The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-01
sTATH ITEMS.

Rutland has d ghost, which is crea-
ing no end Of excitement. Ii
The Arst snow of the season on
Mount Mansfield, the 20th |,
Miners at Plymouth Five Corners,
ire sinking shaft to reach gold bed
The governor of Vermont gets Nn,v
II 900 year, while the seegetar Of
tate gets el,70o.
The Fresr.ma class at the Up iyersity
Vt Bur .lngton numbers TIVE .nty-five,
'wo of them ladies'.
The death is announced of Orange
Lawrence of Westford, father of L. l..
Lawrence, ESQ.,, of Burliugton
There is to he bear hunt on the
White hill, so called, lying In Wards
bero and Dover, on Saturday, Oct. 2.
Willard II. Child has been appointed
postmaster at Newbnry, Orange county,
and Henry E. Merrill at West Brid-
port, Addison county.
The diphtheria has become epidemic
in Bennington. The chools are closed,
Twenty cases are reported since Satur-
day, some Of which will be fatal.
Potatoes are selling for shipment at
Middlebury for So cends per bushel, at
Vergennes for SO and at Montpelier for
so. At the latter place complaint OF
rotting Is made.
Ex-Gov. j. Gregg ry Smith has i'm.
ported what ia claimed to be the finest
Normandy stallion ever seen In this
country. He is four years old, weighs
800 pounds and st ands " hands high
Hon. Henry Ballard, whose services
have heretofore met with such fiatter'
ing appreciation from the New York
State Committee, leaves Burlington or
Monday for a four weeks stumpine
tour in that State.
At Island Pond, the other day, Jamel
O'Keefe, Jr., became angry at his broth
err, and having file In his hand strucl
him, inflicting a wound in his chest
and at once fled, and has not beef
heard from since. The wound inflict
ed was slight.
Saturday, fire was discovered in tn
storehOuse of Van Sicklen, Seymour 4
Co., Burlington, but it was soon extin
guished. The damage to the building
was comparatively slight. The con
tents consisted of large quantity o
, salt, some of which was injured b
water.
John Guyette, q Frenchman of Eel
. risburg, charged with abducting hi
children from their mother and takin
them into New York state, recently al
, rested and brought back to Ferrisburf
has been discharged after a hearing
3 the mother being shown to be an in
, proper guardian.
, Vermont has four venerable and hor
: orable ex-governors living, each c
= whom is more than 80 years of ag
J and all stalwart Republicans; namely
. Hiland Hall of Bennington, Rylan
! Fletcher of Cavendish, Paul Dilline
= ham of Waterbury and Julius Cor
9 verse of Woodstock.
= Mr.. E. r. Lowe of New York, sui
marine engineer and professional diver
will commence work next week to RI
! cover boat load of iron sunk near Bal
: ber's Point on Lake Champlain, an
will also make an examination of sex
: eral other points where valuables ar
u known 10 have been sunk.
:, Granville Barnes house in Wes
: Randolph was entered by burglars o
n the oath ult. and robbed of a golt
8 watch and chain, a pocket book cor
y tanning $500 in money, $148 check o
|. a Boston bank, payable to M. j. Wi
o son, a 800 note against Joel Within
). and $500 ote against B. B. Chase
l. A box containing $75 in silver wa
n overlooked by the thieves.
d Rev. J. S. Small, the pastor of tn
!. Baptist church in Felchville, went to
:. meeting of the Woodstock associatio
IS in Londonderry, Tuesday afternoon. o
: Wednesday forenoon he began the al
S nual sermon. When near the close
}. spoke of his failing strength, said fey
# words, offered brief prayer, went he.
r itatinglv to his chair, and was aided t
: neighboring house, where he gradua
: ly sank away till he died, about Al
hour after the time he closed his sci
G mon.
!. Marcellus Woodward, Frenchma
9 about twenty years of age, COMMITTEE
8 to the house of correction from Hollan
i ON Wednesday last to serve term @
two years for horse-stealing, was, wit
# three other prisoners, taken out to di
f potatoes near the House of Correction
!. Saturday afternoon. Not fancying tn
n business, he started off. The keepe
;. fired four shots at him without effect
/ then pursued him into the woods wher
4 he was lost sight of, and has not bee
: seen since. When he ran away he ha
[ neither hat, coat nor shoes. 1t is sup
posed he has gone to the northward.
! SilasM M. Waite, the Brattleboro dc
faulter was on Tuesday brought befor
the Windham county court to answer t
the following indictments, to which h
pleaded not guilty: First-for embe7
;, cling the sum of 81 800 from the Firs
y National Bank of Brattleboro; secon
). for forging 3 note purporting to b
signed by the Vermont railroad com
pany III, bearing the name of sal
company's treasurer, Nash, for the sIE
Y of $l5, 900; third-for uttering and ne
: gotiating the same, knowing It to hav
= been forged fourth-for forging not
: Of $4,000 purporting to be signed b
: G. j. Amidon; fifth-for forging tn
: name Of Frederick Billings to note O
$4,000; sixth-for uttering and nego
}, tiating the same, knowing it to b
! forged seventh-for forging the nam
: of T. w. Park to a note of 800, 900