The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-05
STATE ITEMS.

n Dfunubn luuy Tulstu ~ bushels Oh
strawberries this season, worth 1926
per bushel.
Two murder cases are to be tried
at the coming term of the Chittenden
county court.
-Four million pounds of maple sugar
is DIR. Hoskin's estimate of the yield
this year in Orleans county.
For stealing check rein and part of
harness, Arthur Blythe paid at st.
Adams $40. and costs, amounting to
$17.3S,
George Brickford, of Barton, was
recently fined S1S and costs, for steal
ing n tub of sugar from the store of ..
ID. Owen.
The Seventh-Day Adveniists of YER
mont will hold their next annual state
camp meeting at Morrisville, August
1928, 1881.
Lightning struck the lightning rod on
Mr.. Joseph Fishers house in Montpe-
lier, twisted the points and broke of
about Is feet of it.
A boy named Bartell, at work for
Sylvester Smith, of West Rutland, re-
Gently fell from load of lumber, sus-
tanning painful injuries.
A grub that eats the meadow grass
just below the surface, so the turf will
roll up like carpet, is injuring acres
in the vicinity of Pownal.
Rev. Warren III. Roberts, of Erie,
Pa, has been permanently engaged for
Emmanuel church at Bellows Falls, and
is expected to commence his duties as
rector in September.
A. Il. Farmer, of East Burke, had
three Jersey calves killed by lightning
last Wednesday night, and a few days
before one of his colts was hung by get
ting its neck in the low fork of tree.
A young son of w. III. Dunton, of
Rutland, had one leg badly torn last
Tuesday, by climbing on truck
wagon, and falling so that the leg was
caught between the spokes of a wheel.
The constable of Burlington on Fri
day night seized four barrels, three
half-barrels, two quarter-barrels and
four eighth-barrels of beer and ale
found in the ice-house of f. X. Con-
verse.
There are two maple trees on George
| W.Prentiss' farm at Plainfield which
for 80 feet grow separate, but at that
point unite and form one perfect tree.
A photograph was recently taken for
the New York Graphic.
At Hardwick, the other day, Mrs. j.
V. Edwards. intending TO take epson
salts, by mistake of the druggist took
GO grains of tartar emetic, the dose be-
ing so large it caused vomiting. She
still lies in critical condition.
Miss Maggie Moran of Leeds, p. O.,
young lady who came TO the hotel at
McIndoes few nights since, through
mistake took q dose of corrosive SUBJ
Innate. A physician was summoned
at once and gave an antidoie for the
poison, but her recovery is considered
doubtful.
The Richford Gazette says that there
are in one family three living pension.
ers of the war of 1Sl2-Hiram Clark OF
Richford, aged Sc; Amos Clark of St
Adams, aged SS, fought at Pittsburgh
and their sister, Mrs. OrriD Green OF
st. Albans, aged n, is a widow of q
soldier of that war.
The Free Press learns that Colonel
LeGrand b. Cannon has sold his entire
herd of short-horns and they will be
taken west next month. This was the
largest and best herd of thoroughbred
cattle in this country, and the sale was
the largest transaction of the kind ever
had in the United States.
There is q family in Ycrgennes COM
posed of three persons, whose united
ages amount to two hundred and forty
nine years. The youngest of the two
women, aged 20, looks after domestic
affairs, daily, without any assistance,
The head of the household is ninety,
his Young mother-in-law Sc, and his
wife 20.
On Monday barn 40x50, on farm
l 1-2 miles east of Iiigbgatc Center,
belonging TO M. w. Redding, New
York, was struck by lightning and in q
moment was in flames. With about II
tons of hay il was burned to the ground
but, assisted by the rain, the neighbore
saved the other buildings. Loss, about
5000.
Lansing Mills having offered to pay
one half of the $4,000 debt on the First
Baptist church at st. Adams, provided
the remaining half shall be deposited in
bank by October l, the members on
Tuesday evening held a meeting and
subscribed S1,904 towards the needed
sum, and there is strong feeling that
the whole amount will be obtained.
1t is announced, though not officially,
that the committee to recommend q
nominee for the Third district cadet
ship at West Point, have agreed upon
names as follows: LIST, i. w. Colby,
Derby Center; I'd, G. M. Dewey, Bur-
lington; Sd, II, Hayes, st. Adams.
But Colby does not live in the state,
and Dewey will receive the appoint
ment.
Mrs. Charity Vim, widow of Nathan
VIM, committed suicide by hanging
on Friday night at Wallingford. She
had been sick for some weeks. She was
found Saturday morning, lying partially
on her bed, her head of, and strangled
by rope fastened TO clothing hook
in the wall. She was dressed, and the
act was apparently committed before
retiring at night. The deceased was Z
years of age.
Senator Edmunds feels himself
obliged to decline an invitation which
was extended him to deliver the address
at the next Wingham county fair. In
letter announcing his declination Mr..
Edmnnds says: al began this spring
with resolution to practice total alb
efinanan from ,Nnhlio cnoaEino nj