Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-05-24
State l1eips.

The Vermont Marble company paid
its employees upward of S46,OOO Tor
wages earned in April.
Fed Billings l2-year-old son was ac--
cidentally shot through the head and
killed at Stove, the 18th, by Il playmate
of about the same age
Brattlehoro is to have horse trot
July 4, with purses amounting to SSoO.
The races will be under the management
of the Valley Fair association.
\ man, supposed to be William VIII
iams of West Pawlet, was run over
near that place by train the other
night He was asleep on the track with
his head on the rail.
Geo. Huntress, the mail carrier at Col
chester, and book agent named Geo. l.,
Story were held up by "A masked high
wayman near Fort Ethan Allen. Friday
night, and relieved of their money.
Ger. o. o. Howard Of Burlington has
declined the presidency of Norwich
university, Mortified, winch Is without
a president. Bishop Hall will preach
the baccalaureate at the commencement,
June %.
G. j. Mongeon of Burlington. owner
of the stallion DeuX, was attacked by
the animal few days ago and badly
cut ard bruised. But for the timely ar
rival of help he would probably have
been killed
Mrs. Patty Richardson, widow of
Godfrey Richardson, who fought at
Bunker Hill, lives at East Bethel. She
is one of the five revolutionary pension
ers alive in the whole country. She Is
in her ODD year and is bright and smart.
All of her children are dead.
James II. Chamberlain of Plymouth
was arrested the other day by United
States officers for making moonshine
whlskey. He was a wheelwright by oc-
cupation, and had been arralgned be-
fore for selling cider brandy His plant
was found in cellar underneath his
shop.
Louis Kimball, president of the junior
class Of the ST. Johnsbury academy.
was kidnapped Friday night by mem
bers of the middle and senior classes,
and taken three miles from town in a
team. He had to walk home. kimball
was to preside at class sOciable and
give an address Of welcome.
James c. Fox of Fair Haven, who fell
over banister in a Saratoga hotel last
week, dislocated his neck and was picked
up Tor dead, has recovered and re-
turned home. l1e seems to bear charm-
ed life. Twice he wos wounded and left
for dead on the battlefield, and once he
fell from passenger train in rapid mo-
ton and rolled unhurt down an embank-
ment 20 feet high.
Scarsburg, Bennington county, has a
population of 232, and the town clerk,
G.. j. Bond. in his return of the vital
statistics to the secretary of State shows
one birth and no marriages or deaths
during 1891. The accompanying note
speaks for itself: "With tax of 3S;
cents on the dollar of the grand list OF
the town, we cannot afford to die or get
married, and births are avoided as much
as possible.
The national Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution have just presented tt
Mrs. Arson Buck and Mrs. EdwarC
Buck OF Arlington handsome souvenirs
in the shape of gold spoons. These tive
venerable ladies are two of the sever
surviving daughters of soldiers of the
Revolution in the whole country. They
are daughters of DR.. Simon Littletield
who enlisted in the revolutionary army
while yet in his teens and served dulius
the war.
Charles +. Cook. an Inmate of the sol
diers' home ut Bennington, was burned
to death in the Jail az Manchester Mon
day night. Sunday morning he was ar
rested in Manchester on suspicion OF be
ing crazy. 1t was cold in the Jail and ht
was given wood to build fire in the
stove. Instead he built it on the flOO
near the bed. The fire was discovered
going through the door anO windows
bur before he was rescued he was dead
being badly burned.
Several days ago some young bloods il
"Sodom, village in the adjoining tow
of Calais, purchased what they supposed
was alcohol for motive power at dance
says ii Montpelier spOndent. Th'
liquor proved to be wood alcohol. Si'
of them were made deathly sick by it
use, but they managed to throw it of
The next day they gave Fred Weeks o
that hamlet drink of the stuff ''just fo
fun" He kept it on his stomach for !
hours with the result that he was render
ed unconscious and has since becom
totally blind. He has lost the use q
both legs and his physician gives him II
encouragement that his eyesight or pow
ers of locomotion will he restored.