The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-18

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gone down several feet, but is still very
high. The piers of Whitney Creek bridge,
in Addison, which was washed away dus
ring the late freshet, are still under water.
A temporary bridge will be thrown across,
as soon as the water is down sufficiently,
and permanent structure will be built
sometime during the season.
There was shipped from Vergennes
station between March LIST, 1868 and
March LIST, 1869, eight thousand two hun
dred and fifty-fve packages of.butter,
weighing two hundred and seventy-eight
thousand six hundred and ninety eight
pounds. About "A, 900 pounds less than
the year previous.
The week ending Monday, May 10th
the amount shipped was 239 packages,
weighing 1882 pounds. The week end
ing Monday, May, Sd, 272 packages,
weighing 95l3 pound, gross.
"A large bear was killed near Mr..
d. Chambers in Lincoln, last Tuesday
after an exciting hunt by the neighbors.
Bruin had been making sad havoc with
the flock of Mr.. Carlton Hill, having
killed eighteen sheep. He was finally
brought down by $, J. Sargents rifle.
He was taken to the residence of Orrin
Atkins and was found to weigh nearly
three hundred pounds. His length was
six feet, two feet across the breast and
eighteen inches around bis arm his tusks
were two inches in length, He was then
taken by Messrs Hill and Atkins and
exhibited through the section of Starks-
boro and Lincoln, where the hunters lived
who had participated in the hunt. His
carcass was divided among the hun
tiers, and the next evening the people of
Starksboro enjoyed bear supper at the
dwelling of Mr.. Geo. Brown. The boun-
ty and the skin we're given TO Mr.. Carl
ton Hill as part recompense for the loss
his focks had sustained. The skin was
afterwards purchased by Mr.. Nathan
Morrison of StaIksboro, for SIS.
The shoe store of f. Bissonette, of
Bristol, was broken into Sunday night,
May I'd, and S1OO worth OF calfskin boots
anu SHOES S.Olen tneTeIrOm.
AN ANCIENT AND IMPORTANT CHAM
Gerry SUIT, DECIDED AT LAsT.-In 1857
a suit was entered in the Charcery Court
Of Addison County, by Messrs X. r.
Robinson l.. Hurlburt and II. Perry of
Ferrisburgh rs ID. d. Middlebrook. n.
w. Porter and others, TO compel said de-
tan To hat 10, fta g
large sum of money which had been
lost by the late " Union Store Associa
ton" so called, a mercantile partnership
in Ferrisburgh, which carried on mer-
camille business from 1851 to 1856. The
suit was defended by Messrs. Mddebrook
and Porter, on the alleged ground that
they were not, and never had been men,
bers or partners in that association. The
suit had been referred TO Messrs. Dugald
Stewart and John +. Roberts rs Refes
rees to try and determine. The hearing
was concluded in Vergsnnes, Tuesday the
l!h inst, and the Referees decided that
Messrs Middlebrook and Porter were not
members of said partnership or associa
ton. This decision is final The case
was argued by j. w. Stewart for the
orators, and by G.. w, Grandey and f.
E. Woodbridge for the defendants. - YER
monter
The Congregational church in Or
well, on the 9th inst, voted TO continue
the arrangement, adopted last winter, of
having only one sermon each Sabbath.
The late Hon. Joseph II. Chilten,
den, not long ago, presented TO the Cons
gregational church in Orwell, about so
valuable volumes for nucleus of pas.
tors library,
An ecclesiastical council wa- conven.
ed at Benson, on Wednesday last. which
advised the dissolution of tho Pastoral re-
lalion Of Rev. Mr.. Byingion with the
Congregational church of that place.
Moderator, Rev. Mr. Granger of Hub
bard.on. Scribe, Rev. Franklin Tuxbury
OF Brandon
Hon Earl Cushman, NJ. ID. OF Or,
well, recently procured vaccine matter and
vaccnated large number of the people
of that town, for the small pox. By CIV
ing his personal attention TO this matter,
he has prevented the entrance of that dis.
ease into the town of Orwell, with the e.
cepIion Of one case. for the fifty three
Years of his residence and practice there.
New Haven will pay taxes on sixty
four dogs this year.
The Congregational churches OF Blid-
port, Shoreham and Orwell. and the
Methodist church of Vergennes, hold only
one preaching service each Sabbath.
1t is said that Mr. Reuben Eaton of
West Addison has 200 acres of grain
sowed this season, which is large story
for Vermont, but we presume it TO be
true.
MIR. Il. M. Tobin is giving n series
of writing lessons at New Haven Street,
at the Academy building.
Snowfall, 1869.
A. b. MILLS, New Haven, Observer
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