Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-16
State l1elps.

The Rutland county court docket for
the September term is out, and contains
$50 civil, l5l criminal and GO chancery
cases.
A new gold company has been formed
at Bridgewater, with SljO,OOO capital, to
work mine on the mountain above the
Ottaquechee mine. Frank Mckenzie is
president.
Matthew Lyon, one of the well known
characters of early Vermont, is now he
lieved to have been the first man to man
utacture paper from wood pulp. Lyon
was one of the original grantees of the
town of Fair Haven.
Zip Kee Duck, "a prominent Chinese
merchant of Montreal and naturaliZed
citizen of Canada, was assaulted while
passing through the park in ST. Adams
the other night and roughly handled.
No motive for the assault appears.
A strange accident occurred to Charles
+. Spaulding of Warren one day last
week. He got up INTO IA chair to raise a
curtain, when the chair fell over and he
struck on the back of it, iniuring him
internally. Inflammation supervened,
causing gastric fever, aud he died.
William Nye of East Barre came very
near bleeding to death the other day
While dressing a granite base piece of
steel broke from the drill head and struck
one wrist, nearly severing the main ar
terry. One of the workmen, seeing his
condition, seized him by the wrist and
held it until he could be taken to IA
doctor.
Another place ia Vermont where deer
are said TO be plentiful in BridgeWater
Centre. few days ago one came into
the road at the lower end of the village,
looked up the street and cropped the grass
by the roadside, but as some people tried
to get near. ii ran back to the mountain.
Another came into the shallow water at
the mill pond and played in the water
nearly an hour.
Henry II. Vail of New York city has
given the town of Woodstock six acres
or level meadow land conveniently loca-
ted, to be used as IA play ground and
field for outdoor sports by the youth
of the village. Heretofore the village
trustees furnished grounds half mile
distant for that purpose. The meadow
was purchased by Mr.. Vail for $500.
Mr.. Vail is IA brother OF Homer w. Vail
of Pomfret.
interesting relics have lately been
found III the cellar of the old French fort
of st. Anne at Isle La Motto. The eel
lar, which was discovered by Rev. j.
Kerldou, is about ID! by % feet, and four
feet deep. In it were found remains of
table knives and forks with bone handles,
carving knives, dagger, tablespoons,
whetston the latch OF door, hinge, "A
small chain and anchor attached, clay
pipe. earthen and china ware of various
l.
\ number of Boston sportsmen are
said to have bargained for large tract
| of land in StrattOn not far from the
place where Daniel Webster addressed
the big W.hig convention in 1910, 1t is
proposed by the purchasers to establish
| tor themselves and friends great fish
and game preserve, to dam the stream
which is tributary to the Deerfield. to
/ build cottages as well AS a large fish
hal cherry, and most of all to protect the
forests from the lumbermen. Some GOO
acres have been selected righr in the
/ heart of the Green mountains and in a
section where the best trout fishing is
found.
st. Adams had narrow escape from
another serious fire last week Thursday.
! Henry Mossey, a plumber ia the en-
mans tire-pOt in Green's workshop,
when the fire kicked back and set fire to
Mosseys frock. NIossey ran out the
back door, where Green's team stood. in
which was barrel of gasoline which
was being siphOned into an adjacent
tank; the flames from Mossey commu-
nicated to the vapors from the barrel,
which caused an explosion and shOwered
the blazing fluid all over MOasey, who
ran shouting back into the shop and was
caught by the other wOrkmen and his
clothes stripped from him, but not until
he was fearfully burned about his legs,
arms, face and back, his finger nails
dropping out and the skin peehng of in
great shreds. The horse attached to the
wagon in which was the burning gaso
line became frightened and ran down
the back alley of the stores. Six more
barrels of gasoline in the rear of Stevens
& Co.'s store caught fire ana were q
mass of flames in an instant. The fire
department arrived in time to prevent
the barrels burning enough to explode
their contents. The horse was stopped
as he turned up kingman street,