The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-11-10
STATE ITEMS.

The only occupants of the Woodstock
Jail are three women.
Five Freshmen of the University of
Vermont are under suspension for ten
days for hazing Sophomore.
A man 20 years of age attempted to
crawl under moving freight train at
Waterbury and was run oyer and
killed.
Bishop Peck will preside at the next
annual session of tho Vermont confer
encc of the Methodist Episcopal church,
TO be held at st. Adams, April Is,
1888.
Daniel Kilburn and wife celebrated
their golden wedding at their home in
Wardsboro Monday, some scventy-five
relatives and friends being present.
Monday afternoon Frank Proctor,
aged IS, of IluDgington, fell from the
evening train when near Barre, while
intoxicated, and was run over and kill
cd.
Emmons Raymond, president of the
Passumpsic railroad, is Just completing
at Newport a stylish cottage and one of
the largest greenhouses in that part of
the state.
Sportsmen on the west side of the
mountain occasionally shoot black
squirrels. They are rare on the YER
mont side of the lake, though said to
be plenty in northern New York.
Peter Lander, for many years well
known to Burlington people as public
carter, fell from his wagon on Saturday
evening and sustained such severe in
jurics that he died Sunday night.
On the Goth ult., Il. S. Brooks of
Mortified captured his third bear FIR
the season. This one was evidently
about five or six years old, was in very
good condition and weighed 225
pounds.
Chester folks have death-bed mar
riage to talk about. a man fifty years
old was married recently while on his
desth-bed to a girl of 10 years, who had
done his house-work since his wife's
death year ago.
John Sullivan of Mortified, while in
a state of intoXication, so disturbed the
services at the Catholic church, Mont
peicr, last Sunday, that he was turned
out. lie came back again, however,
and Father Duglue procured his ar
rest.
The docket of the December term of
the Windsor county court contains 1888
cases only, including state and divorc
cases. On the chancery docket there
are 20 cases. In olden times the docket
regularly numbered 800 or 400 cases.
Horny Holmes of Worcester and Cal
vim Hathaway of Waterbury were last
week arrested at Wolcott and on Sun
day noon lodged in Jail in Chelsea,
suspected of stealing horse and wagon
from William Robbins barn the night
of October G.
Last Friday afternoon James BOWS
of Newfane, while chopping in the
woods, was struck by the stem of q
young tree, which had been bent by
the falling of larger one. and received
injuries in the abdomen from which he
died in few hours.
Accidents caused by the catching of
the lock OF a gun and producing dis
charge in hauling it out of wagon,
passing through doorway, etc., are of
very frequent occurrence, the latest
being in Bennington, where Mr.. Hiram
e. DEMO was almost instantly killed.
Miss Mary Hutchinson of Coventry,
in the employ of j. II. Thrasher, was
accused few days ago of stealing S.
from girl Of no character in the same
village. a trial was had last Monday
na1Ihs' IN J|ca"ds'clSe'Y .ytcs. pcuuited, it
mail.
Arthur Mcdowell of Whcelock has
received severe injuries, from which il
is feared he will not recover. lie was
out driving colt and stopped to shut
a gate. After driving through, the colt
started and he caught the reins and in
so doing was thrown forward, his head
stone.
While two little children, John
Spaulding and Edna Wilson of Chester,
were playing with revolver, last Sat
urday morning, it was accidently dis
and the little girl received the
bullet in her lungs, inflicting a mortal
wound. The bullet also passed through
the boys left hand.
A man in Braintree inserts the fol-
lowing notice in the Herald end News:
Disappeared from the spring of John p.
Smith, about six rods of lead pipe taken
in the night time. Whoever took it
was in so big hurry that they left the
strainer in the spring. The strainer
ever took the pipe can have il by call
ing for it.
The st. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railroad is sadly embarrassed,
lust at present with large number oil
suits in equity, brought against it by
real estate owners along the line of the |
road, who claim that the land damages
nave never been assessed and paid. |
There will probably be considerable
litigation over the matter.
Col. j. j. Estey and wife, of Brattle-
'oro, recently celebrated the fifteenth
anniversary of their marriage. Some
orty or fifty friends assembled in hon
" of the occasion, and song written
specially for the occasion was sung,
refreshments were served, and the |
evening passed in manner memor able
lot only as an anniversary, but as an
occasion of delight and profit to all pre-.
cnt.
John O'Neil and wife, while return
ng to their home in West Rutland Irou
fairhaven, on Wednesday night were
truck by "wild cat'' train on the
rossing mile west of Castleton depot.
The horse was killed and the buggy
mashed. Mr.. O'Neil and his wife
we're seriously injured. They were
AIKEN TO the Bomoseen house in Castle
on, and afterwards removed to their
ome in West Rutland.
a singular fatality seems to have
ompassed the lives of part of Richard
'ailey's ten children, who were born
nd houa oronaraIlt, n ,ra1 "a |