The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-12-18

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II choice library of forty. 1.-TWO hundred
volumes TO which they have free access
only it is one of the conditions under
which an operator is hired that he or she
shall give towards a library fund one
cent per week. Ibis if carried out will
provide larger library fund than
many of our colleges can command. This
shows the true American spirit that the
labo'ing classes must have every facility
possible for gaining knowledge. b.
state Convention of Base Bail Clubs.
To Tie BtSe BAL Clubs Of Vermont.
GESrrEMrN. In view ofthe informal
tiles at present attending this title and
emblem Of the State Championship an
for the purpose Of advancing the interest
IN our wide spread AMI popular National
Game, 1t has been deemed Advisable that
some definite plLn Of organization be
perfected to create a feeling of unity ard
friendship among all Clubs throughout the
state, as well as for the purpose of srcur
ing an emblem of the State Championship.
that will do honor to the State we repre-
sent, and rules for the future. government
OF the same. To this end the following
Clubs. through their officers, request the
different Base Ball Clubs throughout the
State to send each two (2) delegates to
assemble in State Convention at Ethan
Allen Hall in burlington, on the Second
Wednesday of January next, at two
O'Clock +. NJ, each delegate h,ing proyi-
led with credentials signed by THEN
President and courtcrsigned by their s C.
rotary, then to adopt such rules an
regulations as may be deemed advisable.
GEORGE G. llrNr, President.
a. G.. Stafford, Secretary.
Crescent Base BALL Club, ST. Adams.
f.. w. PECK. presi lcn..
Tllos. B. NICHOLS, s, crctarv.
Home Base Ball Club, burlington.
1t no Club that is cligib.e anil tcsi.
rous of seeing our National Game prosper
in manner worthy of the Green Noun
tain State. omit TO send their delegates to
this Convention. Applications should be
sent 10 either Thos b. Nichols, Cor.
Scry. Home H. b. G., of burlington. or
to n. G. Stafford, Sery. Crcscnts Of ST.
Adams, if possible before the first of Jan
uary, stating the name Of Club and dele.
gates
In Java % different degrees Of rank
are indicated by their parasols.
The Fifth Avenue (N.Y.) hotel uctted
100000 in November.
Chicago papers say that city is ovcrrun
with men in search OF work.
The reelection of Senator Nye of Ne.
vada is considered almost certain.
John Norri.cy, NJ. c has sold out hi
''banking' business ut New York.
The Louisville street cars are to be
provided with stoves during the winter.
John w. Smyth. the oldest wool br, =
kcr at New York, died on Tuesday.
Petroleum has been very successfully
used in England rs fuel Tor steam boilers.
Rstori draws moderately at phila,lrl-
phia and the ticket spectators are in
;carS.
The jail at Council Bluff. In , was
burned, the other day, and II prisoner with
| it.
The Shcltcring Arms is the name
adopted 10y one Of the little wanderers
homes at New York
The wheels of Il large ocean steamc'
make about 200, 90 revolutions in cross
ing the ftun;ic between Nsw York and
Liverpool.
There ia new agitation of the green.
back question in California, and the green
back purity is growing.
The Alta Californian. the leading com
mcrcial and conservative journal of San
Francisco, al, COATES impartial, intelligent
suffrage.
San Francisco has new first class
daily journal, the Times. Noah Brooks.
II Maine man and late navy agent mt San
Francisco, is the editor.
Slnta Anna still contcmplates an ex-
petition into Mexico with II view of Is
tabli>lilng Il government in the republic
according 10 his peculiar opinions and in.
| tercsis.
A traveller has discovered numbers Of
small fish in tho Dead sea, near Sodom,
and they seem 10 thrive. This is con
trnry TO the generally received opinion
that 10 living thing could exist in lis
waters.
The latest ''rcmalc invention" is the
wearing of little bags of bird seed where
cotton and curlcd hair have previously
been nscl to give development 10 the fig
ure. 1t is said tn look more natural"
1t is rumored in st. Petersburg, that
Admiral Lis.oi,ky, who commanded the
Russian fleet that visited our waters three
years ago, is TO succeed Baron Siocckl as
Russian minister 10 the United States
John Scott. of the firm of Scott, Cut
Ter & Co., of Kansas City, Me-, has con
iessed that the firm planned and caused
the recent fire in that place. to recover
over insurance. Ill If the firm are now
under arrest.
John Shultz of Pleasant Mills. n J..