denceof Governor Smith, where thu
lexecution took place.