The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-22
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.


save half an hour for diuncr-so great
is the rush of customers.
1.-The public exercises of the Philo-
,nathesian Society, of Middlebury Col
lcge, have been indefinitely postponed on
account of sickness.
....All our citizens interested in our
public schools should attend the examina.
tion of teachers next Saturday.
80. Under the enterprising manage
mcnt of the new manufac turing company,
the old cotton factory is again running.
-. Three marble quarrics have been
opened in town within few months, all
of which are likely TO prove very Success
ful.
....Rcal estate is held at high fig
ure throughout the county, and still buy
ers are more plenty than sellers.
WET CoRNwALL-Its citizens may
truly congratulate themselves upon having
secured in the person of Mr. +. w. Bling
ham, merchant who gives promise of
filling his position with much credit to
himself and usefulness to the public. lie
conducts his business upon the modern
idea of large and rapid sales for small but
IL.
lis business are comparatively nominal.
lie manages TO receive new goods at
short intervals, thus saving to his patrons
- large item in way of interest On capital
lie buys for cash and can undetsell those
who buy mainly on credit. If fair and
manly dealing, integrity, honor and gen.
tlcmanly bearing may be taken as guar
antcc, Mr. Bingham is sure OF success.
Our observations confirm the current
statement, that his sales are large and
handsome, and increasing. His patrons
are not confined to Cornwall They
come from Whiting, Shoreham, Bridport
and Middlebury. One gentleman in our
village has already traded with Mr.. Bing-
lam over one hundred dollars.
1.-The Brattleboro', people are cry
ing out against the nuisance of noise and
disorder in their streets at night.
49,. Reports of Windham County real
estate sales, show that it is lot held at So
high figures as in Addison County.
-. Snow fell in Lamoiilc County, ON
the 9th inst, in sufficient quantity to
make comfortable sleghing for a day or
two
-. Real estate sells brsky in Hyde
park.
go. Diptheria is raging in Cam
bridge.
....Dr. James f. Morse of Royalton
has been appointed examining surgeon
for the state by the commission Of pen
sions.
All the Vermont Banks, with the
exception OF the Commercial, Mis,i>que
Union, st. Albans, State, Farmers an.
Mechanics, are changing or haye already
changed, to national institutions. Tn,
total amount of taxes paid TO the UniteC
States government by the state banks dur
ing the past year was Sl26, 977 TIL,
outstanding circulation of some of thu
state banks is very large in proportion tt
the capital employed. The St. Alban
bank, with capital of $4,000, has ;
circulation of S250,000.
The Governor has appointed a
Commissioners of the Vermont Reform
School, Rev. Aaron G.. Pease, of Nor
wich; Rev. L. A. Dunn, of Fairfax and
lewis Pratt, of Woodstock.
49,. The report of the sinking of the
Steamer Mountain Maid on Lake Mem
phremagog, was exaggerated.
1.-The Rutland people are in earncs
about their skating park. The workme1
have already broken ground.
The Corporation of the Universit,
of Vermont, at their meeting Wednesda,
evening, voted to comply with the re
questions of the Act incorporating tn
Vermont University and State Agricultu
rial College.
LIE. l.. Wild, graduate of Mid
dlebury College, was recently Unstable,
pastor Of the Congregational Church @
Craftsbury.
1.-The new Congregational chapel i
bennington cost about $4,000.
....A, G. Parker's store, Pownal, wa
recent robbed of a quantity of clothing.
Capt. Lorergan lectured at Ben
nington on the llth inst. Subject
@Fenianism.
1.-The State tax for the year ensu
ing will be sixty cents on a dollar-fort
per cent less than last year.
"a New York company have with
in few days purchased all the waite
power and mills at Passumpsic village