The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-20
state and Vicinity.

The medical department of the Univer-
sty of Vermont has 10 students.
Montpelier is to have a public library,
citizens having subscribed $500 to found
one.
Montpelier has Il snow-shoe club of 30
members, who go on tramps Sunday
mornings.
Bellows Falls is to have the Vermont
Methodist conference the last of April
the Congregational State convention in
June and the Universaists in August.
Moses Metcalf of Roxbury died the Stb
aged SO years, He was the tallest may
in town. being. before aye had bowed his
form. 6 feet inches in height.
In the Rutland county court, Saturday.
Lucus Collins and Ii. G. willard, hotel
keepers at Brandon were each fined
S30o % for otfenses under the liquor law.
The people of Cornwall are preparing
| to celebrate the One-hundredth anniver-
sary of the organization of the Congre-
gational church of that town, July 10
next
The discovery lately made by Prof.
A. ii. Sabin of the University of Vermont
of the process of making mi k sugar from
WHEY 10 dlll tNGlLSs 'N'NhN'NN
! among scientists.
\ Ten cars of freight train were thrown
from the track at North Fcrrisburgh sta
ton, Tuesday morning, broken switch
rod having allowed the track to spread.
No one was hurt.
At North Ferrisburgh, the 18th. Aleck
Mccoy, otherwise known as "Jocko.
was sentenced TO three months in the
I ,pI fnr ctoa1inm g. tho
property of NJ. +. Allen 4 Bro.
The first appointment to federal Of
| flee in Vermont under the Cleveland adj
ministration was made Friday IL. ii. Bis
hop of Bolton being appointed railway
postal clerk on the st. Adams and Boston
route, vice II. G. Gleason, resigned.
Hon. George W. Heudee. receiver of
! the Vermont National Bank. will pay a
dividend of 20 per cent. to the depositors
of that institution as soon rs the checks.
now in the hands of the comptroller of
the currency. have been signed and re-
turned.
John Daley. tie oldest person in Rut-
land, died last week. He was born in
County Mayo. Ireland. August ID. l7S4.
and lived there until he came to Rutland,
IS years ago. He was If years old at
the time of the Irish rebellion and re-
membered and told many incidents of
that struggle.
Allen Warner. who lives on the st. Al
bans road near the town line, was attract
ed by the barking of his dog the other
night, and found that the dog was bark
ing at a large-sized lynx. As soon as the
animal saw Mr.. Warner it took after
him and drove him and his dog into the
house. Warner got pistol and went in
search of his lynXship. but he had
| skipped. -SlrdntOn Sentry.
Montpelier has another murder trial
that of Clark w. Sanders for the MUIR
der of Daniel Carr, which began on Tues
day. The defense is emotional insanity
Sanders is quiet East Montpelier FARM
Ell and has always had Il good reputa-
ton. Carr kept an auction store in the
town. and he had been intimate with
Sanders ; wife and was regarded by the
latter as the destroyer of his happiness
and the cause of the ruin of his family
On the 23d of last August Sanders enter
ed Cars store. and approaching the lat
ter as he was sitting at his desk. shot hin
three times in the back of the neck, caus-
ing instant death.
The trial of the suit of the Rutland
IdlIIOdu Against SA-1ON. JOllll D. dSt
began at Rutland on Tuesday. A specia
jury was empancled, and the lawyers
made their Opening statements. The
plaintiffs said they expected to prove q
number of wrongful transactions by
Page, running through 10 years, and in
timated that IA great deal of complicated
evidence would be presented. Mr.. Page
lawyers urged that the present road
managers were crowding Page; that hC
did no wrong, and that the road is in
debted to him. The amount involved is
large, and the trial will probably take {
month. The defendant was upoL the
stand Tuesday and Wednesday.
Medore Stone of Hartford narrowly es
capped death Wednesday. Driving one
horse and leading another, he had reach
ed the crossing on the Central Vermont
railroad Just south of the station ut Hart
ford when his team was struck by the
nOrthward bound express train. Both
horses were thrown TO the right of the
track, 10 feet beyond the crossing, ant
instantly killed. The sleigh was thrown
to the left and literally smashed to spin
, tiers. Mr. Stone was thrown about u
feet up the track. on which he fell, re
ceiving injuries on the head and body o
a very severe nature, but probably no
) fatal. The crossing is very dangerous
> being near a sharp curve in the road
Accidents of Il like nature have twice be
fore occurred there.