The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-01-31
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

& White have sadly degenerated since
we knew them in the Second Vermont
Brigade, we cab assure the people that
they are superior rendercrs of the comic.
See advertisement
- We regret that we are obliged to
omit, for want Of space, several excellent
communications
Our readers will find an interesting
and instructive Dialogue on the first page
of this paper well worthy of perusal.
Observe the advertisement of the
New England Life Insurance Company
by NJ g. Turner.
E. \. Dissell will sell at public auc-
ton at his residence in Shorcham large
number of full blood Spanish Merino
sheep tomorrow Thursday. Sale TO
begin at IL Pr. NJ We notice by his
his catalogue that their pedigree is unex
ceptionable.
"A $50 feet long wooden factory is
being built at bennington.
The Vermont reform school has been
located at Waterbury.
Ira G. Foster has sold the Franklin
hotel at Rutland, to Gershom Cheney for
$4,000.
-Ex.Gov. Smith Of St Albans has
been elected president of the Northern
Pacific railroad.
The friends of the united university
of Vermont and the state agricultural coli
lege at Burlington are trying to raise
500, 600 Or 50 for the endowment of the
institution.
The Unvcisalists and Unitarians at
Montpelier have just finished $4,000
church for their joint society. A new
$4,000 Congregational church and a
S25, 900 town hall are in prospect there.
We learn that the Committee of the
Congl Convention are endeavoring to
make arrangements for the publication in
the state of n paper which will be more
acceptable to the denomination than the
Chronicle under its present management.
MIR. d. ID. Wcad of Sheldon has
received the appointment of receiver Of
the Mississquoi Bank, dion. S. +. Car
penter having declined.
PLUKcY A man BY the name Of Tar
bell Of " SanduSky," in this State, has
lately felt himself aggrievcd because the
Vermont Central Railroad Company
would not buy his wood. He threatens
to turn his wood into coal, his coal into
iron, and cart it TO burlington cheaper
than the railroad freight rate. Tarbell is
plucky and sarcastic.
MUSICAL FESTIVAL. - +. J. Fairs
Quadrile Band hold their Eleventh An.
nual Musical and Terpsichorean Festival
in the Town Hall at Brandon on Friday
evening, February 9th. The Rutland &
burlington Railroad will carry for fare
one way. See advertisement.
- Mrs. Fanny Dawley, of Mount
Holly, in her Slst year, spun the past
fall, $50 skeins of wooden yarn, besides
doing a considerable share OF the family
work.
The collection box at st. Mary's
Church, burlington, has been robbed
again.
-Buel Phelps, of Morrisville, is under
bonds to respond for the theft of an over
coat at Colchester.
Josiah Grout, Jr., Qate cavalry Off
cer) has been admitted to Orleans County
bar.
We call the attention of all desiring
pleasant and profitable employment tc
the advertisement in this paper headed
"Sl500 per year.
REV. James I. Hyde, Pastor of the
Congregationalist church in this village,
thankfully acknowledges the gift of 1919
from his Pensioners.
Book BIXDERY.--H, Richardson is
prepared to execute neatly and with dis
patch, all work which comes in his line,
a; his dwelling. house, opposite the NJ. K.
Church. Give him call.
VERMONT MARBLE GONG TO EUROPE.
Messrs. Dorr and Myers have recently
shipped to Great Britain a large monu-
ment of the celebrated Sutherland Falls
marble What the monument is for, or
what its design, we do not learn.
CoRNwALL-The lecture Of j. S.
Adams, Esq, on temperance last Thurs
day evening is described as a very inter-
esting affair. There was large attend
ance and some interest manifested. c. r.
Ford has purchased the farm of A. A.
Fisk for S. 900,