The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-04-25
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.


that there is no more profitable investment
than life insurance.
WEIGH & Harvey is the new firm
which sells such an enormous amount Of
hardware. 1t used TO be Welch & Earl.
See their advertisement
-Bcckwith & Co.'S new store is GER
tainly an attractive place. 1t is amusing
90 sec the stream Of customers constantly
coming and going
Presentation. ]. Il. Grinnell, NJ.
c. from Iowa, was in town last week and
visited his friends in New Haven. His
able speech in the House of Representa-
tivcs on "a, protective policy for wool
grlwers, &c, proves him TO be an earnest
friend of agricultural interests.
Rev w. w, Wnchcster's connection
with Middlebury College has ceased, and
Rev. DR.. Labaree is expected to assist
until the arrival of Rev. Dr. Kitchcll the
new President
A Coop SCGGESrION.- Tile HeJdH
after quoting our .nolcc of the Addison
County Wool Growers Association SUI
gcsts that we organize ourselves into a
wooden manufacturing company and put
up machinery near some one OF the excel
lent waterfalls on Otter Creek. by this
procedure we shall help to build up Il
home market for wool, sheep and all
kinds of live stock, as well us for all kinds
of agricultural productions.
The Senate has passed the bill, intro
duced by Senator Sumner and reported by
Senator Poland, for compilation Of u.
S. Statutes.
BRIsroL-Mr. Patterson, the miller
at the Stone Mill in Bristol, recently had
a foot torn off by its getting caught in a
smut machine.
bristol Academy is, TO be moved TO
more convenient site, and the Baptist
meeting house is to be fixed up in modern
style this season.
Prof Samuel C. Bartlett of Chicago,
has declined the Presidency of the Agri-
cultural School at Bu.lngf on.
GoUGH's LECTURE AT RUrfAND.-I'he
lecture last Friday evening by John b.
Cough was listened to by the largest au-
dicnce assembled in the Town Hall this
year. The Herald says -
"The subject did not seem to draw out
his full powers, and the lecture was not
perhaps quite equal to one or two we
have heard from him; yet it was emin-
emily successful, and held the audience in
the closest attention or convulsed it with
laughter. The lecturers portrayal of
human pcculiarities, his bursts of alter
nate passion and humor wrought the vast
crowd to the highest pitch Of excitement,
and all retired from the hall apparently
well satisfied with the entertainment
They went to the lecture with the high est
expectations, and were not disappointed.
The Ie,montcr says the Water Lily
is once more afoat.
Norwich University proposes to raise
one hundred thousand dollars in behalf of
the institution.
BLACK RIVER TRANscRlpr.-Thisi is
the name of a new paper just started at
Ludlow, by ID. Z. johnson. 1t is a good
looking sheet, starts under favorable aus
pices, and its publisher and editor exhibits
commendable spirit of enterprise.
GEN. STANNARD. -Brevet Mai zen.
George J. Stannard, now in charge of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Maryland, with
headquarters at baltimore, is, by reccnt
general order from the War Department,
mustered out Of the service OF the United
States, to date from April 80, 1866.
The Burlington Free Press states posi-
lively that the General will be presented
by his friends as IL candidate for Congress
and that he will accept the nomination
when rendered him, ''as doubtless it will
be-"
The uvler for mastering Maj Gen
Stannard out OF service, has been suspen-
ded.
Harvey Bennett of Albany, Vt, has
left wife and two children and c!opei
with Miss of fifteen years, named Adj
die Farewell. But she will not fare we'll
The fugitives took the cars at Montpelier
for the West Mr.. Jesse Rogers pursued
them en- the road to Montpelier as far as
Hardwick, where he was thrown from
his wagon, SO he had to abandon the
chase.
We learn from the Black River
Transcript that that strange and fatal
accident occurred at Plymouth, recently,
at a LARGE hoardinu bousn nnar C.It.eb