The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-06
Addison County.

-Sprague e uickok of Vergennes,
have dissolved, the former retiring.
The Summer term of the Vergennes
High School closed with an examination
last Friday.
1t /. contemplated at Vergennes, TO
sell the Water Lily, and purchase a lar
ger and more serviceable steamer.
1t is reported that the crops, over
the lake, are much more unpromising than
in Addison county.
Young Shattuck, of Salisbury, who
fell from the scailold of barn, we are
pleased to learn, is now rapidly recover
ing.
Our Salisbury correspondent says,
"Prof. Weber draws the largest audIen>
ces that have been gathered in the church,
tor years.
The foundation of the new Town
House, in Salisbury, ia nearly completed,
and the work of framing the bull ding Is
progressing rapidly.
A boy named William Merritt was
brought before Justice Hayward, of Wey>
bridge, on Tuesday, charged with steal>
ing Merritt was fined 81 and costs,
1t is understood that Mr.. Elijah
Avery is soon to open factory on the
bridge, in Salisbury Village, for the man
ulacture of wagon spokes and hubs,
On Monday morning of last week,
thirteen thousand, four hundred and sev-
enty-six pounds of butter were shipped
from New Haven depot.
Col A. J. Child. OF Weybridge, sold
his personal property at auction, on the
10Th, ult and he will soon remove to the
West, we believe to locate in Western
Missouri.
AT the independence Ball, held at
the Lake Dunmore House, last Friday
night, there was no fighting, and but few
sons independently drunk. 1t is
SAID to have been quite an orderly affair.
The Br1port farmers think the grass
crop will be unusually good this season.
They are preparing for the harvesting, and
some Of them have commenced cutting
their clover pieces.
-Four persons united with the Con-
gregaiional Church in Weybridge on Sun
day, three on profession of faith and one
by letter from the Baptist church in Or
well.
MIR Albert a. Fletcher and wife
went to New York, last week, TO meet
! Mr.. and Mrs. Hale of st. Paul, Mimi,
who were expected every day from
Europe, where they spent the winter.
Mr.. Columbus Waterhouse, of Cali
fornia, has recently sent Sl4O0, in gold, 10
his father, for the purpose of having the
old homestead, in Salisbury village re-
paired.
C G. Dana, of Weybrdgc, was
brought before Justice Hayward, on Tues
day, charged with assault aud battery on
the person of William Merritt, and fined
81 and costs
Henry Mansfield and Galpin Bron'
son, of Goshen, came to blows the other
day, the latter called his wife and col
orcd woman TO his rescue. Mansfield was
severely injured.
Mr. n. Gr;swoId of Waltham, has 6
lamb which weighed when one day less
than week old, iorty-eighty pounds
The sire, two year old, weighs two hun
dred and six pounds.
"A Young Farmer writes US from
Salisbury, that he has, this Spring, re
moved seventy-three 'borcrs from a young
orchard of thirty. four apple trees, jus
commencing be. ring.
80 Rev MIR. Cornell, Seventh da
Adventist, from Battle Greek, Mich, re
Gently gave four lectures, in Weybridge
on the prophecies of Daniel and John, il
one of which, he pitched into moder
Spiritualism, lerJciously.
Among the otcersof Post No :, G
A, Il OF the District of Columbia for tn
= ensuing SIX months we find the follown
Addison County names j. F. Bolton,
/, V. c. and George II. Corey, Q. NJ
, the latter also among the Council of Ad
= ministration.
Q "A large factory is being erected o
+ the ground where the old forge formerl
stood, in Salisbury, to be occupied for III
manufacture of spools and bobbius. On
e Of the firm, interested in this enterprise, hi
u purchased the house formerly owned al
- occupied by Mr.. w. A. Waterhouse.
q Mrs Calsta II. Varney, wife of NJ
70 BILE l.. Varney, of Bristol, died on ii
4 Both ull., at the age of &c years. 81
O was a member of the NJ. f. Church,
|. that place, and her many friends mouI
her loss with the chastened sorrow CT q
sured hope that 'their loss is her gain.
On the evening Of June Goth, JOSEF
-. +, Fletcher, of Bridport, fell from a loa
!. of lumber, on which he was riding, net
= ~ Mr.. Cross Stone house, and the whe
- passed over him, injuring him quite seve
-, 20 ly. DIR. Warner il attending him, and |
!, is doing well.
y, FRIEND KNArP. In your paragraE
:, in reference TO the death of Mr.. Clark
e. child, by poison, are two errors to correc
d. One is Mrs. Clark, the mother, was n
s. absent when the child went into the &C
r. lar, only she did not think of the poisC
m then. The other fact is that the poiso
unfortunately pataken Of, was not arseni
er but strychnine. j. J,