The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-03

named Camp Preston in honor of Col.
Addison w. Preston of the lst Vermont
cavalry, killed near Cold IIarbor, Va,
June 3, 1864.
A formal demand has at last been
made on the Brat leboru commissioners
to bond the town for the proposed Brat
tleboro and Bennington railroad. They
have refused. a petition for writ of
mandamus compelling them to sign will
be brought to the courts.
G.. J. Chapman was arrested in Rutland
for being drunk, and fined. A charge of
attempting to kill his wife and others
has been made against him. When ar
rested he had loaded revolver and
very sharp dirk knife, which he threat
ened and attempted to use.
j. M. Haven of Rutland has been de-
clared an insolvent debtor and ordered
to furnish schedules of assets and liabili-
tics within six days, after which
meeting of creditors to elect an assignee
will be called. No opposition to the
adjudication was made by Haven.
Dennis Daley was found dead in n
mangled condition on the railroad track,
| about two miles from Plainfield, Satur-
day morning, evidently having been run
over by an engine on the Montpelier and
| Wells River railroad to Montpelier, about
half-past nine o'clock Friday night.
| A family In Craftsbury is terribly
afflicted. The father has cancer on his
forehead; two daughters are rapidly
running down with consumption; a son,
on whom the family has largely depend
ed for support, is in very poor health,
probably in consumption, and the mother,
worn out with labor and anxiety, is
raving crazy.
| Pow William,
clergyman of the Episcopal church. and
rector of st. Albans, and from 1861 to
1854 editor of the Burlington Sentinel, is
now Roman Catholic priest, and offciat-
ed at the second mass in st. Albans last
Sunday. Father Hoyt is very scholarly
man, and a polished gentleman, Jealous
in the faith he has espoused. Argus and
PdtriOt.
Joseph Greene, who died last Saturday
at Swanton, was 103 years of age He
was born in a little town called Narsha.
Canada, June 13, l7S0. He was married
when he was q to the wife who survives
him, at Bellile. 76 years ago. For many
years he logged on the St.Lawrence river.
Nineteen years of his life were spent in
Burlington, where he worked in the glass
factory once operated there. He has
since lived in Swanton.
| UOV. IaHe VI huJlanu Has Drought
libel suit against Clement O. Sons of the
same place for the statements contained
in the recent circular of the defendants
: in relation to the Rutland railroad COM
: pany that Gov. Page had used SS0.000
per month of the funds of the company
without paying the interest and had
. fabricated a pass book between the COM
pany and the National bank of Rutland.
ITO deceive the accountant who was eX-
aminng the books. Damages to the
amount of 100000 are claimed.
The asylum trustees have determined
to raise the roof and build out dormcrs
to their central building so as to enlarge
and rcfinish their chapel. Two addition
al staircases will also be put in. The
idea is to make the chapel adequate for
. the religious services and amusements of
the institution. DIR. l.. &. Butler, one of
the asylum supervisors, who has given Il
good deal of study to problems of insane
treatment, asserts that the Brattleboro
! institution is in the very van of those in
America, and that with its present sys-
TEN and improvements it has made itself
, equal to all medical science now knows
of its duties. -BraulebOrO Reformer.
The Supreme court recently rendered
an important decision i'm an insurance
. case. The insurance was upon stock
of goods in a country store and the COM
pany tried to avoid liability on the
, ground of violation of bylaw which
forbade the keeping of gunpowper "upon
the premises insured" The court held
that the condition being one of forfeiture
must be construed strictly against the
company and in favor of the insured, and
/, that as the word premises" legally
meant lands and tenemcnts, its definition
could not under such rule of construction
be held to include dry goods and gro
ceries," which were the subject of nsur-
ance, and therefore the bylaw had no
: application to this particular case.
The Bennington correspondent of the
Troy Times writes: The purposes of the
Bennington Battle Monument association
have as yet assumed no definite shape
toward the erection of a monument. for
the reason that only about two-thirds of
} the desired amount of mOney-Sl20 ,O00-
has been subscribed. The association,
however, contemplate the removal of all
buildings around the site of the proposed
monument. though perhaps not in many
4 years. so the entire structure may be seen
3 from all available points in the valley be-
low. The monument itself is to be grand
1 and simple In character, an example of
WIN CA-
I pended at first for statuary. That can
+ come afterward. The structure is to be
r high enough to be a prominent object in
j the landscape. The opinion of all the
eminent artists whom Charles NJ. Bliss,
secretary OF the association, has consult
. ed is that the monument. to be success
full, must be in keeping with its surround
: ings, and as it is to be set among noun
: tains n monument that would be appro-
pirate for public square of a city would
> be out of place. Ii is probable the mon
ument will be constructed of the hard,
1 blue limestone which abounds in Ben
r nington. The durability and unfading
q property Of the stone have been well test
4 ed. A portion Of the steps of the old
!. First church in Bennington Center was
a built of this stone nearly one hundred
years ago, and the original locks of the
=, Erie canal at Cohoes were also construct
n ed of the same material. In both in
a stances, as well as in numerous other