The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-18
STATE ITEMS.
81. Johnsbnry wants 10 br a city.


water.
Rev. A. j. Copeland OF Essex was
badly poisoned with ivy while moving
bushes the other day.
Burlington has thirty-iour lawyers,
of whom only twcnty.scvcn, however,
are in active practice.
A lawyer of Lynn, Mass. Albert W.
Edgcrly, was bitten by rattlcsnakc
the other day at Newport.
Miss Parloa, of culinary fame, will
open school of cookery in Windsor,
for the ladies' of that vicinity, August
22nd.
Application is 10 be made TO the next
Legislature TO assess lax on Franklin
county for completing the court house
and putting up a new county Jail.
Some of the Orleans county Rcpubli-
cans who are dissatisfied with portion
of their county ticket are circulating
petitions for another convention.
The sum of $1,000 has been added to
the endowment fund of Vermont Con-
lei ence Seminary at Montpelier by
Rev. A. G. Button of Evanston, III.
comphhy nave alP been sF6bbed TWO
miles below the break. There arc only
2j 900 instead of 200, 900 as reported.
Miss Annie Stone, daughter of Elijah
| Stone of Glover, Is years of age, OBJ.
| tanned q certificate and taught n sue.
essful term of school IN Sheffield this
season.
The hay crop of Vermont is said to
be 20 per cent larger than last years,
and the recent showers have made
farmers confident of good yields in
other crops.
Charles Harris of West Brattlcboro
lost his dwelling house and most of its
contents Tuesday night by fire starting
from defective chimney; insured i'll
the Vermont Mutual for $500.
Ina collar-and-elbow wrestling match
at Lowell, Mass, Thursday night, be-
tween G.. IL. Burt of that city and w
L. Downing of st. Adams, for 5000,
Burt won the first and third falls and
the match.
The managers of the steamer Rein
door rnrnniir. seized on Lake Cham
plain for carrying more passengers than
her license allowed, have, il is under
stood, settled with the government 10y
the payment of $3.50.
The apple crop of Grand Isle count,
and the Champlain valley generally vii
be poor, Notwithstanding profuse bios
soming. The failure is laid to col,
| aud xunoihar nc plv in th
season, and it is the "ofi year," too.
Joseph LaFountain, q half craze,
fellow, is roaming around in Windso
county, with two large butcher knive
and q shot gun, intending, as he All
nounced when he started, to kill some
body. Several men are on his track.
Edmund Bond of Drewsvillc, N. ii
a married man about "a years of age
stabbed himself seven times in tn
stomach, Monday, at Bellows Falls.
is thought he will live. His father
: wealthy merchant, and the son &c
Gently had quite q sum of money fall I
J him.
M,&r%@ Jg14anlais Sf t.; !ller7rl@f III
flash came. The scythe was throw
out of Mr.. Tice's hand and his fathc
was knocked down; child in the hous
and old Mrs. Tice were also PROSTATE
by the fluid.
A young man tried to board an eN
cursion while in motion at Proctori
Vile, last week, and was thrown bC
tween the cars and the platform. Thos
who saw the accident thought that h
was certainly killed. but when the cal
passed he was found to be all right, til
slightness of his figure, probably, savin
his life.
ID. X. Simonds of Manchester rival
General Grandcy of Ncrgennes as n
Office holder. He is postmaster, tow
clerk, secretary OF the Benningto
county agricultural society, register c
probate for the county, publisher of th
Manchester Journal, job printer, secro
tary of the Republican committee 70
the county, chorister and editor Rut
land Herald.
An alleged swindler has been doin
a thriving business among our Catholi
population by soliciting orders and re
ceiving the money for a religious sui
scripiion book which nc fails to deliver
lie was prosecuted in city court, bu
the case against him not being full
; made out-was discharged on his ow
recognizance, - Burlington Free Press
Winslow Dow of West Danville cam
pretty near being rolled flat last week
lie was loading logs on a wagon, whe
one of them, sixteen feet long and tie
feet through, fell of, knocking hin
down aud rolling over him from hea
to foot. lie was seriously hurt abou
the head and chest, and the ligament
of one leg were broken. His physical
hopes that he will recover.
Sias Cheney of West Burke was q
that station one morning last week, an
his horse being unhitched he was atrai
that it would be frightened by passip
trains. lie thercupon stepped acros
the track and was caught between
freight train and the depot platiorI
about the hips, in space of only eigl
; inches, and was rolled along betwec
} the cars and the platform, distance @
some forty feet. lie was badly injure
and his recovery is considered yer
doubtful.
DIR. smith oil chelsea prescrlDcu lor
patient few days ago, who soon aitc
returned ailing more than ever, an
suggesting that the medicine was pc
son. DR.. Smith remarked that he In
"just as lief take pint;" so, putin
the bottle to his lips, he drank half il
contents. Then the doctors head bcga
a to whirl, and he rushed to the drn
r store for an emelic, which saved h
i life. 1t seems that belladonna had bee
put in by mistake. The patient VIZ
not seriously injured.
y The droulh in this section of bot
Vermont and New Hampshire has b.