The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-07
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The Bates House at Rutland is soon TO
be sold by auction.
A foot of snow fell. up in Lamoille
county. last Friday.
ST. Adams has new opera hall which
will seat 700 persons.
Twenty of the 24l towns in the State
have women school superintendents.
The House of Correction at Rutland
has % inmates--51 men and women.
There have been 80 cases of diptheria
at Waterbury and three deaths from the
disease.
Gilman l.. Grant of Stockbridge was
crushed to death under a load of wood,
Nov. u.
A daughter of Z. Glrain. aged years.
was killed at Rutland the other day by
the overturning of a mortar box, which
fell upon her.
George Knowlton of Rochester fell
from his barn the other day, striking
upon his head and shoulders. injuring
him very severely. but not fatally.
Charles II. Ennis, a colored st. Adams
barber, was found dead. on a recent
morning, near the railroad shops in that
pace. Heart disease is supposed TO have
been the cause.
Frederick Billings has increased his
gift to the University of Vermont at
burlington for library building from
SIS 900 to 100000 The foundation is
already laid and the building will be put
up in the spring. 1t will be of sandstone.
c. l.. Kinds and wife of Chester went
to Cambridgcport to spend Thanksgiving
and when they returned discovered that
their nephew. Howard Kinds. who has
lived with them the past two months.
was missing with between 500 and 500
left III the house.
Edward Sheple's store at Waterbury
was broken into early Sunday morning
The safe was drilled and the handle
blown off. but not opened nor any money
taken. except dollar or two out of the
change drawer. Two men were tracked
to the a. m. train, where the trail was
lost.
Norman Taylor, the locally noted
Plymouth pie-eater, who trained himself
for a runner over his native hills, has at
last won professional sawdust race. a
50-mile go-as-you-please at Philadelphia,
Thursday. Taylor had made &C miles at
20 minutes short of the II hours and
the other contestants gave up. Taylor
is 50.
The trustees of the Southeastern rail-
way have instituted an action against eX-
Governor Hendee. receiver of the St.
Adams bank. to recover SS00,O00, repre-
senting that amount of bonds of the
Montreal. Portland & Boston railway,
placed with the bank for safe keeping,
which the receiver now refuses to de-
liver.
This story comes from Bennington !;
The immortal story of 1.-THE frogs and the
boys" was admirably eXemplified the
other day as painter stood on the top
most rounds of 40 foot ladder. and
looking down from his dizzy height, saw
small boy Juggling hard away in the en-
deavor to pull down the ladder. If the
urchin enjoyed the prospective fun of
seeing Il mangled painter come tumbling
to the earth. the knight of the brush was
stirred by an exactly opposite sentiment.
Presently about one pint of Atlantic lead
of the consistency of cream descended
upon our youthful hero's Uranium. a
snap bug could not have cleared the cir
Gle of danger with any more alacrity
than did the whitened and bespattered
meddler. With a sorry glance at his
Jacket. he dashed around the nearest
corner exclaming. ''Ill tell MAJ