Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-02-11
THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Charles Fairbanks Dies i'm Foreign
Land-A Prominent Pownal Man Gone
A Curious Relic of the Civil War and an
Ancient Wedding Heirloom-Oth Items
Word comes of the death at his home
In Nice, France, of pneumonia, OF Charles
Fairbanks, aged 76 years. He was
son of Erastus Fairbanks, one Of the war |
governors of the state. He was born In
Barnet Dec s, 1921. His early life was
spent at his fathers home In st. Johns
bury. He was educated at Phillips
Andover academy, and entered the scale
firm of E, & r. Fairbanks & Co. He
went to New York In 1S45 to establish
branch house, which is now the largest
selling house of the concern, handling
all the foreign trade. In 1860 he was
compelled by iii health to go to Europe.
where he has since resided. He leaves
wife, Laura Woodwork Fairbanks,
native of Bakersfield, one sou, an ac-
complished pianist and composer, ana
two sisters, Mrs. G. M. Stone OF 81.
Johnsbury and Mrs. G. L. Goodel OF
Boston.
William B. Arnold, one of the most
prominent men in POwnal, died very
suddenly at his home Friday morning,
after about five hours illness, with neu-
ralgis of the heart. Mr.. Arnold was
prominent Republican and had represent
ed the house and senate in legislature.
MIR. Arnold was 20 years of age. His
family was one of the earliest to settle
in Pownal. He was town agent and
selectman for many years and had also
been Justice of the peace for long tlme'
and filled other town offices. lie was
state senator from Bennington county
in 1889.
DIR. S. j. Allen of White River juno
ton has an interesting relic of the clos
ing days of the rebellion. 1t is Testa-
ment in which MIME ball is imbedded.
1t was taken by Samuel j. Allen, medi-
cal inspector of the 9th corps, from the
left breast pocket of rebel soldier who
was killed at Sailors Creek, Virginia,
April S, 1865, and who was brought to
the hospital of the I'd division Of the 9th
corps that day. The ball was fiatteGed
upon either side and. stopped on the
seventh verse of the eighth chapter of
Second Corinthians
One of the female patients escaped
from the Vermont State asylum at Wa
terbury Monday, and in her eagerness 10
avoid capture she rushed into a nearby
dwelling house and begged to be secret
ed away from those who were in pur-
,, suit. The lady of the house, who was
, alone. was so much frightened that she
did nothing and the crazy woman wenl
up stairs and hid herself in a closet. AT
asylum attendent soon got on her track
and took her back to the asylum.
o Mrs. S. B. Loveland of Pittsford has {
q ring which has been in the family of
n D. Butler, formerly of Rutland, TO
: about 125 years. 1t is supposed to hav'
been the wedding ring of her grea
y grandmother, who lived In Boston at tn
commencement of the revolutionary war
!. 1t was originally a heavily chased golt
n ring, but having been worn by daughter
y granddaughter and great-granddaughte
h of it's first owner, it has become fin
/. thread of gold.
O The second "clean up" at the Hadle
# plant of the Sacandaga Mining and Mil
o ing company was made Saturday. Fror
r. nine tons of sand a lump of gold value
% at S6S was secured. The stockholder
present were satisfied with this result, a
" the machinery is the first of its partiC
e ular kind ever made, and its operation
o vet experimental. This amount of gol
y was produced with only one of the fou
10 grinders in use.
10 One day last week a man about
oil 70 Of tho nOC
Morse of Bennington for food and lods
ing, saying that he was out of none
and that he had had little to eat for
u couple of days. 1t became known tht
id the man was the son of former wei
as known and well-to-do druggist of Bra
ly tleboro. The man was on his way
1u 11u BrattlebOro to visit his mother.
al. Negotiations are now under way fC
"a issuing the largest single fire insuranC
III policy ever carried in the state. 1t is IL
a half million dollars and will cover a
al Roman Catholic church property in II
of diocese of Vermont. The property
TO now divided among the various cOmpa
n. les. 1t is believed better rate car
of secured by insuring everything with oil
company.
+: Elmer Woodard, a 27 year old son
l Samuel Woodard of Sandgate, comm
IN ted suicide at his home in Granville,
ed Y, early Sunday morning. He had
ed trivial quarrel with his wife in the eve
M ing and few hours later was fou
,xt dead, having hung himself by a str
lr. from the stair rail. Insanity is said
be hereditary in the family.
of Bishop Hall had a narrow escape frC
Ian Ian injury Monday evening about o'clo
the on the Malletts Bay road, near Burlir
an ton. His horse slipped into a rut a
the sleigh tipped over, throwing
voI ol bishop and lady companion out. I
'ad horse extricated its foot and started {
the A tree was collIded with and the slei
nav 80. .ol;,hoa