The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-05-07
STATE ,vvo

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uen' ". ". Grout delivers the Deco
Auon osy address at st. bloomsbury.
Mc Of the young mon Of Swanton
ny went TO Leadville have returned
u disgust.
Mrs. Hulda Robertson of Bethel,
reached the mature age OF 1Ol years OH
Of last week.
A six years old con of M. W. Smith,
OF Poultney, fell juto the river tho other
day, and was drowned.
Very Rev. z. Druon, of st. Adams,
fell from q plank last week Wednesday,
and broke a bone in his left wrist.
Gov. j. q. Smith, of st. Adams, has
just imported from France a two-thou-
sand-dollar stallion and two mares.
A ~five-years-old daughter of Owen
Murphy, of st. AlbaiIs, fell from a pile
of lumber last week, and broke one
arm.
The docket of May term Of the Wind
sor county court. which opens the Goth
contains 1874 cases. The chancery dock
OF numbers IS cases.
A new company ia forming for cotton |
manufacturing at White River juno
ton, and sixty acres of land have been
| given for the mill property.
The fourth main line VI telegraph wire
is being put up on the line OF the Gen.
trail Vermont railroad. Ono wire will
DO used exclusively for railroad bus
mess.
The temperance cause at St. Adams
Bay, is lourishing. Every drinking
man but one has signed the pledge.
Fifteen young men Joined the reform
club at IL time, recently.
Gen. Grant will not DO present at
the reunion of the Army of the Poto-
mac, at Burlington June 16. lie is GO
ing to the Rocky Mountains for q
breathing spell in fresh air.
Jscob Shedd Spaulding, A. NJ, l.. l..
D., for so many years The honored and
efficient Principal OF Barre Academy,
died worry suddenly last Thursday
afternoon, of heart complaint.
, Sullivan l.. Day was thrown from
his carriage at North Troy last Monday
evening, and was seriously if not fatally
injured. He got some bad cuts about
: the head, and was hurt internally.
I Daniel Donovan, a workman in the
: quarry of Sheldon u Slason, at West
D Rutland, came upon the bank tho other
morning to sharpen his drill, and short.
ly after fell to the ground, and expired.
=, Lampman's boot and shoe store, al
White River Junction, was destroyed
= by fire on Sunday night. The store
( and its contents are q total loss. The
+ stock vas valued at $500. %Fire.snppos.
g, ed to be incendisry.
t The Episcopal church choir festiv al fol
the present season has been appointed
at Burlington September 23d, snd
I will be under the direction of Mr.
S. Is. Whitney of Boston, who conduct
Q ed the first festival at Vergennes.
-. The body of G. K. Yates, who wa
. drowned while gathering floodwood a
u Highgate, about four weeks ago, wa
q recovered last Monday morning a
q SwantOn, having floated in beneath
some saw-lOgs Oh the west side of tn,
river, just above the dam.
" NuO mCbuoukCI bHyb WE Io6rI
that Mr.. Gillette and another gentle
man Of White River Junction, hav,
each given 80 acres of land to be occu
/" pied as mill property by q new com
If pany which 10 forming for the erection
Of . cotton mill at that place."
dI D. b. Bosworth Of Berlin, committe,
a suicide on Monday, by hanging himsel
'. In his barn. He had made two unsuc
!" cessful attempta before, one some four
n teen months ago, which caused him {,
be taken to the insane ASYLUM. from
n whence he wa lately discharged.
I'll Berkshire boasts Of . female tow
cieak. An attempt was made I
defeat her reelection at the late Marc
meeting, on the ground that she coul,
d not constitutionally hold the Office, bu
,r after a somewhat exciting ballot she wa
% triumphantlv reelected by q majorit,
OF eleven.
al A coroners inquest on the body
y John r. Scribner Of johnson, who W a
8, found hanging In the woods near 81
d Adams Wednesday night, was helt
r Thursday morning. No new develor
=; ments were made, but 10 Is believed In
suicide was caused by dependency, t
l. which the deceased was subject.
W. A. Harrington, of Boston, Mass
with q gang Of ten mon, has commence
a shaft ten feet square at the Davis eli
yer ledge, In Fairlec. The mine. ha
been proved valuable for silver, an
will be worked principally for that, We
there is lead and gold, the latter i
d small quantities, but sufficient TO max
It quito a showing.
d Miss Mary Daily. an employe In tn
house of DR.. +. w. Goodall, of Der
nington, set her clothes on fire, Will
:, at work about a furnace in the base
ment, and ran up stairs, when she wa
IS met by the doctor, who succeeded i
" putting out the flames, but was badl
= burned on one hand and arm. TIL
girl was not burned, cxcep. upon th
70 ends of her fingers, and her hair some
what singed.
g. The mother Of the murdered cir
If Alice Mceker, with George Germain,
T. of Burlington, whom she married
~; six weeks ago, went to Waterbur,
=. on Monday TO take caro- of the eight-year
l.. old boy Henry, brother of Alice. TIL
d Meekers seemed reluctant to give thu
10 boy up, and the poormaster of Char
% lotte, who let he two children to Horac
Meeker last year, has written a letter OF
p' dering the boy not TO be given TO th
q mother. Mrs Germaine has engage
/ counsel, and will bring tho matter in
ia TO court if the boy is not restored [
:, her.
D-s .ty
Iutl From Andover correspondence O
:, the Follows Falls Times: Sixty Oul
years. ago James Blood kept a stor
e. and tavern at the middle Of the tow
70 A man came in one day and wanted +
exchange an egg for a darning-needle
!. After the exchange wal made, tn
- man asked Mr.. b. il he didn't max,
to II a practice 10 treat his customers"
40, yes" says Blood, "what will yol
!, have2' "Wine with an egg In It," wa,
u the reply. The wine was produced
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