The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-20

its Environs NO. g..
Brightbn-1ts accommodation AS n Cattle
market yearly amount Of business
Cambridge First printing in Amer.
lea done here-llead Quarters of the A.
merican army in 17T5-Hcre Gen. Washing.
ton received his commission-Washinoton
Elm@Joucss PantOscOpc of the Plains Salt
Lake City and California.
Five miles southwest of Boston. is
Brighton, one of the most pleasantly
located towns in the State. The soil
is excellent, and is highly cultivated.
1t was formerly a part of Cambridge.
and called Little Cambridge, until its
incorporation in 1907. 1t is the larg.
est cattle market in New England
Connected with the spacious Cattle
Fair Hotel. are extensive barns, stables
and sheds, for the shelter of stock. and
more than 100 pleasant and convenient
yards for the sale of cattle, sheep and
swine. Many of these yards are paved
and all furnished with excellent water.
The Boston and Worcester Rail Road
passes through Brighton, over which
the r of the great Western Rail
Road run, bringing weekly large num-
bers OF cattle, sheep and swine to mar.
ket. There are extensive slaughter
ing establishments in the town, and
large numbers of cattle and sheep are
slaughtered weekly for the Boston Mar
ket. There is n Bank established for
the accommodation of buyer and seller,
located ear the market. We spent
part of a day in the town, and learnt
something of the yearly amount of bus.
mess transacted here in live stock
The number of cattle sold here since
1881, a period of Is years, is no less
than $4,000 or an average of S3S
per week. Nearly onc-third of these
were stores. The Lumber of sheep
during the same time was 1862, 600.
or an average of IVA weekly. The
number of swine sold, for the same pc
Rod, was $4,000, averaging 640 per
week. These sales are estimated to
amount in the aggregate to $36,175,.
600, or over $2,O00,0 900 yearly.
Ca%mbridgeis very pleasant although
not so elevated as some Of the neigh
boring towns. 1t is the scat Of the old.
est and best endowed college in the u.
nitcd States. East Cambridge is a
very busy part of the city, and has
risen into consequence within a few
years. 1t contains six places of wor-
ship, a courthouse. jail, and house
of correction. The first printing press
IN this country was established here,
by Stephen Day, in 1889. The first
work printed was the frceman's ooth.
At the commencement of the r%evolu-
ton, and duriug the year 1915, this
was the headquarters of the American
army, and here Washington first enter
ed upon his duty as COMMANDMENTS
chief. On the west side Of Cambridge
Common is a large elm, which is re-
garded as an object of interest. 1t is
called the Washington Elm. Under its
spreading branches, Washington is said
to have been stationed, while his com.
mission was proclaimed to the army of
10000 men, drawn up on the common.
and here he drew that sword, which,
turning every way like the sword of
the angel, became salvation to his coun-
try, and terror and confusion to his en-.
emies.
In the evening we joined tie crowd,
and went to see Jones's Pantoscope of
the Plains, Salt Lake City, and Cali
fornia. This painting, now on cxhibi-
ton in Boston, is said to be faithfully
executed, by the best artists in the
country, from 1900 Daguerrcotypcs,
taken expressly for the purpose, at an
enormous expense, by j.. Wesley Jones,
the artist, during an overland Journey
Of 5000 miles. 1t is said to be the
largest painting in the world, and is
the production Of three years incessant
toll Of Jones and fourteen other artists,
representing to the life emigration on
the plains, toll, priyation and suffering,
on the great American Desert, with
every point of interest, on the entire
route to California. The painting rep
resents, among other scenes, emigra-
ton starting (; st Joseph City Iowa
Indian Mission in Nebraska territory ;
missionaries preaching to Indians
Courthouse rocks Chimney rocks500
feet in length SCOTS Bluffs in a
storm +; Indian Buffalo-hunt, in which
thousands of buffaloes are driven over
a frightful precipice the emigrant's
grave /; Fort Laramie the emigra"r S
supper; night scene; Red Co"on, where
the river cuts its way through perpen-
dicular walls 400 feet high Rock In
dependence and the pure Soda Lakes;
Devils Gate, 500 feet high, through
which the Sweet-water river forces its
way three remarkable faces, formed
by projecting rocks South Pass of the
rocky mountains the ruined castle
fire in the mountains Salt lake City;
Sierra Nevada crossed by the emigra-
ton /; views from the summit of the
grandest and most sublime scenery il
the world; Nevada City; City of Stock
ton catching wild horses on the plain;
of San joachim; quicksilver mines( the
richest in the world, yielding 1,000,-
600 lbs. per nnu and employing 800
men. Previous to the discovery o
these mines the Rothschilds monono.