The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-05-07
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

We commend HIM to the courtesy and
patronage Of our citizens, and trust he
will meet with success, commensurate will
! the rare merits of he work.
"A meeting of the Fcarnaught Base
Ball Club will be held at J. Davenport
Office, Tuesday Eve, May 7ih and II
o'clock, p. NJ.
Successful to open up large and
hourishing business in place of compar-
atively limited facilitics-if TO do much
where others have done but little-if tu
SECURE patronage from II large distance
around-if to make customers and keep
them---if to gain constantly an increasing
trade and swell his host of friends-if, in
short, to please universally in his selection
of goods, prices and mode of conducting
his business constitutes success, then Mr..
+. w. Bingham, Of West Cornwall Is
fairly entitled to the honors Of young
enterprising and successful merchant.
%. S Dickinson has just returned
from New York with some of the finest
specimens of jcwelry and silver ware we
styles, is excellent.
beware Of counterfeit two dollar
grccubacks-they are exceedingly plenty
i'll this section just now.
The Summer term Of Middlebury
College begins on Thursday.
We had the pleasure of visiting tho
farm and testing the hospitality of Hon.
w. K Sanford of Orwell, last Saturday.
Ills sheep had just been sheared, but we
noticed that they were in good condition
and his lambs had all the marks" of first
quality Spanish Merinos. All the cattle
we saw IN his yard were full blood
Devons, and after careful inspection,
VIC were almost persuaded to give up our
t"e'SiSh'S 'oi shc "a tohiiC stOCh. MI
Sanford is building, an addition to his
already large, and elegant farm house.
RrTLASD.-Somc twenty five or thirty
men were furnished tickets Of leave from
the workshops Of the Rutland & Burins
ton Railroad in this place on Monday last,
their serv ices being no longer required by
the company.
Henry Clark, Esq.. editor of the Rut-
l,nl Herold, has purchased the new
residence of T.. l.. Stearns on Prospect
street, paying therefor the sum Of So, 900.
PROF. $. G.. Chandler of East Mid
dlcbury, Was to Commence a course Of
Geological lectures at Ripley Female
College in Poultncy, yesterday (Monday)
afternoon.
SPORT AuEAD.-A trotting race for a
purse Of 500 is advertised to take pla &C
over the Rutland Park Course on Friday,
May 9th, and ms the premium is open
10 all horses far and near, some fast 'uns
will probably be present, and a COOL IA, o
i. anticipated. The terms of the race
are mile heats, best in s, to harness
three horses to enter and two to start
entrance fee 10 per cent Admission TO
gentlemen, % cents. Ladies admitted
free.
WgrBRIDGE-The will Of Miss Lora
Wales, late of Weybridge, which was
contested before Judge Of Probate, Tilden,
last week, was sustained. An appeal
will probably he taken to the County
Court.
SCHOOL MEIEE.-James M. Chamber.
lin, Addison Webster, Ira Webster, Ed.
win Coolidge and James Saltcr, were
recently arrested on complaint Of Grand
Juror J. w. Stickney, of Tyson Furnace,
for breaking into the school house in
District No. 10 of plymouth, the whole
affair growing out of trouble with the
tcaCher tnefe, young hoh houich i'aricy'
The charges included stealing, breaking,
stoves. chimnies filed with dirt and excre-
ment, and an attempted blowing up of
the house and inmates by stick of wood
charged with powder. AL but Cham
berlain were discharged, and he was held
for trial at Windsor County Court.
LARGE CALLS. l.. Hunt, of Gull
ford, is the owner of thoroughbred bull
calf that, on the LIST Of May, when 10
months and % days old, weighed $40 lbs.
BRooKIINE.-We are informed that
the town of Brookline has no paupers.
The last one the town had was sent out
West year ago last March, and the
expense to the town and sending him
away was $l6,6
PIrrsFoRD.-Nathan Pierce, Esq Of
Rutland, has purchased OF BENJAMIN
Stevens, of Pittsford, tract of 80 acres
of land for the sum of $500 On the
estate there is a valuable marble ledge,
which was the incentive to the purchaser
Austin II. Hall, formerly adjutant
Of the Sd Vermont regiment, has been ap-
pointed inspector OF the custom house at
Island Pond.
-Eour conv;cfs in the Oranue countv