The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-03
srArE ITEMS.

Estey &c Co. Of BrattIeboro made
$1,000 organs last year.
Thd Rassumpsic railroad paws n
dividend Of 8 per cent. February /.
81. Johnsbury has a newly-oreanized
branch Of the Irish Land League.
Baxter Bancroft of Plainield has
died from an over dose of opium
taken when he was i'll with dys-
entery.
There was crossing on the ice from
Grand Isle to Plattsburgh, Thursday,
but Fridays gale considerably letter.
fered with 1t.
The new catalogue of Dartmouth
college shows that there are SO Ver-
mont boys In the college, besides eight
In the medical dep artment.
A Mr.. Marshall, of Berkshire, was
recently seriously kicked by a horse
which be was leading 10 water, having
his jaw and teeth broken.
There are 20 cases of smallpox n,
Holland, aud also five cases at Barns.
ton. p. Q. The disease also prevails
at Derby, and there have been two
deaths.
Charles Stearns of West Windsor
has q young girl whose Joints are &c
easily dislocated that they become
distointed by the common nse of the
nmbs, q rumor says many times in
a day.
The Randolph and Castleton normal
schools open again February z, and
the johnson school February IA. w,
y. Crippen, vice-principal of the latter,
has resigned, to engage in business
with his brother in Philadelphia.
Burlington is agitated over a scan.
dial at the University, involving three
students and three young ladies, who
are said to have INDUCED in q tipsy
night revel in the room of one of the
students. The story Is probably exag.
Grated out of facts that involve NO
wrong doing by the parties.
John Underwood, an employee In
the mills of Stearns, Underwood &
Co., Fayetteville. went down under
meath the mill to attend to some ma
chinery, wien the revolving shaft
caught him and tere off all his cloth.
Ing from his waist down. His son
Fred was with him and caught his
father, holding him In tight embrace
ull the engine could be stopped, and
fortunately he escaped without a
scratch.
The receipts from business and the
expenses of the PROBATE court and
county clerks Office for 1881 in four
OF the principal counties in the State
will be found below: Windsor
county-receipts. s2,142.6S expenses,
$1,818.13 surplus in the treasury,
1924 .65. Chittenden county-receipts
", 1912. so; expenses, S961.24; surplus
In treasury, $1,351.26 Washington
county-receipts, 90, 4 3.97; expenses,
$~7,694.22; surplus in the treasury,
$1,049.75. Addison county-receipts,
. 2,O64.73; expenses, $2,064.73.
The Vermont College of Teachers
will meet In annual Sc ,sion at Mont.
pelier February B.. The association
was Incorporated BY tho Legislature
In 1881, with H. S. Fuller of st.
Johnsbury as president, Chas. Dale
of Mortified as vice-president, b. F.
Weld of Bradford as secretary and
A. w. Edison of Randolph as trea.
surer. The purpose Of tho ASSOCIATE on
is to raise the standard of eficien cy
In every grade of schools in the state,
OF encourage a more through prepar-
alton for the work of teaching and
to make o NOR permanent profess ion.
There has been q radical change in
the officers of the Vermont Dairyma's
Association. At the recent meeting at
Rutland, Col. j. B. Mead, Randolph,
was elected president; f. d, Douglas,
of Whiting, Aaron Loveland, of Nor
witch and L. Ii. Talcott, of Williston,
vice presidents; O.. NJ. Tinkham, OF
North Pomfret, Secretary. The new
board of officers is composed of repre-
sentative men OF the state who will
state, and q real benefit to the rapidly
growing dairy interests of Vermont.
The president will have something
practical to say and will not need to
steal his addresses. We hope the far
mers will take An active interest in the
Association .-[Randolph Herald and
News.
A dreadful accident occurred at Wal
lace II. Brink & Co.'s foundry in Bur-
lington last Thursday afternoon. Eight
workmen were making a five ton cast
ing, when the ladle was accidentally
overturned and the whole mass of mol
ten metal poured out, setting the build
ing on fire instantaneously. Patrick
Donnelly, 80 years old, was dreadfully
burned, the greater part of the skin
dropping of, and fingered in terrible
agony until his death Friday night.
He leaves q wife and ten children, in
Guiding two deaf mutes. His funeral
took place from St. Mary's Cathedral
last Sunday morning. He lost $40
that was in the pocket of his clothes.
BENJAMIN Wright, aged rs, married,
and Thomas Crowley aged 21, single,
were seriously. and perhaps fatally
burned. James Hayden, aged As, was
dangero usiy burned, The other four
men fortunately escaped without in
jury. The interior of the foundry was
Quilted, and the damage will reach scv-
eral thousand dollars