The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09

Charles E. Huntington, son of l.. r.
Huntington of Montpelier, committed
suicide by taking morphine. Friday
evening. lie was about q years old
and leaves wife and child. lie was
OF a morose, respondent temperament
and addicted to excesses.
Patrick Lahey, treasurer of the Faith
er Mathew total abstinence society of
Bennington, absconded a few davs AGO
with $3.50 of its funds. George Miller.
manager of the telephone exchange.
has also left town, taking, it is said,
over 800 of the company's funds.
Many soldiers in Barnard are making
preparations to join the colony that is
going West in the spring to take up
their bounty land and found city,
likely to be called Vermont CITY. Ap-
pearances indicate that as many as two
hundred steady, reliable men will ioin
the colony.
The will of the late Charles Wood OF
Worcester, Mass, after direct beuuests
to heirs of about $4,000 leaves the re-
mainder of his estate, estimated at
about 500, 900, to executors as trustees
to be productivity invested, and the in
come to be applied for the relief of the
aged, lnfirm, poor and unfortunate,
80 as best to serve the cause of hu-
manity in the States of Massachusetts
and Vermont" and to use portions of
the principal for the same purpose if
desirable.
George b. French, the member from
oodstock in the present legislature.
is soon to relinquish the position of
clerk of Windsor county, which he has
held since 1867, and will move TO FIRE.
mont, Neb., TO engage in banking there.
Jay Read Pember of Woodstock, Of
ficlal reporter of Windsor county court
since May, 1870, and of Windham and
Chlttenden county courts for several
years, will be appointed in place of
Mr.. French. Mr.. Pember is a gradu-
ate OF Dartmouth college and first
class steno9rapher.
The directors of the Rutland national
bank, which proposed 10 go into Ii.
qnldation, state that the institution is
solvent and that the stockholders will
be eventually fully paid for their stock
at par and have surplus for final
dividend, For some years past the
bank has been embarrassed by reasons
OF It's loans being so largely to few
persons and corporations who are un-
able to make immediate payments.
The result has been that the bank has
not been able to make general loans
and retain its depositors or declare
dividends.
a Morrisville dispatch of the "a saws:
Salmon Niles, resident of this town,
aged ~, widower, went to Chelsea,
VI, Tuesday, Dec. l3, and married
Miss Paulina Jones of that place Wed.
nesday evening, and started to return
here Thursday, Jan. /. They had
reached within five miles of home, he
and his wife walking behind the sleigh.
when Mr. Niles suddenly fell backward
dead in the road, in the town of Elmore.
Help was obtained, aud the dead man
and the bride were brought to his home
here at O'Clock p. IN. The lady was
courted by Niles many years ago. She
is horribly affected by her afiliction.
A shocking acaident occurred last
Friday night, of which Mrs. Jerry La
France of Burlington was the victim.
Mrs. La France, with kerosene lamp
IN her hand, was passing from one
room to another when the lamp explod-
ed, setting her clothing on fire. Mr..
La France being absent, she had no
one to assist her in extinguishing the
flames, and after vain efforts to save
herself she ran to one of the neighbors.
The flames, which had by tits time
completely enwrapped her, we're speed
lily smothered, but the woman had
been fatally burned. She fingered in
great agony until 30 p. M. Saturday,
when death ensued.