The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01

The Vermont Dairymcn's association
held its annual meeting at st. Johnsbuy
last week. The following officers were
chosen: President. John b. Mead of
Randolph and three vice-presidents :;
secretary. O. NJ. Tinkham. of North
Pomfret, and treasurer, IL. w. Vale of
North Pomfret.
The Boston Journal says that contracts
have been prepared ana are now ready
for signatures by which New York, Yer
mont, New Hampshire and Massachu-
sets railroads will form an all-rail line
for freight traffic 30 and from western
points. in connection with the New York
Central and its connections from SYRIA
cuse. The roads to enter the agreement
are the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
burg and Lake Champlain. st. Johnsbury
& Lake Champlain, Connecticut and
Passumpsic, Boston, Concord and Mon
treal, Northern. Concord and Boston and
Lowell.
The following. from the Windsor
Journal, is a good story and may be true
for aught we know: " He was lad of
seven years, and, doubtless without the
knowledge of his parents, packed his
skates under his arm and skipped over to
the pond for an hours sport. He broke
through and drifted some distance under
the ice. Before life was extinct, how
ever, he caught hold of an alder bush in
the water, bumped himself up through
the ice and escaped watery grave. At
sixteen he enlisted in the army and was
shot at the very first skirmish. He came
home. recovered. and went back into the
service. At the battle of Malvern Hill,
shell from the enemys works landed
between his feet and burst, blowing off
his left hip and heel. and tearing to
pieces his right leg so it had to be am
putated, besides unfolding two bullets
in his left foot which remain there to
this day. When the wounded were
picked up the next day, this unfortunate
was left on the field for dead, but while
his comrades were pitching him into the
trench with hundreds of others, on that
bloody field. they discovered that this
corpse was alive, and carried him to the
hospital, where he recovered On his
return home. he entered the medical
department of one of our colleges, where
he graduated, and soon after located as a
practicing physician not far from
Corinth, Vt. One day, while riding out
to see a patient his horse took fright,
throwing the doctor out of the buggy,
stringing him all along the road for sew
eral rods On calling together his scat
tered frame. he found three fingers of
his right hand broken. Not long after,
while worlImen were repairing his barn,
a rafter came down cndwise, striking
the doctor on the hat. This caused I'M
casness for several days. The last eX-
plot was in company with friend max
ing n professional call. He took his
pipe out of his mouth and put it in his
ovcrcoat pocket. Passing a house on
the way. the doctor remarked Guess
they are burning compost here Half a
mile more and another house, and another
remark: They seem to be burning
compost here, too The silence of
another half mile was broken by the
doctor eXclaiming: l swow, believe
they are burning compost all along the
wayn upon which he suddenly gave a
jump, landing by the roadside in two
feet of snow, while what was left of him
seemed to be paying strict attention to
his pipe pocket.