The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-12-29
STATE ITEMS.

ton university law school.
II is understood the Brandon Nation.
al bank will declare four per cen,
dividend in January, the first dividend
since the Batchelder tr iuble in 1878.
Mr.. John g. SAKE, the poet, still re.
sides in Albany, at The home of his
son, and is al invalid. The disease
from which he suffers is neuralgia.
affecting the great nerve centers and
accompanied by chronic dyspepsia.
He has suffered no impairment of
mental strength.
Guiliord, Green River and Halifax
are to have direct telephone COMMUNE
eaton with the Brattleboro exchange
this week. The exchange now num-
bers lao subscribers, who talk with 16
towns in the county and with many
towns in New Hampshire and in
Wind,or county.
A sad affiiction happened to Hard.
wick mother recently. She went with
her husband 10 visit a neighbor, taking
her b,be in her arms. Upon arriving
at tho house, the child was found dead.
The mother remembered that it had
crieda little and nestled in her arms, a
shorl time before; butshe had hushed
it, and it never moved afterwards.
The Methodist Seminary at Montpe-
Tier has been entirely refurnished with
sprlng beds, an exchange tells us.
Glad of it. A student at that institu.
tion once told us that he was obliged to
get up from two to five times every
night and sit in a chair TO rest him.
1St. Johnsbury Index.
Monkton has a sensation in the sud-
den and mysterious disappearance of
young graduate of the Burlington med
;cal school, who was rapidly acquiring
an excellent practice at Monkton Ridge.
The other night the young doctor drop
ped his valise from the bedroom win
low of his clearinghouse and stole
iway TO unknown regions. No cause
Is known for his sudden departure
though people say there's a woman in
the case.
Mrs. Nesbit of Waterbury, aged 20
years, cut her throat recently with a
razor. No cause can be assigned. as
she was in usual health and no mental
makes four suicides in this vicinity
|
ders, attempts to murder suicides and
deeds of violence in the neighborhood
of Waterbury than in any other place
of its size in New England. Why is Il?
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
at Silas Mason's sawmill in Hartwell-
vile (Readsboro) Tuesday morning,
by which two men lost their lives, and
others are injured seriously. About 9
J o'clock the men working near the mill
!, heard terrific explosion, and in few
seconds the top of the engine room blew
off and pieces; of flesh, iron and wood
were thrown into the air. Two men,
Engineer Fred Williams, 80 years old
ond married about six weeks ago, and
Marshall S. Mason, aged 80, with wife
and one child were killed at once. The
tmill was used as a chair factory, and
the boiler, it has been said. has been
repeatedly condemned, but the concern
continued to use it.
George Montgomery of Pownal, who
onco had tame crow, is suing couple
of boys, Frank Williams and Geo
Smell, for violating the Sunday gaming
law, laying damages incidentally fol-
the loss eff his crow. Where is the
caws for this?-[St. Johnsbury Index
There is no caws at all, for the crow
is dead; but if the plaintiff does moi
prevail in his suit there is great caws tc
fear that the boys will make George
seat crow" which-unless he is
aGljtiHdfqo wGi!t edbfagests IS stomach. The
boys will then"crow" also.
| Gov Barstow has appe inted as the
state dental commission James Lewis
of Burlington, o. p. Forbush of Mont
pelier, l.. T. Lawton of Rutland, G.. ii.
Swift of Manchester and r. NJ. Chase
of Bethel. The law constituting the
board was passed by the recent Legis.
laturc, and all persons intending to
practice dentistry in Vermont must be
examined by it. The governor has
also appointed Rev. DR.. NJ. ii. Buck.
\ ham of Burlington, Principal Charles
L. Putney of st. Johnsbury, and Prin.
cipal Charles ID. Mead of Middlebury,
state normal school examiners.
A serious fire broke ont at Ludlow.
Monday night, in meat market in the
basement of Barrett's block, totally
destroying that block and a small
tailor's shop near by. The firms burn.
ed out are j. Barrett, groceries; c. s.
Wheldon, hardware; NJ. j. Stowe.
jeweller, and II. Woodward, meat
market. The second and third stories
were occupied by offices and tenemepts.
The block owned by B. F. Wheldon and
block owned by S. j. Haven were
also burned. Loss heavy. Rutland
and Bellows Falls were asked for assis.
lance. and five companies and an en-
CINE were loaded on train at each
place and special train arranged for.
when it was reported that the fire was
under control andthey were not needed
Following are the losses: NJ. Goddard,
owner of one-half of the Barrett block,
loss $4,000, insurance $4,000; b. f.
Wheldon owner of one-haff of Barrett's
block, $4,000, insurance S2500; he al.
so loses $500 in his stock of tailoring
goods, insured for $1,000; G. S. Wheld-
on loses $4,000 on his stock Of stoves,
hardware etc., insured for $4,000; ii.
Barrett's less on his stock of groceries
and crockery is $500, inaured for
S2500; M. j. Stowe loses $500 on his
stock of jewelry and fancy goods, in
sured for $500; w. W. Sitkney loses
$1,000 on his stock of books and station
airy insured for $3.50. The losses of
nine other tenants make an aggregate
of s 5000 on which there is an insurance
of S1100.
The village of Waterville. Lamollle
county, is greatly agitated over the
condition of dead body recently ex-
humed there. Several men were en-
gagged in moving the bodies of an aged
couple, who have been dead some 23
years. The body of the husband was
found in the usual condition, nothing
being left of it but the crumbling
bones. When they tried to raise the
coffin of the wife, however its great