The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-11-17
STATE ITEMS.

vi Dalu uOuuthih, III DennlngtOnJ
was caught on Tuesday morning Of last
week.
A two-ytar-old aon Of Israel Trudeau
of Coventry drank muiiate OF tin recen-
fly, but prompt medical aid saved his
life.
A quantity I'll German carp have been
brought from Boston and placed in a
fish pond On the llOughtun farm in Put
ney.
A child of Mr.. Beaurcgard at Lynd.
onville was recently kicked by horse
and his skull was fractured and recoy.
cry is doubtful.
A young man entrusted vi it'll forty
dollars for the purpose of a gift to a
young married couple in Fairfield ran
away to Canada with the money.
Willie Trowbridge, of Newport Cent
err, recently had one leg badly cut by
running against circular saw in the
dark, at the mill of Mr.. Wiley.
The Burlington roller-skating rink
will be re.opened this winter in the,
city hall by Mrs. Lalime, widow of The
former proprietor, who was drowned
in Lake Champlain.
A book has been issued in Vermont
entitled "The Resurrection of Chris
from Lawyers Standpoint" We
don't see how he can make anything in
tho way ola fee out of that occurrence.
The ice on the mill pond at Post
Mills was so thick last week that two
Oh the local fishermen ventured ont up.
on 1t with long boards and speared
thirty-three pounds of pickerel.
Mr.. s. L. King of North Pomfret
while conveying load of apples 10
South ROValtOn. was thrown under his
load and received injnries from which
1t is feared he may not recover.
The barn of James Nelson in RIVE.
gate was recently burned. The fire
was caused by the use of a lantern with.
out globe. Six cows, a horse. the
hay and farming tools were lost.
Ii. o. Wright of BartonsvilDe regis
tered at the Cheshire House in Keene
last Friday night. He blew out the gas
and was found dead in the room the
next day. lie was about forty.fire.
Charles D. Mahan, a former re,ident
of Danville but lately dealer in agri.
cultural implements in Boston, has dis
appeared, leaving banks, brokers and
farmers in the lurch to the tune of
S10o, 900.
II. S. Brewster of Newport was run
away with while driving through the
streets of Coventry, last Sunday, and
thrown against a stone wall with such
force as to render him senseless. One
arm was also broken.
Two Bennington boys, Sipperly and
Corbett BY name: got into a savage
other with their knives. Corbett was
stabbed in the leg and seriously wound.
ed. The boys were only about fifteen
years old.
Samuel Trefran lives over at Lyndon.
Quite recently his house dog gave birth
to eight pups, litter of nine pigs came
at the hog house, and the next Sunday
night Mrs. Trefran gave birth TO twins
boys. All alive and apparently doing
we'll.
As Mrs. Wesley Atwood, of Proctors-
vile, was last week Monday putting
down wash boiler partly filled with
hot water, she slipped, and the hot
water was thrown in her face, scalding
her badly. 1t is feared she will lose
her sight.
There is said to be tribe of wild
dogs in Springfield, which get their liv.
ing in the same way as foxes and wolves,
and create great havoc among the sheep
and poultry in that vicinity. A litter
of ocvon woe reoontly found in tho
woods and killed.
Mrs. Drew, wife of the clerk of the
Avenue House at st. Johnsbury, at
tempted to commit suicide last week by
taking cedar oil. Her condition was
soon discovered and physicians were
summoned who administered emetics.
She is likely to recover.
NARROW Bingham ard Harlow Smith,
of Gassetts, were recently thrown from
their wagon on the road to Cavendish,
and Bingham seriously injured. His
recovery is doubtful. The wagon was
badly broken. and the horse run about
a quarter of mile before it was stop
ped.
Clarence Mann, clerk in Charles
Thurston's grocery store at West Ran
dolph, was driving nail last Wednes.
day, when it flew and a portion of it
struck him in the eye, making deep
cash just above the pupil, letting most
of the eye-water out. The surgeons
fear that he will lose the sight.
Two st. Johnsbury youths, It is sup
posed, to initiate the daring deed of
..soRea Ah" paf "a unknown. In their adj
venture they were aided by one Joe
Sheldon, who procured team aud car
ried them to Wells River, where, he
states, they purchased tickets. 1t is
clear caseof "yellow-covered literature.
In Chester, recently, a twelve-year-
old boy and six-year-old girl got hold
of loaded pistol which had been care
lessly left exposed, and in some way it
was fired of, the ball going through
the boys left hand, and then passing
through the little girls body above the
heart and through the shoulder blade,
lodging in the flesh of the back. Al
though dangerous wound il is
thought she will recover.
ure."
DIR. l.. d. Kendall and wife OF st.
Johnsbury, accompanied by DIR.
Kneide OF Schuy N. Y, left
Lake George August 10 on a canoe voy-
age, reaching Cincinnati last Friday.
They propose to continue their voyage
to the gulf, and thence along the coast
to New York and up the Hudson TO !
their starting point, which they hope |
10 reach next August.
The Burlington and Northeastern
railroad company was organized at
Burlington last Thursday, with G. NJ.
Spaulding as president, George l..
Linsley, clerk and treasurer, and L.
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