The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-09-29
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.


INSTRUMENTATION Amburgh's Col
den Menagerie exhibits in town to-day,
% S Dickinson has probably the
largest and best stock of silver and plat
ed wares and fine gold jewelry ever
shown in this village.
Mr. David Lovett, of this town, re-
Gently exchanged 800 i'm greenbacks for
$50 in gold, with sharper in Chicago,
and afterwards learned that the gold
coins were worthless counterfeits.
"A disgraccful row took place in the
College Chapel, on Wednesday after
noon, between the Sophomores and
Freshmen, in which one young man
was knocked down and others seriously
threatened. OF the merits of the case,
we know nothing, but suppose the
Sophomores must have been the ag-
gressors. We are glad to learn that the
Faculty are making thorough investi-,
CATION of the case, and that thoy Will
visit the offenders with summary justiq
we have no doubt.
drunkenness is becoming, OF rather
has become, frightfully prevalent Jim
Mddlebury. Last Friday afternoon,
we saw nearly n dozen men rccliHg
about our streets, and We understand
that one, becoming boistcrous, had to
DC put out Of the Post-oi)icc 10y force.
Several arrests were made.
George G Adams will sell, at pub
lie auction, near the Fair Ground, on
Thursday, horses, wagons, real estate,
&c. See bills.
"A dog was turpcnlined and sent
yelling through The streets of this vii
lagc, on Friday. A boy who can he
guilty of such cruelty to an inonensive
animal has in him the elements of con-
summate criminal. Mr.. Bergh should
come here Immediately, and organize n
society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals.
A chimney, which is to be one hun
dred feet high, is in process of erection
at East NTiddlebury.
LARGE EGGs.-Mr Samuel Scarf, of
Bridport, left on our table, last week.
liYe hen-eggs, the largest measuring &
inches one way, by s inches the other.
and the smallest measuring Gl hv -
inches.
Addison County.
George i<ingman, of Nergcnncs. had
his left hand badly mutilated by n crcu-
lar saw, on Wednesday.
There are 100 students attending
the Bristol Academy, of which Mr. l. f.
Benton is principal.
ON Thursday, the 18th inst, Orlin
Gage, of Addison, was thrown from his
wagon, and had his collar-bone broken.
New HAVEN. - Messrs Mason &
French's ram, Golden Fleece" died
last Tuesday, Of pneumonia.
MR. Aurelia Collins died in Ferris
hurSh, ON the l7lh inst, aged IS years
TuE TrRF. An exciting bull r,ce
recently took place in South Bristol, in
which Mcssri. Perkins, Orcutl, Nor
man ioardman, and half-dozcn others
were handsomely freed and Andrew
Racn dispatched the animal with rifle
shot just in time to save n like necessity
on his part.
j N Hawley has purchased the mill
and hub-factory Of I4andon Il Co. YER
gcnncs.
Tho ArsHS gives a minute descrp-
ton of Il drunken fight in Bristol. on
the 18th inst, between Loring circuit
ANA Il mulatto hoy, named Charles Gro
zier, in which both combatanla were
badly whipped, and Ofcutt dangerously,
II not fatally, wounded. Justice Mum
sill held Crozier TO bail in the sum of
500
A young man, living in New Ha-
ven, went to Bristol on the 18th inst
got gIoriousIy rich on whiskey, and was
robbed of fifty or sixty dollars.
H Is Il : plumlcy, of New Haven
Mills, Will sell twelve milch COWS and
four calves, nj auction, next Saturday
afternoon.
The Annual Fair of the Crown
Point and Bridport Farmers and Me-
chanics' Association occurs at Puts
Point, Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. The addresses will be delivered
by Hon Horace Greeley and Rev VIM
Smart, on Thursday afternoon
Bennington County.
john Moore, of Dorset, recently
horsewhipped his neighbor, Ira Batch
elder. Both gentlemen are upwards OF
seventy years of age.
The Putnam Manufacturing Com.
pany, of Bennington, have been putting
in mammoth trunk from their dam
down to their works.
1t is expected that the first lot o
shawls will be finished up and shipped
to New York, from the new factory O
the Bennington Manufacturing Com
pany, this week.
-Enos Adams is putting in n steam
engine of twenty-horse power, at hi