The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-03-21
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

In another column may be found
Albert Chapman's advertisement of Fruit
Trees. Read it.
The next meeting of the Addison
County Wool Growers Association, will
be held at the Court House, Middlcbury.
next Tuesday, March 9th, at 10 o'clock,
A. NJ.
REAL EsrArE.-Dr. VIM. Bass has
sold his residence on Court Street to Mr..
Parker Cleaveland. The Doctor expects
to leave town we understand.
Mr.. o. Severance has sold his farm on
Foote Street to Mr.. Hughes Of Cornwall
for $4,000.
LEcruRE.-Prof. Kellogg will deliver
his lecture on American Society at the
Court Room, Middlebury, Friday even
ing, March 23d. Lecture will commence
at II z. NJ. Admission % cents.
We are again placed under obliGa-
ton to Hon. L. p. Poland, Hon. j.. 5.
Morrill, and Hon. +. L. Woodbridge for
valuable papers including speeches and
reports.
We learn that Father Picart com
municated Archbishop McCloskey's veto
of the Fenian movement to his audience
on Saturday last, but the fear of cx-com-
munication has but little weight with the
Sons of the Emerald Isle in this place,
Go in Finnigans!
LroUoR PRosECUuoN.-Joseph Brown
of Weybridge was brought before Justice
Hayward last Friday on charge Of selling
liquor and fined $50.
EAST MIDDLEBURY.-Wc are informed
that the "~Sociables'' for the benefit Of the
library fund in East MidJlebury, are &C.
casionally interesting. 1t is currently
reported that the one at which there &C.
cured two fights, several ''black eyes and
a cheap of swearing was remarkably
quiet. A ''nativc" suggests that the Ii
brary be given up and the proceeds APP
propriated to the purchase of a hearse.
John b. Cough is engaged to lecture
Mt Rutland on the Goth of April.
Julius Barker, of Leicester, recently
sold $1,000 worth of yearling ewes to go
w est.
REAL ESTATE IN RUrI.ANp-Thc new
brick dwelling house built 10y Page and
Randall, on the old Congregational church
lot, on Main street, has been sold to j
Is. Reynolds at the estimated price of
Sl2, 600.
A VERMONT SMITH ABRoAD.-T The
Fond Du Lac (Wis.) Daily Press of
March 9Th, has the following good ma
tured item about a gentleman well known
in this part of the State:
Hon. Columbus Smith of Vermont, is
in town on a short visit to his friends.
Mr.. Smith is interested in some real cs.
tate on Main stcect, and j. considering the
propriety of erecting Il handsome brick
block on it. One of the most successful
prosecutors of iureign-par t%icularly Am,r
ican-claims at the bar of England
having successfully contested several cases
at the Queens Bench, Mr.. Smith Ina.
amassed an immense fortune, which to a
late day, over forty years, has contributed
to the miscries of single hlessedness. We
now however, congratulate him as having
''turned from the error of his ways" es-
poused matrimony or Mrs. Smith. May
we not hope for increase in the represen-
t~atives of the Smith family to so worthy
a representative. Rock The cradle, Hattie.
FAST DAY Massachusetts and New
Hampshire fast April 9th. Gov. Dilling-
ham, it is understood, will also designate
the same day for this State.
"A fire occurred in Norwich last week
destroying part OF the University build
ings.
- Charles Brown of Londonderry,
found in his pen recently ~ pigs all one
litter. This makes 81 pigs from the same
sow in eleven months.
ID. L. Milliken, editor and proprie-
tor Of the Record, B~rattleboro, has pur,
chased the t~wo-story buildings just west
of the Masonic Hall, known as the "Em,
erson Place" The rear building is to be
fitted up for the Record Office.
j. II. Flagg, Esq, Clerk of the
House, is making arrangements to locate
at Bennington, and open a law Office
about May LIST.
THE New PRESIDENT OF TIE UNIvER.
city. - Prof. Bartlett of Chicago, the
President elect of the University of Yer.
mont, was in Burlington last Tuesday,
and conferred with the resident member:
of the corporation of the University, in
relation to It's condition and prospects,