The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-10-24

desire the office. lie came very near
being elected, while absent at home, on
Wednesday, having received 81 votes,
while Williams received 43. Mr. Will
liams, having been the Compiler Of the
Statutes of Vermont, is believed to be
emiuently qualified for the duties of the
Office.
Tho Gas bill has passed both Houses
and is a law. The company. however,
were required to give a bond making the
State secure before the House would
pass the bill, when it received little OPP
position from any one The State House
lighted with gas will be splendid sight
to the stranger who may visit the Capt.
tai, and a matter CT pride to the State
A strong effort is being made to re-
deem the honor of tho State By doing jns-
tice to the memory of the immortal
ETHAN ALLEN, " the hero of Old Ii,
by erecting some suitable monument, in
commomoration Of his patriotic and he.
roic deeds, over his now neglected grave.
We trust the effort will be successful
Bills for altering the naturalization
laws, and for the revision Of the school
laws. have been introduced and referred
to select committees DR. Powers Iii
quor bill has been printed and now is be-
fore the Liquor Committee, we believe
The officers having been now all chosen
the work of legislation will rapidly pro
gress.
GENERAL GRANDEY and Mr.. SLADE
lie, ,.a,,,lo -, tl,air
positiopsand if tia business oftho session
is not expedited it will be no fault of
theirs.
Hon D p TnoMrsoN retires from the
position Of Secretary of State, which he
has filled for two years. with the esteem
and confidence of his friends, and the
people Of the State; and would undoutt
cdly have been reelected had he not
been disposed to divide bis strength, at
first, with his son in the Caucus.
The Supreme and Circuit Court of
last year. has been reelected unanim'
ously
Your County, We notice, has very a
bic representation several Of the mem
oers being placed appropriately upon
some of the most important Commit
tees. ALPHA
LncTuREs AND EXPERIMENTS on Mop
ERIN SrlRIruALISM. PRoT. GRIMES pro.
poses to give six lectures on Spiritual
ism as IIumbug in Union Hall
commaacins Oh Wednesday evening
the 2ith instant We have 10 doubt
but that Prof. Grimes will be able
to unravel some Of the snarles, Of this
visionary system, and show tina, he is a
genuine Medium" See what the
papers say about him.
Prof GrlNrs is a mau Of decided tai
ent and a fine lecturer, Some Of our
citizens will remember his course Of
lectures on Phrenology at the Exchange
in 1910. The hall was filled during the
course, and at the close. meeting was
organized and vote of thanks offered and
unanimously adopted His subject is
now the spiritual humbug of tho times
lie not only explains the phenomena as
far as it can be, but performs numerous
interesting aud some most amusing
experimcnts.-NcW Uarcn PaI/adj,tn1,
Prof GRIMES lectures and cxper.
imcnts againsr modern spiriiuolism in
this city have produced powerful sonsa-
tion aud given great satisfaction. - B1s-
tan Mall
E& To Business MEN,-Wo call
attention Of Business Men to s. NJ. Pet
tengil & Cos list of Boston Cards.
which will be found in our columns this
week. We are assured that this list
embraces large number of the largest
aud most entcrprising firms in the city.
let those who are in want of anything
embraced in this list, keep it for refer
encc.
Second Annual Meeting OF tho
Orwell FarOopr,s CIuhS