The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-20
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French families at Newport have
IaCely lost % children by diphtheria.
Chas. Brun has been arrested at Mon
treal for stealing a horse at Fairfield last
August.
Londas Ellis, an insane Springfield
man. hanged himself Saturday morning
in his barn.
The State Teachers association will
hold It's annual meeting in Burlington in
January next.
George l.. Brooks of Brattleboro will
give that town a handsome building for
public library.
Rev. w. Ii. II. or Adirondack Murray
has sold out his restaurant in Montreal
and will move to Burlington.
An Alburg man claims to have raised
from one hill 229 potatoes, half of them
being large enough to be eaten.
Rev. w. B. Buckingham. formerly of
New London, Ct. has accepted call to
Trinity Episcopal church in Rutland.
a golden-headed eagle measuring six
and half feet from tip to tip of its
wings was shot last week at Hinesburgh
pond.
The State Woman's Suffrage associa-
ton will hold its second annual meeting
at Dandy on the 9th and 10th of Decem-
Der.
West Randolph has been enioving a
boom the past summer. nearly 30 new
blocks and houses having been built
there during the season.
While out hunting Monday. James
Burns of Colchester was accidentally
shot by companion. The charge en-
tered his forehead and killed him.
A student at Saxton's River. Burt
Field. tried to light a fire with kerosene
and the stuff suddenly blazed up and
severely burned him about the face.
Mrs. Clarence c. Hard drowned her
self in Il small stream near her home in
Arlington last Thursday Grief at the
loss of little daughter was one of the
causes.
The horse cars for the Burlington
railroad failed to arrive last week, and
the celebration of the opening had to be
postponed till Monday night, when there
were great doings.
The Vermont Farmer has ceased to
exist, its subscription list having been
sold to the New England Farmer. 1t
was an alleged agricultural paper with
A project is on foot for the building of
a railroad from Montpelier to Hardwick,
II or l5 miles. to connect the st. Johns
bury & Lake Champlain and the Mont
pelier q Wells River roads.
The trustees of the soldiers home
meet in Montpelier the 24th to elect Off
GERS, organize the home, consider when
to build and where to locate and also to
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the United States.
X. c. Parsons of Derby Line claims to
own the tomahawk with which Hannah
Dustan of Deertield, Mass, bllled the
Indians who had taken her captive, and
was thus enabled to make her escape.
The relic is vOuched for as genuine.
Mr. Lamine's lamp exploded at st.
Johnsbury the other night just as he was
getting into bed, set his shirt on fire and
burned it almost from his body. He
escaped without serious injury, though
the bursted lamp ignited the table-cloth.
The several hundred Vermonters who
organized colony at Royalton last May
and moved into Dakota find themselves
on prairie at the beginning of winter,
in snug houses. with church, school,
Grand Army post and dramatic club.
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Much CONSERVATION and grief prevail
about Guilfold over the discovery that
the village cidermill has been grinding
out cider that contains perilous quantities
of lead from paint in the tank. Three
men are very sick from it, and many
Others are fearful of having to go dry
this winter.
A woman giving her name as Mable
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noon express train at Windsor Thursday,
and jumped into a brook near the depot
in an attempt to kill herself. The cold
water made her change her mind and she
managed to crawl out. She was on her
way to this city for treatment, but con-
cluded to hide her shame by drowning.
At Rutland, Friday, Warren Green,
cripple, and Patrick Fitzgerald, employ
es in livery stable. quarrelled and
Green struck Fitzgerald terrible blow
on the head with his heavy crutch, fract-
uring the skull. The dispute was about
Green's favorite horse which Fitzgeral Id
whipped. Green is held to await the
result of Fitzgeralds injury, which may
prove fatal.
General Manager j. X. Woodward OF
the Quebec Central railroad was arrested
at Newport Wednesday, while on the way
to his home in Sherb:ooke from Europe
an trip. After sending a dispatch order
ing a special train on his road to bring
down his lawyer. he accompanied the
sheriff to the Memphremagog house.
just as his special uain backed into the
depot he made dash for it, the officer
being in hot pursuit The manager
jumped aboard his car, which was
whisked rapidly out of town, leaving the
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