The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-25
STATE ITEMS.

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chard.
The work Of roofing the new Univer
sity building of Burlington, was begul
Wednesday.
Everett, aged -, son of Rev. C.. f
Morse of McIndoc's Falls, was drowned
while swimming, Tuesday, the 22nd
The Burlington and Lamoille railroad
is getting large share of the Saratoga
and White Mountain passenger traffic.
The Mcthodists in st. Albans dis.
trict will hold clinp-meeting in Shell.
don for one week, commencing August
%.
Herbert Durham of Essex was So
verely injured, few days since, while
attempting to step onto the platform OF
a moving train.
Charles Crane, hardware merchant,
was arraigned at Hyde Park Oh Monday
for violation of the liquor law, and was
fined s o and costs.
Peter Nassor of Essex Junction was
badly cut in several places while carry.
ing scythe in wagon. The snath
caught in wheel.
Il. Payson Hathaway, the Waterman
injured at Major Valentines knitting
mill, Bennington, the other night, by
fallinn f"0~' " doo~ 10 "n~.--o ";,,a-
Geo. A. DeGoosha of Bradford was
thrown from load of oats and caught
on the point of stake, severely tearing
the elbow joint and making an ugly
wound.
Miss Addie L. Edwards, daughter of
a. V. Edwards of Winooski, q graduate
of The class of 'S2 at the University, has
been engaged as principal at the Shell
burn High school for the coming year.
Jumbo took his third American bath
in the river at st. Johnsbury, while the
grand aggregation was stopping at the
)urg. His first was at Brattleboro and
his second at Rutland.
The insane man, Joseph La Fountain,
who disappeared from Springfield July
I'd, has not yet been found, notwith-
the diligent search that has
been made. lie went OIL armed with a
shot gun.
Eli Hibbard of St. Adams met with a
serious accident on Saturday. While
engaged in repairing his fence, fifty
pound iron weight fell from the top of
post and struck his legs, breaking one
and putting the other out of Joint.
a. j. Howard, clerk of the Chilten-
len county court, has resigned. lie has
held the office fifteen years. Mr.. How.
ard's controlling reason for retiring is
impaired health and inability to longer
endure the confinement which the office
One man in Castleton is a subscriber
md reader of fourteen Vermont news
papers. Five are published in Rutland
county, two i'll Addison county, two in
Washington county, two in Windbam
county, and one each in Windsor, Ben
1ington and Chiitenden counties.
Philip McCafircy, aged about sixty
ana the father of n grown-up family of
our children, died very suddenly, Sat
lrday night. lie was il his usual health
md had just returned home from max
ng some sundry purchases; when he
the door of his house he drop
ped dead Burlington Free Press.
Constable Stone of Winooski recently
arrested couple of Burlington boys on
writ for taking and driving a horse
II the plaintiff without leave, and let
he boys have what time they wanted
% get bail. After trying several days
% obtain it there and not succeeding,
hey went to Massachusetts to procure
i, and have not returned.
Preparations upon large scale are
being made for the fifth grand musical
festival at Bellows Falls, from Scptom-
Der llth TO the 10Th. Among the talent
already engaged are the following well
known artists: Carl Zcrrahn, conduc-
ior; Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard, pian-
Isl; Miss Annie Louise Gage, soprano:
II. G. Snow, tenor; IL. ID. Council,
Dasso.
Some thirty-three years ago, when
not n, and after iDisspent bovhood,
Ephram Hatch told his father if he
would give him money enough TO get
10 Lowell, Mass, he would never
trouble his father till he was worth
more than he was. He has just return
I'd from his home with a wife, said TO
De of Indian extraction, and two
children, their eide st, who would now
&c nineteen, if alive, having died some
ears ago. Mr.. Hatch owns 1900 acre s
IF land, and many large warehouses,
'aises many thousand bushels of wheat
md reckons his income at $40 day. +
Chelsea Cor.
The course of the Rutland rumseller,
ike true love, doesn't run at all smooth
V. The other day, one Michael Cain
an Italian, probably was caught sell
ng rum and being taken into court was
asked TO plead guilty to five offences Of
selling. This he declined to do and
a trial by jury, which he was
given. The iury's verdict was that the
respondent was guilty of one hundred
offences Of selling rs of the first convic-
ion. The court thereupon sentenced
lim to pay fines to amount of $1,000
md costs. Cain wanted to appeal, but
Gould not find bonds in the required
'um-Sl200-and was accordingly in
serted in Jail.
Joseph Colombc,a former resident of
Mooers, n. Y. left there about two
years ago and went to Michigan, where,
80 Dame Iiumor says, he became enam-
bred of fair damsel and married; but
soon becoming tired of her he returned
East, locating at yergennes. Here he
ook unto himself a second wife, and
his migrations brought up
1t Malone, N. y, procuring situation
n paper mill in That place. All went
pleasantly until one day recently, when
he sheriff ahd the second wife's hus.
'and appeared upon the scene, when
joe was returned TO Vergenncs 10
ace the music. = Exchange,