The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
State and Vicinity.


AT Lunenburg, young child of Frank
Pierce fell into pail of hot water and
was badly scalded.
B. B. Smalley of Vermont was chos-
en- secretary of the Democratic nations al
executive committee.
Citizens of Burlington have subscribed
$4,000 to be used in building a boarding
house for the university.
John Murray of Moretown, arrested on
the charge of numbering his wife. was
discharged at Montpelier, Monday.
There are ll3 cases on the law docket
and Is on the chancery for the Septem-
Der term of the Chittenden county court.
Mrs. Fred Livermore of Stanford cut
her throat Sunday morning and will die.
Her husband is insane and she is thought
to be.
Morgan Lowell of Bartonville lost 4
horse in singular manner recently. 1t
stepped on hoe, the handle flying up
and entering its body.
The II. A. Jones tanncry in Richmond.
owned by Ellis Brothers, was burned July
81, with all its contents. Loss $500.
insured for 81 $50.
At Bradford, Henry Stevens, 7G years
old, hung himself to the bcdpost July
30. lie was living with his son happi-
ly. No cause can be assigned for the
act.
An effort is to be made to induce Mr..
Moody, the evangelist, to preach to the
State militia on the Sunday they are to
remain in camp, August n, at Brattle-
boro.
The lake Champlain steamer Vermont
narrowly escaped destruction by fire at
Pittsburgh last Friday night, when the
freight house of the Delaware IL Hudson
Canal Co. was burned.
The Lake Champlain trotting circuit
will hold series of meetings as follows ::
At Plattsburgh. August y, Is and % a;
st. Adams. September 3, and ) ; and at
Burlington, September 10, II and II.
A fire at Derby Center burned the no.
tel and outbuildings belonging to w. II.
Human. A dwelling owned by w. II.
Spear and other buildings were barely
saved. Loss $4,000 to $1,000; we'll in
sured.
In fracas on the road between North
field and Montpelier, Saturday night,
Maurice Locklin of Gou!dsville drew a
knife on NJ. +. Hill and his son. wound
ing both. a warrant is out for Lock-
lin's arrest.
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor has pur-
chased the Spring Mill or Eittcn proper
ty. so called, in Cavendish, comprising
some 300 acres of mountain land, togeth-
er with the woodward, mill-site and wa
ter privileges.
The largest shipment of raspberries
from this station was made on July 26.
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or nearly five and one-half tons all gath
cred that day, for which was paid $40.
-NOHh Troy Pdilddium,
AT ten o'clock on Monday morning
Joseph Doyle. who was arrested on FRI
day while intoxicated at st. Adams, was
found dead in his cell. An inquest was
held and a verdict of death from over
indulgence in liquor rendered.
At Island Pond customs officer re-
Gently caught man attempting to SNUG
gle eleven bottles of liquor and cash
mere dress pattern, and contiscated the
lot, allowing the wOuld-be smuggler to
depart, poorer but wiser man.
There are 294 court cases and Il chan
Gerry on the docket of the next term of
the Franklin county court. OF the court
cases, "a are entitled state VS.. Lawrence
Brainerd,' and large part of the Others
grow out of the financial complications
at st. Adams.
Rev. l.. III. Elliot, secretary of the
Vermont Bible society, asks the children
of all the Sunday schools i'm the State ia
make IA thank-oflering for the Bible on
the first Sunday in September. He sug-
gests that they earn the money and give
as many cents as they are years old.
Hiram Skcels of IIighgate died sud.
denly on Sunday of heart disease. lie
was - years of age, had represented the
town in the Legislature, and been door
keeper of the House of Representatives
for two terms, consular agent at Stan
bridge, r.. q, and had held prominent
positions in his county.
The stockholders of the Rutland rail
road unanimously reelected these direc
tors at Rutland. last week: Charles
Clement, John w. Stewart, George NJ
Barnard, James o. Sargent, Bradley b
Smalley, William Wells, John II. Cool
idge, George III. Ball, Percival w. Glenn
ent Charles Clement was reelected
president.
! Altman Moore, who lives on the edge o.
POmfret, found Il new woodchuck's hol,
in his bean patch the other day, and sc
steel trap. and has caught at that hole
at the present writing twelve wood
chucks, four red squirrels, four chip
! hunks, two minks, one skunk and still
finds something In the tap when h'
visits.-ErchdRge.
r The Windham county Democratic con
t vention made the following nominations
Senators, George O, Guild of Rocking
ham, ID. L. Leonard of -; assistan
judges, George Porter of Nottingham
Charles Smith of Rockingham; higl
, sheriff, W. A. Brown of Nottingham
high bailifl, G. f. EsterbroOk of Gull
ford probate Judges, II. A. knight OF
r Dummerston, \. 5. Weeks of Grafton.
Mrs. Childs and Mrs. Barber, whc
= were overcome by lightning which
r struck their Wilmington houses July 10
= are still in precarious condition, beins
! nearly blind and otherwise suffering
from the shock. A wooden pump in on
of the dwellings was completely destroy
I ed, though the two houses were slightly
damaged. The Wilmington saving
bank was somewhat damaged at TIN
same time.