The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
State and Vicinity.

A general term of the Supreme court
will be held at Montpelier on the 2Sth of
October.
The Woman at Work magazine, pub
lished at Brattleboro, is hereafter to be
known as the Womon'S Century.
The old wooden mill at New Haven
Mills has been bought by Messrs. Flint
and Smith and is being torn down.
A postoffice has been established at
Lanesboro, on the line of the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad, four miles east
of Marshfield.
1t is reported that Cashier Waite of the
failed Brattleboro bank is failing in
health in his confinement in the work
house at Rutland.
Mrs. Manley Allen of Wolcott hanged
herself Wednesday, leaving a husband
and three children. She tried to cut her
throat six weeks ago.
The Blaine and Logan flag at Island
Pond was pulled down the other night
and torn and distlgured. Intense indig-
nation pervades the community.
New York Dunco steerers the other
day got hold of Lyman 5. Patchin of
Bennington, who had $1,000 in his pocket,
but their victim was saved by the police.
Col John b. Mead of West Randolph
has been elected vice president for Yer
mont, and C. w. Wyman as a member of
the executive committee of the national
law and order league.
Rev. j. r., Bartlett, has issued circu-
lar to the prohibitionists of Vermont,
suggesting convention for the nomina-
ton of presidential electors, to be held at
Montpelier, October 10.
The regular September term of the
Chittenden county court opened in Bur-
lington on Tuesday morning, Judge Taft
presiding. The term will in all prob
ability be a short one.
Oscar Never has been indicted at st.
Adams for the murder of Herman krause
on Lake Champlain last winter, and Ed
mund Ellis for wrecking train on the
Missisquoi road last spring.
The Masonic relief association of the
State has called a meeting to see if the
bylaws can be changed so that uniform
admission fee will be charged, and the
death assessments graded according to
the age of members at admission.
Hon. r. C. Abel, the representative
elect from West Hagen, will be the vet
eran of the next general assembly. hav-
ing already represented West Haven
eight times before-in 1859. 1860 1868,
1869, 1874. 1876. 1880 and 1892. He was
also senator from Rutland county in
1870.
Dyer Leflingwell, the Representatives
elect from Mddletown, is postmaster
there. The voters of Middetown forgot
all about the recent amendment to the
State constitution requiring all members
of the general assembly to take an addi-
tional oath that they are not and were
not at the time of their election holding
any office of trust or profit under the
laws of the United States.
The secretary of State has decided the
contested sheriff@s election in Bennington
county in favor of James l.. Mccall of
Rupert, the Republican candidate.
Among the contested elections to come
before the next House is that from South
Burlington, where Y. A. Hopkins, Re-
publican, had a majority of five. The
ground of contest is that l47 ballots were
cast while only 143 names were checked
on the list, and that many of the Hop
kins ballots had only the last name.
A shocking accident occurred yesterday
afternoon at Sutherland Falls. Two Ital-
ian laborers employed by the Vermont
Marble company were in boat on Otter
creek, having with them a shotgun. AS
they approached the bank for the pur-
pose of gathering some wild grapes, the
gun in some unaccountable way was dis
charged and its entire contents struck one
Ofthe men at the lower part of the groin,
passing upwards. The muzzle of the gun
was less than yard from his body when
discharged and the force was so great that
knife in his pocket was shattered, and
pieces of this together with the wad used
in loading the gun were driven into his
body to such depth as to render it i'm
possible to remove them all. Drs. Gold
smith and Caverly of this village and DR..
Swift of Pittsford were summoned and
did everything possible to relieve the I'M
fortunate man. Owing to the great loss
of blood and the violent shock to his sys-
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