The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-11-12
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

bury College-W ednesday Evening Nov.
81. Music will be furnished by the
Brandon Band.
There are II few more copies of
the "Addresses at the Inauguration Of
Rev. DR.. II. ID. Kitchcl, as President Of
Midi. College," and they may be obtain
ed at fifteen cents each by applying to j.
ii. Simmons & Co.
"A public examination Of school
teachers in the town of Middlcbury is TO be
held at the school house on the west side
of the creek ON the Oath inst. See the
Superintendent notice.
RUNAwAY.- Addison House depot
team run away yesterday morning start
ing from tho depot. 1t was brought up'
without damage, near the hotel.
A fire was seen from this village, on
Sunday evening, in the direction of Lake
Dunmorc or Salisbury. Rumor has it
that the hotel at the lake is burned, but
we have heard nothing reliable up to the
time of going to press.
DECENTRALIZATION the night of the Sd
inst a trunk was taken from a pedlars
wagon at the Addison House in this vii
lage, carried into back lot about half
mile distant, broken open end plumber.
cd Of about $500 worth of silver and
hardware. One Of the guilty parties,
John Williamson, is in III awaiting cx-
animation
Mrs. f. A. Kingsbury, agent of the
American Equal Rights Association, de-
livcred to small but select audience in
Orwell, last Thursday evening, an excel.
lent lecture on Impartial Suffrage.
MIR. David Tinsman Of Pa, bought
Of Robbins & Parkhill of Cornwall, one
.ycar-old buck, bred by Benjamin
Fields of Cornwall, for one thousand dol
lars; also, five yearlins ewes of II. }.
Manchester of Cornwall, for seven hun
drcd dollars, bred by II. r. Holden of
Middebury; also, two yearling ewes of
EI,phalet Samson Of W"ybridge, for two
hundred and fifty dollars. ..
A VERMoNrER PROMOTED
those who have won marks Of distinction
in the cable service is Curtis Mirander
Lampson, who has been created a Baronet
by Queen Victoria. He is a native of Now
Haven, W., where he spent the first eigl =
teen Yeas of his life. His father brought
the first Spanish merino sheep to Addison
County and was ruined financially by the
speculation. From Vermont young
Lampson went to the lIudson's Bay Co 5
territory where he remained some years.
In 1884 he went to England and settled.
lie was one Of the first directors of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, and has
been active ever since IN the work. lie
was named by Mr.. Peabody as one
Of the three trustees o. the magn.f-
cent fund which he founded. lie
owns fine estate at Rowlant, and
upon it is the old Tudor Mansion
lie has two sons who were educated at
Cambridge, and will succeed him in his
business. Sir Curtis Mirander Lampson
has brother who is banker at Leroy
N. Y. who will also be remembered by
some Of the people Of New Haven.
TIE VERMONT STATUES IN TIE Ma
TIoNAL GALLERY.-IIon George +. Ed
munds and Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, the
commissioners appointed TO recommend
TO the legislature the contributions which
Vermont should make to the National
Gallery Of Statuary at Washington, have
decided upon statues of Ethan Allen and
and jacob Colamcr, each to be seven
and one-haf feet in height. The work
will probably be done by the sculptors
Powers aud Mead, each furnishing one
statue, for which Mr. Powers wants IS,
900 and Mr. Mead IS, 200, with $500
additional if it is to be delivered as New
York.
SUPREME CoURr.-1hc General Term
of the Supreme Court for this State com.
menced its session at Montpelier on Tues
day last. Chief Justice Pierpoint and all
the Associate Justices being present.
The THIRD DIsrRICT, from
fourteen towns in Chittenden County,
eleven towns in Franklin County, three
towns in Grand Isle County, and Orleans
County complete, gives Hon Worthing-
ton c. Smith, plurality of 2,2S9 over
Judge Adds for Representative to Coz
gress from the third district OF this State.
BRIsToL. - About two weeks ago
ARA Tracy of this town was found dead
in bis bed. He had been insane at in