The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26
STATE ITEMS.


emily.
Tie S~evenih-day Adventists are
holding u state camp-meetiDg at Nor
risville this week.
The receiver of the National Bank of
Poultney is o paying the last de-
mands to claimants.
Diphthcria has again appeared in
Montpelier, and one death from the
disease has occurred.
s. l.. Hazards men at the slate quar-
ny and mill in West Castleton are on q
strike for more pay.
The Methodist camp-meeting for the
st. Johnsbury district opened at Lyn-
don vile Monday and continues till Sat-
urday morning.
Congressman Grout has appointed
G.. M. Dewey of Burlington as cadet to
West Point from that district, with II.
l.. Hayes as alternate.
Brattleboro has q town meeting Az
gust 81 TO sec about sharing the ex-
pense of a free bridge between that
town and Hinsdale, N. II.
Sergeant Charles II. Fuller of the
"Capitol Guard" Montpelier, has been
promoted to the office of quartermaster
for the First regiment, N. G. v.
A crazy woman is wandering about
Bridgewater, clothed in a most filthy
and scanty manner. 1t is not known
who she is or where she belongs.
w. W. Cabin, a respectable farmer of
North Troy, attempted suicide Friday
with paris green and lies in q critical
condition. Cause, temporary insanity.
while living in hearing distance of the
cars, has never seen them, and q woman
In Ludlow has not been out of the viii
lage limits for 10 years.
Specimens of ore from the 'tsilver
mine" OH Morctown mountain have
been examined by the state gcologist,
DR.. ii. A. Cutting of Lunenburg, who
pronounces it specular iron.
The Lacy Brothers and W. III. Brit
ton of Windsor have sold their scytbe
sn ath works TO Thompson 81 Derby of
Bellows Falls and the Vermont snath
company of Springfield, and the ma
chinery will be moved at once.
The Brattleboro and Wilmington tel
ephone line was completed on Thurs
day, and large assemblage at the lat
ter place celebrated the event by firing
a cannon, which could be distinctly
heard through the telephone at Brattle-
boro, 20 miles away.
While endeavorins to dislodgc a
half-fallen tree in the woods near
Woodford, the other day, Charles Bur-
ris received injuries which it is thought
will prove fatal. When he cut the prop
which held the lodged tree it came
down OH him, mangling him terribly.
Albert ID. Cummings, a farmer resid-
ing in Berlin, was thrown from his
wagon Tuesday while riding home from
Montpelier. The horse slipped and
fell upon his head crushing his skull so
that recovery is doubtful. lie is A
years of age and has n wife and one
child.
Butter shipments over Rutland rail
road, the 10th, between Burlington and
Rutland, 1,S2S packages; Vergenncs,
800; New Haven, 221; Middlebury,
3O6; Brandon, 1874; Pittsford, 50;
Switzerland Falls, 8; Shoreham, 115;
Orwell, 1916; Whiting, q, "Ti." (Ncw
York;, So.
AS A. ID. Davenport, a Massachusetts,
horse-buycr, was returning from Wa
terbury to Montpelier leading four
horses, the horses became unmanagea-
BILE at the sight of a train and ran into a
barbcd wire fence, and some of them
were so badly scratched as to necessi-
tate sewing up of the wounds.
Two suits have been instituted against
f. Brush, a IIardwick druggist. by l..
V. Edwards for damages on account OF
poison administered to his wife through
mistake at the drug store. 1t is re-
ported that Brush, anticipating trouble
from the affair, had previously made an
assignment in soTe form of his visible
property.
George III. L'Heurcux, of Burling-
ton, accidentally shot himself t Con.
cord, N. H., Monday morning. lie
was engaged in cleaning his pistol, the
hammer failed to catch and the pistol
exploded, the'ball passing through the
arm. entering at the lower side. passing
ont The upper side, inst below the eli.
bow.
} 1t is stated that Lovett Divoll, who
committed suicide in Jamaica recently
on the day of his death had drank ovcI
! five quarts of cider. Last fall he put
over thirty barrels of cider IN his Gel.
! lar. II appears that on some former