The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-03-24
STATE ITEMS.

n " 10 shiu mat Stockbridgc has recent
Y had l25 cases of scarlet fever. twelve
OF them fatal.
Emma Brackett OF st. Albans bay
was BADLY bitten in the thigh BY bull
dog few days ago.
David Jacobs of Barton had abont
$500 werth of clothing stolen from his
peudler's cart one night last week.
The state denial society held n well
attended three DAYS meeting last week
al Burlington. S. ID. Hodge of Bur
'ington was elected president.
Ross Ford died in Brain tree last Fri.
day night, of smallpox. Ills wife and
two children are sick with It,, There il
no apprehension OF its spreading.
A Boston Journal correspondent re-
ports that parties from Dernardstop.
Massachusetts, are negotiating for the
purchase of the Weldon House at 81.
Adams.
Philip Cullivane, an insane man.
hung himself in the Brattleboro' Asv,
lum last week. lie belonged in Ar.
lington, and was sixty.eight years of
age.
Philander Staples of Fairlee vas
struck by lever while moving lumber
Friday; his face cut was through from
mouth to ear, his collar bone broken
and his shoulder dislocated.
Edison l.. Fuller. who hanged him
self In the Windsor jail while awaiting
sentence for the murder of William, Is
said to have lief. a dying declaration of
Innocence of the crimes.
Matthias Lamb, a prominent citizen,
91eu suddenly in his wagon, on
| wednesday evening of last week,
while driving through the streets nj
Bridgewater, near his home.
A boy described as large, tongue
tied and not very smart, escaped from
the Reform School at Vergennes on
Monday. When last seen he was near
littsford. His name is not given.
George w. Kennedy of Waterbury
has In his possession Masonic apron
about one hundred years old. IL orig.
inaily belonged to Cable Hull of Hines
burgh and is made of heavy white silk.
yellow with age.
Edward +. Bickford and Mrs. Ii. G.,
Cross of Brandon have been arrested.
charged with sending obscene postal
cards through the mail. They gave
bail for appearance at the next term of
the United States court in Nav.
James Cassidy of Barton, who has
been insane for some months bnt who
was supposed to be considerable better.
jumped from second story window
recently, striking on the frozen ground
thirty-five feet below, and suffering, SO
far as can be seen, no serious injury.
Judge Butter of the United States
district court at Philadelphia has senten.
ced William Coates to eleven months
imprisonment. Coates was convicted
of making q false pension claim, where.
IN be swore that he was William InQra-
ham of the First Vermont Cavalry.
At the meeting of the listers of Gale.
donna county the following prices were
set on personal property: oxen, 4 1.2
cents per pound; three years old stears,
$50 pair; two years old, 1856; year.
ling, 500; swine, Sc hundred; bees,
IS swarm; hay $40 a ton; wool, rs
cents pound; bank stock, par value.
Tie exposition of the American
Agi icultural Association is TO be a
chartered affair, under the name of the
"AmeIican Exposition Of 1882 and
Will be simply a national exhibition of
American products. The cost is esti-
mated at 81 100000 Hon. N. IT.
Spragne OF Brandon, VI. ia The presi.
dent.
Michael Kelley of Bratlleboro has
been arrested charged with robbing
Frank Woodman of Jamaica. Kelley
got his victim drunk and enticed him
TO South Main street, where he rifled
ms pockets OF some $40 and a watch
ana lcft him lying in the highway. By
confession of Kelley the money was
forum in Ill ont clubhouse and was
bound over under $500 bonds for trial
In September.
The tronble between the Ogdensburo
and the Central Vermont roads has
broken ont again. The western freight
over the former road is chiefly in cars
belonging to the "blue line.r The
Central Vermont refuses TO allow these
to pass over its line. The result is that
all through freight has TO be transferred
to cars of the "green line" in order to
be allowed TO pass over the bridge at
Rouses Point.
ii. +. Taylor, now of Drattleboro.
received terrible wound during the
war by piece OF shell that did not
deviate the thickness of finger from
the course taken by the assassin's bull
let that killed Garfield. The missile.
which Mr.. Taylor has continually car
ried in his pocket for nearly twenty
years, is jagged, ugly-looking piece
OF iron, conical in shape, an inch wide
at Its base and two inches ia length.
The wound remained unprobed for |
four months.
The present status Of the much-agi-
tated fair business is this: A PROPOSE |
ton has been submitted TO the State |
society to bny an optional amount OF
STOCK In the Burlington organization
one'iourtli, one-third or one-half and |
then when the State society wishes TO |
come to this city joint fair will be |
held, each organization paying half the |
expenses and dividing the profits. We
understand that this proposition is final
and that its rejection will end all nego-
tiatiohs between the two organizations. |
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