The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-09-27
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

Vermont, will hold its Annual Commun-
ication at NIiddlebury on. Wednesday,
Oct. 4th, 1865, one week from to-day
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma
sons also convenes at the same place on
n the same day.
THE Third Regiment of Militia,
Col, L. A. Hamilton, will muster and
encamp on the Fair Grounds, in Middle
bury, on Monday, Tuesday and Wcdnes-
dav, the I'd, Sd and 4th Of October.
The Fort Edward Band will be in at
tendance and fine music may be expected.
Active measures will be taken to preserve
good order in and outside of the lines al
so, extensive preparations are making for
a good time and grand military display.
Icon Wednesday evening, a young
man some thirty years of age, whose
namc is supposed to be John Ward, was
al rested by Mr.. Flanagan on the o'clock
train going east, Mt Winooski, and
brought to Burlington and lodged in Jail,
a charge of being concerned in the Girls
void murder. We learn that Potter.
who has been mentioned before as the
suspected murderer, was also arrested on
Wednesday night.
... last Monday afternoon. between
and o'cock, as the steamer Ethan AL
len was towing l6 boats, loaded with
lumber and grain, bound for Whitehall, a
heavy STORM struck them about one mile
north of Fort Kent, and when near Port
Kent, nine boats parted from the tow,
and two were sunk, loaded with lumber.
and one went ashore, with woman and
two children aboard, where they remain.
ed all night on deck, the waves dashinp
over them, and were not rescued until
Tuesday, nearly chilled to death.
....The Eleventh Regiment Vermont
Militia goes into camp in Manchester on
the % of Sept, for drill and inspection.
The parade will continue three days.
Adj't Gen. Wasllburn is expected to re-
view the regiment.
....Miss Mary Burr, who recently
died in New York, left several hundred
thousand dollars to vario us benevolent OBJ
jects, $4,000 of which was to the Burr
& Burton Seminary, in Manchester, this
State. She was niece of Joseph Burr,
tide founder of the institution. Her sister
who died some two years ago, also left
10000 to the Seminary.
....A dispatch says that Secretary
Seward has been officially informed BY the
Governor OF Vermont that the Canadian
authorities have paid to the banks at St
Adams S39.5l2 in gold and 5000 in
bank notes pursuant to the act of the Can
adam parliament,o on account of the amount
deposited with the authorities upon the
arrest of the st. Albans marauders.
....John O'NIara from Pittsford, who
was operating on the burlington Fair
Grounds, on Wednesday, with GAM
bling arrangement called by him "Uni-
versal Lottery" was arrested by Con-
stable Atwater, and bound up by Justice
llellenback, in 800, for trial at the
County Court.
....Thc LIST Vt. militia, Col. Ladd,
went into camp at st. Adams on We'd
nesday, about 100 strong.
80. The Congregational church in
Wartlsboro have driven off their acting
pastor, Rev. Silas Ketchum, for Joining
the Masons
80. McNamara's barn, on Canal
street, in Bellows Falls, was burned last
week Wednesday, with good deal of
hay, and as small boy was found in it
crouched away in one corner all in tre-
NOR of fright with the flames rapidly APP
proaching him, it Is thought he might
have been in there playing with matches
... There is to be horse fair at
Burlington this week, commencing on
Tuesday, and race between Flora Tenn
pie and Ethan Allen is among the at
fractions.
80. The barn of Barnard McNally, at
Cambridge, WIS burned by an incendary
fire Sunday morning, with thirty tons of
hay, one hundred bushels of grain, one
yoke of oxen, and all his farming tools.
go. Palmer Kline, II or Is years of
age, son of Loren Kline of Barnet, went
out into back pasture for some cattle
Monday night, as they were expecting to
take them TO the Fair next day. The
night came on dark and rainy while he
was in piece of woods, and he soon be-