The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-10-15

LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

vi ihc DiUy SOuTlcT, CONTINUING "ii III
count Of the n. Y. State Fair, held re
Gently in that place Mr. S ymour Jr. ha
for some time been stopping at St. Paul
MINI, and is one of the judges in Tho
MINI esuia base ball tournrmrnt
Book BlNDISG.- G. c. Chase, o
Verrennes announces to the people 81
Milllcbury and vicinity h- readiness &c
receive orders for binding books Magazinrs
pamphlets, &c, in the best possible man
ncr and at short noitc. Mr.. Chase has
the hest of recommendations and the people
need not hesitate 10 trnst their work tc
him Orders c,n be left at Dickinson
Book Store.
FINED. Mary Collins was last wcc',
arrested in Salisbury. charged with steal
ing clothing of daughter of VIM New
comb of this town. She was brought
before Justice Sladc, aud pleading guilty.
men, she WAS committed
LoSr-A gray and black wooden
shawl was lost on Wednesday last, someo
where on the road from Lake Dunmurc
through Salisbury village to MID llebury-
probably between the Like anil Columbus
Smiths. The finder will be suitably re-
warded on leaving it at Nallcue's Store
Midilebury.
RIrroN.-Mr. Edmund Kirby has cut
an ample bride path from the south east
corner of Duhbcny's clearing. now owned
by Edmund and H,nry Kirby, 10 the
brow of Burnt Hill, which in the higher
Green NIountein ridge, east If Ripton,
offers SO vast western view. The dis
lance in the W BOD is Il mile anda quarter,
10 the forest from Bread Loaf Inn, about
mile. The first horseback ascent was
made to the top on Wednesday, Oct. 9th,
when the work war approved and accept
ed. 1t will offer its attractions to parties
from the neighbnrhood as we'll as 20 the
summer guests of the Bread Loaf, for
whom it was particularly designed.
Capt Samuel Z. Durham, of the In.ur.
ance firm Of lrindle and Bnrnham of Rut
land, has been appointed Secretary of Civil
and Military Affairs by Governor Page
Cnpt. Bnrnham isa son of the late WIN
Burnham long Principal of Burr X Burton
Seminary. lie is a graduate of Mid,llebury
College, has an honorable war record, and
is well qualified for this position
The Western Vermont Musical
Association which was in session at Rut
lanl five days Of last week, closed their
exercises Friday Evening with grand
Concert, which the YeiuH says was Il
perfect success in every respect. The
convention was under the charge of
Prof l. o. Emerson OF Boston and he wa.
assisted by the distinguished soloists Mrs
Smith, Mrs Hall, Miss Barney, Miss
Phelps, Messers j. Whitney NJ. w.
Whitney, Z. =. Phillips, and Mr.. Dull
ly, AMI the panists Profs Mielzke, Moore
and Proctor.
VERMONT STATE ELECTION The fol-
lowing is the official canvass for Cover
nor.
Whole number of votes returned, 43, 226
Necessary for choice, 2l,6l4
John b. Page, 81, 69l
John L. Edwards, IL $40
Scattering, -
Majority for John B. Page, 90, lG2
An ANCIENT CoIN.-DeWit C. Bond
native of Poultney, VT, now resident
of Hartford, c., recently donated "a rare
and valuable coin to the State Cabinet
1t is a Syrian silver coin, about the sac
q a half dollar, and of elliptica form
1t was coined in the reign OF Anliochus
Equator, Antonius 5th-who reigned
from H. c. l6i TO B. C. 162
On the face of the coin is the head of
the mon arch On the reverse Jupiter is
represented as holding small figure of
victory in right hand and spear IN his
left On the sides and beneath the figure
Of Jupiter is an inscription in ancient
Greek which being interpreted reads "of
king-Antonius a Good Father"
Emma Phelps of Berlin, near Mont
peler, cut her throat with razor on
Monday and lived until Wednesday. She
WAS religiously insane
fhe body of Mrs Martha Z. Sweet of
Woodstock, who escaped from her house
and drowned herself, Tuesday, morning
during temporary insanity was found early
Wednesday afternoon in S. Woodward's
mill pond, by parties who were searching
for her.
The Legislature met Thurs lay and or.
ganized with Henry Clark of Rutland,
clerk Of the Senate, John w. Stewart of
Middlebury, speaker OF the House. and
Rev Mr., Foster of Montpelier, chaplain.
Gov, John B. Page was born at Rutland
in 1926, in the same house in which he
resides and il the Youngest governor that