The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-03-17
Local AND STATE ITEMS.

The winter term ui the village schools
closed on Friday.
-fhe Twenty~FiGh Annual FAIR of
the Addison County Agricultural Society
will be held at the Societys grounds, on
Tucsd,y, Wednesday aul Thursday, Oct.
9th, It'll, and Sh. We shall publish the
premium list next week.
On Sunday Last, Patrick Haley and
Henry Donnelly, employees at the depot
in this place, got into II liulc unllensant-
lness over bottle Of the "craytlicr y and
two barrel shot gun in the hands Of the
Latter, Which resulted in the passage Of y
charge of shot through the arm Of the
former. IL is feared that Haley will have
TO lose his arm.
Charles T. Prcnliss graduate Of
the College in 1861, received hIs diploma
as graduate of the Georgetown ID. Co.
Medical College las, Wednesday.
Maj CharIc. w Corey, formerly Of
Bridport, WAC dangerously i'll in Washing
ton al last accounts.
liRrsroI. There is to be an auction Of
stock and other p, rsounl property vt the
rrslrnce OF ii j. Rider IN bristol, on
saturday.
CoRSwAII. AT the town meeting on
the IA instant, the Cornwall people voted
10 erect a snldirr's monument, AMI they
appointed Col Stuwcll, Samuel Evcrtsy
and Isaac | Eells committee to proc"rf
BRrDpoRr.-A good place 10 setllt
where the town lax is only is cents ?
the dollar. See advertisement of farm.
for sale by G. c. Walker, aduiri'irator,
ShoREmAM On Monday Of last week
the horses of the Shorehnm stage had a
n,rrow escape from drowning in Lemon
Fair. The road had been almost impas-
sable for some days.
RKs!GNATioN OF Mn BARNETT The
statement which las bscn going the
,ounds Of tue nc spapers that Hon. Joseph
II Barrett, formerly of Vermont, had re
signed The Office OF Commissioner Of Pen.
sions, is entirely incorrect. Mr.. Barrett
has b,cn off red $4,000 per aEnum 10
20 to Cincinnati and become editor-n-
chief Of the Cincinnati Daily Is Weekly
Chronicle, new Republican paper. and
is con ,ideri,g tn, question Of accepting
this Offer; but ha' no, resigned his present
position AMI ti!ay not do 80. Mr. iblrS
Istt has served as Commissioner of Pen
sions seven years with great Fl lcity and
with general acceptance TO the public.
LoNG Term OF SERVICE Hiram Bar
ton, Esq of SALISBURY, received at the
last to yn meeting, his forty fourth conse
cutive election to the Office Of town clerk
Ills predecessor, Jacob Galushs, held tht
office f'rly years. Mr.. Galusha's predc
cessor, Thomas Matteson, father of thu
late Rev. Josiah Mai,eson, WAS the frs
town clerk. SALISBURY was chartered
according to Thompson's Gazetteer O
Vermont, Aug 20, l7G3 Its se'tlemen
WAS commenced about 1868. according I,
the same authority.
Tile library Of the Vermont Contra
railroad has just received an addition o
27z volumcs and It's catalogue now SHOW
total Of tiften hundred and lifiy-i uel
selected books. Mr.. A. f. Styles hs
recently made the Association donation
ofifive hundred stereoscopic pictures en-
bracing his ''Vermont Scenery" and th
liberality of Gov. Smith has provided
fine stereoscope.
e-=Mr. John Conant, tile well know
fisherman, resiing near the lake shore j
Fcrrisburgh, died very suddenly on Mon
day Of last week. A posi- norton revcalc
the fac: that heart disease was the Gauss
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. G. Cutting
ii. Is. Wright, Elmer Barnum Trea'
urer, G.. Rich; Constable & Colec,o
!. G. Bascom; Listers, IL w. Jones. A
Is. Treadway, J. I. Rch; Auditors, I
Hrooki"s, J. y N orth, NJ. Fiat; Tru
tee 81 School fund, G. Rich Agen
Marvin North. -..