The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
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A rattleSnake nearly four feet long
was killed in Springfield the other
day.
The Castleton normal school has
graduated 220 persons since its establish
ment i'll 1867.
Twenty is the number of divorce cases
on the docket for the September term of
the Rutland county court.
A Bennington four-days-old baby died
two days after being given dose of car
bolic acid i'll mistake for castor oil.
A Newport family recently lost four
members from black diptheria and many
i'll the town are sick with that dis
case.
At Sharon, the 4th, ten-year-old
youth celebrated by swimming twice
across Standish pond, which is $50 rods
wide.
Because of melancholy Mrs. Manning
Boyd, a Townsend widow, aged -, tried
to cut her throat Sunday. She may re-
cover.
Custer post of Bennington will cele-
brate the anniversary of the battle this
year on August 18th, the 18th coming on
Sunday.
The Rutland County Historical socie-
ty will hold its annual meeting August
|, i'll that part of Casteton known as
Belgo, near the residence of Allen
Palmer.
The people of Brandon have had a
sharp contest over the location of their
soldiers monument and finally fixed mp
on the triangle at the junction of Park
and Franklin streets.
The town of Reading has the gold
fever, and already fortune hunters are at
work. The rock is said to yield $1S a
ton at five feet depth, $40 at seven feet,
and $50 at 10 feet.
1t is said that counterfeit 81 Canadian
bills are in circulation in Vermont. They
| are such close limitations that it is sur
missed by some that they are printed
from a stolen genuine plate.
Over in Chelsea the grasshoppers have
appeared in myriads, and threaten more
serious ravages than heretofore, especial
| ly i'll localities not affected by them very
seriously i'll previous years
The directors of the Ogdensburg X
Lake Champlain railroad have elected
j. W. Hobart of St. Adams president
II. a. Church of Boston treasurer, and
George 7. Childs of ST. Albans secre-
tary.
The West Haven Congregational
church last Sunday received fine com
munion set from Rodney Fields, who is
n member OF the choir rs well us of the
church, and has sung there $500 Sun
days.
Mrs. Munroe Cram of Roxbury was
Stung by bee, causing her body to
bloat SO that her death was feared for
some days She couldn't speak and
could scarcely breathe; but is now re-
covering.
Hon. Frederick Billings, who has been
West on siX-weeks trip, was greeted
ut Woodstock with n large turnout of
citizens Friday night. w. G. French
made IN address of welcome and Mr..
Billings responded.
The tenth annual session of the Sau-
veur summer school of languages opened
mt Burlington the 9TH, with between
three and four hundred pupils present 1t
will close the llth of August There
are 27 teachers on the faculty.
The associated alumni of the Castleton
normal school mt their recent meeting
chose +. A. Leavenworth of Castleton
president, Mrs. Laura f. Cramton of
Rutland vice-president, and Miss Minnie
Gorton of Clarendon secretary and treas
urer.
The commissioners to locate a govern
ment building at Montpelier have select
ed n site on State street, now occupied
by the property of Joseph Poland as the
lPdtchmm, printing office, the residence
, of Mrs. Joseph Gould and portion of
the property owned by Washington
county and the late G. w. Willard. The
price aggregates $4,000.
A meeting of the advisory committee
of the Bennington Historical society was
held in that town last week. This com
mittee was raised to procure specifca-
tions and cost of high monument, and
present the same to the Bennington Bat
tie Monument association, i'll August.
This movement is in opposition to the
Weir design. Ex-Governor Fairbanks.
Congressman Stewart, Prof. Perry and
others We're present.
In the spring of 1884 man in Towns
end cut down Il small apple tree to in
sert scions and left it upon the ground
/ near the stump it was cut from. The
/ tree leaved out and blossomed as usual,
but bore no fruit. Last spring it leaved
, out again and has grown about the same
r orous and healthy ms though it had
5 never been disturbed. No part of it
! is covered with earth or near water.