The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-06-09

will provide conveyance from the depot
to the village.
BRANDoE.-At the annual meeting
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Brandon, Monday evening of
last week, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
President-Jon. l. Barker.
Vice President-Edgar Bliss.
Secretary-W ii Sanderson.
Treasurer-Henry Rust
Board of Directors-John l. Barker
Edgar Bliss, VIM II Sanderson. Henry
Rust, John Howe, w f Leavitt, G w
West, Chas Lewis.
Major John Hawks orderly journal,
n manuscript volume ofseveral hundred
pages, written in 1859 and 1850, in the
Lake George and Lake Champlain cam
paigns, has just been presented to the
Vermont Historical Society at Montpe-
| lier, by Rev. q. b. Spalding, of Hart
ford, CT. The author was dweller in
Deerfield, Mass.
Horace Greeley will lecture in Bur-
lington next Wednesday evening.
a tall disused chimney in Manches-
ter has been taken possession of by
some ten thousand swallows, which
blacken the air like u cloud in coming
thither at night and departing in the
morning.
Rev w II Lord of Montpelier writes
very singular geographical information
to the Journal from Rome. He says he
stood upon the Campagna looking upon
the blue Socrate and well-loved Hymet-
tus, which is rather stretch of vision,
| Hymettus being near Athens, many
hundred miles away.
-Four boys escaped from the Water
bury reform school, recently, but only
got rs far as Richmond, when their
| freedom was arrested.
The steamer Oliver Bascom, which
has been running opposition through
Lake Champaign, has been compelled
to haul Off till provided with the life
boats and life preservers required by
law.
A son of Peter Pelkie of Belvidere,
while squirrel hunting one day last
week, fell from a tree and broke his
shoulder so badly that his life is des-
paired Of
The new steamer Cakes Ames,
built by the Rutland railroad company
to convey freight across the lake to
| Plattsburg, was launched at Burlington
on Wednesday.
The question whether schools must
| be heather in order to he unsectarian is
on trial at Burlington, in a suit against
+ ii Chittendcn, a school teacher, for
enforcing school rule ,-not to read the
Bible, but simply to lay aside hooks
and other matters, while a chapter is
being read, each morning, on penalty,
as all rules of the school are, of dismiss
sal for disobedience. A fellow named
Cosgrifl, whose boys were dismissed for
| defying the rule by his direction, brings
| the suit.
| SINGULAR.-The Manchester Jour
nal says soldier of the 9Th Vt. named
Williams, who was wounded in one of
the battles of the Wilderness, May 9th,
1864, has ever since carried the ball in
| his head. 1t entered under his left eye
and lodged above and back of the pal
ate, whence the surgeons dared not eX-
tract it. On the night of May 22d,
while asleep, Williams was awaken
ed by a choking sensation, and being
unable to clear his throat, with his fin
| gers drew out in great pain what PROV
ed to be the bullet, in very ragged
shape, which had remained there for
over two years. The bullet weighed a
| little over one ounce.
| COUNTY CoNvENTIoN.-Th Repub-
licans of Windsor county hold mass
convention at Woodstock, June 10, for
the nomination of County officers
The rush to the mineral springs in
Sheldon is unprecedented. The hotels
and farm houses are running over with
applicants for accommodations. At one
farm house where six persons can he
| there nave Dttll APP
plications. Large quantities of the
water of the Missisquoi and Vermont
springs are being bottled and sent to
New York.
-Enosburg is raising money to help
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad,
and will easily raise SD, 600 if the road
comes to the Falls.
jay Peak, in the towns of Jay and
Richford, is rapidly being made accessi-
BILE, with a view to the construction OF
hotel on its summit and rendering it
a summer resort. The view therefrom
embraces the whole mountainous re-
gion of New England.
The Windsor county Jail at Wood
stock is to be repaired and improved.
William Mitchell of Sheldon, a but
ter buyer in the st Adams market, has
slipped away for parts unknown.
The Passumpsic railroad has moved
all its offices from st Johnsbury to Lyn-
don. The latter place is growing rap
/ II a IL 1.