The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-17
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Der and weighs 23S l-2 lbs.
Eugene Randall and Herbert Fay
have been sent to State-prison for four
aud seven years from MonIp,li cr for
cattle stealing.
Fred Laven of North Hero was acct
dentally shot in the breast the other
day while duck hunting. The accident
will probably result fatally.
st. Johnsbury has new thing under
the sun in the way of a "juvinile agri-
cultural fair" 1t was held theiother
day and had three hundred entries.
Burglars blew open the safe in Bar
rows n Peck's store mt Montpelier
Thursday night of last week and stole
$3.50 in cash and $500 in lien notes.
The Vermont Episcopal Institute at
Rock Point, Il rlington, has opened its
twentv-siXlh year with larger num-
Der of students than at any opening for
several years.
Colonel George W. Hooker says there
is no truth to the report recently pub
lished that he and Correspondent
Crawford have bought the New York
Evening Mail and ETpreSS.
Joseph Bray crawed under truck
to loosen chain in Shepard Il
Morse's lumber yard at Burlington.
The truck tipped upon him and his
spine was broken. His recovery is not
probable.
The case of State VS.. John b. Page
of Rutland, for cmbeZzlement, has been
continued to the next term of the Rut-
laud county court, at the request of
the States attorney.
VIM. Jordan, a wood-chopper in the
employ of f. A. Doolittle, ut Vernon,
cut his throat very nearly fatally one
day recently. The ak glanced from a
limb, cutting a deep cash just below
the ear.
A. w. Morris, whose wife was re-
Gently refused divorce in the Rutland
county court, has brought a suit
claiming 50 900 damages from Harrison
Lee OF Rutland, his brother-iu-law, for
the alleged enticing away of his wife's
affections.
a valuble horse belonging to II. c..
Cushman of Tunbridgc ran away We'd
nesday, the Sth instant, carrying with
him the piazza pillar to which he was
hitched, and, going about forty rods,
dropped dead. His neck was broken
by the heavy pillar.
In the United States court at Rutland
Frank Howard, the postotiice burglar,
pleaded guilty to the indictment against
him. He was sentenced to be confined
two years and half at hard labor in
the house of correction. The court
then adjourned for two weeks.
In the tax suits of the school distric',
village and town of St. Adams against
the National Car company, which have
been pending nearly two years, the
Supreme Court has ordered the pay
ment of the taxes within fifteen days.
the sum involved is about $4,000.
The pOstOtlice at Ludlow was robbed
| of four hundred dollars worth of stamps
August 23d, and the fact has Just leak
ed out, the aut critics keeping still in
hope of catching the thief. The
woman clerk was careless with the key
and left it where the thieves found it.
ID. G. Gorhams's five barns and sheds
attached, at Westminster West, with
about 75 tons of hay, the oats from
10 acres, 200 bushels of corn, and some
POO fleeces of wool and farming imple-
ments, were burned by "A supposed in
cendiary fire early Friday morning.
The loss is $1,000; insured with the
house in the Changers company for
about 81 800.
Two Montpelier brothers, one of
them zone OF the most distinguished
citizens of the village" are in chan
Gerry lawsuit over the dividing line
] "a 4, a
strip being four or six inches wide on
the street and running to a point in the
rear. One brother has the other en-
Joined under $1,000 penalty from med
ding with the line which the others
engineer shall establish.
An attempt was made last week to
break into the safe at the railroad sta
ton at Shelburn. The burglars, evi.
IDENTITY professionals, first drilled
in at the side of the combination aud
inserted blast, which when discharg.
ed blew open the front doors. The
inner doors, which were of chilled
steel, were too much for them, though
they succeeded i'll prying them partly
open. They were probably frightened
away. 1t is said there was no money
in the safe, which belonged to the town
the station agent being also town clerk
Miss Betsey Wright of Lunenburg is
at the prese mt time SO years of age
Her father and mother died about ter
wears ago. For years previous to theil
death Miss Wright supported then
and herself by spinning and weaving
thereby keeping them from being &
town charge. Her father was a Grip
pie for many years. Since their dealt
she has cared for herself, and the pas
/. year she has woven eighty-two yards
of rag carpeting, besides her othel
woIk. Every pleasant Sundays sht
attends church, walking about half ,
mile.
f. Deming has three well preserved
volumes of the Journals of the Ameri
can Congress from IVA, two years be
= for the Declaration of Independence
I to sometime after 1880. They contain
all the important papers of the excitin!
i times which ended in the revolutiOnar,
( war, including numerous atfidavits o