The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-19
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The funds already collected for the
erection of the Bennington monument
amount to SS0,O00.
A wealthy Cambridge farmer agrees
to give his farm tor the site of the new
Soldiers Home, if it can be located in
that place,
f.. ii. Powells law office in Rich.
ford was burglarized recently and
several law books were stolen. No
clue to the burglars.
There was large sale of thorough.
bred Guernsey cattle at Eastons Ex-
change, New York city, recently. A
number of the animals sold were from
the herd of ex.Gov. John Gregory
Smith.
AT Marshfield John E. Eddy was
robbed of $25 by some one who entered
his sleeping room and took the money
from his pants pocket. Entrance to
the house house was effected through
the window Oh the piazza
Robert j. Burdette, who lectured in
West Randolph Friday night of last
week and was to have received 500.
would only take S25, giving $7j to the
free reading room in consequence of
the loss sustained by the fire.
a sneak thief entered last Sunday
night the house of A. Tinker of St, All.
bans, ate hearty meal in the pantry,
and carried off 10 in cash. lie also
laid valublc watch in chair, but for
some reason did not carry it away.
Gov. Pingree has appointed ex-Con.
gresham Dudley G.. Dennison, Judge
l.. w. Redington and Gen. George +.
DAVIS n committee to locate the shire
town of Orleans county in accordance
with the act of the last Legislature.
Martin Mansfield, formerly of Rox-
bury, went out to Dakota, some two or
three wears since, accompanied by his
son Will, and il is reported on what is
supposed to be good authority that
both father and son were last week
hanged by vlgilants in Dakota for
horse-stealing.
"A little son of Elbridge Vaughan,
about five years old, was killed in
Bridgewater. Mr.. Vaughan was haul
ing wood down steep bank on long
sled and when reaching the main road
the little fellow undertook to get ON to
ride, and fell, one runner passing over
his body, killing him almost instantly.
A large number of men employed by
the marble companies of West Rutland
have been discharged and several mills
have shut down. The business of the
past year, however, has not differed
very much from previous years, and
the aggregate tonnage of marble ship.
ped was but little smaller than that
of 1888.
The Vermont University can I'M
doubleday claim the oldest college stu.
dent in the United States. Rev. j. G..
Wilder entered the class of %, but was
unable to finish his course. He has Just
joined the elias of 'S5, and although he
Is in his SD year, he seems full of ell
thusiasm for the completion of his
course. Free Press.
The state grange of Patrons of Hus-
bandry have just met at St. Johnsbnry,
reported prosperity and elected these
officers: Master, A. b. Franklin of
Townshend; overseer, A. Messer of
Rochester; lecturer, G. 7. ,Joslyn of
Brldgewater; chaplin, E. f. Andrews
OF Berlin; treasurer, G. j. Bell of East
llardwick; secretary, George Crane of
BrOokfield.
States Attorney Bates, who was
shot Thanksgiving night at Bemning-
ton by young Joseph Bennett of White
Creek, n. Y, was more seriously in
jured than at first supposed. A grad.
ually deepening paralysis has attacked
the right arm, and both sensation and
motion are much impaired. The right
leg is also bordering on similar con-
dition. No trace of Bennett has been
discovered.
Just before noon on Monday of last
week the heavy cOrnice of plaster and
mortar directly over the Judges desk
and witnesses stand in the Rutland
county courtroom fell with a crash
that Jared the whole building, knock
ing off the plaster in the sheriff's room
below. Several large masses fell on
the judges seats exactly where the
Judges sit, and had court been in ses.
sion they and Others would undoubted- |
" have been seriously injured, if not
killed outright. The room has been
considered unsafe from the condition
OF the plastering for some years past.