The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-06-16
STATE ITEMS.

convention will he held at Sheldon,
June 30.
A farmer named Baker has killed
sixteen woodchucks on his farm, in
Salisbury, within u few days.
Robert Glynn's house in Baltimore,
Windsor county, was burned by un in
cendiary on Sunday night. Loss,
$500; insured.
The Union Temperance Camp-mcet-
ing Association of Vermont, will hold
a threc.days' meeting at ~Lyndonville,
August l, 2 and 3.
Rev. IL. ID. Hall, who has been pas
tor of the Baptist church, in Bristol,
for several YEAS, has received a call to
Cambridge, New York.
Col. j. b. Mead, of Randolph, was
recently knocked senseless while train
ing a colt, but fortunately was not Sc
riously injured and is around again.
Druggist Wizards store, at Brattle-
boro, was entered by sneak thieves
Tuesday night, who got a small sum
from the cash drawer and u little to-
bacco.
Rev. DIR. S. Ireneus Prime, who was
invited to deliver the address before
the society for Religious Inquiry of
Vermont University at commence
ment, has been obliged to decline.
A review of the totals of the grand
list for 1882, in Springfield, shows that
the difference between this and the list
OF last year is but S67 ,152. The list of
tbeo ,~nnreSegnst year is s619.607 laroer than
The First National bank of SPRING
field voted on Monday to reduce the
capital stock to $4,000. Their charter
expires August l. This Is a step tow
ard organizing q new bank to take the
place of the old n
Matt. Perkins and his son, formerly
of st. Albans. were drowned recently
at Holyoke, Mass. They were ont on
the canal, at Holyoke, fishing, and
were carried over a dam and drowned.
The Masonic Relief Association of
Vermont, held its sixth annual meeting
at Northfleld, Wednesday, ~re-electing
the old officers and directors. During
tho year there were fourteen assess
ments, and during the life of the Asso-
citation nearly $50 900 has been paid in
benefits.
The Caledonia county jsil received q
new inmate on Monday, in the person
of Webster Whitehill, of Groton, who
was indicted at the June term, '81, for
poisoning his little baby. Whitehil
Ga atr BSstr naeGR,t MBflEdsfyf. The chfldaf re rs
covered.
The medical college connected with
the University of Vermont, at Burling'
ton, has fourteen professors and 100
students, the most In its history. Ir
1875 it had G2 students; 81 in 1876; 81
in 1877; 10S in 1873; 141 in 1879; 15(
in 1880, and 40 in 1881.
The other afternoon the big board
saw in a McIndoes mill burst into
many pieces, flying all over the mill
pieces striking Sawyer Smith in the
hand, arm and chest. Two other men
were hit, one in the hand, gripping il
badly. Smith it is thought cannot re.
cover, as the doctor thinks a piece o.
steel is lodged in his lungs.
Henry. Douglass, the Essex Junction
freight clerk who recently told q story
about being robbed in order to cover
shortage in his accounts, has been ar,
rested and lodged in Jail at Burlington
He had made way with about 800 Of
| ed by an examination made by Audit,
or Lucas, of the Central Vermont.
General ii. III. Baxter left his New
| York residence on Fifth Avenue, lasI
week, with his family, for their Gus
tomary summer stay in Rutland. Sew.
eral days after water was discovered
pouring down the front steps of the
New York house in small cascades
Two policemen forced their way into
the house through q window, and dis
covered that the water had been left
running in the bath room on the sec.
| ond floor. As a consequence the par
lor floor was flooded. The carpets
were soaked with water aud the cell.
ings we're injured, and the water &C
cumulated till it found q vent by the
front hall and doorway. General Bax.
ter was :.probably somewhat disgasted
when notified of The transaction.
The Burlington Free Press thus sum
marizes the gifts of John P. Howard tc
the city's institutions; To the Univer
sity, besides the Lafayette statue
$50, 900 in cash and is rebuilding IA
main edifice at q cost Of but little less
making al aggregate Of about 1926, 900
To the Home for Destitute Children he
made the splendid gift Of the beautiful
opera house, which bears his name,
and which cost nearly 1925 900. To
st. Paul's Episcopal church he gave an
elegant stone chapel, erected at a cost
of 10000; to the fund for the support
of the bishop of the diocese he gave
81 1000, and for the home missions OF
the diocese, 1900 acres of valuable
western land. Three elegant fountains
in the city parks still further attest Mr..
Towards generosity; and it was at his
expense that the present stately en-.
trance to Lake View cemetery was
erected, and the walks there and In
Battery park put in fine condition, the
entire outlay being a very large one.
To tho new fair enterprise he made
a most liberal subscription; and It was
In just compliment TO his splendid pub.
lie spirit that the permanent site Of the
fair has been named Howard Park.
Gen. Rosecrans, Democratic Con-