Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-19

Timothy Cheedle, 60 years old, and
Mary Chaplin, 1G, daughter of George
Chaplin, residents of North Chittenden.
went to Granville, n. Y, on July and
were married.
John Befour of st. Johnsbury on Mon
day mistook muriatic acid for ice water
in tin store and drank little. His con-
dition is critical, but the doctors think
he will recover.
The opening of the Sauveur school of
languages at the university of Vermont
at Burlington was well attended last
week. Most of the students come from
out of the State.
The Williams Rogers Cutlery Co. of
Hartford, Conn, that wanted TO 90 to
Northfield, has decided to locate in Nor
wich, Conn.,, the board of trade of that
place having raised $4,000.
Hiram II. Harrington of South Bur-
lington, who for some time had been suf-
fering from nervous troubles. committed
suicide by hanging himself in wood
shed on Tuesday morning.
The Fair Haven Marbeized Slate COM
pany recently quarried the slate and
manufactured therefrom 400 feet of l2-
inch tile. and put it down in Topeka,
Kansas, inside of thirty days.
The maple sugar exchange at Brattle-
boro has handled 1925 gallons of syrup
and q 800 pounds of sugar this season.
This is the second year of the exchange
and the standard quality of its goods is
becoming known.
Leutenant-Colonel G.. e. Kinsman of
Rutland recently sent in his resigna-
ton as lieutenant-colonel of the Vermont
National guard, which position he has
filled for several years, but he has been
prevailed upon to withdraw it,
The Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain
railroad directors have elected B. B.
Smalley president of the company and
d. d. Ranlett of st. Adams as treasurer
and Col. George Z. Childs as secretary
hold their offices for another year.
A little over four months ago Charles
Hadlock station agent at East Thetford.
absconded, his railroad, express and tel
egraph accounts being short $1,000. He
was arrested in Kansas City few days
ago, and was lodged in Jail at Chelsea
last Friday.
The seven-year-old son of Eugene
Smith of Fair Haven, while playing with
the son of Edward Little at HAMPTON.
Just across the line in New York. Tues
day, accidently knocked down a shot gun
which hung in the bedroom where they
were. 1t went off, blowing out the Smith
boys brains.
The third annual reunion of the society
of the First artillery, Eleventh Vermont
volunteers, will take place at st. Johns
bury on the afternoon and evening of the
Sth of August. Chaplain Little (Rev.
Arthur Little, ID. d., of Boston, will be
present. and half-fare tickets will be is
sued by the railroads and an unusually
good time is expectd.
st. Agnes Hall, at Bellows Falls,
which for twenty years has been run as
boarding and day school for young
women, was closed permanently last
week. Miss Hapgood opened the school
in 1869, and for fifteen years it enjoyed
popularity and success, but for the past
five years the number of students had
gradually decreased, and the principal
has considered it unwise to renew the
lease.
James Mccarthy and Arthur Hawkes.
got pretty lively taste of electricity
Saturday afternoon, says a Burlington
dispatch; but fate favored them and they
got off without any more serious results
than severe shock from the fluid which
threw them to the ground. A wire of
the messenger service had got loosened
and fallen upon wire of the electric
light service; and they were foolhardy
enough to attempt to pick it up with
bare hands. They know better now.