The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
Late State and Vicinity.

Bradley Jones, the st. JOhnsbury carp
enter who fell from sawhorse and was
injured by a stick of timber he was lifting,
a few days since, died on Saturday.
During a thunder storm. Saturday. he
horse barn of Loren Sheldon, of West
Pawlet was struck, and Henry Good
shaw and two horses were killed. The
barn was burned.
William Masters. who died June 90 at
Maidstone, was born at Andover. Mass q,
in l772, and lived, therefore, to be Ill
years old. He was soldier in 1872, and
was never sick until he died.
At Castleton, not long ago, Hyde West
over, aged 81 years, drove the team. and
Joseph Bishop, 81 years old, held the
pillow to pillow an acre of land in IA day.
One of the horses was 20 and the other 10
years old, and the team has been driven
by the same man sixteen years.
The second reunion of the veterans of
the Seventh regiment Vermont volun-
teers will be held in Burlington on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, 18th,
10Th and Both Of August. A steamboat
ride and visit to the far-famed Ausable
Chasm are proposed for the second day.
Good hotel accommodations will be
furnished at greatly reduced rates, and
return checks will be given those paying
full fare over the Central Vermont rail
road.
Benson proposes to celebrate her Tooth
anniversary Aug. 81 and %. Tuesday
| evening, August 81. a historical sermon
will be delivered by Rev. Evarts Kent OF
Georgia, grandson of Rev. Dan Kent
the first settled minister. Wednesday
August %. addresses are to be delivered
on "Old People and Old Customs OF
Benson" by Rev. j. w. Peet of Iowa
and what Benson Has Done Toward the
Settlement and Building Up of Other
Places" by Edward w. Barber OF
Michigan. A public dinner will be eater
and after-dinner speeches will follow
There will also be an exhibition of an
tiquities.
The dwelling house of Mathew Stew
art. at PrOctOrsville, was burned OH Sat
urday. Loss, $500. Fire originated
in the barn. Cause, supposed to be chill
dren playing with matches. Steamer
Rescue No. of Ludlow 0our miles dis
tant) was telegraphed for and arrived il
season to save the buildings contiguous
Mathew Stewart is the man who becam,
prominent, two or three years since, by
putting in claim against the estate o
A. II. Stewart of New York, one o
whose heirs he said he was.
Col. A. b. Valentine of Bennington
department commander q. A. r.. ha
issued the following circular: "Fo
comrades of this department attendin;
the national encampment, the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy II. II. Co. hav
made through rates to and from Denver
Col, over the Vermont Central an,
Grand Trunk roads, at S52 the rOun,
trip. Tickets will be found at the sta
tions of Rutland, Brandon, st. Johns
bury, Burlington, st. Adams, Brattle
boro, Bellows Falls and Essex Junction
When purchasing tickets, comrades viii
please show certificates of membership
J Of the Grand Army, blanks for whic
have been sent to each post in the State
Probably other roads will ticket throug
at same rates, but information to tina
= effect has not yet been received ut thcs
Headquarters. Any later informato
will be gladly furnished to those intcl
ested."