The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-11
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feet deep.
A three-years-old daughter of George
Cove of Royalton was severely scalded
by falling or sitting into a pail OF hot
water.
Edison Blanchard. a Guilford farmer
about G5 years old. was found dead In ms
barn Thursday night of last week. lie
is supposed to have died from heart as
eae.
Mr.. j. G.. Taylor of Brattleboro is ne
gotiating for the purchase of the PaVll-
ion. Montpelier. and it is expected that
the hotel will be sold to him within Il
few days. The price is understood to be
S45 900.
The office and dwelling of Town
Treasury Olcott of Bellows Falls was
entered by burglars on a recent morning
but before the safe was opened they He'd
Olcott usually keeps his funds at the
bank. but had more money than usual
on hand.
The wood sheds of the PassumpsiC
railroad at Bradford. with 100 cords of
wood. have been burned. Winsbip II
Co.'s and Stevens & Clark's s~torehouses
were slightly damaged by the fire. which
caught from an engine.
The schedule filed by the st. Adams
| iron anu NJtel WOIhS Ill Olic tOull VI II
| ~solvency shows liabilities amounting to
500. $3.50 S. with assets aggregating
S4s7 ,G2G.5S. A first meeting of credit
ors is called for May II, when an
assignee will be chosen.
The work of rebuilding the burnt dis
trict in Bradford will be vigorously
prosecuted. The various blocks will be of
uniform size and style. They will make
one block 1874 feet front, three stories
high and q feet deep. 1t will be of
brick and probably cost $4,000.
Mr.. Wakefield. a mill owner near the
border line between Montgomery and
JAY. reports that last week he travelled
from Wcstfield to his mill. Il distance of
four miles. on s%nowshoes and that on
the mountains the snow was by measure
ment four feet deep. Before the thaw
it was fully seven feet deep.
The Lamoille county court at Hyde
Park has adjourned. John f.. Hanson
of Boston pleaded guilty of forgery and
was sentenced to four years hard labor
in the House of Correction at Rutland.
b. a. Hunt of johnson was admitted a.
an attorney. In the case of Edward l..
Noyes, assistant cashier, VS.. A. b. DugaI.
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. a verdict was given for the de-
PENDANT.
The centennial of the settlement of the
town of Benson is to be celebrated the
22d of August. The principal speakers
will be Rev. Evarts Kent of Georgia.
grandson of the first settled minister.
who is to preach Il centennial sermon the
evening of August 81 Rev. j. W. Peet
of Iowa is to deliver an address on The
old people and old customs of BenSpn:
Hon. +. Ii. Barber of Michigan is to de
liver the principal address. following the
address of Mr.. Poet.
The arguments in the case of the First
National bank stockholders against the
estate of ). NJ. Waite have b en- heard
at Brattleboro. +. j. Phelps. +. L..
Waterman and James c. Barrett ap
pearcd for Waite's assignees. and n.
Haskins and +. W. Stoddard for the
bank. The burden of the arguments for
the estate was to show that the bank
owes Waite not less than Sl30,000. The
! case is now with the referee. Col. A. F.
, Walker of Rutland. for report to the
September term of the Windham county
court.
a yonng man left Northern Vermont
a number of years since for Mexico. and
at the time of his departure he presented
a young lady with a bottle of superb
maple syrup sealed up tight, with in
structions to preserve it until his return :;
then they would open it and have n feast
of buckwheat cakes and maple syrup.
In fifteen years he returned to his former
home, but his lady friend had married
. and resided in Castleton. He visited her
there, and the bottle was opened and
used as above mentioned. The syrup
was as delicious as on the day it was
bottled.
At Colchester, the other day. the house
, of a Mrs. Clark caught fire shortly be-
' fore noon. and when her neighbor, Alon-
10 Irish. living 80 rods away, arrived to
help fight the flames he saw on glancing
back that the fire had traversed the fields
and that his house was ablaze. All the
villagers turning out. his house was
saved. but his barns were burned. as
was also Adrian Nays sugar woods and
e sugar house. and several farmers to the
north had hot work to save their proper
ty, scarcely a rod of fence being left ON
the farms north of Mrs. Clark's. Irish
lost about 81 300. uninsured Mrs. Clark
was insured for s. 100. and lost every
thing; A. Nay $500. no insurance: Seth
Cary, a lot OF hay, wagons and cattle. ia
insurance.
A late St. Adams dispatch a V :
State Treasurer Du Bots aud Auditor
| Powell have Just returned from
Brantford, Canada. where they went on
business connected with the recent
Huntington bequest to Vermont. Tie
trip was successful, and the officials
:. return with the money and securities,
valued a little over 500, 900. which has
been safely deposited in Boston banks.
This money was willed to the State by
Arunah Huntington of Brantford for
''the benefit of the common schools OF
Vermont" The donator died early in
o 1877, and since then the will has been
contested by relatives and been through
all the Canadian courts. till finally the
personal property and ~accumulations
were decreed to the State of Vermont .
Mr.. Huntington was born in Vermont
and when he went TO Brantford was not
worth 5000. He WAS q ShOemaker. and