The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-04
State and Vicinity.

A 300-pound bear was recently caught
in Shrewsbury.
The thermometer scaled 10 degrees be-
low zero in Mortified Friday morning.
Mrs. Oscar A. Burton, his sister, will
contest The will of the late V. Z. Noyes
of Burlington. who left an estate of
nearly Sl,000,000.
The supreme court will not render its
decision in the matter of granting a new
trial to Editor Maloney of the Richford
Gazette till the session of the supreme
court at Burlington in January. Ma
loney is convicted of libeling Chief JUS
tice Royce.
The partially-decomposed body of
Chaplin Marden, light-keeper at Owls
Head in Lake Memphremagog, was found
in bed Thursday of last week. The APP
pearances indicate that he died two weeks
ago. Navigation had been suspended
and the absence of the lights was not
noticed.
The doctors on the border have occa-
sional troubles in their vaccinating tours
through the trains. The emigrants from
Canada object generally, and present
bogus certificates of vaccination. So
frequent had this become that each pas
senger now has to show satisfactory
scar on the arm before escaping. One
burly Frenchman recently tainted dead
away during the operation, which stirred
up rebellion among his ignorant COM
panions. who thought he had been
poisoned.
The trustees of the Vermont soldiers
home held an informal meeting at Rut.
land Tuesday of last week and gave out
a call for business meeting to be held
in Burlington next month. They ask for
proposals from all towns or individuals
in the matter of a location for the home,
and also any contributions from willing
persons. The amount now at the dispo-
sal of the trustees is only SO 900, apDro-
priated by the State. Fifty old soldiers
are ready to enter the home when built
and some 200 are entitled to become in
mates.
The Supreme court decides in favor OF
the defendants in the suit OF the former
managers of the Rutland railroad against
Clement & Sons, who are now in control
The suit was to invalidate 2970 shares OF
preferred stock Overissued by eX-Treasur-
er Haven. The court thus holds that
the company was liable for the dishonest
act of its treasurer. Whether the court
| COuslutItu lut slOt Ndllu OF not uOes
not appear. Haven sold the stock tC
Clement & Sons and DR.. Mead, the pres.
ent treasurer, when they were seeking to
get control. The value of the stock was
about 100000, which the railroad com.
pany must lose, except a small dividend
which can be got from Ravens estate.
Mary Steele, single woman of so
living in Castleton, was found bruised
and dead in her house Saturday evening
Her drunken brother Guy gave the news
to the villagers. The two have long
been drinking hard and Guy came back
from New York State Saturday with q
fresh quantity of liquor. The woman
lay cold and stiff upon an old lounge in a
room turned upside down in the greatest
confusion. 1t was the same lounge OF
which the victims father was found fro
zen some five years ago. Guy and Mary
were at that time found drunk in an adj
Looming room. An autopsy revealed many
cuts and bruises on the woman's body
but none of them necessarily fatal. II
was at first thought she had been muir
dered; but her death has since been founC
to have resulted from the effects of a long
debauch.