The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-12-25
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

ASSISTANT JuuSes.-lloi' Ia IL w ccho
and Hon. J. n. Smith.
Fuller VS.. Smilh--Ex planned last week.
Argued for Plif. by Hard; Dett by
Stewart and Phelps. Verdict for Deien-
dant.
Myers VS.. Classification for trcspass
in taking n couple Of Canal Boats. Ar
gucd for Pltf Stewart & Foutc. For
Deft. Briggs an Phelps. Verdict in favor
Of the Plaintiff.
Iovctt VS.. Birchard & Page, Trustees.
Court case Action for damage to honey
transported to Boston. For Ptf Nichol-
son & Ormsbcc. For Delts. Dunton AMI
Stewart. Judgment in favor of Plaintiff,
$50 and costs.
Ross & Wife vs. Sheldon Action TO
recover for services Of Mrs. Ross before
marriage. For Pitts. McLcol and Brigg-.
For Def. Stewart & Foot. judgment
for Defendant.
Our readers should not fail TO no.ice
the brief dcscrip ion OF Rev. w. ). Smnrts
lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg, iur
nished by our correspondent from Orwell.
Why could we not hear from Mr.. Smart
in Middlebury
We call the attention Of wood ven
dcrs 10 the excellent hints of "a Farmer ,
who talks in way to convince that he
knows what he is talking about. His
subject is GLOW to ruin the wood market
in Middebury."
Notice the advertisement of Mr. Ell
worth, in Cornwall. The place of sale is
in the North west part Of the town.
Farmers AMI gardeners giving orders
for fruit trees will do well to notice AL
bert Chapman's advertisement in another
column. We should prefer TO purchase
Of him rather than pstron.zs strangers.
BASE BAIL-The Crescent Glib f st
.ibans and the Home Club Of burlington
have issued call 10 all the Il. D. Clubs
of the State for convention, to he held
at the Ethan Allen Hall in Burlington,
on the Fourth Wednesday in January, at
= O'Clock. u. Nj. The object stated is TO
effect plan of State organization and to
secure an emblem of the State champion
ship. An association of the kind, repre-
scning eighteen clubs Of the State, will
be entitled to representation in the
National Association.
PERsoNAL-powers, the sculptor, &C
cording TO the statement of visitor TO
his studio in Florence, has recently finish
ed model Of the late Edward Everett
labor of love.
james IL. Williams Of Bellows
Falls, appointed pension agent rice +. ID.
Redington, removed. has assumed the
duties of his office and the CALIFORNIAN
learns that he will not remove the office
from ST. Johnsbury.
DIVIDEND. The directors Of the First
National Bank of brandon have declared
free of government tax, payable Jan. /.
Henry Asscliyne was drowned on
Lake Champlain Saturday evening, while
skating from Alburgh Springs TO North
Hero, with the mail bag on his back.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY," The
annual meeting of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society will be holden at
Rutland on Wednesday, Jan. 81, 1867,
at ten o'clock, a. m. A meeting OF the
Board of Directors will be held at the
I'ar.lwell House on Tuesday evening,
january lst, 1867.
ID. G. Linsley Of Burlington, who
ately surveyed carriage road to the sum
NIT of Mount Mansfield, recommends the
location near Eagle Lake, on its western
slope, as an excellent one for the erection
of hotel for SINNER visitors. A short
distance from the spot is precipice 1000
feet in unbroken perpendicular hight.
The temperance revival in Bellows
Falls and Grafton is making good pro
gross. At last accounts the names at
tached to the pledge in the former place
numbered 339 and in the latter do
Chester also seems to be awakening.
The subscriptions to the capital
stock of the Woodstock Railroad now
foot up about $4,000
NOTICE.-At the last annual meeting
of the Vermont Reunion Society of Yer
mont Officers, it was voted that the Ad-
jutant and Inspector General be request
ed to prepare suitable place in his office
for displaying and keeping the photographs
OF Vermont officers, and that he be re.
quested to solicit from all officers Of Yer,
mont troops, who served in the late war,
their photograph, with their autograph
at the bottom; and it was further voted
that the officers be requested to send, il