The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-04-12
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

l>xhibitions in the Town Hall, on Friday
and Saturday evenings. tying pro-
cess was thoroughly trieI. A committee
from the audience were unable to detect
any imposition, and expressed entire salts.
faction that the jargon of noises in the
Cabinet " was produced by some other
agency than the mediums, who-thrcc of
them-were firmly tied hand and foot.
and to their chairs. The tying, which
took half hour to do, was undone, with
out visible help in two or three minutes.
SO it appearedi and no explanation was
discovered, but, why must every unex-
plainablc trick be charged to spirits
that Spring has indeed come, opens three
Or four weeks earlier than usual Since
the coming in Of this month, the weather
has been not unlike May. The roads are
settled and the warm rains have clothed
the fields with vcrdure. 1t is rather early
to make predictions about the season, but
the winter 50 far a: it was possible has full
filled all the conditions which are ftvora-
BE to our great crop, grass. Owing TO
the continuous warn covering of snow
there has been no wintcr-kill from exposure
to frost or ice. Severe drouths NAV
cause light crop, but it never gave better
promise at the start, and never, within the
memory Of the coolest inhabitant," has
it taken an earlier start. Winter grainl
could not look better, and o heavy growth
may be relied upon. !
....1hc Bridport Soldiers Aid Socic-
ty have sent TO the Il. S. Christian Com
mission, box containing:
q Cotton shirts ) pr. do drawers {;
% pillow cases 10 sheets 6 pr. socks ,
? pr. slippers; / led quilts; l. lbs old
cotton AMI linen; - lbs. dried fruit. -
Box valued at 500. Also, $40 in cash.
1--WE are glad TO notice that Mr.. c. j..
Soper has 50 far recovered from his recent
Sc ere and protractcd illness, as to be able
to attcnl to business. His old friends and
customers will generally find him in his
store, and ready to attend to all calls in
the clothing line.
....The following articles have been
received and sent to Brattleboro'. where
they will be forwarded for the benefit of
the soldiers -
One bed-qnilt from West Salisbury,
Sheldon District; four wooden shirts and
three pair of WOODEN socks, from Wiling ;
one bel-quilt made by the old ladies, and
one bed-quilt made by the children, and
one dozen pin-cushions, from Mhddleburv
District, No. 3; five and half pounds Ct
dried currents and one pair of wooden
socks, from friend one pair of wooden
socks, eight and a halt pounds of dried
apples, six pounds OF dried backberrics.
one pair OF slippers, ten lmnlkerchicls, Old
linen, cotton ami bandagcs, box of dried
currents, roll up, from East Mildlebury
The Ladies Of the Soldiers Aid Society
desire 10 send another box of clothing and
supplies within week or two. ANY
donations for this object will be thankfully
received. To be left to the care Of Mrs
Il Bcckwiih
Mis-. OZIAs SEYMOUR,
Secro'nW
49,. \ resident of Mt. Holly bought
tub Of butter in Weston the other
day, paid 80 cents per pound for it,
brought it all the way to Rutland where
he was obliged to sell ii for 10 cents per
pound, took for payment two bags Of
meal and on his way home lost one Of
them. Some one stole it. The gentle
man Of the specializing turn has since
been engaged in figuring out the net pro-
tit Of the transaction.
49,. Or Thursday, March so, in Mil
ton, Charles Rent, lad about eleven
years of age, son OF James Bent, form
crly Of Jericho, fell into the river La
mobile, near the lower bridge in West
Milton and was drowned. The body was
found on Friday anoat about mile be-
low. 1t is supposed that he fell from a
boat.
80. y shed belonging to Mr. Elijah
Halves, Of Brooklicld, on the Sd OF
| March became SO loaded with snow that
it fell, so seriously njuring Mr.. Halves
that he died on the 8lh of March. One
horse was killed by the falling of the
shed, and several sleighs broken to pieces.
80. Mr., Bascom has resigned his po-
sition as Principal of Burr and Burton
Seminary, at Manchester. The school
will be continued under the direction Of
Mr.. Albee and Miss Field.
49,. Henry Leighton of Danville, a
how of II annarcntly in rood health died