The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-02-11
RUTLAND & BURLINGTON RAILROAD.
Local AND STATE ITEMS.


recolect the lectures at the Methodist
Church on "Wednesday and Thursday
evenings of this week. Rev Calvin Fairs
banks is said to be an eloquent An impress
sive speaker. The net proceeds, if any,
will 90 for the support of our teacher
among the freedmen at Society Hill, S. c.
The noble object Of these lectur-s, no less
than the fund of information aud enter
tainment they will themselves afford,
should induce general attendance. ADJ
mittance so cents-fcr the two lectures
80 cents. Tickets at o. 5. Dickneons.
IIANCoCK. Ladies of Hancock
will hold their first Festival and Fair Mt
their new church, Thursday evening, Feb.
- h. The net proceeds will be devoted
to furnishing the church The cntcrtain-
ment will consist of vo"al and instrumen
tai music, addresses and amusements US
ual on such occasions.
There will be social Party at
Bread Loaf Inn on Friday evening Feb
ruary 81, 1868.
Tickets of admission including break
fat or I of day per couple and horse
keeping, $40, or to the evening entertain
ment $500.
ADDISON COUNTY TEMPERANCE SoCi-
ETY. AND CoNvESTIoN. The Addison
County Temperance Society will hold
its next annual meeting at the Court
House in Middlebury, on Wednesday,
Feb. 10Th, at half past ten o'clock, a
M. by vote of the Convention to nomi
nate County Commissioner last year, the
Executive Committee of the County
Temperance Society was authorized to
call similar Convention for the present
year. Therefore, all true friends of our
present State Temperance Law, in Add
son County, arc requested TO meet in Com
vcntion at the place aforesaid, on the
same day, at half past one o'clock p. NJ,
10 II animate a County Commissioner for
the ensuing year. A large attendance is
desired, at both the hours above named
to give aid and counsel in our cause.
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Chairman Exec Com.
NorICE.-Thc Rev. X. Haven viii
preach in East Middlcbury, Sunday Feb
10th.
SUDDEN DEATH - We learn that Roys
al 3 Milliken, editor and publisher of the
Brandon edition of the Vermont iIecold
and Farmer, was found dead in his bed
at Brandon, on Friday morning Nr.
NIlikcn has been q cripple since he was
seven years Of age, and has bcer obliged
to ely upon crutchcs Tor locomction. lie
was an energetic and persistent Young
man ami all his physical diliirultic>. md
was ever busy at Something. new, @ ing
up to the many llscour. gem 20. ... .ar.
rounded him, and was emitted % ..
credit for his perseverance,. We hst hut
recently become proprieio. Of m ]}su.
don edition OF the Record.
RUTLAND RAILROAD The Treasurer
of the Rutland Railroad announces that
the scmi-annual diviuend Of 3 per cent.
is payable on the preferred stock. his
is issued only for lst mortgage bonds Of
the Rutland and Burlington Railroad
Company.
-Four Canadian families crossed the
line at Island Pond, the other day, who
numbered Ga souls all told, including Sc
children. No wonder that the assembly
Stalking into serious consideration means
to check the .lamentable cmigratioa Of
the province of Quebec to the United
States" EFIft
The National bank of Derby Line
has just paid a semi-annual dividend of
seven per cent.
"A rare and beautiful phenomenon
was>seen in the east by persons in Brook
field, on Tuesday morning just at sunrise,
apillar of light in the frosty sky blending
the tints of the rainbow.
The Essex county agricultural So
cieiy vas born, last week. at West Con-
word
e f Perkins. the retiring master me.
chanic of the Vermont Central railroad,
has been presented a $500 gold watch and
chain by the engineers and employees of
the road.
The house of Prof Joseph Perkins,
at Castleton, was destroyed by fire, early
Monday morning. There was a partial
Insurance of Sl6J0 Prof Perkins, his
wife and son, were all confined at the
time by illness.
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