Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-16
State lleuo5.

y wildcat three feet long and weigh
ing 20 pounds was recently caught in
Windham.
ii. X. Melendy Of North Thetford. who
cut his throat at the Fletcher hospital in
Burlington last week, and whose life the
doctors hoped to save, died Of his iniu-
ries last Friday morning.
Ezra Gibson, aged 73, resident of
Barnet. was found in a brook near his
house Monday night. A rope was
around his neck and heavy iron at
tached to the rope. He had been des-
pondent and his mind was unsettled.
The Corinth moonshners, j. w. and
Darling Eastman, pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Rutland the other
day. j. w. was sentenced to pay fine
of 100 and to one month in the house of
correction and the other to four months
imprisonment and a similar fine.
w. S. Mann of West Randolph, who
mysteriously disappeared two months
ago, is thought to have turned up in
Chicago. "A Montpelier man has re-
ceived letter of inquiry from the Ar
mour Beef company saying that man
by that name asking for a situation had
referred them to him for reference.
The three-year-old twin daughters of
Joseph Ryan, who lives two miles north
of Castleton village, strayed from home
Thursday afternoon of last week. The
whole neighborhood Joined in the search,
but when the next morning they were
still missing force of $50 men from
Fair Haven and Casteton renewed the
search, which continued until ) o'clock
Friday afternoon, when William Brown,
who had become detached from the main
force, found them in Beaver meadow
ABOUT TWO miles from home. Mr.. Brown
gets the 500 reward offered for finding
them alive.
Rev. l.. II. Elliott. secretary and
agent of the Vermont Bible society.
makes the following report of the last
fiscal year: OF the II ,379 families visited
9S3. or about one in II, were found with
out Bibles in the house; 344 families were
found who could neither read nor write.
only 4O3 per cent of the population of
those towns visited attended the Profess
tant church and only 234 per cent were
connected with any Sunday-school. In
those towns 233 per cent were Roman
Catholic. Two thousand one hundred
and eighty Bibles and Testaments
were sold in the canvass and Isl desti-
tute families presented with Bibles by
the society.
Medals of honor have been awarded bv
the war department to these officers of
1 Vermont regiments for gallantrv in ac-
ton during the rebellion: Ex-Governor
Samuel +. Pingree. while captain Third
l Vermont volunteers for personal gallant
= ry in action at Lees Mills, Va. April lG ,
lsG2 Breyet Maior-general VIM. Wells,
Us. v, while maiof First Vermont cay
airy. for distinguished gallantry in ac-
ton at Round Top, Gettysburg, Penn,
July 3, 1853: General Wheelock &. Yea
zey, while colonel commanding sixteenth
. N'luI'HA volunteers. LOT 0dIldulIN III dC-
tion and tactical ability in the annihila-
ton of Pickett's Confederate division at
Gettysburg, July ,, 1868; Adiutant-gen-
eral Theodore ;. Peck. while first lieuten-
ant Ninth Vermont volunteers. for per-
sonal gallantry in action at Newport
Barracks, y. c., February ,, 1865: Col
onel George W. Hooker, acknowledgement
[. >. v, while first lieutenant Fourth
Vermont volunteers, for personal gallant
ry in action at South Mountain, Md,
September II. 1862. These medals are
awarded under an act of Congress passed
in 1853, and are the first to be issued to
Vermont veterans.