The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-17
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The Vermont Methodist conference
meets at Bellows Falls, April 80.
The Good Templars of the State will
hold camp-meeting this summer, prob
ably at LyndonviIe, on the Fourth of
July.
st. Paul's parish at Burlington has a
new rectory costing $4,000, erected by
John p. Howard on condition that the
parish would raise 81 900 to furnish it.
1t is in the Queen Anne style and built
OF stone and wood.
The following Federal appointments
are announced: Postmasters, North
Bennington, NJ. G. Huling; Derby
Lin w. c. Pike; Nothfied, H. L. Ken
yon; and postal route agent from St.
Albans to Boston, f. r. Woodard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crosby Miller of Pom
fret had their golden wedding Easter
Sunday, but positively forbade any cel-
ebration by their children and friends
and spent the day with their daughter,
Mrs. DR.. Mcintyre, at West Randolph
Mr.. Miller's parents lived together 81
years and his grandparents on his IA
theirs side 80 years.
DR.. Randall recently removed from
the upper part of Philo Cleveland's
right leg a needle which Mr.. Cleveland
says he swallowed forty three years ago
last fall. The needle was good-sized
one, and when removed measured one
and one-halt inches in length. The eve
had disappeared from it.-Hyde Park
Item.
The outbreak of half-breeds in the
Canadian northwest is operating to
drive many Canadians into the States.
During the past week probably fifty of
them have been in Richford seeking
work, and several of them admit that
they left Canada through tear of being
called upon to ''go to de war. Rich
ford Gdrete.
Cynthia IIapgood, young woman
of Essex Junction, died suddenly Sat-
urday morning and an examination
showed traces of poison in her stomach.
She had started for Albany but return
ed home the night before her death.
The cause of the suicide is supposed to
be despondency. Another young wo-
man, Emma Gotta, left Essex about the
same time and has not been seen since.
These new appointments of national
guard officers have been made by Gov.
Pingree upon the recommendation of
Gen. Kingsley of Rutland, brigade
commander: Maj. 5. II. Wood, assist
ant quarterm8ster general of the first
brigade, national guard of Vermont,
has been appointed assistant adjutant
general, vice Major Merrill, who has
removed from the State, and Capt.
Hugh III. Baxter of Rutland, aid-de-
camp, has been promoted to assistant
quartermaster general, with the rank
OF major, vice Maj. Wood, transfer
red.
A Burlington dispatch saws: The
body of Cynthia Blackman, IAN old maid
of 65, who has been missing from Es-
sex since January 8, was found in a
swamp Saturday, with the face partly
eaten by animals. When last seen she
started across lots to a neighbours and
is supposed to have lost her way. Her
absence was not noticed for Ions time,
as she lived about with several differ
ent families widely separated. She is
said to have had a valise containing
books, she being a book pedler, and
$50 in money, which were not found,
and some fear she died a violent death.
done in Vermont by foreign companies
during the year ended Dec. 81, 1884, is
published: Nineteen lite and accident
companies issued 1886 policies and cer-
titicates amounting to $3.50, $40. They
received premiums amounting to
1892, $40. SO and paid losses amounting
TO S213, $50 .6l. Thirty-siX fire COM
panies wrote risks amounting to $25,-
3S4 ,lS4.73, received $40, ,735. 10 in pre-
miums and paid S242, ,7O9.43 for losses.
The balance of premiums over losses
of fire companies is SlOS ,025, ,720. Dur
ing the previous year foreign fire in-
surance companies paid over 1000
more for losses than they received i'll
premiums.
An Engineer Sanford II. Potter was
rounding the curve south of the Lull
brook iron bridge in Hartland with q
freight train, Thursday, of last week,
he discovered two tYamps about mid
way of the bridge. There was no time,
to stop the train, nor could the men
turn back and clear the bridge before
the locomotive must strike them and
hurl them into eternity. So thought
the horrilied engineer. Not 80 the
knights of the toOt.path, for cOOlly
swinging themselves over the side OF
the bridge, they hung some hundred
feet above the stream below until the
train had passed. Then they drew
themselves upon the bridge again, and
proceeded on their course, apparently
as unconcerned as if meeting train on
narrow iron bridge was an everyday
) occurrence. - Windsor Journal.