The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26
Late State News.

A Rutland bachelor. Go. will o o mar
ry Il maiden of II.
The Congregational church at Bran
don will celebrate its centennial July 10
and 20.
| Edward Aldrich was sentenced to two
years in prison at st. Jonnsbury Tuesday
for burglary.
The Billings library building at Bur-
lington is so far completed that it will be
dedicated during the coming commence
ment week.
Fish Commissioner II. A. Cutting and
assistants placed $1,000 land-locked sal
mon in the lakes and streams in the st.
Johnsbury region last week.
Ithas been decided to institute a girls
school in connection with the Episcopal
Institute at Burlington. and a fund of
Sl3,O0 has been provided for the pur-
pose.
John Wesley Sinonds, president of
Dakota University, at Vermillion, who
died last week, was for "a time the principal
of the Burr and Burton seminary ut Man
chester.
Fred Russell. employed in a saw mill at
Pittsford Mills. was badly cut in the side
Just below the lungs while taking boards
from the saw Friday. At last accounts
he seemed to be doing well.
r. f. IIalhorn, commander of Howard
Grand Army Post of Ludlow. has rcceiv-
ed from Brigadier-Gencra j. Il. Jones, as
II contribution to the posts museum of
relics. his uniform drcss-coat. with the
insignia of a rebel brigadicr.
sydney Cotton of Sherburnc, who has
fifteen bear traps set in the town of
Woodford. captured Il bear the other day
that weighed more than 100 pounds.
Bruin showed fight when shot at by Mr..
Cotton. and for a few minutes it was nip
and uck with the nan and his adversary.
Mrs. Allen of Georgia. over sixty years
old, was burned to death last week
Thursday morning. Her grandson set
the barn OF fire with some crackers. She
went into the building to save some prop
erty, when her clothing caught fire. and
she was burned so that death followed
in Il few hours.
Sabin Gartin of Windsor. while chop
ping wood in AScutncy mountain last
week Tuesday. cut his leg with an aX SC
= severely that he bled to death before rs.
. s%istancc could reach him. Gartin was
forty-live years old, and the accident is
all the more distressing as he lives n
widow and nine children.
, On petition of over one thousand citi-
Zcns, Governor Pin9rec has conditiOnalll
pardoned Arson Haywood OF Windham
i who was convicted at the May term OF
court in 1874 of maliciously burning hi,
own buildings in Weston, and sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment. Cover
{ O Pingrec has also conditionaily par
doned Wilfred d. Sprout of Norwich
convicted in December. 1876, of arson
and sentenced to fifteen years imprison
" mcnt.
+. IL. Clark. eldest SOL of George VI
l. Clark of Felchvillc, the minstrel, learned
of his fathers death in a curious manner
lie is Il compositor on the Morning Jour
nal in New \ ork. but the family did no
know where to communicate with hin
and the first news of his fathers dcceas,
came in Il take" of copy that he receiv
: ed about S o'clock Sunday night. IL
n started for Vermont at once. but o
course was too late for the funeral.
The house at Woodstock in which Iii
ram Powers was born is in ruins. 1t i
on land owned by Harvey j. Lockwood
one-third of Il mile southwest of tn
court house. Nearly all the walls ar
standing; the doors and windows az
gone. and the root fell in last winter. |
was one story high, gambrel-roofed
measured, perhaps, 35Xl0 feet the wall
were of planks. and the building ha
been unoccupied the last dozen years
f. The frame was raised Nov. I. l11S. tn
site is on II hillside, and about | 1000 fee
above the sea. There are several pic
lures of the house now eXtant. One is
e painting by Miss Fanny johnson of Bo:
'd ton. John Marble. the Woodstock ar
list. has made one sketch in black an
ii white, and one in oil. There are ais
photographs of it.
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