The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-20
Sfofe G1eps.


The Farmers national bank of Yer
gennes is increasing its capital stock.
vicious horse fatally kicked John
Davidson of Ryegate. and injured his son
while he was getting his father from the
stable.
Receiver Rich of the st. Albans Trust
company has paid the second dividend to
depositors, amounting to 10 per cent,
making 30 per cent in ali.
John Davidson of st. Johnsbury was
kicked on the head by horse on re-
cent morning, and died in the afternoon
from the effects of his injuries.
The high-school building at Brattle-
boro was damaged $1,000 by fire last
week. The fire is supposed to have
caught from paper wound around the
hot-air pipes.
At Barre, last week, the roof of the
town hall got overloaded with snow and
broke down. making big noise. 1t had
long been expected that something of
the sort would happen.
Obadiah Howard's farm house and
barn at Townsend, together with house
hold furniture, have been burned, the
family barely escaping with their lives.
Loss about $1,000; insured for 5000.
Some Boston men have bought fac
tory at Wallngford at which they take
milk delivered by farmers and extract
the cream, which is to be shipped to
Boston.
manufacturing establishment at
Wallingford is to work up the coming
season 100, 900 feet of bass-wood and 15,-
900 feet of poplar into snow-shovels, and
about 10000 feet of birch in the manu-
facture of traverse hand-sleds.
Gen. Stephen Thomas of Fairlee, Col.
Fred Smith of Montpelier, Col.
George y. Carpenter of the Massachu-
setts life, and Col. Hill are preparing for
publication the history of the Sth Yer
mont volunteers.
At the State fair in Burlington last fall
Chas. W. Selinas of Montpelier had his
leg broken by beetle In the hands of
Lewis Green, near one of the striking
machines. He has now brought suit
against the Vermont State Agricultural
society and the Champlain Valley associ-
alton for $4,000.
A new bank, the Merchants national,
has just been organized at Rutland, with
these directors; j. n. Baxter, C. S.Col-
burn, w. II. Smith, Egbert c. Tuttle, H.
II. Brown, J. A. Sheldon. n. 2. Kings
ley lockwood Barrett, Hannibal Hodges,
E. Pierpoint and S. l.. Griffith. j. n.
Baxter was elected president, and
j. \. Sheldon, vice-president. G.
W. Mussey was appointed cashier.
The bank will occupy quarters in the
present rooms of the national bank of
Rutland.
Bliss y. Davis of Danville died last
week, aged SO years He was the oldest
member of the Caledonia county bar, had
been town representative and State sena-
tor, and was for several years president
of the Caledonia bank. About 1850 he
was States attorney, and prosecuted the
notorious bristol Bill' for counterfeit
ing in those parts AT the close of his argu-
ment Bill stabbed him in the neck with a
knife in the court room. narrowly mis-
sing his jugular vein. He was an active
practitioner of the law until within two
weeks of his death.
story is going the rounds to the ef-
feet that, one evening of last week, John
Brassaw of Montpelier, while in state
of intoXication, drove up to the house of
Fred Fletcher of Barre. and. in the alb
sence of Mr.. Fletcher, entered the house,
and flung himself upon the sofa. His
conduct terrified Mrs. Fletcher who maze
her escape by the back door and started
across the fields in the direction usually
taken by her husband on his return from
work. Meanwhile Brassaw, with a COM
panion who was with him in the sleigh,
made themselves at home in the house.
Mrs. Fletcher wandered about in the
field nearly crazed with fright, and with
nothing but thin apron over her head
to shield her from the piercing cold.
Her husband did not return until eight
O'Clock. The intruders had departed
from the house, leaving both front and
back doors wide open. The fire was out,
the stove cold, and nobody in the house
but Mrs. Fletcher's infant child asleep in
its bed, Mr.. Fletcher Immediately start
ed out in search of his wife. lie found
her lying unconscious in the snow, about
20 rods from the house. Her hands, arms,
and feet were frozen solid. She had fal-
len into the brook in her wanderings, and
her clothes were mass of ice, while the
apron was frozen to her head. To all ap-
pearanceS she was frozen to death, but
Mr.. Fletcher cal ried her to the house and
sent neighbor post haste for medical
assistance. The doctor stayed with the
family at night, and after nine hours
work brought Mrs. Fletcher to conscious
ness. Some hope is entertained of her
recovery, but she lies in very critical
condition