The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-08
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

town this Winter should notice the adj
vertiscment of the Town Superintendent.
-. On Wednesday of last week the
Valley Queen steamed to Sutherland
Falls, the head of navigation on Otter
Creek, and made the return trip in six
hours.
....II. S. Marcy, master Of transpor-
tatlon of the Rutland & Burlington rail-
road, has resigned, and is succeeded bv
II. f. Chamberlain of Burlington. Mr..
Marcy takes position on the Saratoga
railroad.
....Thcre has been very general
call for more rain-springs and cistcrns
were low ground too dry to plough, &c
We have lately had copious rains and on
Sunday another light fall of snow. The
mountains around are well covered and
we may not expect that they will wholly
dispense with their ermine robes till
spring.
.... Mr. Geo. Seward of Rutland,
lost, on Friday night, fac span Of
horsc.-supposcd TO be stolen.
80. 1 here has been some stealing in
Orwell this Fall Raids have been made
on several hcn-roosts Thomas Root
lost Il washing Of clothes. a very valu-
able merino sheep was taken from the
barn Of O. :. Branch. Other focks are
said to have been diminished in similar
way. Evidently, some one ha, been
"mean enough to steal a sheep"
-. The Vermont legislature passed
an act, on Wednesday, ralifying the de-
cree Of the chancellor authorizing the man
ayers and receivers of the Vermont Cen
trail and Vermont and Canada railroads,
to borrow 100000 ON ten years per
cent bonds The property and income
of the roads isto bspIe'gcd as security
for the bonds.
Col w. T. Nichols and hs broth
err, Lieut. II. j. Nichols of Rutland, who
were on the steamsr Republic, lost off the
coast of Georgia lately, have been heard
from safe in Charleston.
Jude Patterson, senator from Ten
nessee, with his wife, daughter of Presi
dent johnson, Rev. DR.. Cummings of
Chicago, and w. J. Walker, passenger
agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
passed through Rutland on Wednesday,
having in charge Andrew johnson, Jr, the
presidents son, and four other lads, who
are to be placed in Rev. Mr.. Hopkins
school at Rock Point, Burlington.
Out Of the 242 members Of the
Vermont legislature, ISL are farmers, %
merchants, II lawyers, 6 clergymen and
Il various. In religion the Congrega-
tionalists are ahead, having GO members,
36 Mcthodists, 81 Univelsalists, 2S Bap-
fists, 40 of no preference, the remainder
OF about Il dozen different beliefs
The House on Friday erening
voted to dismiss Mr.. Nicholson's bill
Which provided for aboliahing all mill
;ary drills.
The Senate have passed the House
bill granting additional compensation to
the Secretary of the Board Of Education.
Mr. Durr expressed the opinion that the
entire increase Of salary provided for by
the bill would not amount to more than
$3.50
The House, on Saturday, passed a
militia bill, introduced, we believe, by
Mr. Waite of Brattleboro, providing to
amend the present law SO as to retain a
company drill in June, and the general
framework of the law, repeating all 9TH
er provisions for drills and paradcs ex-
cept the one in June.
The House have also refused n third
reading to a bill TO repeal the militia law
outright
-. The Rutland folks are to have a
Skating Park and Il Dancing School this
winter.
...About thirty gallons of liquor,
smuggled through the lines from Canada,
were seized at Waterbury last Wednes-
day by Custom House Officer Chase Of
st. Albans. The contraband spirits were
conveyed to Burlington and placed in
charge of the officers of the customs.
49,. The battalion of the 9th VI, we
learn, is daily expected in the State
Major Halsey is ready to pay them of,
and the 9th boys will not be long in
getting their greenbacks.
On the 10Th inst, a young lady
named Mary Jane Hoyt OF Mortified.
bought 20 grains of morphine at the drug
store and poisoned herself, dying the next
The cause assigned for this