The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-05-07

DAY. ana the amount Is increasing eacn
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Y FouND.-IIiram Place, of Highgate
who has been missing for long time
from his home, has been heard from,
having been placed in thu insane asylum
at Portland, Oregon.
II We understand that the State Re-
publican Committee have decided upon
Montpelier as the place, and June 26th
as the day of holding the convention NOM
'inating State officers
General Wells, the new collector at
Burlington, has resigned his position as
Adjutant General OF the State. and Ma
jor James S. Peck, of Montpelier. has
been appointed to fiji the vacancy.
"A Chester correspondent says Our
snow has all gone, and people are making
their gardens, sowing their early peas
and planting early potatoes. The sugar
season is over and the farmers have taken
in their buckets. The amount of the
crop is about half of that last year.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION The
executive committe of the Vermont SUM-
day School Association met at Burling-
ton, April Oath, and decided to hold the
next annual meeting Of the Association
October LIST and 2nd. The place of
meeting and order of exercises will be
duly announced.
STATE PRIsoN.-Hon. Martin G. Rice,
and Hon. John w. Hartshorn, Of the
Board of Directors of the Vermont State
Prison, officially visited that institution
on Thursday of last week. They found
the convicts in remarkable good condi-
ton and health, and briskly engaged in
their new employment of making shoes.
OF every seven native born Yer
monters three have cmigrated to other
states. The last census shows that the
whole number OF Vermont emigrants is
$50, 900, Of which 10000 have taken up
residence in New York, $4,000 in
Illinois, 10000 in Wisconsin, $4,000 in
MICHIGAN, 10000 in Iowa, and 1000 in
california.
A CnIcAGo FIRE.-Bethel had a Chi
cago fire on small scale, on a recent
Sunday night. Mr.. G. +. Hulburt, liv-
ing in the northwestern part of the town,
set his lantern on a barrel in the barn
while he was watering horse, when a
COW got into the barn and upset the barrel
The lantern broke, fire caught in the hay
and straw, and the barn was destroyed.
I BRANDoN.-At Il meeting Of some Of
the citizens Of Brandon, held at Engels
Hall, on Wednesday evening, May LIST,
1872, an invitation was extended to the
Otter Greek Valley Teachers Association
to hold their next semiaunual meeting
at Brandon, and &. l.. Case, Geo. Briggs,
and Charles NJ. Wnsow, were chosen AS
a committee Of arrangements to carry the
4same into effect >-------..----.---''-'--- -'--
VERMONT AT THE CENTENNIAL EXnI-
BIrIoN.-Thc Vermont delegation in Con-
grcss has agreed upon the following
named gentlemen as cOrporatOrs of the
State Of Vermont, for the Centennial Ex-
hbition at Philadelphia in 1876: Me>srs.
II. Fairbanks, Lawrence Barnes, Fred.
erick Billings, Henry G. Root Luther
Baker, George A. Merrill, Lawrence
Brainard and Jacob Esty.
VERMONT REPUBLIcANs.-Th proceed
ings were spirited and harmonious result.
in the selection fan able delegation, truly
representative of the sterling Republican.
ism of the Green Mountain State In
fact, there is more true and weighty en-
bodiment of genuine New England scnti-
ment in any one of the county delegations
which met at Bellows Falls yesterday,
than in the whole socaled representation
of our six States at Cincinnati Boston
.Jonrn0i
CRUSHED TO DEATn.-As Chandler
Titus was stepping from the engine to
the platform, on the through freight train
at North Thetiord, on the 9th ult,, he
fell under the tender and was crushed to
death. He was in the employ of the rail-
road company at Newbury, and had come
home, as usual, on the train, Saturday, to
visit his family. He leaves wife and
one child. He was hard working man
and had worked with horse power at
threshing and saving wood for % years
in succession.
The CASE OF II. E. ADAMs.-Thurs-
day morning, at the hour appointed for
the examination of II. T.. Adams, of Rut.
and the witnesses on the part of the State
were present and the prosecution, conduct
ed by States Attorney Ormsbee, assisted
by A. A. Nicholson, were prepared and
desired to proceed with the case, when
Mr.. Adams waived an examination and
gave bail in the sum of three thousand
? dollars for his appearance at the County
Court to answer to an indictment of the
Grand Jury, if one shall be found. His
bondsmen were Moses j. Perkins, John
b. Reynolds, d. X. Barry and Timothy
o. Gibson.
VERMONT AT CINcINNATI.-The Yer.
monters at Cincinnati organized by elect
ing lockwood Barrett Chairman. The
other delegates are Geo. W. Ballou, ID ohm
Landon, John A. Salisbury, w. IT,
Huestis, Jedd p Ladd, Charles Clement
John B. Holister.
The following are the Vermont officers
and committees in the Cincinnati conven.
ton
Wee President-Maj, John A. SAILS
bury, Rutland.
Secretary-George w. Ballou, Castle
ton.
COMMITTEES.
= CredentialS-Geo. w Ballou, Castle.
ton.
PlaJorm-Charles Clement, Rutland
Organization-Jo ohm Landon, Rutland
RHleS-Jedd p Ladd, Alburgh.
yius.-iInrricane.
NAPLES, May 3.
The eruption of Vesuvius has entirely
ceased, and the inhabitants of the villages
threatened nv rnnnino Lawn bavo rotr,naJ