The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-06

has been pardOned.
Mayor Morse Of Burlington has re
moved Luman A. Drew. who has been
superintendent of police for eleven years
and appointed Joseph Barton. Sheriff of
the county. in his stead.
The defunct Connecticut River mutual
fire insurance company, has. through its
treasurer and attorney, collected Sl2 900
of the II per cent assessment. There re-
mains about $4,000 to be collected.
The BARRIERS of Rutland held meet
ing, Friday evening, and all but one
agreed to close shops on Sundays. The
others threaten to prosecute him under
the Sunday law unless he falls into line.
Leroy Shelley of East Putney. 40
years old, slipped in front of a passenger
train at the Brattleboro depot on Satur-
day. His left leg above the ankle was
cut off, and also three fingers OF one
hand.
Mr.. Joel Randall, wealthy farmer of
Cornwall. died on Tuesday. lie was
about 20 years of age and had been i'll
year or more. The funeral will take
place from the residence on Sunday. Mr..
f. "A. Stanley of Leicester conducting
the service.
l.. l.. Woodforth OF Westfcld claims
to be the champion lumberman this win
ter, as he and his two sons, IIarland and
Dan, have cut and drawn. Il distance of
three miles, LIST logs, making 100000
feet of lumber.
A Washington dispatch says: Colonel
Hooker. sergeant-at-arms of the House of
Representatives, has gone to BrattlebOro.
Vermont, for the summer. lie will be a
candidate for sergeant-at-arms of the
Senate in December.
Rev. Charles Van Norden of st. AL
bans has been called to succeed Rev.
Washington GLADDEN. as pastor of the
North Congregational church of Spring
field, Mass, Mr.. GLADDEN. having taken
the offered pastorate at Columbus. o.
The postoflicc department has declared
that the Carbon Chemical company of
Brattleboro are conducting a scheme
through the mails by fraudulent repre-
sentations and promises, and postmasters
are directed to discontinue the delivery
of money orders or registered letters to
the firm.
half-witted man named Smith. aged
10, was found frozen to death between
Barre and Orange. last Friday. He start
ed Wednesday afternoon to go from his
fathers in Barre to the house of his aunt
in Orange. several miles distant, and not
arriving there. search was made, and the
body was found frozen stiff.
At the late town meeting in Essex the
town voted to celebrate the Tooth an
| niversary of the settlement of the town
and appointed committee to make the
necessary arrangements. The committee
has decided 70 hold the celebration on
the day of the "annual freeman's meet
ing, the first Tuesday in September.
At West Rutland the other day, Eugene
Duequett. a man in the employ of Shell
don Il Sons. while descending into the
covered quarry, slipped and fell dis
tance of nearly a hundred feet, striking
on lot of loose marble cutting his face
and head in a shocking manner and
breaking bones in his body and limbs.
He died an hour after the accident.
The second session of the Mary
Fletcher hospital training school for
nurses will open at the hospital on Tues
day. May l, 1883, and continue four
weeks. The object of the school is to
educate and train women for intelligent
and effective service as nurses to the
sick and helpless. and. by so doing. to
select and provide a class of skilled
nurses, whether for establishments or
| private families; and, secondarily, To ex-
tend and cultivate this needful knowledge
among women generally.
A number of the alumni and past ca
diets of Norwich University (now known
as Lewis College, had a reunion and din
ner at the Hotel Brunswick, New York,
the other evening, and an organization
was formed for the purpose of holding
annual meetings. 1t is to be known us
ha If Ar
wich University. Major Gen. Granville
N. Dodge was elected president and
Waldo II. Clement secretary. Next year
the association will celebrate the 50th an
niversary of the institution.
A correspondent Of the Boston Trucel-
Ter says: "Who was the first express
man? Gen. Butler says William c. Craig
carried on an express business between
New \ ork and Boston as early AS 1896,
and now it is reported that Deacon Eli
phalet Adams Of Cabot. VT, started an
express from Montpelier to Danyille. by
which any packages were carried and
errands performed. ten years earlier. 1t
is probable that many years earlier
! the carriers of the mails In New England
carried packages and delivered messa-
ges between towns along their routes"
The Vermont, ljdtchmdR tells this
story of Waitslield mans experience
with foreign help; lie wanted his
Dutchman to clean his hogpen, so he
took the manure fork and motiOned to
Dutchy to follow him. After both had
got into the pen he threw out a couple
of forkfuls of manure and handed the
fork to the Dutchman and motioned him
to use it. He took the fork and threw
cut two forkfuls, and gave it back To the
boss and waited for him to use il next.
The Dutchman was willing to de his
share, but evidently thought ii would
not look we'll for him to keep the fork
/ all the time.
A Manchester dispatch to the Rutland
Herald of Monday says; Thomas Kelley,
farmer, aged 36 years, was killed near
the Manchester depot yesterday. While
at the depot after freight his horses
became frightened at the cars and ran
up the railroad track. In attempting to
get into the wagon, his foot caught on
the tug hook of the whililetree and he
fell, and was dragged under the wagon
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