The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-27
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$4,000 toward the establishment of
shoe-factory.
The Fair Haven EpiscoDalians are try
ing to build church and have secured
Sll 900 for that purpose.
An interesting revival, conducted by
>. M. Sayford. the evangelist, is in pro-
gress at st. ,Johnsbury.
The Rutland County temperance con-
vention nominated lockwood Barrett of
Rutland for commissioner.
f. d. Bennett of Bennington has been
appointed superintendent of the Benning-
ton d Rutland railway in place of F. c.
White, who recently died.
The new Republican paper at st.
Johnsbury, which Mr.. Edward johnson,
late of the Burlington Free Press, will
edit is to be called the St.Johnsbury Re
publican.
The directors of the Mary Fletcher
hospital of Burlington received from
Miss Fletcher $4,000 to endow free bed
in the name of the First Calvnistic Con-
gregatiOnal church,
At Rutland the other day. David o.
Kinsman dropped dead while passing
from the Howe scale shop where he work
ed to his home on Gibson avenue; cause,
paralysis of the heart.
Joseph Myers Of Bennington finds
profit in hunting While after rabbits,
the other day. he CHANGED upon and shot
a bear and three cubs. He received $50
bounty on the four, besides selling the
cubs for Sl5 each.
Romeo 6. Brown of Montpelier was
Wednesday fined $50 in police court for
assaulting. when hampered so that he
could not defend himself, II. G.. Dewing,
local reporter, who had written an item
that reflected on Romeo.
Lemuel Shattuck of Bridgewater motto
ed red squirrel carrying corn from the
under crib in his corn barn to a barrel
near by early in the winter, and did not
disturb it, but one day recently eXamin-
ed the barrel, and found it over half full
of corn.
William Lowell of Cavendish, who
killed his neighbOr, Woodbury. Walker,
by striking him with stick of wood, the
other day, was discharged from custody
Saturday after a hearing which lasted
four DAYS, on the ground that he acted
in self-defense.
Cyrus Flood of Cambridge started for
the West, last week, and stopped at the
Van Ness, Burlington, the first night
after leaving home. He blew ont the
gas and nearly died from the effects. On
recovering he went home, concluding that
that was the safest place for him.
The Burlington Republicans have NOM
mated Col. L. A. Woodbury. for mayor
and Ii. 5. Peck for city judge to succeed
Seneca Hazelton, Democrat. who has
held the office number Of years. Peck's
success over Hazelton is not probable,
the present incumbent being tirst-class
man for the place and much ADLER than
the Republican candidate.
A funeral at Wilmington was serious
ly hndcred by the recent snow storm. 1t
was first postponed day on account of
the ministers inability to get to the viii
lage from his home three miles away,
and the body was finally only drawn to
the cemetery on sled through the aid
of kind neighbors, the drifts being so
deep as to render horse helpless.
The Masonic grand lodge of Vermont
was organized in Rutland October ii,
IVA. by representatives from local lodges
in Nergennes, Manchester, Middlebury,
Bennington and Windsor and at a meet
ing held at the house of Brother Cove,
here the next day Center lodge of this
village was chartered" This was the
first lodge chartered by the State orga-
nizatiOn, but the charter was surrender
ed in the anti Masonic excitement 80
years ago and, when re-orgauized in 1855,
was numbered "a. Washington lodge of
Bennington, chartered in 1895, held to
its organization through the storm. and
when the REMEMBERING followed the re-
suscitation of the grand lodge in 1916,
was numbered 3.-RWiand Herald
A Troy Times correspondent tells this
story: One Joseph White of Walling-
ford and wife have had in their family
for years a girl named Ida Terry who
was placed with them for support. The
neighbors suspected from the frequent
and agnOized screams of the girl, that
she was suffering some cruel treatment
at the hands of her pretended protectors.
One evening last week one of the neigh
bors was so distressed by the heartrend-
ering cries of the child that he procured
the assistance of grand juror and two
other men. and, going to the house, ar
rested White and his wife. Horrible
cruelties were found to have been prao-
ticed on the child. Her feet were blis-
tered where the woman had compelled
her to stand on hot stove until she
could no longer stand on her feet. Anoth-
er mode of punishment was to push pins
through the child's ears and fasten her to
the wall, while still another punishment
had been to compel the girl to run her
tongue against the window casing and
then to drive needle through her ton
que and tasten it there. At another time
Ida had been held under pump and
stream of water pumped upon her head
until she was so far exhausted the Whites
could not revive her and were compelled