The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-09-22

Pittsfield, Shelburn, and Mendon, doing
considerable damage.
The recent Ladies' Fair, at the
Court House, Manchester, netted about
800.
Capt John Balm and S Spalding,
of Burlington, have been authorized to
recruit each company of infantry for
the Vermont Militia.
BRIsToL.-S r Cain, Esq, of Bristol,
has splendid Norway oats, which he
will distribute to the farmers of this
county-for cash.
Morris Brothers, Ministries, of Bos-
ton give an entertainment in Vergennes
this Tuesday evening.
F X Haven has fine lot of ready
made clothing, hats, caps, carpets, pa
per hangings, crockery, groceries, &c,
at his store in Post Office block, Yer
gennes.
The entire estate of the late Solomon
Allen, of Panton, three miles from Yer
gennes, will be sold at public auction.
on the premises, October 90.
Rev G r. w Scott is soon to become
pastor of the Congregational church in
Newport, N II.
Christopher Dowdell, of Granville,
was stabbed, on the night of the 25th
ult, by Hiram Morse, neighbor, with
whom he had an alteration. The
wound was not fatal.
r. II Wright, of Cornwall, is among
the presidents ofthe Vermont State
| Spiritualist Association.
Il A Knight, formerly Principal of
the North Bennington Academy, has
gone into the business of canning fruit,
in Atlanta, Georgia.
The town of Dorset has voted to sell
its Lebanon Springs r r stock and
| bonds at par.
The Bennington Center church has
contributed $425 to the Board of Foreign
Missions during the year just passed.
The Baptist N!.shurch lin Factory
Point is without pastor.
The Sabbath-school picnic in Adj
Olson, on Wednesday, was largely at
tended, and addresses were delivered
by Messrs c w Willard and George w
Grandey. A son of VIM Smith, of Adj
| Olson, spoke n fine original declama-
ton. The music was furnished by the
Ncrgcnnes Band.
New oats rule in New York at &c
to re, and corn at $1.21.
The Vergennes, Lyceum will hold
its first public meeting tomorrow even
ing.
Il Pomeroy has purchased the gro
Gerry store formerly owned 10y l. ID
Miner & Co, in Vergennes.
An Addison man recently left an
ear of twelve-rowed corn at the VermOn,er
office, Vergennes, which measured thir-
teen inches in length.
John Smith, AN operative in q
clio thes-pin factory at Manchester,
while at work near circular saw recon-
tly, by msstep fell upon it; and his
abdomen was horribly. ripped, and his
intestines were drawn and wound round
the revolving shaft. To release him the
machinery had to be run back, and his
viscera unwound rs carefully rs posi-
BILE. During. this operation he, was ell
tirely conscious and remarked, "This
is very hard" He did not long sur
vive.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Vermont & Canada rail-
road will be held at st Adams, on the
18th of October.
VIM ii Hoyt has sold. the Burling
ton Sentinel to William w Eaton, Esq
of Cambridge. We regret Mr. Hoyt's
retirement, not only because whole
souled gentleman is lost to the frater-
nifty, but especially because, under his
| direction, the Sentinel has attained so
| high a standard of excellence. Mr. Ea-
ton is spoken of as lawyer of marked
ability.
"A youth, l3 years of age, was fined
S7.S1, for assaulting a boy of II, in Rut-
land, on Thursday.
The superintendent of the Vermont
| Reform School, at Waterbury, announ-
ces that he has several boys In the
school for whom homes are desired.
-There.is town pauper SO years Of
age in Middletown, who was in the bat
tie of Lake Erie, was one of the seven
that rowed Comodorc Perry from the
Lawrence to the Niagara, received three
wounds in the action, and carries in
his chest ball that he received on that
day.
"A new bridge, over 400 feet long, is
building across the White river at White
| River Junction.
Joseph Paro, while engaged in haul
ing logs upon a horse railroad in Men
don, was killed by the breaking of a
car, seven of the logs passing over
him.
C. l.. Dix, of Barre, has fig tree
with so ripe figs on it.
Samuel Weber of Fairfax, knock
ed senseless by burglars last July, has
| inst died from fha affaots nf tho iniur-