The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-02-28
Middlebury.

which may be left at the Register Book
store. The finder will be suitably reward
ed.
Deacon William Grant of East Mid
dlebury has exchanged farms with Mr..
Edward Fuller of Bristol Flats, and re-
moval Of families will take place soon.
We are sorry to have the Deacon leave
town.
Look out for your strawberry and
grapevines and young trees Of varieties
not the most hardy Putting straw about
them may prevent their thawing out and
the consequent iniuring when the next
frost comes.
On our first page is the famous
anath ema against Victor Emmanuel, by
His Holiness, the Pope. This exhibition
of impotent rage ought, in its foolishness,
to be a warning to all, not to lose,by any
means, their self control
Case & Rider have just received
complete assortment of pertumery, pom.
AIDES, hair oils hair, tooth, and nail brush
es, cosmetiques, confectionery, patent
medicines, &C., which will be sold cheap
for cash.
On Monday Of last week Mr.. Has
kell Miller, who lives in the east part Of
this town, while coming to the village,
slipped upon the ice and fell, and dislo-
Gated his arm at the shoulder. DR.. Ed
DIV was called to set the bones.
Our Chicago letter is exceedingly
spicy and interesting. 1t will well repay
perusal His method of disposing of the
woman question is the only possible one,
for those taking his Wow of the question.
A sneer and an assumption and the thing
is done.
F. r. Clay has got in a new line of
dress goods, shawls, ribbons, laces &C.,
&C., for the spring trade. He has great
attractions in new spring dress goods
poplins, empress cloth, silks &c. Call
and examine, at No 3 Lane & Clay's
Block.
New FIRM-M. A Munroe, Esq has
purchased half interest in the Furniture
establishment of John B. Steele, and they
will enlarge the business and occupy, in
duutiOt " tuCh plNsCHb ioOHs, ohS VI
the stores on the ground floor of the same
building. 1t is already fine establish
ment but will be enlarged and improved
under the new management.
LECTURE Remember the Lecture TO be
given at Union Hall TN W ednesday even
ing, by Wallace Bruce Esq, of Hudson,
N. Y, on the subject "Robert Burns"
1t is theme in which we are especially
interested, and it is treated in a manner
to elicit encomiums from the press every
where the lecture has been delivered.
We hope Mr.. Bruce will be greeted with
full house. ,-.-.----
Mr.. Cyrus Brge, one of the old re-
sdents of Washington, died suddenly on
Tuesday. He had for twenty years past,
until recently, filled animportant position
in the Interior Department lie was one
of the veterans Of 1872 and for twenty
years successful merchant in Middle
bury. He died member of the First
Congregational Church of Washington, of
which his son-n-law, Rev. Dr. Rankin, is
pastor.
Town MEErINd.-The legal voters Of
Middlebury are notified and warned to
meet at the Town Room on Tuesday,
March 7. at 10 o'clock a. m, to elect
town officers, county grand jurors, and
petit jurors for the year ensuing, to act
on reports submitted, to lay tax for
the payment Of town bonds and interest
coupons due Oct | and all town expen-
ses, to vote upon the proposition to dis
continue certain reads and to open certain
other roads, and to vote for County Com
missioner.
Last Tuesday DR.. Eddy extracted a
piece of pipe stem nearly three inches
long from the throat of a three year old
son of Frank Miller of Court Street. The
child had clay pipe in his mouth and
was standing upon something, when he
fell off, driving the pipe stem under his
tongue and down into his neck beside
the throat about three inches. The
pipe was broken off leaving the stem bur-
led beneath the flesh. DR.. Eddy wa'
called and the superAuous clay was ex-
tracted.
Wilcox x HYDE are doing a thirty.
ing business in their line of trade. AL
though their shop is not located on the
bridge, in the immediate center of bust
ness yet somehow the people find theil
store and shop 30 often that their business
is constantly on the increase even in these
"hard times" AS both the proprietor.
are practical mechanics. and attend tc
their own business, success is certain
They have recent remodeled their shoI
and sales-room, in such a manner as a
once to make it convenient and inviting
Industry will prosper.
Unclaimed Letters remaining at thu
Middlebury Post Office, Feb. 9th 1871
GENTS LIST: John NJ. King, Jas. Ler
nard, p. T. Smith. A. II. Smith, JOIN
Lyons, Owen Hamilton, Geo. Hier, Geo
H. Goodrich, l.. c. Grower, Nose
Coyer, j. p. Collins, BARLEY Coyel
Loren H. Batchelder, Henry hurry, Jos
Minner, S. w. Price, l.. Parmalee
Asahel Peck, o. Richardson, James N
Shedd, j. Fl. Smith, Robert Tribel.-
LADIES LIST Sarah M. Frost, Sarah A
Austin, Alma McMaster, Harriet Merrill
Those calling for any Of the above vii
please call for advertised letters.
A. S, TRACY, p. Nj.
Tnr Town School SysTEM.-Amon
the acts passed by the Legislature at it
last session was the act authorizing town
to abolish the district system and adop
the town system of schools provided tn
majority of legal voters in such tow
shall so vote at any annual March meet
ing, and that the selectmen shall inser
an article for that purpose in the warn
ing, upon the application of three lcga
voters.
Our annual meeting is called and n