The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-08-15
A Village Market


deserve the attention of those who give
tho appropriate impulse to public works,
10 whose sagacty we look that no suita-
bic improvement should be omitted in
the gradual but natural progress of
things. The want of such convenience
is most imperatively suggested in the
summer, but at all times, under suitable
regulations, it could be made available
as place Of supply, Of exchange for sup
plies furnished mora irtegularly and
quite imperfectly from the products Of
the neighborhood to the wants of village
residents. Such an establishment offers
a place Of meeting for those who buy
with those who sell, and In every popu.
lous community, at soiiie central point,
sooner pt later is sure to be provided.
Nothing is more certain than that the
principal inducements to large proper
tion of our most familiar exchanges is
opportunity, and in proportion as oppor-
tunity offers trade extends. This is true
in every branch of commerce in fact, do
nestle and external aud dealer has
only to produce, in large proportion
of instances, the mere suHply,an improve
ment upon, or an addition to the old; the
wants are ready for it, and the means
of exchange are forthcoming. AS to a
market of the kind indicated, the want
is felt in many family every day An
hour or two, from six in the morning, in
the summer, would be ample for every
family of the village needing them to
look up aud obtain the nocessaries and
varieties of the Scnson, produced for the
table in the neighborhood, we're such
place established where commodities
could be offered, and a market hour ap.
pointed, tuhnlng more or less into the
day, at which they might bu found.
Meats, when brought in by producers.
vegetables, fruits for culinary uso, arc
looked for now but occasionally, are
found in second hands, and are expected
to be imputfectly surplicd. We could
afford certainly to live better than we do,
if a better quality and variety could be
had without increase of cost, aud if some.
thing more of expense we're called for,
we might earn it With the better rest
The new bridge is fixed fact, VIC
hear; at least as to the supply of such
structure for the ordinary use of the
grateful passenger, whether man or beast.
1t is Il comfort certainly not to be let
into the water suddenly without suitable
preparation. Blu. the bridge at Middle
bury is not commonplace feature of
tho village. 1t is its most central and
distinguished feature Is it tolcrablo
that it remain a mere thing Of necessity,
cheap and shabby, and every citizen feel
that that in which all have common in.
terest, that by which as community we
arc estimated, is as mean as it possibly
can be and answer its purpose , And
why shall it be2 Because we are inca
pablc of distinguishing what is desirable
at such a point, and what might be cred
table to US But both credit and char.
actcr rise and fall with the provision of
such public feature, and the communi.
ty which has not the spirit to require an
appropriate structure, will assure to it,
self, by mean one, pusillanimiiy of
temper at least for the life of it Could
we enter an old village like this in any
foreign country,and see SO cheapa bridge
mere by'road affair, should we not re.
gard it's people with contempt, and re-
cord our distrust, at once, both Of their
civilization and their government Our
village is not mere turnpike franchise,
to be served in the cheapest way. 1t is
a community, living aud ihinking,-liv-
ing to enjoy and to improve, to get and
do good, to make to itself character and
win credit, as it has opportunity
We do not insist, at this time, upon
the most expensive, OF tho same time the
most economical material for the bridge.
1t mag be wise to consider the form Of ii
first, that no such haste is necessary
in the works as 10 curtail the proper de-
mands of taste, or as should preclude
the most advantageous form Of structure,
for twenty years to come. 1t is, wo
learn, to be raised SO as to diminish the
descent from each direction by which
the present structure is reached II this
necessitates a change in the buildings
contiguous to it, the benefits to all con.
cerned will bo tho greater. # in COM
pleting the work. in space central asis
possible, open and available for the pur.
pose, provision tasteful and convenient
for the market, that we need, could be
made, let us have il, land our green corn
next year be taken there fresh from the
hand of the cultiyator, aod the busks
float down to the eddy, or onward to