The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13

who had been at Abilene. went on to his
rancho at Colorado City, Texas, but will
return to Vermont in the course of a
week or ten days. They found the mar
ket for sheep quite active when they first
reached Abilene; before hey had dis
posed of their whole stock. however. the
demand was pretty well supplied.
Col, A. S. Tracy Camp. No. %. Sons
of Veterans was mustered in on Friday
evening of last week at the room in the
basement of the town hall by Mastering
Officer o. h. Leonard, captain of Col. j.
S. Tyler Camp. No. ,. of Brattleboro.
The officers of Tracy Camp are: Cap
tain. John NJ. Nash; first lieut., Horace
c. Tracy; second lieut.. Joseph Taylor :;
G.. c., Will McIlugh; third G. c., w. +.
Alden; orderly sergeant. f. l.. Allen @.
NJ. sergeant, Fred Rogers; chaplain, w.
f. Alden; color sergeant, Merlin Morri-
son; sergeant of the guard. Will
M'Hugh; corporal of the guard, Geo.
Bell; camp guard. Henry Samson; pick
ct guard. Chas. Rich. The camp has
hired McCue's hail and will hold meet
ings every Friday evening till Dee. 81,
and thereafter probably only once every
two weeks. Twelve members now com
pose the organization, but others will join
tonight, and there is a probability that it
will be large and strong camp. 1t is
the only one in the county. There are
now % camps in the State.
Col. A. 5. Tracy has taken the agency
for Vermont in the Civil War in the
towns of Middlebury. Cornwall. Wey-
bridge. Bridport, Orwell, Shoreham,
Whiting. Salisbury, Leicester. Goshen.
and Ripton. This book is the one which
the State employed Hon. G.. G.. Benedict,
editor of the Burlington Free Press, to
write. His well-known ability and ia
miliarity with the subject ensure a read
able, accurate and trustworthy account
of the part taken by the soldiers of the
State in the suppression of the Rebellion
1t will be printed in two octave volumes.
illustrated with steel portraits of promi-
nent Vermont officers and with maps of
battle-tields. Its contents will comprise
Histories of every Vermont regiment
and organization; histories of the first
and second brigades; histories of the
cavalry, batteries and sharpshooters
detailed accounts of battles and engage.
ments corrected lists of the killed and
wounded; personal sketches of Vermont
officers and soldiers; services of Yer
monters in the navy; list of Nermonter;
holding commissions in the regular army
and in the regiments and organizations
of other States, and incidents and remen
iscences of the war. Nermont's recorC
in the late war is one of which the State
has right to be proud. ana every resi-
dent whether he was a soldier or not
will want the book which tells the story
of her achievements.
The death of a Ripton man named Var
ney. on Tuesday of this week. has caused
quite little talk, but the indications ar,
that he came to his end through natu
raj causes. 1t seems that he was not par
ticularly bright, and that the youths o
Ripton have been in the habit of playin!
all sorts of pranks with him. One o
their favorite Jokes was to buy larg
quantities of something eatable and Civ
| it to him if he would make way with /
| ut once. He is said to have eater
two pounds and half of cheese at on
meal. and at another time to have DRUM
IA quart of molasses without stopping. .
week ago last Tuesday evening he wa
down at the store at Ripton Hollow
when one of those present proposed T.
give Varney bottle of Wheat bitters
he would drink the whole of it on tn
spot. lie accepted the offer, and tool
the bitters. On the way home he wa
taken sick, and stopped at house on ih
road for several hours The next day h
worked, and went to dance either Wed
nesday or Thursday night. He died o
Tuesday morning of this week. At tn
request of the selectmeu of Ripton Dr'
Sutton and Porter went up Wednesda
afternoon and made a pOst-mOrtem eH
animation. They found that the immC
date cause of death was congestion o
the lungs.
The Amateur polo team of this vi
lage, which is made up as follows-CaE
tain and first rush, Fla. Wartield; secon
rush, w. Gotta; cover point, ID. j. Ga
vim; goal cover, j. X. Piper; half bacl
W. II. Jones; goal tend, w. G. Foote-
went down to Rutland Saturday night
play the STARS" of that place. MOI
DAYS Herdld has this to say: "Ther
was large crowd at the Bicycle rim
Saturday evening to see the game Of pol
between the Amateurs of Middlebur
and the Stars of this village, which wa
won by the stars A number of fricnC
of the Middlebury club came with then
and after the game the visitors wei
treated to an oyster supper by the Ru
land boys. The Middlebury team Ia
PLAYED away from home but once befol
this, and lacked practice as well as bein
; much younger than the Rutland player
b. A. Wilder was the referee. The fir
and second goals were won by Hines fC
the Stars each in 10 seconds, and Il
: third goal and game by Hayward of II
Stars in 60 seconds. The actual playiu
time of the game was l minute and
seconds. The return game will soon
: played in the Middlebury rink. Aft
= the game an exhibition game of tw
4 goals was given, which was won by Il
e Stars in IS seconds and minutes +
speciively."
: A Paw Paw (Mich.) paper has this Il
count of the death of "A former reside
+ of Middlebury. The date of the acc
! dent was Wednesday, Oct. 6: Mr.. |
IA. Munger met with very sudden deaf
: hone and one-half miles southeast of tn
n Village, on Wednesday of last week, |
?. the roof of a shed, which he was teariI
: down, falling on him. Mr.. Munger can
:. from Vermont to Michigan in 1914. |
Il was in the three months service in
/, Indiana regiment, and subsequently e
| l., tho EirSt Minhinon 40. ,a lrx