The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-06-14
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

Bridport and Conwall-Capt. Fletcher,
and Co. G-Salisbury, Goshen, Leicester
and Hancock, Capt. Dyar, were the
guests of Co. X. Capt. Gager-NIiddle-
bury and Ripton
If these companies are fair repres-
entative of the State Militia we certainly
have very reliable military arm to the
state government.
,...We would refer our readers to
the advertisement in another column of
Mcssrs. Morris & Whcelwriglt. Bankers
and Brokers, - Beaver Street, New
York. This onterprising firm are daily
in receipt OF orders from all parts of the
country, and parties ontrusting to them
business in their lire may rely upon its
being promptly and faithfully transacted.
....L. Towner, of Shoreham, shcarcd
from two-ycar cwc-an Atwood and
Paular cross-seventecn pounds and three
fourths. This eve raised a lamb and
weighs about As pounds.
.... During the week nearly the whole
of this county has been visited with CO.
pious rains. There is now little appre-
hension for the grass crop 1t will al
most certainly be very good.
....At special conference of the
Congregational Churches of Bennington
County, held in Manchester, Rev. Isaac
Jennings and II. G.. Root, Esq, were
appointed delegates to the National Coun-
ell Of Congregational Churches, to be
held the coming week in Boston And
at the meeting Of the Bennington Asso-
citation, held at the same place and on
the same day, Revs. j. Il. Clark and
c. II. Hubbard were appointed delegates
to the General Convention of Vermont,
to be held in Burlington.
....Ex-Gov. Wright, of Indiana, late
u. S. Senator and Minister to Prussia, is
spending few days with lis friend Ezra
Mech, Esq, of Shclbulnc. The Gov
ernor has been invited to lecture in Bur
lington.
-...The remains Of the late Col.
Stone, of the ID Vt. Reg, who was kill
ed in battle some months since, arrived
in this State on Tuesday last, and were
taken to the cemetery in Bennington Cen
ter.
1--we are informed that n man
named John Thrasher, recently in the
employ of +. W. Park of Bennington,
was run over. and killed by the up night
train, Tuesday night, about mile this
side Of North Bennington. lie was lying
across the track when the train reached
him, and, it is supposed, was into xicated
HIS family lives in Canada.
....A little boy, between four and
five years of age, from Bellows Falls, on
visit to his uncle, Charles Blair, in Bur
lington, fell from the wharf, Tuesday
afternoon, into the lake, and was drown
ed. His body was recovered about half
an hour afterwards.
capt. Avery b. Cain, of the 4th
Regular Infantry, has been promoted by
the President to the rank of major by
brevet for gallant and mcritorious services
in the field.
.....W. Filter viii you permit
me to express, through your journal, my
own gratitude, and especially that of my
family, to our friends who SO kindly in
terested themselves in our welfare, and
ministered to our comfort, during the sick
ness of our departed daughter. She her.
self often referred to those touching man
itestatons of regard with peculiar emo
tions and with heartfelt thankfulnes.-
We can never forget Them and cannot
cease to feel that we owe TO those friends
a debt of gratitude which we can never
discharge. May the Lord reward them
according 10 their kind and BENEVOLENT
feelings.
Yours truly,
+. w. OIMsrEAD.