The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-02-23
LOCAL. NE TVS.

Miss Higley has rosewood seven
octave piano, which she will sell cheap.
Tho Van Vliet place is offered for
sale, as will be seen by glance at the
advertisements iu this issue.
Another lady compositor is wanted
ct the Office of the Middlcbury REGISTER.
A resident Of this village preferred
Prof. +. II. Higley gave his lecture
on The Artful Dodger," at Brandon, be-
fore the Farmers Club, on Friday eve
ming last.
The Town Auditors Report will be
published in the usual form and will be
ready for distribution on Thursday or Fri
day Of this week. They can be called for
at the store Of LnDgwor:hy & Co., in
this village and at the store of p Cham
plain, at East Middlebury.
The Addison County Agricultural
Society will hold their apnual Fair in
Middlebury. on the 7th, 9Th and 9th
days Of September next. The premium
list is not greatly altered from last year,
rs will DO seen from the announcement by
the Secretary, given elsewhere in this
iseuc.
We regret tho illness Of Mr.. Good.
nough, of the firm of Sheldon q Co,who has
been confined to his house for some days.
Mr.. Horatio Goodrich has also been quite
sick for nearly week. The case was at
first considered dangerous, but VIC arc
happy to learn that he is convalcscent.
The friends of DR.. Curricr will be
pleased to learn that he is slowly regain.
ing health in New York. Tho doctor
feared that he would be obliged to spend
the inclement spring months south, but
should this present Improvement continue
nc hopes to be able to resume his prac.
ticc here in the spring, with fully rccov.
crod health.
Lecture on Friday evening IN the
Middlebury Graded School Course by
Rev. Franklin Tuxbury Of Brandon. SUBJ
ject, 1.-The wonders of Physical Gcogra.
ply" Those who have heard this lecture
at the State Teachers Association, speak
of it in terms Of the highest praise. Go
and hear it /; tickets zoe; to commence at
u.
Mr.. Alanson Dustin, ono of our old.
est citizens died at the residence Of his
son-in-law, Mr.. T. l.. Frary. in Jones
vile, on Friday last, at the advanced ago
of so yea.s. Mr.. Dustin was long n bus
mess in this village and many years re-
spected member Of tho Methodist church.
lie had won universal respect. and his
decease will be sincerely mourned. The
remains were brought to Middlebury for
interment,
MIR. g. W. Parmelee, whose address
before the Sons Of Temperance in Phila-
delpha is laid before our readers in this
issue, is a native of this county and q
long timo resident here. His many
friends in Bristol, and elsewhere in this
vicinity, will read with pleasure land if
pride we should not blame them
the eloquent and effective utterances
upon that absorbing subject, temperance
1t will we'll repay perusal.
II. ID. Mussey, Esq, the brilliant
COFfobpOuucut VI tuo OiuCluudti lliute
and Chronicle, formerly of this town, and
a graduate Of Middlebury College, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the
Poem before the College Alumni, at their
anniversary, in July. We may reasona-
bly expect handsome contribution from
him to tho good things We have in store
: for US, on that occasion.
"A lawsuit was tho exciting cause.
The plaintiffs brother wanted to "say a
few things" to tho defendant. and the de.
PENDANT wanted to slick" the plaintiffs
brother. And so they had it on the stair
way as they "were stepping down and
out" Each had his wants gratiliod to a
limited extent and as a sequel the fight
ing defendant was fined 81 and costs A.
mounting to about SIS. All Of which
happened last Saturday.
The smallpox fright, in Middlebury
is nearly il not quite ended. The ut
most care has boon taken by tho au thor-
iiins to prevent its spread, and their sue
cess in confning tho pest to single
house, has been even greater than could
have been anticipated, when everything
is taken into consideration The precau
tions taken upon the FIRST outbreak, are
still continued and it is hoped the en-
barge may be raised soon and all danger