The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-04-09
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LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

District No. 4, West silc, IN Friday,
April 26th, 1867, commencing ut III
O'Clock, A NJ. II. IIARRIs, Jr.,
.Spt Of Schools.
Notice advertisement of =. Il. Rock
well and visit his plantation of fruit trees
We would call the special attention
OF fruit growers to the advertisement of
Albert Chapman.
About TowS. - Real Estae. - Mr..
Holden has purchased and taken posses
sion of the dwelling house recently owned
by Mr. Avery of Brandor.-E. w. Judd
has bought the dwelling house of Mrs.
Dorrancc on Seymour Street w. ii.
Rowe has sold his dwelling house on
Court Street to VIM. Duncan, and lis
Marble shop to A. J. Severance, who
will fit it up for dwelling to rent -Mr'.
q. Seymours farm has been purchased
by l.. Baitell, who, we observe, has al
ready commenced repairs about the
house. Eli b. Parker, il taking down
the old AGA lc'ny bu ding, AM from
the lumber proposes TO bnld two
houses and three barns near his resi-
dcnce -L.Drake has sold his farm, on the
road to East Mildlcbury to Mr.. Board
man.-i,cpairs and pleasant addition to
dwellings and stores are being made quite
extensively +. Con,s,ock has added a
piazza TO his house; O. = Dickinson has
retitcd the inside Of his Bookstore, max
ing it correspond with The jcwclry side,
and the shop is now one Of the most
attractive in town; L. X Clay has fitted
up new show window in fine style, for
tile better display Of his millinery an
fancy goods; NJ. Welch is repairing the
building, which he occupies, for his hard
ware store Prof. Wcbbcr is soon to COM
mcnce ovcrhauling and improving the
dwelling house recently purchased of Mrs
Meacham. DR.. Kitchcl has purchased
and will bull an elcg mt residence on the
lot opposite the Graded School grounds
--A;cc. =. Rowell & Co., Advertising
Agents, formerly at 23 Congress Street,
Boston, have removed TO 10 Park Row,
New York, where they will continue their
business. We havo dealt with this firm
since their debut, and have always found
them gcnilemanly, prompt, honorable
and enterprisng. They have deserved
success and have gained it. We recon-
mend them tc the confidence of the pub
lie.
--Mcssrs. Lazarus tS Morris, opticians
and oculisis, Hartford, Conn, have ap.
pointed o. :. Dickinson of this place
their sole agent to supply the people q:
this vicinity with their popular spectacles.
An examination can do no harm and
may benefit you. See advertisement in
another column.
SEVERE ACCIDENr.-AIr. d. Ford
was seriously injured by falling plank
while assisting in the tearing down of the
old Academy building, on Tuesday. The
board came from the roof and struck him
on the head, glancing off end tearing a
piece OF the scalp from the skull which
seems not to have been seriously injured.
1t then struck his shoulder bruising him
severely. DR.. Rowley is in attendance.
Al last adviccs lie WAS in fair way of
recovery.
PEHsoSAI.-IIon. Lewis Mcacham of
New Haven, is to sail for Europe, April
eth.
An ISNovArIoN.-Thc custom which
has long prevailed in Mddlebury College,
Of having prayers twice each day, has
recently been Discontinued. Evening
prayer is now omitted.
PEEsoSAL-S. o. Wright, Esq, Of
Weybridge, is slowly recovering from u
severe illness which was much aggravated
by the use Of impure liquors in the med
icines
BRIDroKr,-A hotel has been opened
in l5ridport, and Is kept by n. Is. PhcIp.,
Esq.
lIoN. HENRY CIuruAN.- Henry
Chapman, LID, eldest son of Hon.
Nathaniel Chapman, native of Tin
mouth, died at Detroit, Michigan, on
Friday, March Goth, at the age of 81
lie graduated at Mi'idlebury College in
1893, in the second class that left that
institution. There were but three mem
ber' Rev. Walter Chaplin, Henry Chip
man and Edward S. Stewart. lie was
present at the last Commencement, after
an absence of more than forty years, and
was said at the time to be the oldest living
graduate Of the College. lie was for
many wears one of the most nron,;nent