The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-07-02
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

crowded out last week Out IL HAS Souhe
suggestions which are good at any time.
We are requested TO announce that
n number, if not all, of the merchants in
this village will close their shops on the
4th inst. Do your trading on Wednes'
day.
ALUMNI MEETING. - Tie resident
Alumni of the College are requested TO
meet at the office of Stewart & Eldredge,
on this tuesday, evening, at j o'clock,
for business in relation to the exercises at
the approaching anniversary.
Per order of the Central Committee.
The notori Gus pedestrian Adams
was whipped, best three in five, in this
place last Saturday, by Chcney's bay
mare "Charmer."
-McLears Ilippotheatron which ex-
hibitcd here last Saturday, is SAID to be
an Insignificant and vulgar affair.
BOAT RIDE on TIE 4rIL-Ihe Val
ley Queen will ply OIL the Otter Creek all
day on the 9TH instant, giving pleasure
seekers rare opportunity. She will
leave the landing at 10 O'Clock
A. NJ. and a: 8 =. NJ. Since her re
fit the ''Qucen" runs faster and more
steadily than ever before This institu
ton is valuable acquisition to the place,
and deserving of patronage. The steamer
VIII stard in readiness for parties at all
times. Parties should send in word to
Capt. Chapman the day previous to an
excursion.
THANKS, GEsrLEHEN.-Wea are indebt-
ed to a number Of the citizens Of the
village for assistance at our "raising" on
Thursday We are fully convinced that
the lawyers present on thu occasion are
posted on ''brieis," that the merchants
are fully competent TO serve their custom
ers in the most approved style that the
landlords know a thing or two about
keeping hotel, that the mechanics are
par excellence, superior workmen in their
several trades, and that the miner has
met with showers of rain among the
mountains Of California and Nevada. We
make our bow and touch our hat.
STRAWBERRY FEsrIvAL.-. The ladies
st. Pauls (EpiscopaD Church in VcrScn
mes will hold Strawberry Festival and
Fair at School house Hall on Tuesday
afternoon and evening, July ID. Admis-
sion 10 cents.
TRIrLErs.-On Friday, the DIST inst.
Mrs. o. c. Hun,ley of Whiting gave birth
80 three fine boys, Of very uniform size
and weighing in the aggregate about
fifteen pounds. AS last advised the par
ties were as well as could be expected.
BURNED TO DEATlt-On Wednesday
the 18th inst, a little daughter six year,
I'D Of Samuel Gale, of Cornwall was SC
badly bnrned as to cause her death in {
few hours. 1t was the result of playing
with matches. We are informed thai
she suffered little or no pain.
Robert Furvis, of Lisbon, n. Y,
challenges Vermont to show a large,
lamb than one dropped by eve of lii
this spring. When dropped, it weighed
lG lbs. and at 8 weeks old weighed x
lbs.
The Randolph Eagle says there arr
suspicious that young Allen of Granville
WIS murdered. His skull was broken
and the pieces of cord apparently use1 Il
hang him were difftrcst one kind at
tached to the body, and another kind t,
the tree.
We call attention to the following
extract from the General Statutes @
Vermont:
"If any person shall have in his pos
session any cracker, squib, serpent O
rwket with intent to sell, or set fire t
iuc same, or shall sell, or offer to sell, G
give away the same, or set fire to or thro,
any lighted cracker, squib, or serpent q
rocket, he shall be punished by fine no
exceeding ten dollars"
POSTPONED. The Shoreham Ger
scnnial Celebration and the ccremoniC
connected with the erection of the so
diers' monument for that town whicl
were advertised for the 4th of July, hi
been postponed. The time for it has NJ
yet been certainly decided upon.
Teachers and all those who wish
avail themselves of the best facilities 4
rapid progress in music, should attend Il
Vermont Normal Music School, viii,
opens at burlington next Monday. II
same advantages can be had there as
largo cities and at mnch less cost PRO
Perkins, the Principal is one of the me
successful teachers in the country al