The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-03-04

merly agent of the State Temperance So.
cety, will preach at West Cornwall next
Sunday.
WANrEp.-A good local correspondent
in the city fVergcnnes. Please send us
your address, and we will send you cir
cular explaining compassionate.
The assigncc's sale Of tho estate oil
John A. Beers, of Monkton, has been
postponed from March 9Th to Tuesday
March 25th.
BARNuMTowN The singing school
taught by w. w. Thomas OF Middlebury
in Barnumtown this winter closed with a
very successful concert on Friday eve
ming.
School TIorsE BuRNED.-On Sunday
Of the Sd uit., about six O'Clock in the
evening, the school house in District No.
9 in Goshen, was burned TO ashes caused
by saving ashes in basket and setting
it on pile Of dry wood
SnoREnAM.-The Church Aid Society
met on the evening of the Goth at the
residence of Kent Wright Esq BY the
aid Of charades, rectations etc., the even
ing passed off very pleasantly indeed.
The receipts of this evening amounted to
nearly $40.
SUDDEN DEAru.-A young man about
eighteen years of age, son Of Mr.. Peter
Farnsworth, Of Addison, went to bed
about nine O'Clock on Tuesday night, APP
parently as well as usual At ten o'clock
his mother had occasion to 60 to his room
for something when she found him dead.
SoUTu BRIsroL.-South Bristol has
sustained a lyceum of great interest this
winter. There have have been crowde
houses at each meeting. AT the last
meeting there were one hundred and
twenty eight persons present in the old
red school house. They adjourned until
next Deccmber-Philip Ingram has ex-
changed farms with Mr.. Barnard near
New Haven mills.
BRANDON. The State Board Of Agri.
culture, will hold their next meeting
here, under the auspices Of the Farmers
and Mechanics Club of Brandon, on
Tuesday and Wednesday the 4th and 9Th,
Of March The exercises will probably
consist of discussion and addresses upon
agricultural subjects, and miscellaneous
topics, incident thereto All persons in.
tercsted are invited to attend
MoNKToN.-A social hop took place at
/ Collnss Hotel on Tuesday evening, at
which twenty-five couples were present.
w. w. Thomas closed very success.
full term of singing school, Feb 2sth, in
the west part OF the town.
In the same locality there is quite q
revival Of religion, in which souls are be-
ing brought to the fold Of Christ. Meet.
ings are held every evening in the week
BIoAMY.--It is stated that there was o
second marriage in the town of Bridport,
lately which the officiating clergyman did
not report 1t is said he was requested
not to do 50. This second wedding was
neitho: wooden, nor crystal, nor silver, nor
golden. The license was regular and the
ceremony was regular but the marriage
was irregular. The happy bridegroom
! Was too much married that is all
! N BRUTAL ArFAIR.-A Salisbury cor,
res ondent writes us that on the 18th
ult., a wife (who is Yankee) that lives
about two miles north of that village, gave
birth to child, when the father, grand.
father, uncle and great-uncle proceeded to
drink its health in seven pals of hard eli.
der The result was that no doctor OF
nurse was called in, and the babe is now
dead.
TowN MEETINGS. -Town Clerks are re.
questcd TO send us fall returns Of the
/ town meetings of every town in Addison
County, at their earliest convenience af.
ter the meetings Give us names of Sc
lectmen and other officers including town
grand Jurors, vote for County Commits.
sioner, tax voted, and any other items of
interest. Our regular correspondents and
others are requested to give us such other
incidents as come under their notice.
PRor. IIIGLEY's LEcrURE.-Prof. Il.
ii. Higley Of Middlebury College deliv.
cred lecture at Salisbury, on Wednes.
day evening last, advocating the study Of
the classics. 1t was thorough and com.
plete answer to DR.. Case who opposed the
study Of the classics in lecture, deliver.
ed at the same place the week previous.
Prof. Iligley's address seems to have car.
, ried off the general verdict Triumph.
ant"
FERRIsBuRom CENTRE. - The little
stranger" recently left at Mr.. Frasiers,
states that her name is Ellen and that she
is ID years old, and that her fathers
name is Joseph Ducat, and that he lives
in the west part of Ferrisburgh. She is
now living at Byron Fields, near the dc.
pot, and insists that her father gave her to
The man who left her at Frasiers. lie
has not been heard from since his prescn.
tation
FATAL PoIsoNINd.-Mr Charles Lucia
who was living with Mr.. Ira Doty OF
Bridport, went into the cellar for cider,
on Saturday week, ami took the wrong
jug pouring down two swallows of the
foot rot medicine (blue yitrol) before he
discovered his mistake. He hesitated to
tell what he had done, and so delayed un.
til too late. lie died from the effects OF
the poison, on Wednesday last. Mr..
Lucia was father Of States Attorney Lu.
cia Of Vergennes.
NSALIsBURy-lf the kind Doctor who
gave us lecture, some evenings since, in
which he stated that there were after all
but very few words in our language de-
rived from others. will read, "Euglish
past and present." by Trench, particular.
ly the twelfth page. We are sure he
will give up this absurd statement. for he