The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-02
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December term granted three divorces.
West Woodstock with w. 5. Lewis as
postmaster.
A novel institution is the young peo-
pies savings bank, recently organized
at Lyndonville.
Since the 9th of December Antoine
Bell of Roxbury has buried six child
rem. All died of diphlheria.
George Harvey of East Burke, while
at work in his w-mill, got his right
arm badly sawed below the elbow.
John Sheridan of Castleton, veteran
of the Seventh Vermont regiment, has
just been allowed Sl700 back pay and
S96 year as life pension.
The auditors of the Central Vermont
railroad have discovered deficiency
of about 81, 900 in the books of George
F. Herrick, the station agent at Wind
sor, and he has been put under arrest.
Rev. j. Isham Bliss, professor of
rhetoric in the University of Vermont,
has received call to the rectorship of
St. Paul's Episcopal church of Bur-
lington, but has not yet accepted the
offer.
"A young man named Lamphear, re-
Gently student in the Brandon graded
school and later teacher in Chitten-
den, became insane from Over-study
and was taken to the Brattleboro asy-
lum, recently.
Finance Inspector Page, on COM
pleting an examination of the Benning-
ton county savings .ank, pronounces
it solvent, though di'approving a few
loans since made good. Confidence is
restored.
Vermont once more has 241 towns,
by the incorporation of Norton at the
recent session. 1t is situated in Essex
county along the Canada line, Just east
OF Holland and JUS west of the unor-
ganized town of Averill.
The amount contributed by Vermont
to the Garfield monument fund to
December 10th was S84 80. The whole
amount of contributions of States, ter
ritories and foreign countries up to
that date was Sl32, 1896
The Sunday-schools of the State have,
during the past three months, contrib
uted over $500 as "thank-offering" fcr
the Bible. The experiment of taking
such collection was suggested by the
secretary of the Vermont Bible society.
The Vermont grand lodge of Good
Templars will hold three days meet
ing at st. Albans, beginning on the
third Wednesday of January. The ses-
sions will be held at the vcstry OF the
Methodist church, with public meet
ing in the audience-room on Friday
evening. y
Mrs. Otis Riford was burned to death
at Braintree on recent evening. She
was lying on a sofa near the stove and
suddenly discovered that her clothes
were on fire. Her husband was in the
house, but did not succeed in extin-
gushing the flames till she had been
fatally burned.
AT the recent term of the Benning-
ton county court these criminals were
sentenced: l.. A. Robbins, convicted
of stealing horse in Hoosick Falls and
taking the animal into Vermont; sent
to the work-house at Rutland for two
years. Edwin Tompkin, for larceny
of money ana watch III Brattleboro !;
given five years in State prison. Sid
ney Paugburn, for breaking into store
in Pownal; sent to the work-house for
six months.
The Baptists of Vermont have seven
associations, ll3 churches and 1926
members. Nearly all the churches
have Sunday schools, and some of them
have two. The number of officers and
teachers is 1913 and of scholars S257.
Thirteen poor churches received aid
from the convention, which also en-
ploys a general missionary for the
State. The total amount of contribu-
tions by churches and Sunday schools
was: For home expenses, 500, 27S,
and for benevolence, $500 There
are log ordained ministers, of whom
7S are pastors.
PeterD. Lee of MOretown drove on
the railroad track in Middlesex on a
recent Wednesday night at 10 O'Clock.
After following it some 80 rods he met
freight train, which demolished his
sleigh and threw the horse and driver
into ditch. Lee was found about
midnight aud carried to the hotel. His
injuries are slight and he was able to
go home on the next Thursday. The
train men did not see the team, as the
night was thick with falling snow, and
a part of the sleigh and harness as well
as the buffalo robes were carried of by
the engine and have not been found.
Lee mourns the loss of his jug and a
gallon OF rum. The horse was not
much iniurad