The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
MIDDLEBURY, VT. JANUARY 19, 1ss3
STATE ITEMS.

The Randolph National Bank paid q
dividend of three per cent, January l.
Not less than 200 new houses were
built in Rutland in 1882.
| A Brattleboro minister received q
Christmas purse of $500 from his people
Seven dollars cord is asked for wood
in Rutland.
Policeman Shortsleeves of Burlington
broke a leg by falling on an icy sidewalk.
The new Baptist church at st. Johns
bury will be dedicated about the 10th of
January.
Tyier's three-story brick bio, * on Main
street at Brattleboro, was partially
burned Saturday afternoon. The losses
are covered by insurance.
| A. E. Nahum, Bristol's bee and honey
man, is manufacturing section hives,
and has now In hand an order from
Scotland for 10000 sections.
The New York and New England box
and shook manufacturers association
holds its next annual meeting at Swanton
the first Wednesday in April.
| Collins blacksmith and wheelwright
shop, at North Ferrisburgh, was burned
Tuesday morning; loss between two and
three thousand dollars; no insurance.
Barton claims the smartest old lady
and the Oldest teacher in the State. Mrs.
Mary johnson, who is 76 years old is
teaching French to three lady teachers
who go to her house evenings to recite.
1t is estimated that over $4,000. 900
feet of logs will be cut in Essex county
this season. The Beattie Bros. have 300
men at work logging and will probably
take from the stump 20,0O0,000 feet.
The grist and shingle mills at Lower
Perkinsville, known as the Robinson
mills, owned by Mrs. Daniel Wheeler
and leased by Melvin Robertson. with
contents of both mills, were burned on
Tuesday.
A Manchester man has received STOOL
Insurance for damages to his horse by
lightning last summer. The electricity
struck the barn in which the horse was
and since then the animal has been per-
fectly deaf, hence the damages.
A short time ago some hunters dug out
a silver gray fox on the farm of Chauncy
Hurd of Sandgate, near Bennington. They
sold the skin for S36. How this fox.
whose habitat is the vicinity of Hudson's
bay, should stray so far is a mystery.
Chauncy Gowly, farmer, aged about
so, living at Berlin. flour miles from
Montpelier. while returning home from |
Montpelier late Saturday evening, fell |
from his sleigh and froze to death. He |
is supposed to have been drunk, as he |
had bottle of liquor with him.
A Washington dispatch to the Boston |
Journal says: 1t seems that it is a vol |
unteer regiment of Vermont soldiers who
have filed the claim that they have never
been mustered into service, and conse-
quently demand compensation for con-
tinuous service.
Silas ID. Davis of Bradford, on trial at
Chelsea for beating and disfguring his
son, has been found not guilty. Davis
claimed that he merely gave the boy
vigorous parental corrective. but the
neighbors at the time were considerably
incensed and talked of lynching Davis.
A little Windsor girl recently took a
strange freak into her head. She gather
ed all the bed-clothes she could find,
piled them ina chair, and set fire to them.
The smoke frightened lher, and she be-
gan to cry for help. Fortunately her
older sister heard her scream, and rush.
ing in, caught the burning mass and
threw it out of the window.
Duane Brown. son of John Brown,
was instantly killed while teaming in the
woods in Braintree, last Monday. A
tree had been cut and it lodged on an-
other, which had also been cut but with
out the desired effect. One or more
teams had passed safely under without
any trouble, but rs Brown was passing
under them they fell.
A Woodford woman came near losing
pin-money, by placing It
for safe-keeping in rag-bag. A tin
peddler bought the rags, and was lust
when the woman remem-
h"r-d the rags, and set out after him at
full speed. Fortunately, she recovered
her cash-several hundred dollars be
fore was made into writing paper.
Governor John l.. Barstow. ex-Gov-
ernor j, hn w. Stewart and Edward j.
Phelps of Vermont. eX-Gov. Leland
Stanford of California, Mr.. ID. O. Mills.
MIR. S. l.. Nj. Barlow, Mr.. William b.
Dinsmore and Mr.. Joseph G.. Mills were
he pail bearers at the funeral of Trenor
w. Park in New York on Thursday
IF last week. The remains were inferred
in Greenwood cemetry.
The case of +. Berry and other heirs
Of Ira Berry against A. Z. Kinney and
he trustees of the Corinth Congrega-
.ional church ends in the Orange county
court with verdict for plaintiffs to re-
cover of defendants S43l, the value of a
promissory note which Kinney had given
% the trustees in accordance, as he claim
I'd, with the death-bed directions of Ira
Berry. The defense claimed incapacity
m the donor, no delivery as the law re-
luires in gifts inter vivos, and the use of
Undue influence.
The National Life Insurance company |
held its thirty-third annual meeting last
week, at Montpelier, and chose Messrs.
7. Dillingham;, Timothy p. Redfield.
Charles Dewey, w. ii. ii. Bingham,
George w. Reed, ID. C.. Denison, Fred ,
erick Billings, Edward Dewey. j. c.
!ioughton, Fred. Z. Smith. Perley Z.
In Gal. nj |