The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-11-27
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.


the town of Middlebury, the legal voters
of said District are hereby warned to meet
at the Town Room in said Middlebury,
on the Sd day of December, A. D. 1866,
at : o'clock +. NJ, for the following pur
poses, towit:
First-To elect the necessary officers of
said District.
Second-To adopt any measures deemed
proper toward the establishment Of
graded school IN said district, pursuant
/. 'hc enabling act passed ut the last
session OF the legislature Of Vermont.
HENRY S. FooTE, Clerk.
Nov. "a, 1866.
A true copy Of original
ii S. FooTE
Public EXHIBITION. - The annual
public exhibition of the Philomathesian
Society of Middlebury College occurred
last Wednesday evening There was a
urge attendance and the parts were
usually well sustained. The Poem was
especially excellent. The programme Of
exercises is as follows:
ORDER CT EXEaCI ES.
Preliminary Business
Oration-Eesponsibility. l. Vernon Ferris.
Debate Question. - Is Civilization promoted
more ny Christianity than ty Education.
kNafl
Affirmative. Negative.
James VI. Slade, Jr Geo j.. Lawrence
Oscar d. Scott. Geo. W. Ills.
Grafton Genius David n Burke.
Poem-Lethe Edwin H. Iliglcy.
Colloquy-'My Policy" Henry II. Perkins.
Characters.
Andrew johnson, ii. VI. Perkins
Secretary Seward, }. VI Sla e, il
Horace Greeley, u. W. Ellis.
Squire blunt, man wlo says
what he thinks, G. + Lawrence.
Count Tako.i. European who
visits the U s. l.. II. Hig'ey.
Henry Ward Beecher, y. ID. Scott
Adjournment.
Music furnished by the Brandon Dand.
We would call attention to the add
vertiscmcnt Of +. w. bingham of West
Cornwall. His enterprise is commend
able and his success certain. His deter
mination not TO be undcrsold will secure
an increase of his already extensive pat
ronage. The almost daily visits to our
village of "Bingham's Express Is ofitscl
proof positive of IL business which warrants
his slow prices"
We tender our thanks to Hon. l.. l..
Smith for copy of the Manual of the
Legislature, and to Jno. ii. Flagg Esq.
Clerk Of the House, for Addresses before
the Vermont Historical Sorcty and other
valuable papers.
"A Farmers Club was formel in
WeybriIge on Tuesday evening, Nov.
10Th, l.. l.. Wright, being chosen
President, Victor Wright, Vice prcsi
dent, and ID. n. Hayward, Secretary
There will be meeting and II discussion ON
Fruit this Tuesday, evening, Nov.
27th, at the School House near the mon
ument, at 6 o'clock. We understand
that an invitation is extended to the la
dies.
The State tax voted by the LHgi,la-
ture is 50 cents on dollar on the list OF
1866. 1t was GO cents last year.
A vein of Silver ore has been discov-
cred in New Haven and a company is
now opening ard testing it.
A SNAKE SToRY.-Thc Argus says
that for three years Edwin G. Crossett OF
Berlin, has been out of health, and during
that time has been under the care of sew
eral physicians, none Of whom could de-
ter.nine the nature of his malady. A
few days since, after severe physicing, q
striped snake OF the common variety came
from him which measured SO inches in
length. This is large snake story but
the reptile may be seen at tho office Of
DR.. Porter of Mortified.
SUPREME CoURr-GENERAL TERM
The Supreme Court, at its recent Genera
Term at Montpelier which closed on tho
18th inst, decided in the case of Henry
Hitchcock v. Grin S. Sawyer, appellant
argued in Windsor county at its Febru
AIRY Term, 1865, that the commission t,
atiix proper internal revenue stamp t'
q writ or other instrument does hot rem
der it invalid under the provisions of tn
internal revenue laws, unless the omission
is shown to be with the intent to evad,
the provisions of these laws. and und
such circumstances as would make tn
party whose duty it was to ailix the stamI
liable to the penalty or forfeiture imposed
for the omission or neglect to ailix tn
stamp.
WILMINGTON. full grown pan
Tiers are lowering around Wilmington
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