The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-09-20
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.


building on Main Street near the bridge.
Go ahead paters. There is enough for
you to do, and, if you continue to make
gooduse of the money voted you will doubt
less get more in due time.
go. We call the attention of the TrusI
tees to pile of plank lying across TIE
| sidewalk at the south end of the bridcd,
.... WIN. LLOYD GARRISON and f. H.
CHArGN, will address the people at the
Champlain Valley Fair, in Vergennes, on
Thursday, Sept, 2Sth.
....Capt G. w. Corey, late Of the
17th Vt. Vols, has been promoted by tn
President to Major of L. S. Volunteers
by brevet for gallant and meritorious
conduct in the assault before Petersburg.
Va" April 2nd, 1865.
49, Vermont fine blooded sheep are
well represented at the Illinois State Fair
now in progress at Chicago. In the list
Of exhibitors of Spanish Mernoes are the
names of twelve well known sheep far
mers Of Addison county.
....David Livingston, % years of age
who is a native of Goshen Gore, and has
been a soldier, domciled himself in the
school house, on North Avenue, in Bur
lington, built a fire, MIXED the cows. and
"subsisted'' himself generally, out of the
fairness of the land belonging to the good
people of that neighborhood. lie was
discovered Sunday evening and arrested,
but not before he had drawn loaded re-
volver on the officer lie was brought
before a justice, and having no money, or
visible means of support, was sent up for
ten days to the county Jail for vagrancy.
This, the Times says is the first conviction
in Burlington under the vagrancy act of
last session.
1.-The safe belonging to Messrs
Langdln Bros. of CasIeton, was blown
open on Tuesday night last, and 5000
were stolen thereirom.
....The premium in the second trot
on the 9th inst, at the New England
Fair, was won by "Black Warrior" j.
p. Willard & Co., Farhaven, VI, in
2:46 IL.
-. The election of Il. NJ. Philips ms
Town Representative from Casleton is to
be contested, we understand, by John
Howe Mr.. Phillips was declared elect
ed by a majority of one. Both Mr.. Phil
lips and Mr.. Howe of course. are Repnb-
, lcans.
....On Saturday, Aug. %. Loren W.
Fisher and wife, Of Lyndon, were visiting
their friends in Stan,tead. At one o clock
in the afternoon their little infant son, Il
year and a half old, was lying beside the
stove playing, when suddenly the stove
fell over, throwing the contents Of a kettle
of boiling water upon the childs breast.
Everything, which medical skill could in.
vent was done for the child, but without
avail. lie died the next morning at
o'clock, after sixteen hours OF suffering.
: ....The Manchester J0a-nd comes It
us this week considt ably enlarged an
improved. Success. to it.
, 49,. n. G. Wood, Of Brattleboro, Kill
1 led rattesnake one day last week, nra
his house, that had seven rattlcs
IA woman of Vergennes some tim,
, since, borrowed 50 OF another woman
| who is too poor to lose i. As the latte
could not get her money back, last Sntur
day evening she met the former on tn,
street, stripped off her cloak and conf
Gated it.
= The Windsor County Fair wil
be held at Woodstock, on Tuesday, We'd
neslay and Thursday, the 2jth, 9th an
2Sth of this month.
= 80. Hezekiah Payne, confined OF
charge of completely in the St. Aban
raid, was brought before the Franklin
a County Court on Thursday, and discharg
ed from custody on his own recognizanc,
) of bail in the amount of $500
80. bennington is to have anothe
accession to the number of its sHeavy
: men" IN the person of Horace F. Clark
g Esq, of New York, son-inlaw of Com
modore Vanderbilt. Mr., Clark last weel
, purchased 100 acres of land including tn
grounds on which is now located the Rem
4 nington trotting course, as also the orch
: ard known as the old "David Robinson
(, orchard" and in the spring will erect 4,
n ''palatial summer residence"
1 -. Rev. Norman Seaver of Rutland
will deliver the annual address at thu
Rutland County Fair, on Thursday, Sept
I 2Sth.
1.-The Newport Express says the
n naonla in tho v;lIaUa Of Coyan,r,, bav,