The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-14
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work has been resumed in the wooden
mills at Bennington. which had been idle
nearly two years.
Rex Patchen.' stock horse belong
ing to Joseph Drew of st. Johnsbury.
valued at $1,000, died Tuesday.
Mrs. Howard, Randolph widow.
committed suicide last week by hanging.
NO cause FOR the act is given.
George Garrltt and Louis Ander broke
out of the st Adams jail Monday night
OF last week and are now at large.
A mud turtle that filled common
sized wash-tub was recently found on
the railroad track at East Coventry.
a fire in the lumber-yards at Newport
on Thursday night of last week did dam
age to the amount of $4,000 to $4,000.
The United States and Canada express
company's safe at Swanton was blown
open and robbed of Sl0O in cash one
night last week.
On the first day of August Elisha
Moody of Waterbury picked from the
same tree appe-blossOms and ripe apples,
while he had last years apples in his eel
| lar
During the first half of the year 1851
the transfers of real estate in Burlington
amounted to S2l3. and during the first
six months of the present year aggregat-
ed SlSS 900.
The seventh annual festival of the
! Episcopal parish choirs of the State will
be held in st Paul's church, Burlington,
Oct. %, and will be conducted by Prof.
5. B. Whitney of Boston.
State Treasurer Dubois recently sent Il
check for S3G.23l to the superintendent
of the BrattebOro asylum to pay the
expense of the States wards in the in
stitution for the past year.
George +. johnson of Burlington has
been appointed clerk of the nited States
district and circuit courts in place of Col.
b. B. Smaley. resigned. johnson has
been deputy clerk since 1872
Goddard seminary at Barre gets sever
al thousand dollars from the estate of
Jonas Barber of Richmond, who wlled
the institution $4,000 and one-third of
the rest of his estate after certain legacies
are paid.
The Salvation Army have given up
work in Burlington in disgust, after
ordering reinforcements. The soldiers
then tried Plattsburg, y. Y, with the
same result and are now on a furlough
in Burlington.
| Moses Browns horses became fright
ened and ran away with load of hay at
I astleton last week. Brown was thrown
violently to the ground breaking several
of his ribs and bruising him fearfully
from head to foot. He is now in criti-
cal condition.
The Shaftsbury association of the Bap-
tist church will hold its annual session at
Brandon. August 2G and %. The Bap-
| tict phurph n Rra andnp will tbon hold q
centennial service. The historical address
will be by DR.. Thomas, who was pastor
| for 10 years.
Winooski seems to be the worst-gov-
erned town in the State. The hoodlums
burn and rob as they please in spite of
the efforts of law and order league.
Two houses belonging to members of the
league have been burned recently and
mill where many members worked.
Warren Hulett of Pawlet had cheer
full experience the other day. As he
was reaching for piece of pork in a
barrel he caught spotted adder three
feet and two inches long, which he threw
across the cellar. The snake was ugly
and showed fight when taken from the
cellar.
Lyman ID. Willcut of Boston has been
awarded the contract for building the
State library building at Montpelier He
agrees to have the building erected Au-
gust |, lSSG. The price he receives is
S32 800. The southern and western
walls are to be of granite, the other sides
brick. The cornices and moudings are
to be built of undressed granite.
Col. Geo. W. lIindes' yacht Sharpie'
won the prize in the race at Burlington
last week under the auspices of the new
ly-orgarized Burlington Yacht club; IL.
NJ. Phelps "Gypsey" coming in second
T. z. Pease's SANDY" third and johnson
Bros. Mystic fourth. The prize was
a solid silver cup with the inscription,
"Bailey's Music Room Cup, lS>5." The
course was ten miles long
Brandon's cruel war over the site of
the soldiers monument is not over yet.
Lieutenant Governor Ormsbee has
brought suit against the town and gotten
out an injunction to stop the erection of
the monument in the place decided upon
by the town meeting on the ground that
it would injure his property near by. and
there is a constant succession of warlike
demonstrations over the matter
The pile sleeper is the daughter of
George Scott of Groton. She is in her
fourteenth year. On the 7th of January
she took to her bed and went to sleep,
and has continued to sleep eyer since,
with the exception of very few minutes
at time, when they give her little
liquid food. She has not lost much flesh,
and does not seem To be in any pain. She
is as helpless as a baby. None of the
numerous doctors called in to see her
knows what is the matter.
These Grand Army posts, with III
members, have been organized in Yer
mont since April l; F. V, Randall, No.
81, Danville, n. Ii. Page, commander;
Abraham Lincoln, No. 81, Hartford, S.
NJ. Pingree, commander; Rollin 5. Sher-
man, No. Sc, Essex, q. IL. Brown, COM
mander; |. l.. Clark, No.S7, Grafton,
Charles W. Haskell, commander; Judd
NJ. Mott, No. IS, Alburgh, George III.
Sowles, commander; William p. Russell,
No. 50, Middlebury, A. 5. Tracy, COM
mander; W. ii. Greenwood, No. 30, Put
ney, l.. Z. Bailey, comma lder.